BBC Four World Cinema Awards 2011 BBC4, Sunday 20th Nov 9pm - 10pm Repeat BBC4, Tomorrow 3:40am Repeat BBC4,Wed 23 Nov 12:30am There may have been some muttering about ITV defectee Jonathan Ross hosting this BBC4 ceremony, but he has a true fan’s perspective on film. And he’s not the focus of this event anyway. Instead, five films that have caused a global splash, whittled down from a shortlist of 200, battle it out for the 2011 World Cinema Award — including Pedro Almodóvar’s psycho-drama, The Skin I Live In, as well as dramas about monks in north Africa, a shepherd in Calabria, domestic crisis in Iran and a Thai ghost story.
Luminous French star Isabelle Huppert gets a special achievement award, too, and there’s a report on the rise of Scandinavia as a film production centre. Given how little foreign-language cinema makes it to TV these days, it’s a rare excuse to celebrate.
About this programme
Jonathan Ross presents a ceremony honouring international cinema from the past year at the BFI in London. Nominees for the main award are Iranian film A Separation, Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, French drama Of Gods and Men, 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte. French actress Isabelle Huppert receives the World Cinema Achievement Award, and the programme also contains a report on the success of
the Scandinavian film industry.
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