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A tale of forbidden love in a remote village in Africa has won the top prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival, worth $140,000.<\/p>\n

Banel & Adama<\/i>, a Franco-Senegalese co-production, was judged best film by a jury of international judges, with its writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy awarded the Bright Horizons prize, for a first- or second-time director.<\/p>\n

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Director Ramata-Toulaye Sy, whose film Banel & Adama won Australia\u2019s richest film prize.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Scott Garfitt\/Invision<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot for African movies to be recognised around the world [and also here] in Melbourne, and this award really recognises the new African generation of filmmakers,\u201d Sy said.<\/p>\n

A lyrical tale of custom, culture, and climate, the film, made in Pulaar (one of a dozen languages spoken in Senegal) with a cast of non-professionals, Banel & Adama<\/i> was chosen from a field of 11 films.<\/p>\n

The field also included debuts from Iranian-Australian writer-director Noora Niasari (opening-night film Shayda<\/i>) and local writer-director Mark Leonard Winter, who made The Rooster<\/i> (starring a never-better Hugo Weaving), with wife Geraldine Hakewill producing, on and around the couple\u2019s property in the Victorian goldfields.<\/p>\n

Other contenders included Earth Mama<\/i> from former Olympic volleyball player Savanah Leaf, and How To Have Sex \u2013<\/i> Molly Manning Walker\u2019s tale of three young women on holiday in the Mediterranean, which won the Un Certain Regard prize for best feature debut at Cannes in May.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s richest film prize was awarded on Saturday night at the festival\u2019s closing gala, along with five other awards, with a total prize pool of $300,000.<\/p>\n

Mexican film T\u00f3tem<\/em>, the second feature from actor-turned-director Lila Avil\u00e9s, collected a special mention and a $20,000 award from the Bright Horizons jury.<\/p>\n

The New York-based Australian duo Soda Jerk won the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award ($70,000) for their feature Hello Dankness<\/i>, which utilises excerpts from around 300 different film and video sources \u2013 including Wayne\u2019s World<\/i>, The Social Network<\/i> and Sausage Party<\/i> \u2013 to construct a freewheeling satire of contemporary US politics.<\/p>\n

The First Nations Film Creative Award ($20,000 cash and $25,000 of financial services) went to Adrian Russell Wills and Gillian Moody as co-directors of Kindred<\/em>, an autobiographical documentary about the complexities of being an Aboriginal child raised in a white world.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Charles Hyland on the set of This Is Going To Be Big, which won the festival\u2019s audience prize.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Kelly Gardner<\/cite><\/p>\n

Thomas Charles Hyland\u2019s This Is Going to Be Big<\/em>, an observational documentary about the staging of an original musical featuring the songs of John Farnham at a special school in regional Victoria, was a dual winner, collecting both the MIFF Schools Youth Jury Award and the publicly voted audience award.<\/p>\n

The youth jury described the film as \u201can uproariously funny and moving celebration of individuality that captures the awkwardness and excitement of adolescence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hyland said he felt \u201cblown away\u201d by the honours. \u201cMy feelings are vicariously filtered through the students and families and teachers and the community that really we were focusing on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked why the documentary resonated with audiences, Hyland said: \u201cI hope it\u2019s because it feels honest, and it feels like people are sharing parts of themselves that are very real. It\u2019s extremely powerful to show your own vulnerability and I think that lets everyone know that we\u2019re all in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hyland said it was a coming of age film where young people were \u201ctrying to build their confidence, work out who they are and where they\u2019re going\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s such a universal experience that we all have, regardless of where you are in the world and how you see yourself and other people see you I think at its core that is something that we all understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

The in-cinema sessions of the festival finish on Sunday, with the virtual festival, MIFF Play, running online until August 27.<\/p>\n

Details: miff.com.au. The Age<\/em> is a festival media partner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact the author at kquinn@theage.com.au, follow him on Facebook at karlquinnjournalist and on Twitter @karlkwin, and read more of his work here.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

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