{"id":2104148,"date":"2025-10-20T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2104148"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:34:21","slug":"hamnet-and-rental-family-tie-for-middleburg-film-festival-audience-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hamnet-and-rental-family-tie-for-middleburg-film-festival-audience-award\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hamnet\u2019 and \u2018Rental Family\u2019 Tie for Middleburg Film Festival Audience Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the second consecutive year, two films have shared the top prize at the Middleburg Film Festival \u2014 and both come from women directors.<\/p>\n

Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a>\u2019s emotional drama \u201cHamnet<\/a>\u201d and Hikari<\/a>\u2019s moving crowd-pleaser \u201cRental Family<\/a>\u201d won the audience award at the Virginia-based festival, which marked its 13th edition this weekend. Orlando von Einsiedel<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Cycle of Love<\/a>,\u201d about the romantic journey of a Delhi street artist, took home the best documentary prize, while Kaouther Ben Hania<\/a>\u2019s emotionally charged \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab<\/a>\u201d won for international feature.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamnet<\/a>,\u201d which screened Saturday night as the festival\u2019s Centerpiece selection, continues to be a crowd favorite following its audience prizes at the Toronto and Mill Valley film festivals. \u201cRental Family<\/a>\u201d closed out Middleburg, with writer-director Hikari in attendance for the screening.<\/p>\n

The Middleburg Film Festival has earned a reputation as a bellwether for awards season. With the exception of the 2022 audience winner \u201cDevotion<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the second consecutive year, two films have shared the top prize at the Middleburg Film Festival \u2014 and both come from women directors. Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s emotional drama \u201cHamnet\u201d and Hikari\u2019s moving crowd-pleaser \u201cRental Family\u201d won the audience award at the Virginia-based festival, which marked its 13th edition this weekend. Orlando von Einsiedel\u2019s \u201cThe Cycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2104149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2104148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Hamnet-and-\u2018Rental-Family-Tie-for-Middleburg-Film-Festival-Audience.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104150,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104148\/revisions\/2104150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}