FIFF crowns Chinese film ‘Black Dog’.
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The 39th Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) has ended with a new attendance record. It also crowned a Chinese film the winner of the 2025 Grand Prix: Black Dog. Another Chinese production, My Friend An Delie, won the Jury’s Special Prize.
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This year, the FIFF has well surpassed the symbolic 50,000-seat mark reached last year, the organisers announced on Saturday.
Like last year, the 2025 winner is once again a Chinese film. Guan Hu’s Black Dog won the 2025 Grand Prize and the Critics’ Choice Award. The tale of friendship between a man and his dog won over the international Jury.
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My Friend An Delie won the Special Jury Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize. These two awards honour the first feature film by actor and director Dong Zijian, a star in China, who, in the words of the jury, has produced “a powerful and deeply honest portrayal of childhood trauma, friendship and memory”.
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