Jessica Chastain and Flora Ofelia Hofmann, best performers in San Sebastián
The American actress Jessica Chastain and the young Danish Flora Ofelia Hofmann have won ex aequo the award for the best leading performance at the 69 San Sebastian Festival, in the first year that this award has been granted without regard to gender distinction.
Chastain has achieved this distinction for her role as an evangelical telepreacher over five decades in Tammy Faye's eyesby Michael Showalter, while 16-year-old Hofmann has done so by bringing to life a 14-year-old girl with a desire for emancipation in a Danish village in the late 19th century in Tea Lindeburg's debut feature film, As in Heaven.
For that same work, Lindeburg (Copenhagen, 1977) has won the Silver Shell for best director. As in heaven is a story about the desire for female emancipation in rural Denmark in the late 19th century. Lindeburg has convinced the jury with an original look that introduces dreamlike elements in a period drama that, on the other hand, is shot in a documentary and dynamic style far from the canons of the genre.
The Golden Shell for Blue Moon
Romanian production Blue moon, directed by Alina Grigore, was the winner of the Golden Shell. Terence Davies has won the Jury Prize for best screenplay for Benediction and Claire Mathon, the best cinematographer for his work in Enquête sur un scandale d'état / Undercover. In addition, the jury has decided to award a Special Prize to Earwigby Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
