IFFI 2017 International Cinema Catalogue

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Lifetime Achievement Award
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Atom Egoyan is one of Canada’s most celebrated arthouse
directors. Exotica, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at
Cannes’94, was his international breakthrough film. The
Sweet Hereafter, his most critically acclaimed film, received
two Academy Award nominations. Ararat, about the Armenian
genocide in the Turkish Ottoman Empire, centred on child
survivor Arshile Gorky, who went on to become the pioneer
of American abstract expressionism. Where the Truth Lies,
Adoration and The Captive have all competed for the Palme
d’Or in Cannes. Egoyan has also directed theatre and opera,
including an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe, winner of
The Irish Times/ESB Award for Best Direction. He has directed
award-winning opera productions for the Canadian Opera
Company and the Lincoln Center Festival, New York. Egoyan’s
art installations have been presented at the Venice Biennale.
His work, Steenbeckett, commissioned by the UK’s Artangel,
is part of the permanent collection of the Tate. His films have
been presented in several retrospectives across the globe, with
complete career overviews in Paris, Madrid, New York and
Brussels. Egoyan was knighted by the French government and
is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest
honour.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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