Tag - Cinelibri Grand Prize

Adapting Is Translating: You Need to Betray to Stay Faithful

Cinelibri 2024

First International Film Forum BOB (Based-on-Books) On October 26 and 27, the first BOB (Based-on-Books) film forum, organized by Cinelibri IFF, took place at the Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia. The event brought together local and foreign directors, producers, writers, screenwriters and actors, sales and literary agents, festival selectors, allowing them to exchange experience and ideas for future partnerships and collaborations. Statements and presentations of the panelists and participants were loaded with numerous examples from theory and practice. Each project was…

Biographical Drama “Limonov” Wins Cinelibri 2024 Grand Prize

Cinelibri 2024

The daring biographical drama “Limonov” (2023), a co-production of Italy, France and Spain directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, has won the Cinelibri award for masterfully crafted literary adaptation in the feature film competition at the tenth edition of the festival. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by the prominent French writer Emmanuel Carrère, and the script was written by Pawel Pawlikowski, a Polish-British director and screenwriter known for acclaimed films such as “Cold War” and…

Isabel Coixet’s drama “Un Amor” won the 2023 Cinelibri Grand Prize

Cinelibri 2023

“Anselm” directed by Wim Wenders was awarded the Documentary Competition Prize Cinelibri Best Book-to-Film Adaptation Award 2023 in the Feature Film Competition was bestowed on Isabel Coixet’s extraordinary romance drama “Un Amor” (“One Love”). The film is based on the best-selling novel by Sara Mesa, selected by influential Spanish newspaper “El PaÍs” as Spain’s 2020 Book of the Year and translated into 13 languages internationally. The International Jury of Cinelibri competition for a full-length feature film based on work of…