Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? wins the Cadillac People’s Choice Award—but will it be Oscar bait?
And that’s a wrap.
The official closing ceremony for the 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival took place at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. TIFF 2011 co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling hosted the affair, and the attendees sipped mimosas and munched on egg souffle, spinach-and-flower petal salad, roast potatoes and crème brûlée (note: festival food is yum). Where Do We Go Now?, a dramatic comedy set in war-torn Lebanon that follows the lives of several women trying to keep their husbands out of the conflict, received the Cadillac People’s Choice Award, which in past years has been a sign of Oscar-y things to come (but we’re not so sure about this one). The Cadillac People’s Choice Documentary Award went to Jon Shenk’s political documentary The Island President and Gareth Evans took home the Cadillac People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award for The Raid.
Full list of winners here.
Dear Nadine,
Wawoooo,
That was my, and in fact our group’s impression after watching your impressive above movie,
The Idea especially for those who lived the war from the begining, on top of the songs, the actors; we had the impresion that all were equally important and all equally performed, picturing was not that usual lebanese or arabic slow, just filling, scenes, all were realy of international performance.
A real good one and a half hour, where you laugh from the deep depth of your heart, and a “Dam3a” fells out of our eyes spring,
The Idea was very well inspired ,and innovative.
Well done , proud of your lebanese cinema,
You surely will bring lebanon to international theaters soon, we will see your movies playing in Europe and USA.
You gave me and surely many lebanese great hope that with a quality art like yours some one can make a great difference within his nation and beloved country.
Good luck,
Zokhrof Sleiman
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