The selected projects are:

Kazakhstan:

Harmony Lessons by Emir Baigazin

The Fierce Horse Rustlers by Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Sunny Days by Nariman Turebayev

Kyrgyzstan:

Jolbakan by Elnura Osmonalieva

Princess Nazik by Erkin Saliev

The Singing Grannies by Nurlan Asanbekov

Tajikistan:

Halola by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Buzkashi! by Najeeb Mirza

Turkmenistan:

Ener by Bayram Abdullayev and Lora Stepanskaya

Uzbekistan:

Aral by Ella Vakkasova

Barzagh by Saodat Ismailova

Gaulish Village by Shukrat Karimov

Olivier Père, the Festival’s Artistic Director, comments “The quality of the projects submitted, as well as their enormous diversity, from romance to social drama, documentary to science-fiction, confirms the strength of the talent pool in Central Asia, in terms of both the older and younger generations.”

“The numerous directors and producers we met during our various journeys to the region have to deal with countless problems on a daily basis, notes Martina Malacrida, Head of Open Doors. Given this context, foreign co-productions are all the more crucial. We firmly believe that the 12 projects selected all have the potential required to attract international partners.”

Launched in 2003 with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Open Doors is organised in close collaboration with the Festival’s Industry Office. With a strategy that has proven its value, the chosen directors and producers are invited to Locarno, in order to find co-production partners and finalise their film project.

At the end of the three day workshop, a production grant worth 50,000 CHF (about 35,000 Euros), funded from the Open Doors initiative, will be allocated by a jury composed of representatives of the Festival and "visions sud est", a Swiss production support fund. Continuing its collaboration with Open Doors, the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, France) also offers a grant of 7,000 Euros to support a film in development.

The 2010 edition will also mark the inauguration of the new International Relations ARTE Prize, worth 6,000 Euros. Finally, Open Doors will once again invite the six directors who participated in the most recent Residency run by the Cannes Festival’s Cinéfondation (March-July session 2010), so that they can present their film project to producers and buyers attending Locarno.

For more information on the selected projects, check the website in the Open Doors section.

Rene Bo Hanssen (Sweden/Germany):

Die Stimme des Adlers /The Eagle Hunter's Son

AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM EDITING

Jean-Paul Liilienfeld (France):

La journée de la jupe/Skirt Day

The editor: Aurique Delannoy (France)

AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTOR

Hannu-Pekka Björkman (Finland):

Haarautuvan rakkauden talo/The House of Branching Love

(dir. Mika Kaurismaki)

AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTRESS

Rifka Lodeizen (The Netherlands):

Kan Door Huid Heen/Can go through skin

(dir.: Esther Rots)

AWARD FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR

Trencsényi Klára (Hungary) and Vlad Naumescu (Romania):

Drumul Pasarilor/Birds' Way

The award was offered by Duna Workshop

AWARD FOR THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL

Jörn Staeger (Germany):

Reise zum Wald/Journey to the forest

AWARD FOR THE BEST ANIMATION

Francois Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain (France):

Logorama

AWARD FOR THE BEST SHORT FICTION

Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (Poland):

Darek

AWARD FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY

Responsible Society Award offered by KPMG

Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein (Germany):

Was übrig bleibt / Left behind

AUDIENCE CHOICE

Bertóti Attila (Hungary/Romania):

Ariadné fonala/Ariadne’s thread

AWARD FOR THE BEST FEATURE FILM & the MAIN PRIZE OF MEDIAWAVE'2010

George Ovashvili (Georgia):

Gagma napiri /The Other Bank

The award was offered by the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation

Sergey Miroshnichenko and Grigory Libergal, curators of the program: "We are glad that this year's documentary program leads us to believe that a man can do much to protect nature, to defend the oppressed. He can deride foolishness and thus restrict its powers. There is another thing that inspires us in this program. Whenever a clever, talented hero comes along, like-minded people immediately rally around him."

The 5th Jubilee Documentary Program - Free Thought:

THE COVE, dir. Louie Psihoyos, USA

THE YESMEN FIX THE WORLD, dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr, USA

PIANOMANIA, dir. Lilian Frank, Robert Gibis, GERMANY, AUSTRIA

POSTE RESTANTE, dir. Marcel Lozinsky, POLAND

CHEMO, dir. Pawel Lozinsky, POLAND

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA, dir. Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, USA

THE PLAYER, dir. John Appel, THE NETHERLANDS

WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, dir. Ondi Timoner, USA

ANOTHER PERFECT WORLD, dir. Femke Wolting, Jorien van Nes, THE NETHERLANDS

RESTREPO, dir. Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington, USA

LA VIDA LOCA, dir. Christian Poveda, FRANCE, MEXICO, SPAIN

A FILM UNFINISHED, dir. Yael Hersonski , ISRAEL, GERMANY

THE WOMAN WITH THE FIVE ELEPHANTS, dir. Vadim Jendreyko, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY

LA DANSE - THE PARIS OPERA BALLET, dir. Frederick Wiseman, FRANCE, USA

OCEANS, dir. Jacques Perrin, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, SPAIN, MONACO, USA

THE LAST SCREENPLAY, dir. Javier Espada, Gaizka Urresti, SPAIN

IRON CROWS, dir. Bong-Nam Park, SOUTH KOREA

LUMIKKO, dir. Miia Tervo, FINLAND

WASTE LAND, dir. Lucy Walker, UK, BRASIL

LAST TRAIN HOME, dir. Lixin Fan, CANADA, CHINA

THE FORTRESS, dir. Fernand Melgar, SWITZERLAND

BANANAS!*, dir. Fredrik Gertten, SWEDEN, AUSTRIA, USA, SWITZERLAND

FROM ARARAT TO ZION, dir. Edgar Baghdasaryan, ARMENIA

More information about the festival and program "Free thought" you сan find on the official site of the Festival or by e-mail: doc@moscowfilmfestival.ru

The chefs of the 4th Culinary Cinema, among Germany’s finest, were: Thomas Kammeier, Michael Kempf, Lea Linster, Christian Lohse and Tim Raue, The nights began in the cinema of the Martin-Gropius-Bau. After the screenings the audience was guided to the neighboring “Gropius Mirror” restaurant where a menu was served, inspired by the previous film, Then, a discussion with the protagonists of the film and experts on the subject. After the main program was a late show, followed by a la carte food and drinks in the “Gropius Mirror” restaurant.

The 11 films screening as part of the 2010 Culinary Cinema lineup included: an inside look at a pastry competition in Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker's "Kings of Pastry" and "The Botany of Desire," Michael Schwarz's adaptation of the book on plant passion by "Food, Inc." author Michael Pollan. On ecological and social themes were: Fredrik Gertten's "Bananas!" about the legal battle between Nicaraguan fruit pickers and Dole Food over the use of a banned pesticide; and Chris Smith's "Collapse" presenting radical reporter Michael Ruppert’s apocalyptic vision of a world without crude oil. Tilda Swinton, last year's Berlin jury president, returned to present Luca Guadagnino's melodrama "I Am Love," which, despite tenuous culinary connections, got a seat at the table. As did "Iranian Cookbook" director Mohammad Shirvani's look at six housewives in Tehran preparing a meal during Ramadan.

The Culinary Cinema fosters its ideal partnership with the international Slow Food movement. Culinary Cinema head Thomas Struck explains: “The commitment of Slow Food to biodiversity corresponds to the Berlinale’s commitment to cultural diversity. On the morning of the last day of the Berlinale there was a Culinary Cinema screening for children and youths, its aim was to strengthen the consciousness for healthy nutrition in schools and promote the international school gardens movement.

President of the Jury: Mirjana Karanović, actress

Jury members:

BENEDEK FLIEGAUF, Director, Hungary

CHRISTIAN JEUNE, Director of the Film Department of the Cannes Film Festival, France

ANAMARIA MARINCA, Actress, Romania

WIELAND SPECK, Director of Panorama Programme, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:

ORDINARY PEOPLE

Director: Vladimir Perišić

Serbia, France, Switzerland

Explanation of the Jury: ORDINARY PEOPLE, as a pure moment of cinema, explores the universal pattern of abuse of male youth through the military structure.

Main award of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Competition Programme provided by Council of Europe (25,000 €)

The Special Jury Award:

DOGTOOTH / KYNODONTAS

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Greece

Explanation of the Jury: DOGTOOTH depicts in a metaphorical way, with elements of clinical humour how the traditional family structure had to retreat into a fortress of control and safety, inflicting its members with psihological damage that resonates with us all.

Financial award provided by Agnes B. (10,000 €)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress:

AGGELIKI PAPOULIA

MARY TSONI

DOGTOOTH / KYNODONTAS

Greece

Financial award provided by the International Airport Sarajevo (2,500 €)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor:

RELJA POPOVIĆ

ORDINARY PEOPLE

Serbia, France, Switzerland

Financial award in amount of 2,500 €

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM

Jury:

President of the Jury:

HANNAH MCGILL, Artistic Director, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland

Jury members:

MARIAN CRISAN, Director, Romania

IGOR STANKOVIĆ, Founder and director of the MCF MegaCom Film Distribution Company, Serbia

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:

PARTY / TULUM

Director: Dalibor Matanić

Croatia

Financial award in the amount of 3,000 €

Special Jury Mentions:

CIAO MAMA

Director: Goran Odvorčić

Croatia

THE HISTORY OF AVIATION / A REPÜLÉS TÖRTÉNETE

Director: Balint Kenyeres

Hungary, France

Financial awards in the amount of 1,000 €

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Jury:

President of the Jury:

ZIJAH GAFIĆ, Photographer, B&H

Jury members:

ALICE KLARA ARNOLD, Filmmaker and a film lecturer, Switzerland

CHRIS MCDONALD, Executive director of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film:

THE CAVIAR CONNECTION / KAVIJAR KONEKŠN

Director: Dragan Nikolić

Serbia

Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Special mention:

CONSTANTIN AND ELENA / CONSTANTIN SI ELENA

Director: Andrei Dascalescu

Romania

Human Rights Award:

HEATED BLOOD / VRELA KRV

Director: Marko Mamuzić

Serbia

Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO AWARD: MANFRED SCHMIDT, Executive Director Of The MDM Fund

The Award is offered in recognition of the recipient’s outstanding contribution to film industry and support in development of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Through the commitment and vision of its leading executive, the MDM Fund has played a significant role in aiding the development of regional film industry through numerous co-productions facilitated through the festival’s Industry Section and CineLink Project. Over the past 5 years, MDM has supported an outstanding 31 regional films, while their participation at the Sarajevo Film Festival, guided by the immense enthusiasm of Manfred Schmidt, has demonstrated a common understanding and recognition of potential that led to the realization of 5 CineLink projects that went on to screen at festivals around the world and receive numerous awards and critical recognition. MDM further supported two of the most recent Bosnia and Herzegovina films, „Snow“ by Aida Begic and „On The Path“ by Jasmila Zbanic. Though all this, Sarajevo Film Festival recognizes the immense contribution of Manfred Schmidt and MDM towards not only the enablement and promotion of this region’s cinema and authors but also the enrichment of the international film scene with new voices, outlooks and film language.

CINELINK AWARDS

Jury: Georges Goldenstern, Cedomir Kolar, Behrooz Hashemian, Jacqueline Ada, Ulf Sigvardson, Annamaria Lodato i Mainholf Zurhorst

EAVE Scholarship:

Snežana Marić

Excellence Award:

The Exchange by Eran Kolirin

Restart Award:

Zincograph by Javor Gardev

Goeteborg International Film Festival Fund Award:

The Scab by Srđan Vuletić

CNC Award:

Come To My Voice by Huseyin Karabey

International Relations ARTE Award:

The Key by Timur Makarević

SYNCHRO Film And Video Award:

The Scab by Srđan Vuletić

Come To My Voice by Huseyin Karabey

The Key by Timur Makarević

CineLink Work in Progress Award:

THE POST REPUBLIC AWARD

Jury: Rebekka Garrido, Laurent Danielou, Bernd Buder

If I Want to Whistle I Whistle by Florin Serban

15th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – PARTNERS AWARDS

SHORT FILM NOMINEE SARAJEVO FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009

Jury: Corneliu Porumboiu, Dylan Leiner, Eva Vezer

The Herd

Director: Ken Wardrop

Ireland

The winner also receives a nomination for the European Film Academy (EFA) Best Film Award.

CICAE

Jury: Erdmann Lange, Turi Edit Csenkine, Giovanni Petricciani

Eastern Plays

Director: Kamen Kalev

Bulgaria

The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) awards a film from the Competition Programme – Features. The awarded film will receive CICAE support in terms of distribution, exhibition and audience outreach, through a network of 3.000 cinemas.

FIPRESCI

Jury: Leo Soesanto, Damir Radić, Nadezhda Marinchevska

Ordinary People

Director: Vladimir Perišić

Serbia, France, Switzerland

EDN TALENT GRANT

On The Way To School

Director: Orhan Eskikoy, Ozgur Dogan

Turkey

EDN Talent Grant has been created as co-operation between the Sarajevo Film Festival and the European Documentary Network with the purpose of supporting promising new documentary filmmakers from the region.

HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD

SEVDAH

Director: Marina Andree

Croatia, B&H

ATLANTIC GROUP AWARD

LIBERATION IN 26 PICTURES

Ivan Ramljak, Marko Škobalj

KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION

This year, the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation marks the fifth year of presenting an award, in the form of a one-year scholarship, inspired by the life and work of late British actress Katrin Cartlidge. This year's scholarship recipient is Juanita Wilson. This year's award winner was selected and presented to viewers at SFF by actor Stellan Skarsgard.

The Warsaw Grand Prix, the main prize in the International Competition, funded by the city of Warsaw, went to LOURDES directed by Jessica Hausner (Austria / France / Germany). The prize was presented by Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.

The Special Jury Prize went to LA PASIÓN DE GABRIEL / THE PASSION OF GABRIEL directed by Luis Alberto Restrepo (Colombia). The prize was funded by RWE.

The winners of the 1-2 Competition were SHEVA DAKOT BE'GAN EDEN / SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN directed by Omri Givon (Israel) and EASTERN PLAYS directed by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria). The prizes were funded by Alior Bank.

The Free Spirit Awards went to PURGATORIO / PURGATORY directed by Roberto Rochin Naya (Mexico) and MAL DÍA PARA PESCAR / BAD DAY TO GO FISHING directed by Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay). The prizes were funded by Empik.

The award for the best full-length documentary went to DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR directed by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma (Estonia). The prize was funded by BenQ.

In the Shorts Competition the winner was APUNTES SOBRE EL OTRO / NOTES ON THE OTHER directed by Sergio Oksman (Spain). The prize was funded by the Polish Filmmakers' Association.

