28-02-2011

The Christening Wins Mons Love Film Festival

By FNE Staff
    The Christening by Polish director Marcin Wrona won the Grand Prize of the 27th Mons Love Film Festival. The screenwriters for this title Grzegorz Jankowski, Grażyna Trela and Dariusz Glazer recieved the Best Screenplay Prize.

    The Christening, a psychological thriller, also screened at the Toronto and San Sebastian film festivals, and won the prize of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival as well as best actor for its two leads.

    Polish film also took the Mons festival's Public Award for the Polish/Russian coproduction Just Not Now.