"El contrabajo" directed by Alejo Franzetti, was one of the three selected works in the Short Film Official Selection, together with “Ahendu nde sapukai”, directed by Pablo Lama, and “Fedra o la desesperación”, directed by Gustavo Galuppo.

Following is the complete list of the remaining awards and mentions announced last night at the Festival’s Official Closing Ceremony.

* Asociación Cronistas Cinematográficos Argentinos (Association of Argentine Film Journalists)

Special Mention: “Construcción de una ciudad”
Directed by Néstor Frenkel

First Prize: “süden”
Directed by Gastón Solnicki

* ADF Award

Special Mention: Peng Jung Liao for “Help Me Eros”

Award: Jing Song Dong for “Night Train”

* SIGNIS Award

Mention: “Correction”
Directed by Thanos Anastopoulos

For its careful construction, conceived to avoid revealing any details of the plot, as it guides us through a process of identification with the protagonist, a Greek ex-convict facing the meaning and consequences of his crime, in a context of football violence and xenophobia.

Mention: “Cochochi”
Directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán

For the narration, told with great simplicity, of a trip taken by two children from a Mexican indigenous community to take medicines to a relative, which evolves into a lesson on the responsibility of decisions made.

Award: “Ballast”
Directed by Lance Hammer

For its realistic, austere style, which opposes in a superb way the complexity of the plot. And for showing how an African-American family in the Mississippi delta, struggles to overcome extreme circumstances, opening to the possibility of unconditional forgiveness and reconciliation.

* FIPRESCI Award

“Ballast”
Directed by Lance Hammer

* Human Rights Award

Ex Aequo: “Mi vida dentro”
Directed by Lucía Gajá
and “Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind”
Directed by John Gianvito

* Short Film Official Selection: the three award-winners, with no distinction of importance or order are:
“El contrabajo”
Directed by Alejo Franzetti

“Ahendu nde sapukai”
Directed by Pablo Lama

“Fedra o la desesperación”
Directed by Gustavo Galuppo.

* Future Film: “Llavallol”
Directed by Grupo Tierra en Trance

* Revista Ñ and Cinecolor People’s Choice Award

Best Argentine Film: “Historias Extraordinarias”
Directed by Mariano Llinás.