SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 ‘Zero Motivation, Point and Shoot’ win Tribeca prizes

This image released by the Tribeca Film Festival shows a scene from the film, ‘Zero Motivation.’

he Israeli film “Zero Motivation” picked up a top prize on often darkly amusing portrait of a generation hellbent on docu- Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival, winning best narrative menting itself.” The screenplay award was won by Guillaume Tfeature, while the US film “Point and Shoot” was named best Nicloux for “The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq,” which he documentary. Paul Schneider won the award for best actor for also directed. Honors for new directors were won by Josef the comedy “Goodbye to All That,” in which he plays a man sent Wladyka for “Manos Sucias,” a US-Colombia production, and Alan reeling after his wife demands a divorce, while Valeria Bruni Hicks for the jazz-themed “Keep On Keepin’ On,” for narrative Tedeschi took the best actress honor for her turn in the French- films and documentaries, respectively. Italian production, “Human Capital,” a three-chapter, intercon- Among short films, “One Year Lease” won for documentaries necting lives tale of a death told from three varying perspectives. while the United Kingdom’s “The Phone Call” took the narrative “Zero Motivation,” a dark comedy about the everyday life of a prize. Visitors to the festival’s website again voted for winners, unit of young female Israeli soldiers, which was directed by Talya and chose “Vara: A Blessing,” from Bhutan, and “Love in the Time Lavie, impressed the jurors as “the most hilarious film we saw at of March Madness” as the best feature and best short films. the festival.” “We believe a new powerful voice has emerged,” “Clouds,” a non-linear documentary assembled from code, won they added in praising Lavie, who was directing her first feature the Transmedia award. The Tribeca Film Festival, now in its 13th film. The movie also won the Nora Ephron prize, named for the year and running through Sunday, was founded to help business late writer-director, which is awarded to a female director or and arts production in New York following the September 11, writer. 2001, attacks. — Reuters Director ’s documentary “Point and Shoot,” which chronicles the 2011 trek of Matthew VanDyke from his This image released by the Tribeca Film Festival shows Talya home in Baltimore to Libya, where he joins the Libyan rebel army Lavie, director of the film, ‘Zero Motivation.’ The film, about and takes up arms against , video camera in young female soldiers at a remote desert base in Israel, won hand. Jurors hailed the film as “an unsettlingly ambivalent and best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Thursday, April 24, 2014. — AP Photos

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