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Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
This Prize, created in 1999 by the Donostia-San Sebastian International Festival and FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) with a view to jointly promoting and encouraging the most daring, original and personal cinema, has become one of the most prestigious on the calendar. The excellent reception by professionals and critics of the Grand Prix Fipresci for Best Film of the Year made it possible last year to create a new award destined to recognizing the work of a New Director of the Year, likewise to be presented at the same ceremony.
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Christoffer Boe |
Both Prizes are granted freely by international critics, who have chosen a film and a new director from among all of the works released between August 2002 and July 2003. This year 160 members of the Federation from all over the world cast their votes, with the outcome that the Grand Prix FIPRESCI for Best Film of the Year goes to the Turkish movie Uzak, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and the Grand Prix FIPRESCI for Best New Director of the Year to the young Danish director Christoffer Boe for Reconstruction.
Both movies will be screened as part of the Zabaltegi – Festivals' Top section and will compete for the Audience Award.
Uzak, review by Attila Dorsay ![]()
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, portrait by Atilla Dorsay ![]()
Reconstruction, review by Grégory Valens ![]()
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