The FIPRESCI Prize (from the International Federation of Film Critics, www.fipresci.org) for the best Eastern European debut went to REWERS / REVERSE directed by Borys Lankosz (Poland).

RESULTS OF THE AUDIENCE POLL

Two films received exactly the same mark for the first time ever - 4.77. In the feature film category, the joint winners were:

Dom zły / The Dark House, dir. Wojciech Smarzowski (Poland)

and Welcome, dir. Philippe Lioret (France).

In the documentary category, the winner was Hashmatsa / Defamation, dir. Yoav Shamir (Israel / Denmark / Austria / USA).

In the shorts category, the winner was The Pig, dir. Dorte W. Hogh (Denmark).

The festival guests came from 41 different countries. They included 192 filmmakers linked to the projects presented at the festival (directors, producers, actors, scriptwriters, cameramen) and jury members. It is a tradition of the WFF that meetings with filmmakers are held after screenings. The 25th WFF had as many as 112 such meetings, involving 128 makers of 68 films. WFF audiences had the opportunity to meet filmmakers such as Alex van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe, Michael Imperioli, Yves Hinant, Tarik Saleh, Urszula Antoniak, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Gliński, Janusz Mrozowski, Wojciech Smarzowski, Paweł Borowski.

The festival was held in the heart of Warsaw, with screenings at Multikino Złote Tarasy, Kinoteka, and Kultura.

After ten days with screenings of more than 200 films CPH:DOX handed out the awards in six competitions. And the winners are:

DOX:AWARD

Trash Humpers (dir.: Harmony Korine)

+ special mention: H:R Landshövding (dir.: Måns Månsson)

NEW VISION AWARD

O'er the Land (dir.: Deborah Stratman)

+ Trypps (dir.: Ben Russell)

SOUND AND VISION AWARD

La faute des fleurs (dir.: Vincent Moon)

+ special mention: The Delian Mode (dir.: Kara Blake)

AMNESTY AWARD

Presumed Guilty (dir.: Geoffrey Smith & Roberto Hernandez)

+ special mention: Defamation (dir.: Yoav Shamir)

DANISH DOX AWARD

Alberts Vinter (dir.: Andreas Kofoed)

SHORT:DOX AUDIENCE AWARD

Three Pilots (dir.: Philip Leamann)

POLITIKEN AUDIENCE AWARD

Into Eternity (dir.: Michael Madsen)

* The Golden Raven, Grand Prix of the 27th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival to Let the right one in by Tomas Alfredson.

* The Silver Raven, Special Prize of the jury has been attributed to Sauna by Antti-Jussi Annila for the originality of its vision.

* The Silver Raven, Special Prize of the Jury to The Last House on the left by Dennis Iliadis for the best directing.

The 7th Orbit Jury composed of Gaetan Dedeken, Laurent De Maertelaer, Didier Stiers and Damien Taymans has atrtibuted

* The 7th Orbit Prize to Dream de Ki-duk KIM for its esthetic qualities and its poetic symbolism.

* A special mention to 8th Wonderland by Jean Mach and Nicolas Alberny for its visual audacity and the originality of its ideas.

The Thriller Jury composed of Nadine Monfils, Angel Sala, Tuomas Riskala and Lars Diurlin has attributed

*The Prize of the best Thriller to The Chaser by Hong-Ji Na.

* A special mention to Brian Cox for his performance in Red

The European Jury composed of Martien Uyttendaele, Véronique Pacco, Hicame Alaouis, Philippe Beck, Jean Boreux, Yann Guyonic, Dominique Standaert and Vincent Tavier has attributed

*Silver Melies to Sauna by Antti-Jussi Annila

* A special mention for its humour Sexy Killer by Miguel Marti

The Pegasus, Prize of the Audience of the 27th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival has been attributed to Sexy Killer by Miguel Marti

* 6 700 professional delegates

* 67 countries

* 230 buyers

* 300 journalists

Mifa

* 1 900 professionals

* 350 exhibitors

* 10 % more exhibition space

Festival

* 1 855 films received

* 525 films screened

* 239 in official selection, of which 192 are in competition, from 40 countries

* 120 000 tickets sold

Slavar - The Annecy Cristal - Sweden

Please Say Something - Special distinction - Germany

L'homme à la Gordini - Junior Jury Award for a short film - France

Western Spaghetti - Audience award -United States

El empleo - FIPRESCI award -Argentina

L'homme à la Gordini -Jean-Luc Xiberras award for a first film -France

Chick - Sacem Award for original music - Poland

Runaway - Jury's special award -Canada

Slavar - Unicef award - Sweden

Feature films

Coraline - The Cristal for best feature - United States

Mary and Max - The Cristal for best feature - Australia

Brendan et le secret de Kells - Audience award - France

TV series

Log Jam "The Log", "The Rain", "The Moon", "The Snake" - The Cristal for best TV production - Hungary

Pat et Stan "Jour de bain" - Special award for a TV series

- France

TV specials

Lost and Found - TV special award - Great Britain

Educational, scientific or industrial films

How to Destroy the World "Rubbish"

Educationnal, scientific or industrial film award

Great Britain

Advertising films

BBC iPlayer "Penguins" - Advertising or promotional film award -Great Britain

Music video

Flogging Molly "Float" - Award for best music video - Great Britain

Graduation films

The Soliloquist - Special distinction - Taiwan

Shrug - Junior Jury Award for a graduation film -Norway

For Sock's Sake -Award for best graduation film -France

Ex-E.T. - Jury's special award - France

Short films out of competition

Madagascar, carnet de voyage - "CANAL+ creative aid" Award for a short film - France

Best Motion Picture: "Surveillance"

Directed by: Jennifer Lynch

Special Jury Award: "Eden Lake"

Directed by: James Watkins

Best Director: Kim Jee-woon for "The Good, The Bad, The Weird"

Best Actor: Brian Cox for "Red"

Best Actress: Semra Turan for "Fighter"

Best Script: Alexis Alexiou for "Tale 52"

Best Cinematography: Angus Hudson for "The Broken"

Best Production Design: Tulé Peak for "Blindness"

Best Make Up FX: Bendit Lestang & Adrien Morot for "Martyrs"

Best Special Effects: Kim Wook for "The Good, The Bad, The Weird"

Best Original Soundtrack: Kenji Kawai for "The Sky Crawlers"

Best Short Film: "Next Floor"

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Jury Special Mention to the Shortfilm "Centigrade"

Directed by: Collin Cunningham

Visions Awards- NOVES VISIONS

JURY: Velasco Broca, Guillermo Jure, Xavi Serra

Best Motion Picture: "Los Bastardos"

Directed by: Amat Escalante

Special Mention: "God's Puzzle"

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Non Fiction Motion Picture Diploma: "Religulous"

Directed by: Larry Charles

Discovery Motion Picture Diploma: "Ramírez"

Directed by: Albert Arizza

NOVA AUTORIA SGAE AWARD

JURY: Albert Espinosa, Albert Guinovart, Àngel Quintana, Roser Aguilar

Best Director: Dögg Mósesdóttir for "Eyja"

Best Screenplay: Dea Pompa for "Restaurando a Héctor"

Best Original Score: Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Örn Eldjàrn for "Eyja"

Orient Express-Casa Àsia Award goes to "The Chaser"

ORIENT EXPRESS - CASA ÀSIA

JURY: Todd Brown, Xavi Sánchez Pons, Carles Arenes

Best Motion Picture: "The Chaser" by Na Hong-jin

AUDIENCE AWARD EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA

Best Motion Picture: "Blindness"

Directed by: Fernando Meirelles

ANIMA'T - Gertie Award

JURY: Todd Brown, Xavi Sánchez Pons, Carles Arenes

Best Animated Film: "From Inside"

Directed by: John Bergin

Best Animated Short film: "The facts in the case of Mr. Hollow"

Directed by: Rodrigo Gudiño & Vincent Marcone

THE CARNET JOVE JURY GIVES THE MIDNIGHT X-TREME AWARD

CARNET JOVE JURY: Albert Elduque, Cristina Álvarez, Manuel Bocero, Covadonga de la Cuesta, Sergio Morera

Best Motion Picture "FANTÀSTIC"

EX AEQUO:

"The Sky Crawlers"

Directed by: Mamoru Oshii

"Vinyan"

Directed by: Fabrice du Welz

Best Motion Picture MIDNIGHT X-TREME: "Encarnaçaô do Demônio"

Directed by: José Mojica Marins

SILVER MÉLIÈS

JURY: Diego López, Zak Kadison, Javier Gutiérrez

Silver Méliès for Best European Motion Picture: "Martyrs"

Directed by: Pascal Laugier

Silver Méliès Award for Best European Short Film: "Afterville"

Directed by: Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro

GOLDEN MÉLIÈS

Golden Méliès for Best European Motion Picture: "Let the Right One In"

Directed by: Tomas Alfredson

Golden Méliès for Best European Short Film: "Of Cats & Women"

Directed by: Jonas Govaerts

CRITIC AWARDS

JURY: Beatriz Martínez Gómez, Alejandro G. Calvo, Carlos Losilla

Jose Luis Guarner Critic Award: "The Sky Crawlers"

Directed by: Mamoru Oshii

Citizen Kane Award to an up-and-coming director: "Home Movie"

Directed by: Christopher Denham

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

JURY: Juanjo Lleó, Toni Benages, Jaime Quesada

Best short film: "La Victoria de Félix"

Directed by: Jordi Pastor & Albert Miró

At a glittering awards evening at Cardiff’s Cineworld Torchwood creator Russell T Davies announced that the international jury had selected German filmmaker Till Kleinert’s "Cowboy" to scoop the coveted award.

Accepting the award, Till said taking part in the competition and attending the three-day festival in Cardiff had been an incredible experience.

He urged the Iris Prize organizers, Cardiff-based The Festivals Company, that while the competition inevitably grew even larger in future years the unique way international film makers, the judges and the people of Cardiff are brought together must be retained.

Till also receives the £500 Goleudy Travel award to help them return to the UK to make their next film.

Festival organizer Berwyn Rowlands said: This year Cardiff demonstrated to the world that with the support of Iris the city could become a significant force for the world’s lesbian and gay film community. The closing night awards show was totally amazing, with guests from Germany, Israel, Australia, Canada and the US all enjoying our Welsh hospitality. Everyone involved should be very proud of what has been achieved.

"Cowboy is a fantastic film that captured the imagination of the jury and the general public. Till Kleinert is a huge talent. I’m so excited that he will return to Wales to make a new film with his prize."

Chair of the international jury Elan Closs Stephens said it had been an extremely difficult decision to make with long and passionate debate as to who should win the competition for the world’s best gay and lesbian short film.

Speaking before the awards evening "Dr Who," "Torchwood" and "Queer as Folk" writer and director Davies said; "I’m very excited to be involved with the Iris Film Festival. It’s a fantastic prize, which allows one lucky winner to make a short film. This year’s shortlist includes work from an astonishing 11 countries, which confirms that gay and lesbian film making is alive and kicking around the world!"

All the film makers who travel to Wales for the festival are hosted by Friends of Iris, individuals who open their homes to the makers of the 30 short listed films from as far afield as Australia, Canada, and the United States at their own cost to attend.

The 35 minute film, which Till had introduced at its screening, tells the story of city dweller Christian, working for a real estate agent, comes to a deserted village where he meets country lad Cowboy. They spend the day and night together. When harvest starts at dawn the village shows its real face and the two men are forced to pay a terrible price in order to leave.

The films competing for the Iris Prize are the crème of the international gay and lesbian film industry with many having been entered for them by film festivals around the globe including new partner festivals in Germany, Brazil and Israel.

Mr Gay UK, Cardiff-based Dino Gamecho, announced that the competition’s new award for best feature film was won by American James Bolton for Dream Boy, a love story between teenagers in the American South in the 1970s.

The feature film award carries a £1,000 cash prize donated by Independent Financial Adviser Martin Briggs from Cardiff and is selected by the Friends of Iris.

2007 Iris Prize winner Dee Rees announced that the Skillset Best UK Short was won by Northern Ireland director Conor Clements for his film James. He receives £1,000 from Skillset towards training.

The awards evening also included screening of BBC Wales Week In Week Out program presented by Ian Watkins about growing up gay in the Valleys which was followed by a lively and heated debate during with Russell T Davies urged broadcasters to use their authority not to provide a platform for homophobic religious zealots with extremist views as they were clearly mentally ill.

Almost half the of the film makers traveled to Wales for the three day festival which also included six of the latest gay and lesbian feature films, with several enjoying their UK or European premieres.

The international jury included last year’s winner Dee Rees from the United States, actor Simon Russell Beale, director Nia Dryhurst and film makers , actors and industry experts from across the continents. At an earlier screening of last year’s winning film Pariah Dee Rees revealed her family had still not come to terms with her daughter being gay and had not seen the film which they regarded as "the devil’s work".

Dee said the importance of the Iris Prize was that it gave new directors what they really need – the £25,000 resource to continuing making films. She also revealed Pariah is now being made as a feature film and that she plans to travel back to Wales to make a new short film set in Cardiff’s Somali community.

Film

The Cinekid Lion Awards, each 15.000 Euros sponsored by KPN, are extremely popular. This amount allows filmmakers to produce new inspiring projects and this way Cinekid aims to stimulate high quality films. For the first time both the professional jury members as the audience agreed upon the winner of the Cinekid Lion Award. The lucky directors, Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen were present at the ceremony to receive both prizes for their film Niko - "The Way to the Stars" (Finland, 2008). This exhilarating animation film tells the story about a reindeer who wants to be able to fly. Children rated the film with a 9.4.

For the first time a professional children's jury was present at Cinekid which was an initiative of Cinekid and NIF (Dutch Institute of Filmeducation). This so-called MovieSquad Junior Award of Cinekid 2008 went to "The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat" (Grethe BØe, Norway, 2007).

New Media

The Cinekid New Media Award, Jury Award (7500 Euros) went to Klokhuis Game Studio (IJsfontein Interactive Media, NPS, 2007) in which kids can create their own game, publish it and play it. The Cinekid New Media Award, Audience Award went to Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo, 2008). The latest development in this game is the Wii Wheel in which kids can actually steer.

Television

The Cinekid Kinderkast is the prize of the Dutch kids television: a statue designed by famous writer/artist Jan Wolkers. The Golden Kinderkast and 7500 Euros went to "De Daltons, de jongensjaren" (Rita Horst, VPRO), an outstanding dramaserie of the VPRO, with which Cinekid opened in 2007.

Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award fiction: "De Daltons, de jongensjaren" by Rita Horst (VPRO)

Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award non-fiction: "Overleven in Nederland: RAUW" by Anneloek Sollart (VPRO).

