DOGTOOTH, ORDINARY PEOPLE, EASTERN PLAYS and STORM Awarded in Trieste

Films DOGTOOTH and ORDNIARY PEOPLE won the Special Jury Award for the Best feature film at the 21st Trieste Film Festival.

In the jury’s explanation, the Award given to the film DOGTOOTH "for making a mockery of the word provider Dogtooth’s twisted language reveals painful contemporary social problems common to everyone and marks a new era of Greek film".

ORDINARY PEOPLE was awarded in Trieste "for a simple and pertinent tale of external/internal borderlines of violence which all of us, ordinary people are capable of committing".

Beside these two films in Trieste were awarded also EASTERN PLAYS – winner of the CEI Award "for the film that best interprets the contemporary reality and dialogue between cultures" and film STORM which won the Audience Award.