Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers won the best feature film and best screenwriting prizes in the Big Screen competition at the Mediterrane Film Festival’s Golden Bee Awards on June 29.
The Big Screen competition’s People’s Choice prize was awarded to Kiah Roache-Turner’s Second World War shark attack thriller Beast Of War.
Best score went to Danny Elfman for Gus van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire, alongside best performance for Haley Bennett’s portrayal of astronomer Katharine Hilbery in Virginia Woolf’s Night And Day.
Layla Bouzid’s In A Whisper took home the best Mediterranean film prize and was also honoured with a special jury award for actress Ella Bouteraa.
The Mare Nostrum competition, which honours works that provoke reflection on the relationship between humans and nature, gave its People’s Choice award to UK documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay for All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea.
The rising star award was won by Descendants and 56 Days actress Dove Cameron.
Andy Harries, founder of the UK’s Left Bank Pictures, received the festival’s lifetime achievement award and Vincent Pace was presented with the festival’s entrepreneur in film award.
The Golden Bees’ film icon award went to Monty Python and Fawlty Towers actor John Cleese.
The awards were hosted by actor and comedian Jack Whitehall at the water tanks at Malta Film Studios in Valletta.
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