This festival screens Documentaries, Shorts and Features with environmental and ecology themes, encouraging conservation issues and issues related with the natural, the human and the built environment.
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1st Prize: "Encounters at the end of the world,"
Director: Werner Herzog, USA, Germany
2nd Prize: "A Promise to the Dead: The exile journey of Ariel Dorfman,"
Director: Peter Raymont, Canada
Special mention: "The thirst of a stone sea,"
Director: Vladimir Perovic, Montenegro
Medium length films
The jury for the medium length category included: Matthias Bergman, Dimitris Yatzouzakis and Sawsan Darwaza.
1st Prize: “Paradise – Three Journeys In This World”
Director: Elina Hirvonen from Finland.
Jury Comments: “Three Journeys …” we chose it as a first prize because this film confronts us with the current problem of illegal immigrants.
It orchestrates their pain, poverty, and distress into the form of a cinematographic poem.
2nd Prize: “The Nuclear Come Back” from New Zealand,
Director: Justin Pemberton.
The Nuclear Come Back gives us a sharp and sober access to a complicated and controversial issue. It very clearly contrasts the revival of the nuclear power plants that are sold to us by the nuclear industry as a solution for the climate change versus the costs and dangers of this technology that will last for 100.000 years.
Special Mention for the film “Black River”
Director: Surendra Manan from India.
Black River reveals how religious energy can be transcended into action for saving the natural recourses people live on.
Special Mention for the film “Uncle Mitte”
Director: Wijnand van Ginkel from the Netherlands.
A film that arrives to a silent eloquence using the cinematographic tools to capture moments of human life in the middle of the wilderness without manipulating the scenery.
Short length films
The short film length jury committee consisted of Marianthi Irakleidou, Fereydoun Faryad and Iannis Shizas, noted the impressive upgrade of short film length films and the creative motivation of the new generation of cinematographers.
1st Prize: "Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha - From substinence ecology to the market"
Director: Pankaj H Gupta, India
2nd Prize: "Mbeubeus"
Director: Simona Risi, Italy
Special Mentions to:
“Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha - From subsistence ecology to the market” by Pankaj H. Gupta, for the holistic approach of the traditional agriculture problems
“Mbeumbeus”, by Simona Risi, for her message about recycling in parallel with a report about third world misery.
Greek Film Center Award for best greek film
1st Prize: "Cyclown Circus"
Director: Dimitris Sfiris
1st Prize: "The ash that remains"
Director: Nikos Kavoukidis
Special mention: "The Cup"
Director: Giannis Bougioukas
Special mention: "Love lessons for revolutionary action"
Director: Nikos Alevras
Audience awards
"War/Dance"
Director: Sean Fine & Andrea Nix, USA
"Erato"
Director: Angelos Spartalis, Greece