11:10<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA Swedish film about two teenage girls whose friendship turns to rivalry has won a top award at the Tribeca film festival in New York.<\/p>\n
She Monkeys, directed by Lisa Aschan and set in the world of equestrian acrobatics, won the $25,000 (\u00a315,000) prize for best narrative feature.<\/p>\n
The judges praised the film for being “haunting, resonant, original and authentic”.<\/p>\n
Bombay Beach by Israeli director Alma Har’el won the best documentary prize.<\/p>\n
Set in the desert by California’s Salton Sea, the documentary shows its inhabitants and the ghost town that remains after the area was virtually abandoned by holidaymakers decades ago.<\/p>\n
The documentary jury said the choice was unanimous for the film’s “beauty, lyricism, empathy and invention”. Director Har’el also collected a $25,000 prize.<\/p>\n
Ramadhan “Shami” Bizimana won the award for best actor in the Rwandan and Australian film about genocide, Grey Matter.<\/p>\n
Carice van Houten was named best actress in Black Butterflies, a drama based on the life during apartheid of South African poet Ingrid Jonker.<\/p>\n
There was also a prize for British directors David Leon and Marcus McSweeney, who won best narrative short for their film, Man and Boy, starring Sherlock Holmes actor Eddie Marsan.<\/p>\n
British writer and director Jerry Rothwell also won the best feature film prize in the online competition, voted for by visitors to the Tribeca website.<\/p>\n
Rothwell also won a $25,000 prize for his film, Donor Unknown, about a woman’s quest to find her biological father.<\/p>\n
The jury this year included directors David O Russell and Atom Egoyan, and actors Paul Dano, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Cera.<\/p>\n
More than 5,000 films were submitted, including 93 feature films, 41 documentaries and 52 narrative fiction films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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