More than 150,000 visitors
flocked to the ninth edition of the ten-day Rome film festival
which came to a close on Saturday, a festival representative
said.
"The same audience participated in an active way, voting
for the film they loved most," said Paolo Ferrari, President of
the Cinema Foundation for Rome in a statement Saturday, the last
day of the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma, which ran
October 16-25.
The People's Choice Award in the Gala category for major
motion pictures went to the Brazilian-British adventure thriller
Trash, directed by Stephen Daldry. The film set amid the slums
of Rio de Janeiro stars three teenagers without previous acting
experience in addition to Martin Sheen and Rooney Mara.
The People's Choice Award for Cinema Today went to Xu Ang's
legal drama, 12 Citizens. The Chinese film, which beat out 15
other films vying for the award, channels the 1957 classic 12
Angry Men, but is the director's portrait of Beijing through
characters based on real life people.
An Indian film based on the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet
took the People's Choice Award in the World Genre category.
Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider, set in insurgency-plagued
Kashmir during clashes of 1995, traces a poet's return to seek
answers about his missing father.
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