Records in votes of Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award

Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award received a record in the amount of votes. With 10.344 votes the amount almost doubled.

The Cinekid Kinderkast, Audience Award fiction went to the popular serie "Het Huis Anubis" by Dennis Bots (Nickelodeon).

The Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award non fiction went to "Taarten van Abel, Zomerspecial" by Onno Krijnen, Machteld van Gelder en Stormy Minutes (Villa Achterwerk,VPRO).

Film

The Cinekid Lion Awards, each 15.000 Euros sponsored by KPN, are extremely popular. This amount allows filmmakers to produce new inspiring projects and this way Cinekid aims to stimulate high quality films. For the first time both the professional jury members as the audience agreed upon the winner of the Cinekid Lion Award. The lucky directors, Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen were present at the ceremony to receive both prizes for their film Niko - "The Way to the Stars" (Finland, 2008). This exhilarating animation film tells the story about a reindeer who wants to be able to fly. Children rated the film with a 9.4.

For the first time a professional children's jury was present at Cinekid which was an initiative of Cinekid and NIF (Dutch Institute of Filmeducation). This so-called MovieSquad Junior Award of Cinekid 2008 went to "The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat" (Grethe BØe, Norway, 2007).

New Media

The Cinekid New Media Award, Jury Award (7500 Euros) went to Klokhuis Game Studio (IJsfontein Interactive Media, NPS, 2007) in which kids can create their own game, publish it and play it. The Cinekid New Media Award, Audience Award went to Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo, 2008). The latest development in this game is the Wii Wheel in which kids can actually steer.

Television

The Cinekid Kinderkast is the prize of the Dutch kids television: a statue designed by famous writer/artist Jan Wolkers. The Golden Kinderkast and 7500 Euros went to "De Daltons, de jongensjaren" (Rita Horst, VPRO), an outstanding dramaserie of the VPRO, with which Cinekid opened in 2007.

Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award fiction: "De Daltons, de jongensjaren" by Rita Horst (VPRO)

Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award non-fiction: "Overleven in Nederland: RAUW" by Anneloek Sollart (VPRO).

Records in votes of Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award

Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award received a record in the amount of votes. With 10.344 votes the amount almost doubled.

The Cinekid Kinderkast, Audience Award fiction went to the popular serie "Het Huis Anubis" by Dennis Bots (Nickelodeon).

The Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award non fiction went to "Taarten van Abel, Zomerspecial" by Onno Krijnen, Machteld van Gelder en Stormy Minutes (Villa Achterwerk,VPRO).

Directed by Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak

Prize: 5.000 euro

Special Mention: "Ping Pong Kongen"

Directed by Jens Joohnsson

Nordisk Film Foundation's Best Buster: "Nocturna"

Directed by Adrià Garcia and Victor Maldonado

Prize: 5.000 euro

Nordisk Film Foundation's Best Child Actor: Georgia Groome in "Hormoner, hængerøve og hårde

bananer"

Directed by Gurinder Chadha

Prize: 1000 euro

Special Mention: Abbas Alijome in "Buddha Collapsed out of Shame"

Directed by Hana Makhmalbaf.

Best Film For Youth: "The Tracey Fragments"

Directed by Bruce MacDonald

Prize: 5.000 euro

Special Mention: "Lake Tahoe"

Directed by Fernando Eimbcke

Best Short Film: "En forelskelse"

Directed by Christian Tafdrup

Prize: 2.000 euro

Best Documentary: Anders Gustafssons two films 'Amandas 2 Verdener' and 'Lille Voksen'

Prize: 2.000 euro

Politiken Audience Award: "Hormoner, hængerøve og hårde bananer"

Directed by Gurinder Chadha

"Antônia" (Brazil, 2006, 90’),

Directed by Tata Amaral

Jury Statement: We chose “Antônia” as our Best Feature Film. It is an important film which shows a vibrant optimism about women in the favelas of Brazil. Often in Brazilian Cinema the favelas are presented with the dance beat of guns and death but instead in “Antônia” we have the dance beat of four women rising up together against hardship through their creativity. This film has daring camera, beautiful performances and a driving edit and is a vital addition to the Cinema of Brazil.

The Jury: José Pedro Ribeiro, São José Correia, Pier Maria Bocchi, Lisa Gornick

BEST ACTRESS

Nuria Espert for her performance in "Barcelona (Un Mapa)" | Barcelona (A Map) (Spain, 2007, 85’),

Directed by: Ventura Pons

BEST ACTOR

Josep Maria Pou for his performance in "Barcelona (Un Mapa)" | Barcelona (A Map) (Spain, 2007, 85’),

Directed by Ventura Pons

For their strong, deep, convincing performances as two old people who know that they should go through vital changes during their last days together, we decided to give the prizes for the Best Actor and the best Actress to Josep Maria Pou and Nuria Espert for their touching and challenging portrait of a couple in “Barcelona (A Map)”.

The Jury: José Pedro Ribeiro, São José Correia, Pier Maria Bocchi, Lisa Gornick

BEST DOCUMENTARY (1.000,00€)

"Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story" (Australia, 2006, 54’),

Directed by: Julian Shaw

Jury Statement: We the jury decided unanimously to award “Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story”, by Julian Shaw, the Prize for Best Documentary. “Darling!” is a heart-warming, positive, well-balanced, skilfully made documentary with an important historical and political perspective and message. The way Julian Shaw deals with his subject and protagonist is tender, authentic, and educational without being moralistic.

The Jury: Eládio Clímaco, Barbara Reumüller, Maria José García

BEST SHORT FILM | AUDIENCE AWARD (500,00€) – Award sponsored by Bico de Pena Publishing House

First Prize: "69 – Praça da Luz" (Brazil, 2007, 21’)

Directed by: Carolina Markowicz, Joana Galvão| 8 Points

Second Prize: "Lugar: Jag Är Bög" | I Am Gay (Sweden, 2008, 15’),

Directed by: Nicolas Kolovos| 7,9 Points (Mention)

Third Prize: "Lugar: Frequent Traveller" (Portugal, 2007, 8’), Directed by: Patrícia Bateira| 7,8 Points (Mention)

Directed by: Carlos Reygadas

Special Mention to Ramin Bahrani’s film “Chop Shop”

Baltic Film Show Award: “The Class”

Directed by: Ilmar Raag.

Special Mention: Edmunds Jansons’ short documentary animation “Little Bird’s Diary”

The jury of INTERFILM was composed of three members of the Lutheran Church, coming from Germany (Dietmar Adler), Latvia (Agris Sutra) and Denmark (me).

The FIPRESCI jury announced that the award in the Baltic film show was given to “Vogelfrei”

directors: Jānis Kalējs, Jānis Putniņš, Anna Viduleja, Gatis Šmits

FIPRESCI International film competition: “Andalucia” director: Alain Gomis

The award “Best Documentary” of the Baltic film competition jury was given to the Estonian director Priit Valkna’s film “The Headwind Hall”

The award “Best Animation” was given to Edmunds Jansons’ film “Little Bird’s Diary”

The award “Best Feature Film” was given to “Autumn Ball” by Veiko Ounpuu.

The award “Best Baltic Film” was given to “Vogelfrei” by Jānis Kalējs, Gatis Šmits, Jānis Putniņš and Anna Viduleja. This award and 5000 euro were presented by Inga Šīna, vice-president of Rietumu Banka.

Audience Prize: “The Class” by Ilmar Raag

“Arsenals” main prize, with an award of $20,000 US, for “Chop Shop” by Ramin Bahrani

Feature films: "Ainda Orangotangos" (Still Orangutans) Director: Gustavo Spolidoro, Brazil, 2007

Special Mentions: "Jin bi hui huang" (Fujian Blue)

Director: Weng Shou-ming, China, 2007

"Lassú TükÖr" (Slow Mirror)

Director: Igor and Ivan Buharov, Hungary, 2007

"De Ofrivilliga" (Involuntary)

Director: Ruben Ostlund, Switzerland, 2008

"Ztracená dovolená" (Lost Holiday)

Director: Lucie Králová, Czech Republic/China/Switzerland, 2007

Short films: "Smàfuglar" (Two Birds)

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Iceland, 2008

Special Mentions: "Pour de Vrai" (For Real)

Director: Blandine Lenoir, France, 2007

"Le jour de gloire" (The Day of Glory)

Director: Bruno Collet, France, 2007

"Za horyzont" (Beyond the Horizon)

Director: Kuba Czekay, Poland, 2007

Aprile's award: "Lassú TükÖr" (Slow Mirror)

Director: Igor and Ivan Buharov, Hungary, 2007

Special Mentions: "Pour de Vrai" (For Real)

Director: Blandine Lenoir, France, 2007

"Operator"

Director: Matthew Walker, UK, 2007

"Vertigo Rush"

Director: Johann Lurf, Austria, 2007

Encore Award: "Socket"

Director: Patricio García, Argentina, 2007

A2A's award Giovani Energie: "What's next?"

Director: Claudia Roethlin and Adrian Flueckiger, Switzerland, 2007

Corti ma buoni: "Rice and Meat"

Director: Diego Ongaro, USA 2007

Best Animation: "La maison en petits cubes" (The House of Small Cubes)

Director: Kunio Kato, Japan, 2008

Staff Award: "The Blindness of the Woods"

Director: Martin Jalfen and Javier Lourenço, Argentina, 2008

Students's Jury Award: "La théorie des ensembles"

Director: Juliette Hamon Damourettes, Jao Eka M'Changama and Marc Hericher, France, 2007

The German Independence Award – Best German Film, the German Independence Award – Audience Award and the Otto-Sprenger-Award.

The 15th Oldenburg International Film Festival ended on the evening of September 14 with the award ceremony for the German Independence Award and the Otto-Sprenger-Award.

The winner of the German Independence Award – Best German Film is Emily Atef’s “The Stranger in Me”. The award is worth 5000 Euro and was presented by jury-president LeVar Burton and Mayor Dr. Gerd Schwandner.

The jury praised the film’s “originality, the strength of the story and the exceptional quality of the actors”.

This year the jury specially mentioned two performances of female actors. Susanne Wolff displayed her impressive multilayered talents in two films at the festival: “The Stranger in Me” (Emily Atef) and “Happy People” (Jan Georg Schütte). Irina Potapenko gave a convincing newcomer performance with her emotional and powerful acting in “Revanche” by Götz Spielmann.

The German Independence Award – Audience Award also went to “The Stranger in Me” by Emily Atef. The EWE-sponsored award is worth 2000 Euro. The winner also receives an Avid editing software suite.

The third award won by Emily Atef’s “The Stranger in Me” is the Otto-Sprenger-Award also worth 2000 Euro.

During the Cinema-brunch on Sunday September 14th the winner of the 500 Euro short film competition was announced at the CinemaxX: “Side Effect” by Liz Adams.

The audience competition for the Finnkino Prize is arranged in co-operation with Finnkino, the biggest distribution company in Finland. The audience voted for their favorite film from ten nominees shown at the Helsinki IFF.

"Captain Abu Raed" tells the story of an elderly airport janitor, whom the kids in his neighborhood mistake for a pilot. "Abu Raed" doesn’t correct the misunderstanding but uses the situation to tell the poor and abused kids amazing stories about the far away places, that he has never been to. "Captain Abu Raed" is the first feature film by Aman Matalqa (b. 1976).

"Captain Abu Raed" also won the Audience Award for World Cinema (dramatic section) at the Sundance Film Festival, earlier this year, and is Jordan’s choice for Oscar Nomination.

The Finnkino Prize winner was announced at the beginning of the Helsinki IFF’s Closing Film, "The Class," (dir. Laurent Cantet) and at the screening of the Surprise Film, "Rachel Getting Married" (dir. Jonathan Demme). "Captain Abu Raed " will be released theatrically by Finnkino on the 19th of December. The ten nominees for the Finnkino Prize were all first or second feature films by their director:

• Captain Abu Raed (director: Amin Matalqa, Jordan 2007)

• Love and Other Crimes (director:Stefan Arsenijevits, Serbia 2008)

• Lake Tahoe (director: Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico 2008)

• Autumn Ball (director: Veiko Öunpuu, Estonia 2007)

• Vanaja (director: Rajnesh Domalpalli, India 2006)

• Involuntary (director: Ruben Östlund, Sweden 2008)

• Me (director: Rafa Cortés, Spain 2007)

• Wonderful Town (director: Aditya Assarat, Thailand 2007)

• Better Things (director: Duane Hopkins, United Kingdom 2008)

• Tulpan (director: Sergei Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan 2006)

LUCAS presented one week long brand new high-class children´s films – among them six World premieres, five European and 15 German premieres. Ten Feature Films and 19 Shorts competed for the renowned LUCAS-prizes. A special film series and a symposium were dedicated to documentary films for children. For the youngest ones LUCAS screened a special series for "minis"

Prize for Best Feature: MY VERY BEST FRIEND (Un Château En Espagne)

Director: Isabelle Doval (pictured below), France 2007

LUCAS prize for Best Short: PUSLING (CRYBABY) Director: Christina Rosendahl, Denmark 2008

Laudable Mentions: DUGGHOLUFÓLKIÐ (NO NETWORK)

Director: Ari Kristinsson, Iceland 2007

STRAFSTOSS (PENALTY)

Director: Till Endemann, Germany 2008

Read about the LUCAS-Jury:

lucasfilmfestival.de/jury-1/lucas-jury

Read the statements of the LUCAS-Jury

lucasfilmfestival.de/jury-1/statements-of-the-lucas-jury

Don-Quijote-Award of the F.I.C.C.: PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND

Director: Daniel Barnz, USA 2008

Laudable Mention: DUGGHOLUFÓLKIÐ (NO NETWORK) Director: Ari Kristinsson (pictured below), Iceland 2007

Read about the jury of the F.I.C.C.: lucasfilmfestival.de/jury-1/f-i-c-c-jury

Read the statements of the F.I.C.C.-Jury:

lucasfilmfestival.de/jury-1/statements-of-the-f-i-c-c-jury

Director: Tom McCarty

PRIX DU JURY: "Ballast"

Director: Lance Hammer

PRIX DE LA CRITIQUE INTERNATIONALE: "Gardens of the Night"

Director: Damian Harris

PRIX DU JURY DE LA RÉVÉLATION CARTIER: "Ballast"

Director: Lance Hammer

PRIX MICHEL D'ORNANO: "Johnny Mad Dog"

Director: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire

Both the ceremony and the concert were attended by world famous composers such as James Newton Howard, Dario Marianelli, Angelo Badalamenti, David Arnold, Clint Mansell, Trevor Jones, and Shigeru Umebayashi. After the World Soundtrack Awards ceremony the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé performed film music by Angelo Badalamenti, Dario Marianelli, Andres Goldstein & Daniel Tarrab and local talent Tuur Florizoone. Special guests of the evening were Siouxsie Sioux and Beth Rowley, both singing music of The Edge of Love.

