The recipient of this year’s Eutopia Annual Award is The King of Spades directed by Matthew Fearney.
The EAFF Organising Committee commented on the film as follows:
“The King of Spades offers a piercing depiction of young adults caught between infinite possibility and paralysing uncertainty. Set against the bleak yet lyrical backdrop of North-East England, Matthew Fearney’s debut feature tears open the quiet ruptures in modern youth’s existential condition. Fearney directs with striking confidence and edge; the constraints of a modest budget are transformed into a visual language that is both intimate and arresting. The film’s emotional rhythm rises and falls with deliberate precision, pulling the viewer ever deeper into its quiet storm. The journey into adulthood is shown here not as a triumph, but as a quiet confrontation with compromise. It is a process of losing, of reckoning, and of growing into a strange and tender reconciliation — with the world, with one’s origins, and with the self.”
——Vikki Hanling Cao
Following is the full list of this year’s awarded film works:
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