54th San Francisco International Film Festival
USA, April 21 - May 5 2011
The jury
Adam Nayman (Canada), Ulrik Eriksen (Norway), Barbara Lorey de Lacharriere (France)
Awarded films
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The Salesman by
Sébastien Pilote
(Canada, 2011, 107 mins)
The FIPRESCI jury at the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival has chosen to award its prize to a movie with a very precise sense of place and character, yet which also makes a provocatively ambivalent statement about the value of work in the aftermath of local economic collapse: The Salesman, directed by Sebastien Pilote.
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