The results:

FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

presented in respect of the body of work in the year 2008

JAMES NEWTON HOWARD: CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, MICHAEL CLAYTON, I AM LEGEND

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE OF THE YEAR 2008

ATONEMENT BY DARIO MARIANELLI

BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR FILM 2008

'DOWN TO EARTH' FROM WALL-E

Music by Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel, lyrics by Peter Gabriel, performed by Peter Gabriel

DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2008

MARC STREITENFELD: AMERICAN GANGSTER

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2008

ANGELO BADALAMENTI

PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD

TUUR FLORIZOONE: MOSCOW, BELGIUM

SABAM AWARD FOR BEST BELGIAN YOUNG COMPOSER

CEDRIC MURRATH

The World Soundtrack Awards are organized in cooperation with Port of Ghent, Sabam, the province East-Flanders, the Ghent City Marketing Fund and Belgacom.

The Domestic Competition award went to the film "Leviathan" by Simon Bogojeviæ Narath. The film was also awarded with Veronika's Skull (+ a sum of 1.000 euros), handed out by the Domestic Jury members - last year Domestic Competition winner Renata Poljak and Jude Goldrey from Lifesize Pictures, UK.

The reAnimated Veronika award for best animation went to the film "One Rat Short" by Alex Weil. Croatian film "I'll Kill You" by Nikola Strasek was presented with the award for best documentary and the award for best experimental film went to Raymond by BIF (all the film were also awarded with a sum of 500 euros).

The audience award, Vox Veronika, went to the Belgian film "Tango" by Guido Thys (with a remarkable average grade of 4.85).

The International Jury also gave out two special mentions, to the film "Graphitti" by Vano Burduli from Georgia, and the film "Family Reunion" by Isold Uggadottir from Island.

- Grand Prize of festival for the best artistic achievment

MAKING RAIN by Liivo Niglas and Frode Storaas

as the best scientific audiovisual recording

CONFLUENCES - EMERILLON OF FRENCH GUIANA by Perle Møhl

as the best film on survival of indigenous peoples

LAST JOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS by Hannu Hyvönen

as the best film on relationship between man and nature

OAK #419 by Robert Harding Pittman, the special mention of jury as the significant film on citizen¹s movement

PARADISE by Jerzy Sladkowski

as the Prize of French Amabassador

Members of the international jury:

Kersti Uibo (Chairman)

Priit Pedajas

Mati Põldre

Elo Liiv

Pille Runnel

Õie Sarv

ALYOSHA by Meelis Muhu

- as the best Estonian film

Jury for Estonian films:

Edward Lucie-Smith

Carol Salter

Andreas Fischer-Hansen

The Estonian People¹s Award according to the televoting on Estonian TV:

MOTHER by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov

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

Also were awarded:

Best First Documentary: “La Reina del Condón”

by Silvana Ceschi and Reto Stamm, (Switzerland)

Best Short Documentary: “Death Valley Superstar”

by Michael Yaroshevsky (Canada)

Special Mention was awarded to “Rakushka”

by Dmitiy Lavrinenko (Russia).

In OFF Docúpolis section was awarded the film “The Mosquito Problem”, by the Bulgarian Andrey Paounov.

Apart from the official categories, Docúpolis gave honorific awards.

The award Tercer Ojo to Best experimental documentary was for “Solo”

by Maciej Pisarek (Poland)

The Human Rights Award was for “Fighting the silence”

by Lles and Femke van Velzen (Holand)

The best Latin-american Documentary was for Andres di Tella’s “Fotografías” (Argentina)

Audience Award was for “Mari Carmen España. El final del silencio”, by Martin Jonson and Pontus Hjorthén.

Golden Leopard: "PARQUE VIA"

Directed by: Enrique Rivero, Mexico

Special Jury Prize: "33 SCENY Z ZYCIA" (33 Scenes from Life)

Directed by: Malgoska Szumowska, Germany/Poland

Best Director: Denis Côte for "ELLE VEUT LE CHAOS," Canada

Leopard for Best Actress: Ilaria Occhini in "MAR NERO"

Directed by: Federico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France

Leopard for Best Actor: Tayanç Ayaydin in "THE MARKET – A TALE OF TRADE"

Directed by: Ben Hopkins, Germany/UK/Turkey/Kazakhstan

Prix Netpac: "DAYTIME DRINKING"

Directed by: Noh Young-seok, South Korea

Prix FIPRESCI: "PARQUE VIA"

Directed by: Enrique Rivero, Mexico

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: "MAR NERO"

Directed by: Federico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France

Prix FICC / IFFS: "YURIEV DEN" (Yuri’s Day)

Directed by: Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia/Germany

Prix Art & Essai CICAE: "SONBAHAR" (Autumn)

Directed by: Ozcan Alpers, Turkey/Germany

Prix SRG SSR idee suisse /Semaine de la critique: "LATAWCE" (Kites)

Directed by: Beata Dzianowicz, Poland

C.P. Company Golden Leopard / Filmmakers of the Present Competition: "LA FORTERESSE"

Directed by: Fernand Melgar, Switzerland

Ciné Cinéma Special Jury Prize / Filmmakers of the Present Competition: "ALICIA EN EL PAÍS"

Directed by: Esteban Larraín, Chile

Leopard for the Best First Feature: "MÄRZ"

Directed by: Händl Klaus, Austria (International Competition)

Golden Leopard- SRG SSR idée suisse Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow Competition:

"DEZ ELEFANTES"

Directed by: Eva Randolph, Brazil

The Boccalino Prize for Best Actor: Kssenia Rappoport for "Yuriev Den"

Directed by: Kirill Serebrennikov

The Boccalino Prize for the Most Significant Film: "Beket"

Directed by: Davide Manuli

Silver Leopard- Eastman Kodak Company Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow:

"KAUPUNKILAISIA"

Directed by: Juho Kuosmanen, Finland

Golden Leopard- IKEA Prize for the Leopards of Tomorrow National Competition: "LA DÉLOGEUSE"

Directed by: Julien Rouyet, Switzerland

Silver Leopard- Eastman Kodak Company Prize for the

Leopards of Tomorrow National Competition: "UN DIA Y NADA"

Directed by: Lorenz Merz, Switzerland

Prix du Public UBS: "SON OF RAMBOW"

Directed by: Garth Jennings, UK/France/Germany

Variety Piazza Grande Award: "BACK SOON"

Directed by: Sólveig Anspach, Island/France

Filmmakers of the Present Competition Jury composed of:

Bertrand Bonello, director, composer and writer,France, Benedek Fliegauf, director and writer, Hungary, Cao Guimaraes, director and video artist, Brazil, Corso Salani, director, Italy, Franz Treichler, muscian and composer , Switzerland

The Leopards of Tomorrow Jury is composed of:

Fulvio Bernasconi, director, Switzerland, Eran Kolirin, director, Israel, Angele Paulino, TV5 Monde, Dick Rijneke,

director and producer, The Netherlands, Orsi Toth, actress, Hungary

The Bocaalino Prize Jury is composed of: Alberto Castellano, President, Angelo Franco Aschei, Ugo Brusaporco, Lorenzo Buccella, Valentina Cattaneo, Jordi Picatoste and Damiano Realini

The Netpac Jury is composed of: Sanling Chang,

Taiwan, Bee Thiam Tan, Singapore and Antonio Weinrichter, Spain

The Fipresci Prize Jury is composed of: Nicole Hess,

Swiss, Radovan Holub, Czech Republic, Emma Gray Munthe, Sweden, Javier Porta Fouze, Argentina, Mateusz Werner, Poland

The Ecumenical Jury Prize is composed of: Alexander Deeg, Germany, Alexander Deeg, Felipe Espinoza Torrese, Mexico, Douglas Fahlesone, Ireland, Serge Molla, Swizerland, Astrid Polz-Watzenige, Sham P. Thomas, India.

The FICC / IFFS Prize Jury is composed of: Csaba Bardose, Hungary, Briana Berg, Switzerland, Eoin Hayes, Ireland

Prix Art & Essai CICAE Jury is composed of: Sino Caracappa, Italy, Andre Ceuterick, Belgium, Rita Linda Potyondi, Hungary

Semaine de la Critique Jury is composed of: Stephanie Bunbury, Australia, Azzedine Mabrouki, Algeria, Mariano Morace, Switzerland

Images of the 61st Locarno Film Festival Awards Ceremony:

1.) Junior Jury Special award, Gideon Koppel, Director of the film SLEEP FURIOUSLY

© FOTOFESTIVAL / DAULTE

2.) Federico Bondi, director of the film MAR NERO, third prize of the Junior Jury

© FOTOFESTIVAL / DAULTE

3.) Richard Szyotori, director of the film AU CAFE ROMAND, Leopards of Tomorrow Junior Jury Award for the best Swiss short film

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4.) Isamu Hirabayashi, director of the film BABIN, Junior Jury Leopards of Tomorrow Award

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5.) Julien Rouyet, director of the film LA DELOGEUSE, Junior Jury Leopards of Tomorrow Award

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6.) Malgoska Szumowska, director of the film 33 33 SCENY Z ZYCIA, Junior Jury Award

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7.) Junior Jury Award, Denis Côté, director of the film ELLE VEUT LE CHAOS with the Jury

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8.) Ecumenical Jury Award, from left Serge Molla, member of the Jury, Federico Bondi, director of the film MAR NERO, Alexander Deeg, member of the Jury

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9.) Enrique Rivero, director of the film PARQUE VÍA, FIPRESCI Award

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10.) Özcan Alper, director of the film SONBAHAR, Art & Essai CICAE Award

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11.) SRG SSR idée suisse Award - Semaine de la critique, Beata Dzianowicz, director of the film LATAWCE

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12.) Ilaria Occhini, Leopard for the best feminine interpretation for the film MAR NERO

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13.) Tayanç Ayaydin, Leopard for the best male interpretation for the film THE MARKET - A TALE OF TRADE

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14.) Fernand Melgar, director of the film LA FORTERESSE, C.P.Company Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present

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15.) Händl Klaus, director of the film MÄRZ, Leopard for the best first film, Prize of the City and Region of Locarno

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16.) Malgoska Szumowska, director of the film 33 SCENY Z ZYCIA, Special award for the Jury, Award of the Country of Ascona and Losone

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Venice, 6th September 2008

The Venezia 65 Jury, chaired by Wim Wenders and comprised of Juriy Arabov, Valeria Golino, Douglas Gordon, Lucrecia Martel, John Landis, and Johnnie To, having viewed all twenty-one films in competition, has decided as follows:

GOLDEN LION for Best Film: "The Wrestler"

Directed by Darren Aronofsky (USA)

SILVER LION for Best Director to:

Aleksey German Jr. for "Bumažnyj Soldat" (Paper Soldier) (Russia)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to: "Teza"

Directed by Haile Gerima (Ethiopia, Germany, France)

COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for "Il papà di Giovanna"

Directed by Pupi Avati (Italy)

COPPA VOLPI for Best Actress: Dominique Blanc for "L’autre"

Directed by Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic (France)

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD for Best Young Actor or Actress: Jennifer Lawrence for "The Burning Plain" by Guillermo Arriaga (USA)

OSELLA for Best Cinematography to: Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov for "Bumažnyj Soldat" (Paper Soldier)

Directed by Aleksey German Jr. (Russia)

OSELLA for Best Screenplay to: Haile Gerima for "Teza" by Haile Gerima (Ethiopia, Germany, France)

SPECIAL LION for Overall Work to: Werner Schroeter

The Jury decided to award a Special Lion for his uncompromising and relentlessly innovative work over a period of 40 years to Werner Schroeter.

“LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM

The “Luigi De Laurentiis” Award for a Debut Film Jury at the 65th Venice Film Festival, comprised of Abdellatif Kechiche (President), Alice Braga, Gregory Jacobs, Donald Ranvaud, and Heidrun Schleef, has unanimously decided to award the

“LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM to:

"Pranzo Di Ferragosto" by Gianni Di Gregorio (SIC - International Critics’ Week, Italy)

Aurelio De Laurentiis and Filmauro award a cash prize, of 100,000 USD, to the winning first film (50,000 to the director, 50,000 to the producer). To the director, an additional film voucher for 40,000 Euro will also be awarded, offered by Kodak.

La cinta Sügisball (Autumn ball), del director Veiko Ounpuu, ofrece una visión poética, aunque no exenta de amargo cinismo de una Europa del este en permanente construcción. Seis personajes dispersos, agrietados y asimétricos, sobreviven en la jungla urbana de Tallin. Supone un giro de tuerca a la narración de cruce de historias y de personajes en pisos de protección oficial. Un retrato vitriólico de algunos faunos locales cincelado con el humor que llega del frío. Sügisball (Autumn ball) ha sido la ganadora de la Luna de Valencia de Oro, dotada con 18.000 euros y estatuilla, en la sección oficial de largometrajes de la 23 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine 'Cinema Jove' de Valencia. El jurado de la sección oficial de largos -integrado por Skolimowsky, Javier Salmones, Gustavo Montiel, Patricia G. Pérez, y Emmanuel Lefrant - le ha concedido el galardón a Sügisball "por su maestría en sacar de unas vidas sórdidas en una atmósfera desesperada un poderoso retrato, brillantemente actuado, de gente atrapada en sus propios sueños e ilusiones". Además, el jurado otorgó una mención especial al filme I am from Titov Veles, de la directora macedonia Teona Strugar.

En lo que respecta a la sección competitiva de cortos, para la que habían sido seleccionados 51 trabajos de 21 países, de entre los más de 600 recibidos durante la convocatoria, un segundo jurado formado por Michael Aguiló, Julia Ruszkiewicz e Ivan Fenyö concedió la Luna de Valencia de Oro, dotada con 6.000 euros y estatuilla, al trabajo Fais comme chez-toi, de la director francés Gautier About. Por su parte, la Luna de Valencia de Plata, dotada con 3.000 euros y estatuilla, fue para Auf der Strecke, del director alemán Reto Caffi, y la Luna de Valencia de Bronce, dotada con 1.800 euros y trofeo, para el corto noruego Brakkvann, de David Reiss-Andersen. Además, el jurado realizó una serie de menciones especiales a los cortos Aufrecht Stehen, de Hannah Schweier, C'est dimanche, del director Samir Guesmi y a Berni's Doll, de Yann Jovette.

