‘Rams’ continues run of award success
Icelandic film Hrútar (‘Rams’) continues to hoover up international awards, with three more trophies added to director Grímur Hákonarsson’s mantelpiece this weekend.
At the Listapad International Film Festival held in Minsk, Belarus, on Friday, Hrútar won the Audience Award and the Minsk City Executive Committee Award.
The next evening, the film – the story of a sibling feud in a rural area of Iceland – won the Golden Alexander Theo Angelopoulos award for best film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.
“Hrútar deals with the importance of human relations in difficult times. Although the protagonists are Icelandic sheep-famers, the film has an international message which is particularly relevant today,” says Hákonarsson.
Hrútar has now won eighteen international film awards since it was awarded the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year.