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Tunç Davut’s debut feature film project scoops the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s Principle Development Grant, while Khedija Lemkecher’s Un huitième also wins support. At the close of two days of pitches, the jury of the Development Grant’s 30th edition, which unfolded within the Cinemed Meetings hosted by the 42nd Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, singled out "two projects which probe our levels of engagement and which broach their subjects with dignity and feeling." The main prize was won by Comme un arbre, the debut feature film project by Turkish filmmaker Tunç Davut. Its story centres around Refik, who is in the final stages of a terminal illness and who decides to give some money to his Syrian refugee home help. She disappears just before the end of Eid, leaving her children behind her. In the aftermath of her disappearance, tensions within Refik’s family relations are exposed to the cold light of.
- 10/22/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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