‘My Stolen Planet’ Wins Top Prize At Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival; Controversial ‘Stray Bodies’ Earns Festival Recognition
deadline.comIranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi’s My Stolen Planet won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival today, automatically qualifying the film for Oscar consideration.
The film, which held its world premiere at the Berlinale last month, combines the director’s memories with fragments of 8mm film recorded by others to examine the vitality of Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The Golden Alexander win comes with a €12,000 prize. Jurors called My Stolen Planet, “A well-crafted and moving first-person essay that brilliantly confirms that every political reality has a subreality and that resistance comes in many forms, not least among them in the private realm.” My Stolen Planet also won the the FIPRESCI Award as the Best Documentary of the International Competition. [Scroll for full list of winners] Forest, directed by Lidia Duda, claimed the Silver Alexander and a €5,000 prize.
Jurors described that film as, “An observational portrait of a family living off the grid but faced with global forces that bring injustice and suffering to their doorstep.
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