U.S. drama Frozen River, won the top film kudo at the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival, which specializes in pics by up-and-coming directors such as Courtney Hunt.
Steve McQueen took home the best directing debut prize and Michael Fassbender nabbed the actor award for UK film Hunger, about a hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
Best Screenplay and The Audience Award went to Swedish pic Involuntary, written by Erik Hemmendorff and Ostlund.
Best Actress went to Zuzana Bydzovska for her role in Bohdan Slama’s Czech-German-French co-production Country Teacher, which also won Divis Marek the award for cinematography.
The prize of the Fipresci jury was won by U.K.-German pic Better Things, helmed by Duane Hopkins.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement award went to Charlotte Rampling and the Visionary Award to helmer Wong Kar Wai.
