Five new films have been added to the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. In addition to the three films previously announced (Alamar, Mundane History and Let Each One Go Where He May), five titles by upcoming talents have been invited to compete for Rotterdam’s three equal Tiger Awards of each 15,000 Euro.
Paz Fábrega’s first feature film Agua fría de mar is set on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica during the Christmas holiday season. It is the sensitive and atmospheric story of a young couple and a seven-year old girl with very different social backgrounds.
Danish directors and screenwriters Michael Noer & Tobias Lindholm will present their joint first feature effort R., a hard hitting prison drama as well as an almost anthropological study of life in a Danish prison. Johan Philip Asbæk plays the title role.
Georgian director Levan Koguashvili makes his feature début with Street Days, a moving drama about the life of a recently divorced junkie on the streets of post-war Tblisi.
Tsuki Inoue’s début feature film, after her prize winning short fiction The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth, is called Autumn Adagio. Japanese musician and actress Rei Shibakusa plays a middle-aged nun in a drama that deals with salvation, sexuality and identity in the different stages of a woman’s life.
From Québec, director Sophie Deraspe joins the competition with her gripping second film Les signes vitaux about a student who returns home to deal with the aftermath of her grandmother’s death.
Previously announced nominees are Let Each One Go Where He May from Ben Russell, Anicha Suchiwakornpong's Mundane History and To the Sea (Alamar) by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio. The complete line up of approximately fifteen films in VPRO Tiger Awards Competition will be announced by January 7, 2010.