Sydney Film Festival: Italian Box Office Hit ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Wins Top Prize
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Paolo Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow,” a box office smash in its native Italy, was Sunday named winner of the Sydney Film Prize at the end of the Sydney Film Festival (June 5-16) A jury headed by Danis Tanovic called the film about an industrious woman in post WWII Rome “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous.” The prize is one of the richest awarded at any festival and is worth A$60,000 ($39,600).
The announcement was made at the city’s State Theatre ahead of the Australian premiere screening of the Demi Moore-starring Cannes hit “The Substance.” The A$20,000 ($13,200) Documentary Australia award went to local filmmaker James Bradley, for “Welcome to Babel,” which charts Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work.
The inaugural recipient of the largest cash prize for First Nations filmmaking, the A$35,000 ($23,100) First Nations Award went to New Zealand filmmaker Awanui Simich-Pene’s “First Horse,” a short film that follows a young M?ori girl in 1826, a time when Aotearoa was on the cusp of colonization.
The 2024 recipient of the A$40,000 ($26,400) Sustainable Future Award was U.S. filmmaker Alina Simone for her film “Black Snow,” a documentary about a Siberian eco-activist, who fights for her community in a remote Russian mining town.
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