Golden Owl Awards to Close 15th Philosophical Film Festival

Golden Owl Awards to Close 15th Philosophical Film Festival

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The 15th Philosophical Film Festival's Golden Owl jury awards and Golden Owl audience awards for best philosophical feature film and best philosophical short will be presented Wednesday at the closing of the festival at the Cinematheque at 9 pm, CE Report quotes MIA.

According to organizers, the awards ceremony will be followed by a showing of Derek Jarman's "Wittgenstein" (1993). The experimental comedy-drama biopic is loosely based on the life story and the thinking of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century.

The festival will end with a screening of a filmed lecture titled "Wittgenstein and Cinema" by Ernesto Heredero del Campo (1977-2024). The screening is a posthumous tribute to the Spanish philosopher, poet and career diplomat who served as chargé d'affaires at the Spanish Embassy in Skopje and was a friend of the Philosophical Film Festival, organizers said.

The festival will also give its Stefan Sidovski Sido special mention prize to a short film and, earlier in the day, show four philosophical video essays at the Cinematheque. They are "The Unlimited World" (2025) by Lukas Berger, "Accidental Animals" (2024) by Leila Fatima Keita and Felix Klee, "The Diary of a Sky" (2024) by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and "Last Things" (2023) by Deborah Stratman.

This year's Golden Owl jury award winners were chosen by a panel of judges consisting of Macedonian filmmaker and film festival founder Kumjana Novakova, Turkish physiologist and film festival director Hasan Serdar Gergerlioğlu and Spanish philosopher and philosophy professor Martín Heredero Campo.

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