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" British director Clio Barnard&amp;#039;s The Arbor has won two London Film Festival awards. The film, which explores the life of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, scooped the &amp;#039;Best British Newcomer&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Sutherland&amp;#039; gongs at the awards ceremony last night. The &amp;#039;Best Film&amp;#039; prize went to Alexei Popogrebsky&amp;#039;s Russian drama How I Ended This Summer, about two men stationed at a remote meteorological outpost in the Arctic Circle. Actress Patricia Clarkson, who chaired the international jury, said of How I Ended This Summer: &amp;quot;Director Alexei Popogrebsky has combined stunning cinematography with painterly attention to production detail and drawn intense and subtle performances from actors Grigory Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis. &amp;quot;The film turns the hunter-versus-hunted narrative on its head to provoke powerful questions about life and death, resilience and human compassion. Tense, moving and universal in its scope, this is a cinematic tour de force.&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;Grierson Award for Best Documentary&amp;#039; was awarded to Janus Metz&amp;#039;s Armadillo, an account of Danish soldiers in their first posting in Afghanistan. &amp;quot;With total access and great honesty, the film shows us why these men want to go to war and what the experience of action does to them,&amp;quot; said chair of the jury Kevin Macdonald. &amp;quot;Humane but clear eyed in its attitude to the conflict, we believe that Armadillo is a touchstone film that will be watched for years to come.&amp;quot; Danny Boyle, whose film 127 Hours will close the London Film Festival tonight, received the &amp;#039;BFI Fellowship&amp;#039; from Stephen Daldry. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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