Cristian Mungiu's Fjord Wins Audience Award at Jakarta World Cinema
Cristian Mungiu's Fjord has won the Jakarta World Cinema Audience Award, according to Variety. The prize is the festival's only feature-film award. The film is a Palme d'Or winner, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and it opened Jakarta World Cinema before the festival closed on November 7.
The festival ran for eight days, and its in-person screenings were held at the CGV Grand Indonesia cinema complex in Jakarta. More than 25,000 people attended those screenings, Variety reported. The programme included 185 films from 66 countries, according to the festival's own website.
Fjord stars Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Lisa Carlehed. It is a co-production of Romania, France, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, and it is Romania's submission for the Oscars, the Academy Awards. Tudor Vladimir Panduru is the cinematographer, the person who oversees how the film looks on screen. The running time is 2 hours 26 minutes.
The short-film programme drew more than 300 entries from across Indonesia. Jusuf Witjaksono's Karim took first prize in the KlikFilm Short Movie Competition. Witjaksono will receive full production and distribution funding from Falcon Pictures for a debut feature, his first full-length film. Falcon Pictures is the company that will back the project from making it through to getting it into cinemas.
Two more filmmakers also won a debut-feature prize. Adam Hasyim Al Raschid's Air Pangea was named first runner-up, and Ali Yafie Muzaki's The Grave of Dreams was named second runner-up. Each receives full funding for a debut feature from KlikFilm, the competition's sponsor. That makes three first-time directors with a feature film now lined up to make.
Other short-film honours went to Zaky Alfawwaz's Callsh#t, which won the short-film audience award, and Michael Juan Saptayada's OTW, which won the Special Jury Prize. The festival announced its short-film and audience-choice winners on closing day, as it had planned.
For audiences in Jakarta, the week gave them a chance to see a Cannes winner on a big screen before most cinemas elsewhere. For the three debut filmmakers, the prizes mean the money to start work on a first feature. Nothing has been said yet about when those films will be finished or released.
