{"id":51860,"date":"2024-11-28T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/lithuanian-film-toxic-bags-golden-peacock-award-for-best-feature-film-at-iffi-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:28:03","slug":"lithuanian-film-toxic-bags-golden-peacock-award-for-best-feature-film-at-iffi-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/lithuanian-film-toxic-bags-golden-peacock-award-for-best-feature-film-at-iffi-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Film \u2018Toxic\u2019 Bags Golden Peacock Award for Best Feature Film at IFFI – N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most awaited announcement of the 55th<\/sup>\u00a0International Film Festival of India, Goa has been made \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Lithuanian film \u2018Toxic\u2019 has bagged the prestigious\u00a0Golden Peacock<\/strong>\u00a0Award for the Best Feature Film at IFFI 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Toxic\u2019 receives the Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 55th\u00a0#IFFI<\/a><\/p>\n

In her debut feature film, Lithuanian filmmaker and screenwriter Saul\u0117 Bliuvait\u0117 delivers a raw and haunting coming-of-age story of friendship amidst toxicity#IFFI2024<\/a>\u00a0#55IFFI<\/a>\u00a0#TheFutureIsNow<\/a>\u2026\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/xkAyYSakcW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PIB India (@PIB_India)\u00a0November 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Director, Saul\u0117 Bliuvait\u0117 received the\u00a0Golden Peacock Trophy, a certificate, and a cash prize of Rs. 40,00,000<\/strong>, shared with the producer, Giedre Burokaite.<\/p>\n

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The Jury praised the film for its deep sensitivity and empathy, with its coming-of-age narrative set against a stark physical and social backdrop.<\/p>\n

Toxic emerged as the best film, \u201cfor exploring adolescence and the harsh realities of growing up in an economically deprived society, with so much sensitivity and empathy and at the same time creating a coming-of-age narrative against a backdrop of the physical and social landscape<\/em>,\u201d the Jury cited.<\/p>\n

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The award for Best Actor Female goes to Vesta Matulyt\u0117 and Ieva Rupeikait\u0117 for the movie Toxic, at the 55th\u00a0#IFFI<\/a>\u00a0#IFFI2024<\/a>\u00a0#IFFI55<\/a>\u00a0#TheFutureIsNow<\/a>\u00a0@MIB_India<\/a>\u00a0@IFFIGoa<\/a>\u00a0@nfdcindia<\/a>\u00a0@DDNational<\/a>\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/gsPD9NEWHK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PIB India (@PIB_India)\u00a0November 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

An aptly titled coming-of-age tale set amidst contaminated physical and social landscapes, Toxic has at its centre an exploration of the human body in all its frailty and glory.<\/p>\n

The film tells the story of thirteen-year-old Marija who faces trouble fitting into the industrial town where she lives with her grandmother. She begins to form a tentative and volatile bond with rebellious peer, Kristina, and the two enroll in a local modelling school that promises its pupils the chance of a glamorous life far away from their bleak and isolated existence. But the financial and physical demands of the school force them to come up with increasingly extreme and dangerous ways to conform their young bodies to impossible standards of beauty.<\/p>\n

For their extra ordinary performances in the same film, the Best Actor (Female) award was jointly given to Vesta Matulyt\u0117 and Ieva Rupeikait\u0117 \u201cFor the extraordinary performances by its two debut making actresses \u2013 Vesta Matulyte and Ieva Rupeikait\u0117 \u2013 who pushed themselves to their physical and emotional limits in creating the unforgettable characters of Marija and Kristina,\u201d the Jury cited.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n