Pan’s Labyrinth, a Modern Fairytale, Wins the 2008 BBC4 World Cinema award

Pan’s Labyrinth (Spanish title: Laberinto del fauno, El), is a gothic fairy tale set against the post civil war repression in Spain. Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican director, collected the award from Catherine Deneuve at the award ceremony the BFI Southbank in London. On collecting his award, Guillermo del Toro said:

“I am very humbled by the competition and the nominations so I am very happy to have won this award. I am extremely thankful because world cinema seems to be not only about geography of the world out there, but about charting the world within us. Very often people think that the only way to tell the truth is through reality. So I find, by my own experience, irreality is sometimes a better tool to tell the truth.”

Other nominations for the World Cinema Best film were:

• The Lives Of Others – Directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
• The Science Of Sleep – Directed by Michel Gondry
• Climates – Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his actress wife Ebru Ceylan star as the couple at odds, chasing an impossible dream that is way out of their reach.
• Syndromes And A Century – Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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Directed by Guillermo del Toro