‘One Last Evening,’ ‘The Village Next to Paradise’ Win First Locarno Industry Awards

Lukas Nathrath’s “One Last Evening,” an often excruciating tragedy-laced dramedy set around a couple’s farewell dinner for friends, won big at Locarno’s First Look on Sunday, scooping the Cinegrell First Look Award. The award consists in €50,000 ($51,000) in post-production services from Cinegrell, a Switzerland and Germany based services house. The biggest prize at this year’s Locarno Pro First Look, a pix-in-post showcase dedicated six new movies from Germany, went to a first feature which delivers a scathing portrait of a success-obsessed society whose members mostly don’t live up to their promise, especially in their own estimation. Sebastian Jakob Doppelbauer… Read Full Article