South African film \u2018Inxeba\u2019 (The Wound) has won the Sutherland Award, which recognises the director of the most original and imaginative first feature, at the British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival. The award, announced on Saturday, 14 October, went to John Trengove, with the prize jury describing the film as a \u201cdynamic and inimitable coming-of-age story that takes a heart-breaking look at masculinity and sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Inxeba\u2019 is a powerful exploration of masculinity and unspoken queer desire set in the remote mountains of South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape.\u00a0 The \u2018first feature\u2019 competition jury said of \u2018Inxeba\u2019: \u201cAmong a strong field of debut features, we found ourselves enamoured by the urgency, vitality and originality of \u2018The Wound\u2019.<\/p>\n
The winner was announced by the jury president, composer and producer, Melissa Parmenter. Parmenter\u2019s fellow jurors were freelance film writer and editor Kaleem Aftab; the multi-award-winning actors Jason Isaacs and Helen McCrory and the filmmaker and Turner Prize-nominated artist Isaac Julien CBE, who\u2019s work (Ten Thousand Waves) was featured as part of the opening collection of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.<\/p>\n
In his acceptance speech, Trengove said that the BFI London Film Festival had long been a beacon on his horizon. \u201cI\u2019d like to single out one person tonight \u2013 Nakhane Toure, our lead actor\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the most rewarding part of what I do, when I\u2019ve struggled with a character on the page for so long, to one day be standing in front of that one person, in the flesh, who embodies everything I imagined and so much more. And, in the case of The Wound, this moment also became a political act. We created a character who mirrors the experiences of marginalised queer South Africans who have been erased from our cinema for far too long. This is our greatest achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Producer Elias Ribeiro noted that the last time a South African filmmaker has been awarded the Sutherland trophy was in 1991. \u201cWe feel truly honoured to follow in the footsteps of masterpieces of contemporary world cinema such as Zeitlin\u2019s \u2018Beasts of The Southern Wild\u2019, Chen\u2019s \u2018Ilo Ilo\u2019, Slaboshpytskiy\u2019s \u2018The Tribe\u2019 and, more recently, my favourite film of 2016, Julia Ducournau’s \u2018Raw\u2019,\u201d said Ribeiro. \u201cWe hope to inspire young storytellers to take risks and strive to be authentic and truthful to their voices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the film\u2019s winning streak continued at home too, with \u2018Inxeba\u2019 bagging the International Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2017 Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which was held from 3 to 11 October.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe DGLFF is a well-established festival which has been running for 7 years now, making this latest win for the film especially rewarding,\u201d says Trengove. \u201cWe were up against films from the US, Belgium, Ireland, and Canada, to mention a few. We are extremely honoured and grateful to the jury for their support and belief in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n
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