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Women win big at San Sebastian Film Festival

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SAN SEBASTIAN: Women were the big winners at the final night of the San Sebastian Film Festival on Saturday, which saw American actress Jessica Chastain share the top acting prize with 16-year-old Danish actress Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl.

Romanian movie “Blue Moon” took the Golden Shell for best film at the 69th edition of Spain’s biggest film festival.

The festival’s first ever gender-neutral acting award, for best leading performance, was awarded jointly to Chastain for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and Hofmann Lindahl for her role in “As in Heaven”.

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Director and producer Alina Grigore and producer Gabi Suciu pose with the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) award for best film for the feature film “Crai Nou / Blue Moon” at the San Sebastian Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, September 25, 2021. REUTERS

“How exciting is it this year to celebrate two female performances, it blows my mind,” Chastain said.

In “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”, two-time Oscar nominee Chastain depicts the rise and fall of Christian televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, a role that is already generating Oscar buzz for the star.

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Award winners actor Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, director Tea Lindeburg and actor Jessica Chastain speak during the awards ceremony at the San Sebastian Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, September 25, 2021. REUTERS

Tea Lindeburg won the Silver Shell for best director for “As in Heaven”, an unflinching look at motherhood in the 19th century told through the eyes of a teenage girl.

“Blue Moon” is the feature debut of Romanian director Alina Grigore and follows a young woman trying to escape from an abusive rural home.

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Actor Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, who won the award for best actor in the feature film “Du Som Er I Himlen / As In Heaven”, and director Tea Lindeburg, winner of the Concha de Plata (SilverShell) award for best director for the feature film “Du Som Er I Himlen / As In Heaven”, pose with their awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, September 25, 2021. REUTERS

Other big winners were Claire Mathon, who won best cinematography for French thriller “Undercover”, and French-Bosnian director Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who won the festival’s special prize for her film, the surreal “Earwig”.

Tatiana Huezo won best Latin American film for “Prayers for the Stolen”.

women winners san sebastian film festival final night
Award winners actor Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, director Tea Lindeburg and actor Jessica Chastain speak during the awards ceremony at the San Sebastian Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, September 25, 2021. REUTERS

Celine Sciamma took the main audience award for “Petite Maman”, while Emmanuel Carrere’s “Between Two Worlds” starring Juliette Binoche, won the audience award for best European film.

The lone male winner in the individual categories was British director Terence Davies, who won best screenplay for his Siegfried Sassoon biopic, “Benediction”.

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