Junto a los premios oficiales, también se entregaron, en el apartado de cortos, otros galardones especiales. Así, el premio Technicolor al mejor trabajo español, consistente en servicios de trabajo en ese laboratorio por valor de 3.000 euros recayó en El anónimo Caronte, de Ricard Pena Martínez; el premio Pecera Studio al mejor sonido, consistente en servicios de postproducción de audio en esa empresa por un valor de 2.404 euros, en el corto De las relaciones, de Jorge Acebo y Cristina Santiago; y el premio Sonofilm al mejor director de cortometraje de producción española, consistente en trabajos de postproducción de su siguiente obra por valor de 3.000 euros se otorgó a Primer domingo de mayo, de Iñaki Antuñado y Martín Román. Por último, el premio internacional Canal + España, consistente en la compra de los derechos para la emisión del corto en Europa, ha recaído en el filme Berni's Doll, de Yann Jovette y Gloria García, mientras el Premio Canal + Francia, que también premia al mejor cortometraje con la compra de los derechos para su emisión en Europa ha sido para Smafuglar, de Rúnar Rúnarsson.

Director: Matteo Garrone

Producer: Domenico Procacci

Arri-Zeiss-Award Jury Statement:

The jury awards its top prize to a film whose frightening portrait of a contemporary community transforms the familiar generic portraits of criminal life into a superbly enacted harshly realistic depiction of a modern day gomorrha. Its direction, its ensemble of creators and its fresh and original storytelling makes for a film experience that captures ones imagination as it effects our view of the everyday world.

The jury awards the ArriZeiss Award to GOMORRHA directed by Matteo Garrone and congratulates the Munich Film Festival on its accomplished and diverse program of feature films in this years international film competition.

The jury made its selection from a final nomination list of three films including Carlos Reygada's "SILENT LIGHT" and "IL DIVO" by Paolo Sorrentino and further wishes to congratulate all the filmmakers in the program and thank the Festival and its staff for their hard work and kindnesses.

CineVision Award: "EVERYBODY DIES BUT ME"

Director: Valeria Gaia Germanica

Producer: Igor Tolstunov

Jury Statement:

“Adolescents can laugh and cry almost at the same time. On the surface there are sudden fierce reactions, deeper down there is an innocence, a dreamy inner world.” That’s how Russian director Valeria Gaia Germanica describes the protagonists in her film "EVERYBODY DIES BUT ME." The excellent performances by her young cast bring the world of teenage emotions to the screen with authenticity and intensity. A lot of it may appear to be a horror scenario, but the characters’ strength and determination shows that there is hope for their future.

Also nominated: "HOME" and "LOS BASTARDOS."

The main prize “Golden St.George” for the best film "Be hamin sadegi"(As Simple As That)

Director: Reza Mir Karimi (Iran)

The prize for the best film of the "Perspectives" competition and the certificate for 10000 meters of Kodak tape: "Cumbia callera" (Cumbia Connection)

Director: Rene U Villareal (Mexico)

The for the best director- Javor Gardev for "Zift" (Bulgaria)

The prize for the best actress and watch Carrera y Carrera: Margherita Buy for "Giorni e nuvole" (Days and Clouds) (Italy / Switzerland)

The prize for the best actor and watch Carrera y Carrera: "Richard Jenkins" for "The Visitor" (USA)

The special jury prize – Director Marion Laine for "Un coeur simple" (The Simple Heart) (France)

The special prize "I believe. K. Stanislavsky" for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting: Isabelle Huppert (France)

Bittersweet drama "Somers Town" scooped EIFF’s top prize this year at today’s awards ceremony presented by patron Sir Sean Connery.

The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film quadrupled in value this year.

The Michael Powell Jury, led by actor Danny Huston, recognized Shane Meadows' latest as “the freshest, most imaginative maverick work, deserving of the Award.”

“After viewing an impressive selection of films and a long deliberation we, the Jury, unanimously agreed that the award would go to 'Somers Town.'”

The prestigious PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film was handed to the multifaceted Robert Carlyle for his striking rendering of a man in conflict with his past in Summer. The Jury commended his work as “a flawless performance in a great, uncompromising film that touches the heart.”

The champion that emerged from the historically hefty documentary strand was Werner Herzog’s "Encounters at the End of the World." The Best Documentary Award Jury, chaired by Seamus McGarvey, commented: “the documentaries competing for this award were, in many cases, exemplary.”

“It was a powerful shortlist of contrasting styles and experience, but in the end there was one film which we all agreed was the outstanding entry, a poetic vision but one with an unflinching gaze focusing on an area which should concern us all.”

But it was another documentary that won over the public’s heart and the Standard Life Audience Award.

"Man on Wire," directed by James Marsh, is a thrilling reconstruction of daredevil Philippe Petit’s scheme to walk a high-wire strung between the twin towers of the former World Trade Centre.

Its first European screening on Thursday received a standing ovation and it was with equal enthusiasm that its audiences rewarded the film in their votes.

See below for the full list of award winners.

Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film sponsored by the UK Film Council:

"Somers Town"

Director: Shane Meadows

PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film

Robert Carlyle for "Summer"

Standard Life Audience Award: "Man on Wire"

Director: James Marsh

Best Documentary Award: "Encounters at the End of the World"

Director: Werner Herzog

Skillset New Directors Award: Marianna Palka for "Good Dick"

UK Film Council Award for Best British Short Film: "Son" Director: Daniel Mulloy

European Film Academy Short Film 2008 – Prix UIP: "2 Birds"

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson

Scottish Short Documentary Award supported by Baillie Gifford: "Christmas with Dad"

Director: Conor McCormack

McLaren Award for New British Animation in partnership with BBC Film Network: "Space Travel According to John" Director: Jamie Stone & Anders Jedenfors

Mirrorball Best British Music Video Award: "Happiness" by Goldfrapp

Director: Dougal Wilson

Switzerland closed with the presentation of the coveted eight Golden Roses Awards. They were presented to the winners by leading Swiss personalities, including Freddy

Burger, chairman of Freddy Burger Management, which owns the rights to the Rose d’Or Festival, and Swiss-native Kiera Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, who presented the award for Best Entertainer. Well-known Dutch comedian and musical virtuoso Hans Liberg hosted the evening.

Urban Frye, festival director, presented Ben Silverman, co-chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, with the 2008 Honorary Rose. “The winner of this award is carefully considered by the Rose d'Or organization and presented to someone who is renowned in the industry for their contribution to television,” Frye said. “ Ben Silverman has transformed the television business model and is continually pushing the boundaries of this ever-expanding medium. Ben personifies this award and I am delighted to present him with the 2008 Honorary Rose.”

The Festival received a new record of 402 programs, entered by 181 companies across 34 countries. From these, a pre-selection jury nominated 75 programs from 55 companies and 19 countries to compete in their respective categories.

A high-profile group of 19 jury members narrowed this field to the top winners in each of the following eight categories: Arts Documentary, Comedy, Drama, Sitcom, Entertainment, Game Show, Performing Arts, and Reality. Special Awards were presented for Best Entertainer and Best of 2008.

“This year's programs were of exceptional quality, which presented our international jurors with a challenging task. However, the caliber of entries proves not only that the Rose d'Or is back at the heart of European creativity, but also that it is possible to create programs with cross-cultural and cross-generational appeal,” Frye added.

The winners are as follows:

ARTS DOCUMENTARY

“Strictly Bolshoi” (76-minute documentary film)

Production Company: Ballet Boyz Productions Ltd. - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: Channel 4 – UK

This intimate and thrilling film follows the world’s most sought-after ballet choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, as he becomes the first Englishman to be invited to create a new work for the legendary Bolshoi Ballet.

COMEDY

“Kombat Opera Presents…” (30-minute comedy series)

Production Company: Avalon Television - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: BBC – UK

“Kombat Opera Presents…” is a cross-genre format in which a cast of opera singers parody major television formats. It's an inspired idea that opens the door to a whole new genre: culture-clash TV.

DRAMA

“Skins” (60-minute series)

Production Company: Company Pictures / Storm Dog Films - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: E4 – UK

“Skins” is an offbeat comedy/drama series about a group of teenagers who push boundaries, both at home and abroad. The action is enhanced by an irreverent comedic approach, which in no way reduces its emotional impact.

SPECIAL MENTION

In the drama category a special mention was given to:

“The Street II” (60-minute series)

Production Company: Granada Productions - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: BBC - UK

“The Street II”, now in its second season, follows the lives of the various residents of one street in the northern English city of Manchester.

ENTERTAINMENT

“Hider In The House” (60-minute series)

Production Company: Eyeworks - NL

Broadcaster/Distributor: BBC 2 – UK

“Hider In The House” is a hilarious and engaging children's hidden-camera show. The series pits the wits of children against their parents as they attempt to hide a celebrity in their house for an entire weekend.

GAME SHOW

“Power Of 10” (43-minute game show)

Production Company: Embassy Row - US

Broadcaster/Distributor: Sony Pictures Television Int. – UK

"Power of 10" is a high stakes, adrenaline-filled game show that tests contestants’ knowledge of public thinking and opinion. This primetime studio game show uses questions based on large-scale professional polling results on a range of issues from politics to pop culture.

PERFORMING ARTS

Mozart’s Magic Flute-Onstage and Backstage (207-minute special)

Production Company: tpc tv productioncenter zurich - CH

Broadcaster/Distributor: SF Schweizer Fernsehen (Swiss Television) - CH

An innovative television program, the action centres on a performance of Mozart’s Magic Flute, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and directed by Marin Kusej at Zurich Opera House shows. The show is aired live from two parallel perspectives, simultaneously on two different TV channels: front stage on SF 1 and backstage on SF 2.

REALITY

“The Phone” (40-minute film)

Production Company: Park Lane TV Productions - NL

Broadcaster/Distributor: Park Lane TV Productions - NL

The Phone is a movie — a movie played in daily life, with daily people who compete unknowingly, but willingly. The plot features two protagonists caught in a world no one knew existed; a parallel world that is all around us, but only visible to those who pick up `The Phone`.

SITCOM

“The IT Crowd” (25-minute series)

Production Company: talkbackTHAMES - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: Channel 4 – UK

An office IT department is the setting of this sitcom. But far from being the second-class citizens of the corporate world, these IT guys are the heroes of this business.

In addition, special prizes were also awarded to:

BEST ENTERTAINER

“Peter Serafinowicz” (30-minute)

The Peter Serafinowicz Show

Production Company: Objective Productions/Hey Hey Hey Ltd. - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: BBC - UK

Star of “The Peter Serafinowicz Show”, Peter is well-known UK comic actor, voice artist and composer. Through his impressions of familiar faces, Peter creates a world in which the likes of Al Pacino and Simon Cowell mingle with his own quirky creations, such as an impressively incompetent private investigator.

BEST OF 2008

“Kombat Opera Presents…” (30-minute comedy series)

Production Company: Avalon Television - UK

Broadcaster/Distributor: BBC – UK

“Kombat Opera Presents…” is a cross-genre format in which a cast of opera singers parody major television formats. It's an inspired idea that opens the door to a whole new genre: culture-clash TV.

The Jury prize winners were:

Best Feature / Documentary: "FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO"

Director: Daniel G. Karslake (USA)

Best Feature is awarded € 1000

Honorable Mention: SPINNIN' (6 BILLION DIFFERENT PEOPLE) (ES)

Director: USE (Eusebio Pastrana)

Best Short Film: THE SADDEST BOY IN THE WORLD

Director: Jamie Travis (CANADA)

Best Short is awarded € 500

Honorable Mention: KJÆRLIGHETENS VALG

Director: Eirik Andreas Sandaker (NORWAY)

The Audience Awards:

Best Feature: THE CHINESE BOTANIST'S DAUGHTERS

Director: Sijie Dai (FRANCE/CANADA)

Best Short: PRADA HANDBAG

Director: Stuart Vauvert (AUSTRALIA)

Grand Prix- State Of Baden-Wuerttemberg And City Of Stuttgart Grand Award For Animated Film:

“Franz Kafka Inaka Isha” (Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor)

By Koji Yamamura

Japan 2007

Producers: Mariko Seto, Fumi Teranishi

Production: Yamamura Animation, Shochiku

World Sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

Prize: 15,000 Euros

International Promotion Award / Award For Best Graduation Film: “Camera Obscura”

By Matthieu Buchalski, Jean-Michel Drechsler, Thierry Onillon

France 2007

Production: Supinfocom Valenciennes

World Sales: Premium Films

Prize: 10,000 Euros

Special Mention:

“Milk Teeth”

By Tibor Banoczki

Great Britain 2007

Producer: Anna Higgs

Production: National Film And Television School

SWR Audience Award:

“Isabelle Au Bois Dormant” (Sleeping Betty)

By Claude Cloutier

Canada 2007

Producer: Marcel Jean

Production/ World Sales: National Film Board Of Canada

6,000 Euros, Sponsored By Südwestrunfunk SWR

Special Award: Music For Animation:

“Hezurbeltzak, Una Fosa Comun” (Hezurbeltzak, A Common Grave)

By Iziben Onederra

Spain 2007

Producer: Pello Gutierrez

Music: Xaber Erkizia

World Sales: Kimuak

5,000 Euros, Sponsored By The Gema Foundation

YOUNG ANIMATION

Award For Best Student Film:

“1977”

By Peque Varela

Great Britain 2007

Producer: Gavin Humphries / National Film And Television School

Prize: 2,500 Euros, Sponsored By The Landesanstalt Für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg

Special Mention:

“Dionysos”

By Jörg Weidner, Anke Späth

Germany 2007

Production: Hochschule Für Bildende Künste Hamburg

TRICKS FOR KIDS

Award For Best Children’s Animated Film:

“The Curse Of The Skull Rock”

By Ben Smith

Great Britain 2007

Producer: Ben Smith

Production: Red Star Studio Ltd.

World Sales: Attraction Media & Entertainment

Prize: 4,000 Euros, Sponsored By Nick

Special Mention:

“The Wrong Trainers”

By Kez Margrie

Great Britain 2006

Production: BBC

World Sales: Slinky Pictures

“Was Denkst Du Über: Liebe?”

