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The
12th
International
Film
Festival
of
Kerala
came
to
a
close
yesterday
with
the
Spanish
film
XXY
and
the
Iranian
Film
10+4
sharing
the
top
award
of
the
event,
the
Suvarno
Chakram
award.
The
Suvarno
Chakram
award
carries
a
cash
prize
of
Rs.
10
lakhs,
a
statuette
and
a
citation;
the
Rajatha
Chakoram
award
for
the
best
director
carries
a
cash
prize
of
Rs.
3
lakhs;
the
award
for
best
debut
director
carries
a
cash
prize
of
Rs.
2
lakhs.
Mania
Akbari,
director
of
10+4,
bagged
the
Rajatha
Chakoram
award
for
best
director.
The
director
of
XXY,
Lucia
Puenzo,
bagged
the
Rajatha
Chakoram
award
for
best
debut
director.
The
awards
were
presented
by
Chief
Minister
V.S.
Achuthanandan
during
the
closing
ceremony
held
at
Nisagandhi
auditorium.
Filmmaker
Zhang
Yang's
Getting
Home
won
the
NETPAC
award
for
the
best
Asian
film
screened
in
the
competition
section.
It
also
won
the
audience
award
selected
through
an
opinion
poll.
Shyamprasad's
Ore
Kadal
bagged
the
FIPRESCI
award
for
best
Malayalam
film;
the
FIPRESCI
jury
award
was
presented
to
director
Teresa
Prata's
Sleepwalking
Land.
Fourteen
films
had
been
listed
for
the
Competition
Section
including
Adoor
Gopalakrishnan"s
Naalu
Pennungal
and
P.T.
Kunhu
Mohammed's
Paradesi.
These
were
selected
from
450
entries
from
44
countries.