Incendies wins Adelaide film fest prize

Denis Villeneuve’s film Incendies has won the Adelaide Film Festival’s award for Best Feature Film, with a special jury mention going to Matthew Bate’s Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure.

Villeneuve will receive a cash prize of $25,000, sponsored by Ten Evening News. The director said he will name one of the main characters in his next project’ Adelaide’, “as a poetic sign of gratitude”.

The Quebec film was also one of the five nominated for the Academy Award, losing to Denmark’s In A Better World.

“A film that tells an urgently contemporary story comparable to a classic tragedy using an innovative film language and relying on strong performances and dazzling cinematography,” said jury president and former programming director for the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Julieta Sichel.