Starring Tilda Swinton as a Scottish orchid farmer in Colombia, haunted by mysterious sounds, “Memoria” won the Gold Hugo Friday at the 57th Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF).
“Memoria” marks the newest dreamscape from Thai writer-director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a 1997 graduate of the School of the Art Institute’s filmmaking program. Among other accolades, Weeasethakul received the top prize (Palme d’Or) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 for the beguiling “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.”
“Memoria” won the Cannes Jury Prize earlier this year.
Also in the CIFF International Competition category, from Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car” won the Silver Hugo. “Brother’s Keeper” (New Directors Competition), “Skal” (International Documentary Competition) and the arresting Chicago documentary “Any Given Day” (Chicago Award) highlighted the festival juries’ picks, along with Outlook Competition winner “Great Freedom,” an Austrian/German coproduction.
The full list of winners of the festival, under the artistic direction of Mimi Plauche, can be found at www.chicagofilmfestival.com.
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