Joy, a “raw, fresh view” of sex trafficking across Europe, has scooped the London film festival’s award for best film.
The short film award went to Charlie Lyne’s Lasting Marks.
The Sutherland award for the best first feature went to Girl, directed by Lukas Dhont, a Belgian film that also won the coveted Camera d’Or, as well as the Queer Palm, at the Cannes film festival this spring.
The winner, recipient of this year’s bronze Star of London award, was announced on Saturday night in Leicester Square in front of a crowd of cinema fans before a special surprise screening of the winning film was staged.