Tribeca Film Festival Sitthiphon Disamoe in a scene from “The Rocket.â€â€œThe Rocket,†Kim Mordaunt’s feature about a 10-year-old Laotian boy who seeks refuge from his difficult life by participating in a rocket-building contest, won two top prizes at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, claiming the festival’s Founders Award for best narrative feature and its best actor award for Sitthiphon Disamoe, who plays the film’s young protagonist.
Awards for the Tribeca Film Festival were announced at a ceremony on Thursday night, where the prize for best actress went to Veerle Baetens, a co-star of Felix van Groeningen’s “Broken Circle Breakdownâ€; that film, about the unlikely love between a bluegrass musician and a tattoo-parlor operator, also won the festival’s best screenplay, written by Mr. Van Groeningen and Carl Joos.
Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, the director of the dark comedy “Whitewash,†was named best new narrative director, and “The Kill Team,†Dan Krauss’s non-fiction film about U.S. soldiers accused of a war crime in Afghanistan, was named best documentary feature. Sean Dunne, whose documentary “Oxyana†tells the story of a West Virginia town blighted by OxyContin addiction, was named best new documentary director.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will conclude on Sunday.