By Karsten Killerich

Germany, Denmark, Ireland 2007

Producers: Anders Mastrup, Ralph Christian

Production: Wdr, Magma Films, A. Film

World Sales: Bavaria Media Television

ANIMOVIE

Award For Best Animated Feature Film:

“Slipp Jimmy Fri” (Free Jimmy)

By Christopher Nielsen

Norway, Great Britain 2006

Producers: Lars Andreas Hellebust, Lars Tømmerbakke, Bill Godfrey

Production: Storm Studio

World Sales: The Works International

Prize: 2,500 Euros

ANIMATED SERIES

Award For Best TV Animated Series

“Hairy Scary: No. 33”

By Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss

France, Germany 2007

Producers: Christian Davin, Clément Calvet

Production / World Sales: Alphanim

Prize: 2,500 Euros Sponsored By Em. Entertainment

ANIMATION SCREENPLAY AWARD

Award For The Best German Language Screenplay For A Feature-Length Animated Film:

“Der Letzte Neandertaler” (The Last Neanderthal Man)

Author: John Chambers

Prize: 5,000 Euros Donated By The Evangelical Church In Germany

R/D: Jean-Gabriel Periot | P: Jean-Gabriel Periot | F 2007 | 10' 00''

2. Place: "X.Pression"

R/D: Laurie Thinot | P: Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Arts Decos | F 2007 |3' 20''

3. Place: "Apple & Ei"

R/D: Ahmet Tas | P: Ahmet Tas | D 2007 | 6' 00''

Audience award: "Nijuman No Borei"

R/D: Jean-Gabriel Periot | P: Jean-Gabriel Periot | F 2007 | 10' 00''

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1. Place: "Grand Pas de Deux Gitarrenklasse UdK Berlin"

R/D: Magdalena Kallenberger | D 2007 | 4' 33''

1. Place: "Daisy / Feeding your back ­ TZII"

R/D: 1n0ut Crew | D 2008 | 5' 00''

2. Place: "Balldate ­ Douglas Greed"

R/D: Florian Licht | D 2007 | 4' 00'' | Label: Combination Records

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1. Place: "Louis Maurice Armbanduhren"

R/D: Kenji Ouellet | P: Kenji Ouellet | D 2008 | 1' 30''

Salve Click-Award (online): "Shake your City"

R/D: M.Gerlach& J. Benzing | P: H.Feil | D 2007 | 1' 22''

Directed by: Ibrahim El Batout

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTION for “SUMMER BOOK”

Directed by: SEYFI TEOMAN.

PRIZE FOR BEST PERFORMANCE to the actress TANJA RIBIC for “TRAKTOR, LJUBEZEN , IN ROCK’N ROLL (TRACTOR; LOVE AND ROCK N’ROLL)

Directed by: Branko Djuric.

N.I.C.E. – INTEL CENTRINO AWARD FOR BEST SICILIAN SHORT FILM “BAB AL SAMAH”

Directed by: Francesco Sperandeo.

Directors: Ingrid Demetz, Caroline Leitner (Italy)

To award the Prize “Centaur” and 2000 USD for the best full length documentary film: "ALONE IN FOUR WALLS"

Director: Alexandra Westmeier (Germany)

To award the Prize “Centaur” and 2000 USD for the best short documentary film: 52 PERCENT

Director: Rafal Skalski (Poland)

To award the Prize “Centaur” and 2000 USD for the best short fiction film: 2 BIRDS

Director: Runar Runarsson (Iceland)

To award the Prize “Centaur” and 2000 USD for the best animation film: HOUSE OF SMALL CUBES

Director: Kunio Kato (Japan)

To award a Diploma to the film: UP THE YANTZE

Director: Yung Chang (Canada)

To award a Diploma to the film: ON ALL DAYS

Director: Mikhail Zhdanovsky (Belarus)

To award a Diploma to the film: TELL YOUR CHILDREN

Director: Andras Salamon (Hungary)

To award a Diploma to the film: DON ROBERTO’S SHADE

Directors Juan Diego Spoerer, Hakan Engstrom

(Chili)

To award a Diploma to the film: IN SCALE

Directors: Marina Moshkova (Russia)

To award a Diploma to the film: MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI

Directors Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski (Canada)

Reasons:

Martin Kubala’s documentary film captures the world of this outstanding European dancer with deep human understanding but without preconceived stereotypes. He does not demonize the drudgery of the ballet profession, nor does he fall for other similar cliches. The basic theme is the swift passage of time, and Daria Klimentova escapes from it by taking a rational approach to managing family and work relations and to expanding her professional activities. The documentary has an unobtrusive but profound mission which avoids preaching and formulating but instead offers an example of a life lived to the full. And all this against the background of the highly stylized world of classical ballet.

Czech Television Prize: "Liverpool Nativity"

BBC Classical Music Television, Velka Britanie/United Kingdom Coproducers

Reasons:

Television Programme Liverpool Nativity does a fabulous job of linking the long tradition of popular music in Liverpool with one of the most wonderful stories of all times, one that has just as much relevance today as it did 2000 years ago. The creators succeeded in producing a sensitive but unsentimentalized update making marvellous use of current television techniques.

Czech Crystal- Category 2: Documentary programs dedicated to music and dance:

"The Maestro Maker – Jorma Panula and his Finnish Conducting School"

Reasons:

With a fresh narrative and sense of humour, this documentary offers an insight into the work of the unique teacher Jorma Panula who has spawned an entire generation of young Finnish conductors and whose goal is to encourage students to develop individuality rather than creating clones of himself. The skillful editing greatly contributed to what the jury felt was a natural, free-flowing and very enjoyable film.

Czech Crystal- Category 2: Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance:

Herbert von Karajan – "Maestro for the Screen"

Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH, Rakousko/Austria Coproducers: Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg, ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Reasons:

The makers of the documentary about the relation of conductor Herbert von Karajan to the film and television have managed to express the principal themes and issues regarding the relationship between classical music and television. At the same time the film provides valuable historical and nostalgic insight into the era when money was not the decisive limit for shooting the outstanding performers of their time.

Czech Crystal- Category 3: Musical drama (opera, operetta, musical, dance, ballet etc.): "Tristan und Isolde"

Opus Arte, Velka Britanie/ United Kingdom

Koproducenti/Coproducers: Hans Petri, Ference van Damme, James Whitbourn

Grand Prix GOLDEN PRAGUE: "Ballad for Edvard Grieg"

NRK Program riks Bergen, Norway

Coproducers: SVT YLE/FST

Reasons:

The Grand Prix of this year's Golden Prague Festival goes to The Ballad for Edvard Grieg because of its overall excellence. It is the successful attempt to reach the heart of a masterpiece, the Ballad in G-minor.

THE SHORT PLANET

International Short Films and New Images Competition

Best Short Film: "Tony Zoreil"

Directed by Valentin Potier - France

Special Jury Award: "Don Robertos Skugga"

Directed by Håkan Engström/Juan Diego Spoerer - Sweden

Best Digital Short Film: "1977"

Directed by Peque Varela - United Kingdom

Best European Short Film: "Styri"

Directed by Ivana Sebestova - Slovakia

Special Mention of the Jury: "Mompelaar"

Directed by Marc Roels/Wim Reygaert - Belgium

Special Mention of the Jury: "Alumbramiento"

Directed by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson - Spain

CON/CORTO

National Short Films Competition

Best Short Film: "Clandestínas"

Directed by Silvia Chiogna

Special Prize of the Jury: "Il torneo"

Directed by Michele Alhaique

Kodak Award for the Best Cinematography: Giovanni Galasso for "Bab al Samah" by Francesco Sperandeo

Special Mention of the Jury for the entire cast of

"François" by Iacopo Zanon/Dario Gorini

Special Mention of the Jury: Giuseppe Cederna

for "Veglia" by Michele Rho

Special Mention of the Jury: Lidia Vitale

for "Io non esisto" by Lorenzo Sportello

Film & TV Editors Association Award for the Best Young Editor: Andrea Maguolo

for "Il torneo" by Michele Alhaique

EXTRA LARGE

National Documentaries Competition

Best Documentary: "Non tacere"

Directed by Fabio Grimaldi

Special Prize of the Jury: "Un volto tra la folla"

Directed by Stella Gasparri

Special Mention of the Jury: "Anni spietati"

Directed by Igor Mendolia

VIDEO/ROME

Regional Competition

Best Video: "Dov'è la giraffa?"

Directed by Veronica Flora

Members of the international jury was Iris Olsson (Finland), Maike Mia Höhne (Germany), Dieter Wiezcorek (France), Juhani Alanen (Finland) and Olga Konskaya (Russia).

PRIX UIP GRIMSTAD

PRIX UIP GRIMSTAD and 2000 euro for best European Short Film went to FIRE (Uguns), director Laila Pakalnina (Latvia). The winner is automatically nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film 2008.

Jury’s statement:

"For its dense and metaphoric imagery, the precision of film language and skilfully created important allusions to recent history of Europe. This film treats in a brilliant and humoresque style the traumatisms and absurdities on the way to cultural self-identity."

GRAND PRIX GRIMSTAD

GRAND PRIX GRIMSTAD of 2500 euro for best film in international competition was this year presented to the film THREE OF US, director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni (India).

Jury’s statement:

"THREE OF US changes our view on a strongly disabled person from rejection to adoration and fascination in 15 minutes. It’s a film showing a family in rather difficult living condition not only finding their way of surviving, but inviting us to participate in their cosmos, characterized by a poesy of daily life in which every act seems meaningful and every gesture has its grace. Every scene has its signification inspired by an inner beauty and quietness, which we can only adore from far."

Honorary mentions went to

MERELY A SMELL (Moujarad Raiha), director Maher Abi Samra (Lebanon)

Jury’s statement:

"The film unravels in a poetic and filmic way the daily work, which has to be done in between the bombings. Few images and even less sound takes us inside of a routine in which in the end the car is always too small to carry so many coffins."

FAWN, director Christoph Rainer (Austria)

Jury’s statement:

"FAWN is a frightening look in the unconscious mental world, where reality is not represented but transformed by the human mind in a field of strange and often painful evocations of something, which we never can know, because we are existing in it."

I met the walrus, director Josh Raskin (Canada).

Jury’s statement:

"This short animation allows us to time travel to thoughts and statements we should not forget. Do it for peace!"

NORWEGIAN SHORT FILM

The jury for the Norwegian Short Film catagory was Unni Straume (Norway), Anna Karin Rynander (Sweden), Hilde Malme (Norway), Andres Mänd (Estonia) and Gunnar Germundsson (Norway).

General statement from the jury:

"The jury has emphasized form, willingness and ability to communicate a story that engages and which is suitable for the short film format, so that the piece of work stands independently in its own form. It is often the case that one has to make a lot of film to nurture good quality. We have noted that there is by large a lot of creativity and imagination out there. But our general impression is that there is a tendency towards a preference to create film rather than communicating a message.

We wish to point out to general tendencies. Many and strong submissions from female directors as well as a surprising number of good animation films."

THE GOLDEN CHAIR

THE GOLDEN CHAIR of 50 000 kroner went this year to BYGNINGSARBEIDERE, director Kajsa Næss. The award is presented by the Norwegian Film Institute.

Jury’s statement:

"The film has an elegant and dynamic use of animation. Good casting and convincing acting with first hand conversation about issues of existence set in relation to a world in chaos and dissolution. The film is surprising, entertaining and thought provoking."

TERJE VIGEN-AWARD

TERJE VIGEN-AWARD went to the film SUNDAY MORNINGS, director Jannicke Låker. The award is a bronze statute by Harald Ordeam, and presented by Grimstad City Council.

Jury’s statement:

"A tragic but comical story about tenderness and shocking honesty. A pure commentary about a culture and a time where the price of freedom is loneliness."

Honorary mentions went to:

VARDE, director Hanne Larsen

Jury’s statement:

"A gripping film about a child where status in the local boys gang affects a friendship. The film ends in one of the festival’s most tainted looks that sums up the gravity of the betrayal."

TYVSTART, director Leiv Igor Devold

Jury’s statement:

"An intimate and distrubing drama filled with authentic life, carried forward by strong acting."

XY, director David Reiss-Andersen

Jury’s statement:

"An intense and threatening game in an exciting study where time is dissolved."

NORWEGIAN DOCUMENTARY

Jury members for Norwegian documentary film was Even Benestad (Norway), Nazneen Khan-Østrem (Norway) and Eva Færevåg (Norway).

General statement from the jury:

"The pre-selected jury summed up this year’s impressions on documentary film production in three simple words: "Content over form."

That’s ok, but let us not makes it too simple.

In these thirteen productions we have seen material which has not been fully worked on, without vision or musicality, rendering the films’ potential unexploited.

We have also seen a tendency to overwork the material that clouds and distances our proximity to the characters.

Even so, we would like to thank you for the films you have made. This is good work. Norwegian documentary film has lifted its vision and is now able to work on complex themes. Global and universal issues are now found in Norwegian documentary film. We are able to work with close proximity without being narrow minded and with feeling without letting our emotions get the best of us…..

And so to the two films we have decided to honor and award. The films are very different, but what they have in common is that both directors have entered into long processes and developed relations to their characters but at the same time made conscious decisions about form which have made the films into great art.

Both films can communicate to a large audience and we wish we could issue out money to get these films extensively distributed.”

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD of 50 000 kroner for best documentary film goes to BLOD & ÆRE, director Håvard Bustnes. The award is presented by NRK.

Jury’s statement:

”The winner is in a class of it’s own. The director and his staff area ble to create associations and not conclusions. He is able to see and communicate and build relations, and changes us as viewers. The film masters the art of simplicity and all encompassing, which is something common for all great filming. We are taken into a rich universe with several layers – at the same time as the film creator approaches his characters with deep respect and generosity.

This is touching, funny and important. This director creates unforgettable film scenes and develops his main character."

Honorary mentions goes to LYKKENS GRODE, director Karoline Grindaker and Hilde Kjøs

Jury’s statement:

”We would like to honor this film because the directors have managed to create a gripping drama out of silence, distance and longing. We are witnesses to a family drama where two women fight a silent battle for their existence with themselves and each other. At the same time we witness a documentation of a Norwegian life style which is unknown to many, but is still familiar."

OTHER AWARDS

THE NORWEGIAN FILM WORKERS ASSOCIATION AWARD

Jury: Morten Skallerud, Kari Nytrø and Emil Trier

THE NORWEGIAN FILM WORKERS ASSOCIATION AWARD of 10 000 kroner went to Jannicke Johansen for her production design in the film EXISTO

Jury’s statement:

"The winner has through her craftsmanship managed to visualize an idea beyond the ordinary. The jury is impressed with how she has managed to create a believable elk fetus and an elk uterus throughout different stages. The illusion is perfect where the imagery reminds us of Lennart Nilssons photography of the human fetus.

The production design on Existo gives the project a wholesome unity and creates an interesting film."

THE HOUR GLASS

Jury: Monica Boracco Borring and Stein Ståle Berg.

The Norwegian Play Writers’ Assocation Award the THE HOUR GLASS of 10 000 kroner for best script went to Krzystof Sliwka for his script for the film TYVSTART.

Jury’s statement:

"The Norwegian Play Writers’ Association jury has taken notice to film willing to address difficult issues. The writer demonstrates an eye for dramatic refinement and an ability to move his audience. With insight and warmth, he builds his characters that grip us from the first scene. This year’s manuscript goes to a story about regaining what is lost, about reconciliation with the past and about courage to move forward alone."

