Jordanian documentary Concrete Land wins prize at London Film Festival
Two of the festival's four main awards went to documentaries, with the top competition prize going to Sergei Loznitsa's archive-based film Imperium.
What to know
- Concrete Land is the first directing effort by Jordanian filmmaker Asmahan Bkeirat.
- The 70th edition of the London Film Festival handed out its awards.
- Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa won the official competition prize for Imperium.
The Jordanian documentary Concrete Land, the first directing effort by Asmahan Bkeirat, took a prize at the 70th London Film Festival, organizers announced. The results were described as a surprise, with two of the festival's four main awards going to documentary films rather than narrative features.
The festival's official competition prize went to Imperium by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, a work built entirely from restored archival material about the former Soviet Union without reconstruction. The festival did not indicate which specific award Concrete Land received among the four main prizes.
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