Palm Springs fest puts 'House' in order

Macdonald 'The House'"The House,In . from Slovak director Zuzana Liova, won the completely new Voices/New Visions Award plus a Chihuly glass sculpture together with a Panavision camera rental package worth $60,000 in the users hand Springs fest on Sunday.Inside a brunch held at Spencer's Restaurant, the fest also given out the John Schlesinger Award to documentary "The Smallest Place" (Mexico), directed by Tatiana Huezo Sanchez, because the critics' Fipresci kudos visited Bela Tarr's "The Turin Equine," actor Matthias Schoenaerts for his role in "Bullhead" (Belgium), also to three stars in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation": Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi.The Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for narrative visited "Starbuck" (Canada), directed by Ken Scott, because the audience doc kudo visited two U.S. films in the tie: "Wish Me Away," directed by Bobbie Birleffii and Beverly Kopf, and "The Ladies inside the Band," directed by Judy Chaikin."Terra Firma" (Italia) helmer Emanuele Crialese recognized the Bridging the perimeters Award, presented by Cinema Without Edges and H . P ., having a statue and H . p . 8560w Elitebook Mobile Workstation getting a built-in H . p . Dream Color display, worth $4,000.The 2012 edition in the Palm Springs fest, which opened up up Jan. 5 while using screening of "Seafood Fishing inside the Yemen," wrapped Sunday with comedy "Almanya, Thank you for going to Germany."In many, 187 films from 73 nations, including 60 premieres (2 world, 22 U . s . States and 36 U.S.) unspooled through the 23rd edition.Fest director Darryl Macdonald was without amounts available but mentioned "ticket sales elevated, especially at night and matinee tests." This Year's selection composed "a particularly satisfying combination of challenging but highly compelling work," he added. Contact Shalini Dore at shali.dore@variety.com