Honorary mention is given to:

Kathinka Nicolaysen for the script for the film OH MY GOD!

Jury’s statement:

”The jury would like to honour a story that with wit and warmth seduces it’s audience. We are taken into the inner most secret room behind locked doors, and given a close and tender story about young girls awakending. Silverware will never be the same after this.”

Helene Torp for the script for the film Tro, håp og ærlighet.

Jury’s statement:

”The jury would like to focus on a story that challenges us with its play with conventional form and content. The ego meets reality in a witty and intelligent story about a marriage’s growth and fall. Helen Torp receives an honorary mention for the film Tro, håp og ærlighet."

THE ”FILMPOLITIETS” SHORT FILM AWARD of 10 000 went to EG SER DEG, EG SER DEG, director Chris Erichsen.

THE TALENT AWARD BY NORDIC FILM

Jury: Cornelia Boysen, Roy Anderson and Espen Skjetne.

THE TALENT AWARD BY NORDIC FILM went to the script writer and director Kjersti Steinsbø photographer Anna Myking.

Jury’s statement:

”Our goal is to help newly established young film creators to start a new short production, where we present our whole apparatus to the winners’ disposition for their next short film project, from developing their idea to the finished film and distribution.

We wish to encourage long standing relations and keep searching for collaborations we think are interesting and think should be given the opportunity to develop even further.

This year the award goes to two women who have collaborated together on no less than two films in this year’s festival program. The films are made with confident direction and precise photography as well a strong desire to communicate something to the audience. This is carried through with humor, precision and a hint of dissolution, and we look forward to following this collaboration further."

MUSIC VIDEO AWARD

The MUSIC VIDEO AWARD of 15 000 kroner is presented by the record industry’s interest organisations IFPI og FONO and was awarded to the music video RUNDT OG RUNDT, director Emilia Danilovic for Herreløse.

Jury’s statement:

"A well directed race in one single take. A nice presence by the characters and an organic unity. Rhythm and drive in the music is mirrored in the camera’s movement."

THE FILM CRITIC AWARD

Jury: Aleksander Huser, Le LD Nguyen and Britt Sørensen.

THE FILM CRITIC AWARD for best Norwegian short film competing went to SUNDAY MORNINGS, director Jannicke Låker.

Honorary mention went to MEIN STAMPF, director Martine Grande.

Jury’s statement:

"We wish to first mention a small and light documentary about large and tragic events, which gave the jury an appetite for animated dance documentaries. Honorary mentions goes to Mein Stampf or the Danceshow of the Last Century by Martine Grande.

Our winner also consists of a sort of dance. It is a solid and complete film that tells the story about a well known morning ritual that awakens both laughter and horror. Whilst the world is being conquered by sex and single life in Manhatten, it is liberating to be taken into the dark sides of single life in Berlin. The Norwegian Film Critics Award 2008 goes to Sunday Mornings by Jannicke Låker."

THE AUDIENCE AWARD is a distrubtion deal through the DVD-collection ”Norsk Kort 008” (Norwegian Film Institute. This year the award goes to the film LITEN KNUTE by Kjersti Steinsbø. The winner is voted on by the Short Film Festival audience.

The guests of the younger generation were the Estonian director VEIKO ÕUNPUU and actor RAIN TOLK, also from Estonia, French director SERGE BOZON, who conquered the audience with the unique war film La France and Norwegian director NILS GAUP, who’s latest film Kautokeino Rebellion told the story of one of the most dramatic episodes of Sami history.

Accomploished Finnish filmmakers and actors were also in attendance, such as Directors JOUKO AALTONEN, ARTO HALONEN, DOME KARUKOSKI, MARI RANTASILA and MIIKA SOINI and actors ANNI-KRISTIINA JUUSO, RIA KATAJA and KARI VÄÄNÄNEN presented their films to full auditoriums. The selection of past year’s Finnish films reach its climax in the premiere of Miika Soini’s touching debut film Thomas, starring Lasse Pöysti.

As in years past, the master class screenings continued to be a success amongst the festival audience. In the presentations following the master class screening the French professors JEAN-LOUIS LEUTRAT and SUZANNE LIANDRAT-GUIGUES, famous for their essays of cinema aesthetics, gave an unforgettable insight to the film classics such Howard Hawks’ western Rio Bravo, Alan Resnais’ poetic comedy Private Fears in Public Places and to the work of director Jean-Luc Godard.

Attendees enthusiastically greeted festival director Peter von Bagh at the Morning discussions. With the inspiring introduction from Peter von Bagh this year’s guests Lasse Pöysti, Seymour Cassel, Milos Forman and Andrei Konchalovsky shared their thoughts on life and films offering a unique chance to get inside the minds of these four masters.

During its 23-year-old history Midnight Sun Film Festival has produced nearly sixty silent film screenings accompanied with live music. This being unarguable notable cultural contribution also in the international scale. This year Midnight Sun Film Festival had two silent film screenings, which received standing applause from the festival audience. With the intriguing sound world Finnish group Cleaning Women accompanied the Russian cult classic Aelita directed by Yakov Prozanov. Otto Donner and his orchestra combined jazz and urban sounds in a masterly manner in the interpretation of King Vidor’s classic The Crowd, which moved the audience to tears.

Since the year 1986 Midnight Sun Film Festival has given a special acknowledgement to individuals, who have made an important contribution to Finnish film culture. This year the 21st Sodankylä-award was given to Raimo Silius, a central figure in the field of Finnish festival scene.

The Annecy Cristal: "La maison en petits cubes"

Directed by: Kunio Kato

Country : Japan

Year :2008

Running time :12 mn 03 s

Special distinction: "Berni's Doll"

Directed by: Yann J.

Country : France

Year : 2007

Running time : 11 mn 30 s

Special distinction: "Morana"

Directed by: Simon Bogojevic Narath

Country: Croatia, France

Year : 2008

Running time: 12 mn 40 s

Junior Jury Award for a short film: "La maison en petits cubes"

Directed by: Kunio Kato

Country : Japan

Year :2008

Running time: 12 mn 03 s

Audience Award: "Skhizein"

Directed by: Jérémy Clapin

Country: France

Year: 2007

Running time: 13 mn 40 s

FIPRESCI award: "Ona koja mjeri"

Directed by: Veljko Popovic

Country: Croatia

Year: 2008

Running time: 06 mn 50 s

Jean-Luc Xiberras award for a first film: "Portraits ratés à Sainte-Hélène"

Directed by: Cédric Villain

Country: France

Year: 2007

Running time: 07 mn 15 s

Sacem Award: "KJFG No 5"

Directed by: Alexei Alexeev

Country: Hungary

Year: 2007

Running time: 02 mn 10 s

Jury's special award: "La dama en el umbral"

Directed by: Jorge Dayas

Country: Spain

Year: 2007

Running time: 14 mn 20 s

Feature films:

The Cristal for best feature: "Sita Sings the Blues"

Directed by: Nina Paley

Country: United States

Year: 2008

Running time: 01 h 22 mn 00 s

Special distinction: "Idiots & Angels"

Directed by: Bill Plympton

Country: United States

Year: 2008

Running time: 01 h 18 mn 00 s

Audience award: "Die Drei Räuber"

Directed by: Hayo Freitag

Country : Germany

Year: 2007

Running time: 01 h 19 mn 00 s

TV series:

The Cristal for best TV production: Moot Moot "L'enfer de la mode"

Directed by: François Reczulski

Country: France

Year: 2007

Running time: 13 mn 00 s

Special award for a TV series: Talented Mouse "Catnip", "Pest Controller", "Oasis"

Directed by: Leigh Hodgkinson

Country: Great Britain

Year: 2007

Running time: 04 mn 30 s

TV specials:

TV special award: "Engel zu Fuss"

Directed by: Saschka Unseld, Jakob Schuh

Country: Germany

Year: 2008

Running time: 06 mn 00 s

Advertising films:

Educationnal, scientific or industrial film award: Bibigon "Factually Fun Idents X 9"

Directed by: Steve Smith

Country: Great Britain

Year: 2007

Running time: 03 mn 00 s

Advertising or promotional film award: Sony Bravia "Play-Doh"

Directed by: Frank Budgen, Darren Walsh

Country: Great Britain

Year: 2007

Running time: 01 mn 30 s

Music video:

Award for best music video: Annuals "Dry Clothes"

Directed by: Trunk Animation

Country: Great Britain

Year: 2007

Running time: 03 mn 20 s

Graduation films:

Special distinction: "Le voyageur"

Directed by: Johan Pollefoort

Country: Belgium

Year: 2007

Running time: 06 mn 20 s

CANAL+FAMILY Award for a graduation film: "Oktapodi"

Directed by: Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi

Country: France

Year: 2007

Running time: 02 mn 27 s

Junior Jury Award for a graduation film: "Margot"

Directed by: Gerlando Infuso

Country: Belgium

Year: 2007

Running time: 11 mn 00 s

Award for best graduation film: "Camera obscura"

Directed by: Gerlando Infuso

Country: Belgium

Year: 2007

Running time: 11 mn 00 s

Jury's special award: "My Happy End"

Directed by: Milen Vitanov

Country: Germany, Bulgaria

Year: 2007

Running time: 05 mn 10 s

Unicef award: "Hugh"

Directed by: Mathieu Navarro, Sylvain Nouveau, François Pommiez , Aurore Turbe

Country: France

Year: 2007

Running time: 08 mn 55 s

"A Lucky Day"

Director by Magnus Bertelsen from Denmark

The jury’s comment:

“A Lucky Day stood out as a good example of cinematographic storytelling, giving the audience the opportunity to interpret the story, leaving the viewer with different experiences of space and time.”

Best film in age group B 18-20: "Klasskamrater"

Director by Victor Lindgren form Sweden

The jury’s comment:

”Klasskamrater manages to tackle a sensitive subject matter, giving an indebt understanding of the emotional aspects of bullying and the shortcomings of adults in helping resolve this matter. The filmmaker places the viewer in the middle of the conflict instead of being just a spectator.”

Best film in age group C 21-25: "Life Worth Living"

Director by Eirik Svensson from Finnland

The jury’s comment:

”Life Worth Living demonstrates a very talented use of form, bringing out the beauty of everyday situations and thoughts through the carful choice of aesthetics. And does so with a great deal of humor!”

The best Nordic youth film 2008: "Dart"

Director by: Måns Wide from Sweden

The jury’s comment:

“Dart, is a film where the characters and the dialogue is linked together in a brilliant way. The originality of the story is also perfectly matched with the cinematographic language. Dart hits like a dart!”

NUFF 2008 jury was:

Rachel Andersen Gomez (filmmaker from Tromsø, Norway)

Lasse Gjertsen (filmmaker from Larvik, Norway)

Christer Engberg (film director, theatre director and Musician from Luleå, Sweden)

«Shultes», dir. Bakur Bakuradze

PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTION

Alexander Proshkin, «Live to Remember»

PRIZE FOR BEST DEBUT FILM

«Nirvana», dir. Igor Voloshin

BEST ACTRESS

Кsenia Rappoport, «Yuri’s Day», dir. Kirill Serebrennikov

BEST ACTOR

Jethro Skinner, «Plus One», dir. Oksana Bychkova

PRIZE FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

Ilya Demin, «Terra Nova», dir. Alexander Melnik

GRIGORY GORIN PRIZE FOR BEST SCRIPT

Petr Lutsik, Alexei Samoryadov, «Wild Field», dir. Mikhail Kalatozishvili

MIKAEL TARIVERDIEV PRIZE FOR BEST FILM MUSIC

Alexei Aigi, «Wild Field», dir. Mikhail Kalatozishvili

PRIZE OF THE SHORT FILM COMPETITION

«PAL/SECAM», dir. Dmitri Povolotsky

DIPLOMA OF THE SHORT FILM COMPETITION

«Fish», dir. Alexander Kott («for a high level of visual culture and truthfulness to the short film»)

«Tags», dir. Natalia Uglitskikh («for a brilliant and clever implementation of the idea of the short film»)

«Old New Rossi», dir. Alexander Karavaev («for an elegant film language and a refreshing director’s view»)

Alexei German

PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY

Armen Medvedev

PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN CINEMA AND FILM RESEARCH PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF RUSSIAN FILM SCHOLARS AND CRITICS “WHITE ELEPHANT”

«Wild Field», dir. Mikhail Kalatozishvili

SPECIAL DIPLOMA OF THE JURY for a successful commercial project«Terra Nova», dir. Alexander Melnik.

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE – SILVER DOLPHIN - THE CLASS, by Ilmar Raag Estonia

BEST DIRECTOR – SILVER DOLPHIN - To Srdan Golubovic, for the film THE TRAP

BEST ACTRESS – SILVER DOLPHIN - To Outi Maenpaa and Ria Kataja, for BLACK ICE

BEST ACTOR – SILVER DOLPHIN - To Robert Wieckiewicz, for ALL WILL BE WELL

BEST SCRIPT – SILVER DOLPHIN - To Amos Kollek, for RESTLESS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SILVER DOLPHIN - Oleg Kirichenko for MERMAID

SPECIAL AWARDS

AUDIENCE AWARD - ESTRELLITA, by Metod Pevec Slovenia/Germany

PRIZE MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT - THE REPLACEMENT CHILD, by Justin Lerner U.S.A.

SPECIAL MENTION - ME, THE OTHER, by Mohsen Melliti Italy

PRIZE CITY HALL OF SETÚBAL – AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS - Best Film for STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING , by Andrew Wagner

FIRST WORKS AWARD - PRESERVE, by Lukasz Palkowski Poland

SPECIAL MENTION - FAMILY RULES, by Marc Meyer Germany

FIPRESCI PRIZE - MIRUSH, by Marius Holst Norway

SIGNIS PRIZE - WORLDS APART, by Niels Arden Oplev Denmark

SPECIAL MENTION - THE CLASS, de Ilmar Raag Estonia

CICAE PRIZE - RESTLESS, by Amos Kollek Israel/Canada/Belgium/France/Germany

SAPO VÍDEOS AWARD - BLUE DAWN, by João Teotónio, Miguel Trindade, Pedro Gaspar Portugal

The actress, who has starred in feature films like "La Comunidad" (Common Wealth) and "El Séptimo Día" (The Seventh Day), showed how happy she was, and gave all those present in the hall a glimpse of her true personality, which is very often made to take a back seat, as she herself acknowledges, because of the charismatic characters she plays.

