Chinese film BOUND IN HEAVEN leading winners at Rome Film Festival

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'Bound In Heaven', the feature debut of director Huo Xin, won the top prize at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, with the awards unveiled at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 26. The romantic crime drama won best film in the Progressive Cinema Competition, the festival's competitive strand, and also shared the best first feature award ex aequo with Edgardo Pistone's Ciao Bambino.

'Bound In Heaven' premiered at Toronto, and features a cast including Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan. Director Huo is a veteran screenwriter whose credits include: 'Shower', 'Kung Fu Hustle', 'Sunflower' and 'The Monkey King'.

The best actor prize went to Elio Germano for playing communist politican Enrico Berlinguer in 'The Grand Ambition'. Ángela Molina won best actress for Carlos Marquès-Marcet's 'They Will Be Dust', about a women with an incurable brain tumor who takes a last trip to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.

The jury for the main competition strand was chaired by director Pablo Trapero and also included editor Francesca Calvelli, French actress Laetitia Casta, UK producer Gail Egan, and writer and screenwriter Dennis Lehane.

Italian director and screenwriter Francesca Comencini led the first feature jury, that also included producer, composer and writer Kai li Peng and Anatomy Of A Fall actor Antoine Reinartz.

The film also won two additional awards at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival on September 28: 1) JURY PRIZE FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY and also, 2) FIPRESCI AWARD ( International Federation of Film Critics ).

Congratulations to the makers of the film!