"KNIFE IN THE WIFE" AWARDED IN MOROCCO

The film "Knife in the Wife" by Vita Maria Drygas won the Golden Cave award for the best short documentary at the Tangier International Film Festival. The festival was held from 20 to 24 October.

The student film by Vita Maria Drygas, "Knife in the Wife," was awarded at the Tangier International Film Festival, Morocco, which ended last Saturday, October 24. The jury, consisting of Sohaib el Ouassani (Morocco),  Ovidio Salazar (USA) and Ahmed Rashwan (Egypt) chose the film the best short documentary film of the festival and honoured it with the Golden Cave award. In this way, "Knife in the Wife" outperformed 15 other documentary films from around the world.

“Knife in the Wife” is an impressionistic documentary showing the life of a provincial circus called ‘Arizona’, which is grotesque on some occasions and sad on others. The showpiece of this troupe of six people is throwing knives. Their glory days are over now, their programme is not of the highest order, yet the magic of circus is still there and their young audiences watch the show with flushed cheeks.

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