"Somersault" Wins 15th LIFFe Film Festival
A coming-of-age drama "Somersault", the debut feature by Australian Cate Shortland, has won the Kingfisher Award, the top prize of the 15th Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe). The two-week festival wrapped up with an award-winning ceremony on Wednesday.
The jury selected a story about a teenage girl learning some tough lessons about love and life among 17 films featured in the festival's competition section Perspectives.
Becoming increasingly popular with the audience, the festival has broken a new record this year by attracting over 49,000 film goers.
The winner of the Kingfisher Award was selected by an international jury, composed of Alissa Simon of the US, Austria's Christine Dollhofer and Slovenian actor Brane Sturbej.
The same jury gave "The Missing" by Lee Kang Sheng "a special mention". The Taiwanese film is a story about two people who lost their loved ones.
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