San Sebastian Film Festival recognizes 2021 winners / Romanian film becomes first

Theater News Base: “Blue Moon” was the best film of the San Sebastian Film Festival last night when it won the Golden Oyster of this festival. The film, directed by Romanian Alina Gregor, is the first acting film to enter the field of directing. The film, a realistic study of a young woman who wants to break away from rural life, managed to get big letters in the competition.

This is the second year in a row that a female filmmaker has won the main prize at the San Sobastin Film Festival with her first feature film. Last year, Georgian writer-director Dea Kolombegashvili achieved this success with her first film, “Beginning.” She, who won the award for best director, best actress and best screenplay for her film last year, was present at this year’s festival as the chairman of the jury.

At the same time, Jessica Chastain was one of the celebrities who became one of the two winners of the Best Actress award. He received the award for his role in “Tommy WiFi Eyes”.

But Chastain received the award jointly with Flora Ophelia Hoffmann Lindal, a Danish teenage actress, for her role in a family drama called “Like in Paradise.” The Best Director award went to Thea Lindborg, the director of the same film.

The winner of the Special Jury Prize was the French-Bosnian director Lucille Hazihalilovic, who achieved this success for his third film, a surreal and dark story called “The Little Corner”.

In the official section, the Silver Oyster Award for Best Supporting Actor went to the cast of “Who’s Stopping Us,” and Terence Davis won Best Screenplay for “Prayer.” Claire Watton also won the Best Cinematography Award for “Secret.”