The press conference opened with some scenes from one of her latest films "Alumbramiento" (Illumination), a short film and winner of several prizes, which is also recognised at this year's Festival. For Mariví, the film is outstanding for the way it deals with such a difficult subject as passing from life to death, also for the great work produced by the director and cast. She says that the film manages to cause very strange reactions in that, at the end of the film, the audience remains silent for a few moments before bursting into applause. She adds that death is not a subject usually talked about and which everyone avoids, and for this reason the audience reacts as described above when they are confronted with it on screen.

Now a successful television actress, Mariví commented on how hard it has been, and still is, for a woman to find a place in the film industry; her beginnings were not always a bed of roses, and she always had to put up with contempt and insults for merely being an actress, criticism that she shrugged of with her natural self-confidence.

Mariví Bilbao is a woman with her feet on the ground and hastened to make clear that the public at large does not forget you in a matter of days, they forget you in five minutes, which is why she thinks that no one should remain stuck in the past.

As for future projects, Mariví Bilbao explained that you cannot do two things at once. Both television drama and feature films need complete dedication, and this makes it very difficult to work on the two at the same time.

Of her long career in the theatre, film and television, she made special mention of her late arrival to the seventh art. She remembers all her roles with fondness, but especially "La primera vez" (The First Time) by Borja Cobeaga and "Salto al Vacío" (Leap into the Void) by Daniel Calparsoro.

Time ran out and the star of the day took her leave with many thanks, and the packed hall responded with warm applause. Mariví Bilbao, winner of the Ciudad de Huesca Short Film Prize has already become, on her own merits, part of the history of this 36th Huesca Film Festival.

The Huesca Film Festival rounded off the awards at a press conference where the names of the winners of the International Short Film Competition and the European Documentary Competition were announced, plus the Critics Jury, Youth Jury and the Audience prizes.

"Chainsaw" by the producer Dennis Tupicoff took the Danzante prize in the International Short Film Competition. The jury highlighted its originality and fantasy. In the same competition, the Francisco García de Paso prize went to the Norwegian short film, "Revolver" by Thor Bekkavik, and the Special Jury Prize to the Irish producer, Simon Fitzmaurice, for "The Sound of People."

The European Documentary Prize went to the French "Malaak et le vaste monde" in which the director, Ahlem Aussant-Leroy, managed to convey a whole mix of sensations to create complicity and intimacy with the spectator.

"Familia 068" by the Spanish film-makers Rubén Margalló and Toni Edo and "Muzyczna partyzantka" by the Pole, Miroslaw Dembinski were the documentaries that will be shown on Spanish public TV, and have therefore been acquired by the television company.

In the same competition, "Lost property Hong Kong" by Bin Chuen Choi, received an honourable mention from the jury members.

The title of "Chainsaw" rang out again when the Critics Jury announced the Australian film as the winner for its ability to continually surprise the audience. The jury also decided that special mention was deserved by "Revolver," The Note by the British director Jon Greenhalgh, and animated films "Tolerantia" by Ivan Ramadán (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and "Dji vou veu volti" by the Belgian, Benoit Feroumont.

The Youth Jury at the 36th Huesca Film Festival decided to award their prize, sponsored by the Anselmo Pié Sopena Foundation, to "Braedrabylta" by the Icelandic director Grimur Hákonarson. They also gave a special mention to "Le Parloir" by Marie Vernalde from France..

Finally, the Audience Prize was given to the Italian feature film "Cientochiodi" by Ermanno Olmi.

directed by Mischa Kamp, The Netherlands, Belgium, 2007

Golden Slipper for Best Feature Film for Youth: "The Substitute"

directed by Ole Bornedal, Denmark 2007

The Town of Zlín Award – Special Recognition for a Feature Film for Children: "Gabai Granny"

directed by Hitoshi Kurauchi, Japan, 2006

The Miloš Macourek Award – Special Recognition for a Feature Film for Youth: "Max Minsky and Me"

directed by Anna Justice, Germany, 2007

Joint International Jury of Children and Adults for Animated Films:

Golden Slipper for Best Animated Film: "The Bears Stories"

directed by Marina Karpova, Russia 2007

The Hermína Týrlová Award – Award for Young Artists aged fewer than 35: "Our wonderful Nature"

directed by Tomer Eshed, Germany, 2008

International Children Jury for Feature Films for Children:

Main Prize of the Children Jury for Best Feature Film for Children: "Gabai Granny"

directed by Hitoshi Kurauchi, Japan, 2006

International Children Jury for Feature Films for Youth:

Main Prize of the Children Jury for Best Feature Film for Youth: "St Trinian’s"

directed by Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson, Great Britain, 2007

International Expert Jury for the European Debut Competition:

The Europe Award: "Just About Love?"

directed by Lola Doillon, France, 2007

International Expert Jury for European Debuts Special Prize: "A Fly"

directed by Vladimir Kott, Russia, 2007

International Jury for Feature Films from Visegrad Countries:

The Czech Minister of Culture Award: "Iska’s Journey" directed by Csaba Bollók, Hungary, 2007

Prizes awarded by spectators:

Golden Apple – The Spectator Prize for Most Successful Feature Film: "No Network"

directed by Iceland 2007, directed by Ari Kristinsson

Golden Apple – The Spectator Prize for Most Successful Animated Film: "Hairy Scary – Two Beatiful Minds" directed by Wolf – Ruediger Bloss, France, 2007

International FICC Jury:

The Don Quixote Award: "The Substitute"

directed by Ole Bornedal, Denmark, 2007

International Ecumenical Jury:

Ecumenical Jury Award: "The Substitute" directed by Ole Bornedal, Denmark, 2007

A Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury: "Where is Winky’s Horse?"

directed by Mischa Kamp, The Netherlands, Belgium, 2007

Recognition of Creative Contribution in Filmmaking for Children and Youth: Iva Janžurová

JURIES

Chairmen of the Juries

International Expert Jury for Feature Film: Randal Kleiser

Joint International Jury of Children and Adults for Animated Films: Andrew Schmidt

International Children Jury for Feature Films for Children: Ondřej Vávra

International Children Jury for Feature Films for Youth: Vojtěch Kolařík

International Expert Jury for the European Debut Competition: Christopher Miles

International Jury for Feature Films from Visegrad Countries: Renata Borowczak

International FICC Jury: Judith Dudás

International Ecumenical Jury: Christine Weissbarth

Director: Andrey Sudilovsky, Russian Federation 2006, short fiction, 18:40 min.

Friese’s Children’s Jury chose‚ "Great Travellers" by Andrey Sudilovsky for its realism, it was the only film that could happen like that in reality, it was emotionally good and fascinating. The actors were good and courageous. The film was exciting and full of twists and turns. "Great

Travellers" tells us about cooperation, friendship, fun; but also about feeling homesick and the anxiety of not coming back home.

MO-AWARD: 1.250 EUROS (children’s jury between 11 and 13 years): "The Last Things"

Director: Levan Akin, Sweden 2007, short fiction, 20 min.

Jury Substantiation: The winning film touched us deeply. Even before getting to know the title the film creates a suspenseful, mysterious and depressing atmosphere. With its very first pictures the film plays with the audience’s expectations and delivers a suprising turning point. Our favourite is a very well done short film which is artistically and emotionally convincing in dealing with loss, death,

guilt, and mourning. The most important factors for our decision are the wonderful and talented actors and the intense pictures. The story is exciting, visionary and intense and we would love to see more of it!

HIGH FIVE! SHORT FILM COMPETITION: 300 EUROS

1. PRIZE: "Eene, meene, Miste...," Milena Gluck, Germany 2008, short fiction, 4 min.

For Mo and Friese’s "Give me 5!" competition, both Juries agreed to crown "Eene, meene, Miste..." by Milena Gluck as their winning film: We think that the competition’s topic‚ one’s favourite place’, has been shown incomparably well and sensitively. We consider the idea of showing a dog’s favourite place to be entertaining, surprising and exciting.

2. PRIZE: "Der Lieblingsplatz,"

Directed by: Jonathan Schaller, Germany 2007, short fiction, 5:30 min.

As the second best film of Mo and Friese’s "Give me 5!" competition we chose‚ "Der Lieblingsplatz" by Jonathan Schaller. His film inspired us due to its surprising wit, good score and exciting turns. We have perceived the film as being intense, suspenseful and manifold.

3. PRIZE: "2050-Schulausflug ins All"

Director: Leonie Stegmuller and the AG Multimedia

Nordlingen, Germany 2007, animation, 7:29 min.

The film takes us on a journey to extraordinary places in outer space. According to the filmmakers, favourite places are to be found in one’s dreams. We, the jury, agreed that the directors managed to realize the topic in a laudably surprising, modern and visionary way.

competitive categories and a further 100 films in non-competitive special programmes. Overall more than 30.000 euros of prize-money were poured out. Apart from a large number of accreditated guests and a high number of interesting films it were especially the many

filmmakers and guests from Israel who came for the special programme “Yoffi! Yalla Bye!” that shaped this year’s festival. Due to the wave of summer heat almost 1.000 people gathered together at our open air event A Wall is a Screen.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Jury: Netalie Braun, Bren O’Callaghan, Jens Eder, Miranda Pennell, Holger Tepe.

JURY AWARD: 3.000 EUROS: "Puppet Boy"

Directed by: Johannes Nyholm, Sweden 2008, short fiction, 26:36 min.

Jury substantiation:

A disturbing and comic reflection on obsession and self-loathing that delivers an unsettling experience for the viewer. What at first appears to be an interview with a reclusive animator develops into a mirthless sequence of humiliations and an exploration of the human condition in the spirit of Gogol. In an inventive and brilliant way the film shifts between fiction and documentary, claymation and live action, evoking feelings of both repulsion and compassion in the viewer. Brilliant.

FRANCOIS ODE AWARD: 1.500 EUROS: "Josh"

Directed by: Govinda van Maele, Luxembourg 2007, short fiction, 14:40 min.

Jury substantiation:

With great precision and truthfulness the film presents the story of the missed opportunity to free oneself from a repressing life situation. Within 14 minutes the director suggests a complex and believable small-town microcosm full of boredom and lack of ambition, racial and gender resentment. In combination with excellent acting it is exactly the detailed representation of a specific milieu that allows for a deeper understanding of a wider human

bewilderment.

SPECIAL MENTION: "Mumbler"

Directed by: Marc Roels and Wim Reygaert, Belgium 2007, short fiction, 22 min.

"Silence"

Directed by: Sivaroj Kongsakul, Thailand 2007, short fiction, 17:45 min.

"Going to sleep is something absolutely certain in life" Directed by: Paolo Pennuti, Italy 2007, documentary, 20 min.

AUDIENCE AWARD: 1.500 EUROS : "Puppet Boy" Directed by: Johannes Nyholm, Sweden 2008, short fiction, 26:36 min.

NO BUDGET COMPETITION

Jury: Mirna Belina, Ezra Eeman, Ben Rivers.

JURY AWARD: 2.000 EUROS: "Kempinski"

Directed by: Neil Beloufa, France / Mali 2007, experimental documentary, 13:58 min.

Jury substantiation:

The jury found this the most surprising work. In the darkness of "Kempinski" the future becomes present. Time and space are rendered ambiguous. A true no-budget work posed between documentary and science fiction.

SPECIAL MENTION: "Sunshine State" (Extended Forecast),

Directed by: Christopher Harris, USA 2007, experimental

film, 8 min.

The biggest story ever told through a pinhole.

"Super Smile"

Directed by: Effie Wu, Germany 2007, experimental film, 4:48 min.

An amazing single take. We challenge you to take your eyes off Effie Wu.

"Night Sweat"

Directed by: Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria 2008, experimental film, 9:40 min.

An unsettling study of light and darkness. Using the limitations of the medium to create something entirely cinematic.

AUDIENCE AWARD: ex aequo 750 EUROS: "Yours Truly" Directed by: Osbert Parker, England 2008, animation, 8 min.

"The Big Contentment"

Directed by: Clemens Kogler and Karo Szmit, Austria 2007, experimental film, 3:57 min.

GERMAN COMPETITION

Jury: Ergun Cankaya, Dr. Annette Scholz, Bjorn Vosgerau.

PILSNER URQUELL INNOVATION AWARD 2008 FOR A GERMAN SHORT FILM: 2.000 EUROS: "On the Line"

Directed by: Reto Caffi, Germany / Switzerland 2007, short fiction, 29:45 min.

Jury substantiation

An unlucky hero who ends up committing a great crime against the love of his life. Director Reto Caffi follows his characters in an extremely precise and sensitive manner.

The powerful performance and the mature realisation result in an impressive film, emotionally enthralling and captivating until the very end.

SPECIAL MENTION: "Brainbirth control"

Directed by: Jan Riesenbeck, Germany 2007, short fiction, 9:15 min.

A breathtaking and highly amusing reflection on today’s rhythm of life, accelerated to the point of absurdity. Self-deprecating and poignant.

"Morbus Bechterev"

Directed by: Lola Randl and Rainer Egger, Germany / Austria 2007, short fiction, 11 min.

Narrated in a light tone and so closely observed the viewer can hardly distinguish performance from real life. A charming character portrait and a study of the art of

running circles around oneself.

JURY PRIZE OF THE HAMBURG CULTURAL FOUNDATION: 2.000 EUROS: "Illusion"

Directed by: Burhan Qurbani and Fabian Gasmia, Germany 2007, short fiction, 9:10 min.

Jury substantiation:

A common occurrence: somebody loses his job. “Illusion” traces the resultant loss of control and the slow sinking into loneliness in a poetic and moving style. The nuanced

directing and a brilliant leading actress light up the screen and give this film a special sparkle.

AUDIENCE AWARD OF THE HAMBURG CULTURAL FOUNDATION: 1.500 EUROS: "The Rat Train Robbery" Jim Lacy and Kathrin Albers, Germany 2008, animation,

8:56 min.

THREE-MINUTE QUICKIE COMPETITION AUDIENCE AWARD: 1.000 EUROS: "Nothing’s There" Rene Schottler and Markus Schaefer, Germany 2008, documentary / short fiction, 3 min.

ARTE SHORT FILM AWARD

Jury: Mado Le Fur

6.000 euros (Acquisition of the film and broadcast as part of arte’s short film programme)

"Interior. Scara de bloc"

Directed by: Ciprian Alexandrescu, Romania 2007, short fiction, 15:49 min.

Jury substantiation:

With sensitivity and compassion, but also with a great sense of humour, the film describes how one event brings together the most diverse residents of a building who had been complete strangers before. The young filmmaker from Romania and the brilliant actors involved manage to give extraordinary power to a simple story with a satirical view on society. The Arte award goes to "Interior. Scara de Bloc"by Ciprian Alexandrescu.

ZDF DOKUKANAL – BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Jury: Angelika Hoffmann, Andrea Windisch

2.000 euros (Acquisition of the film and boradcast on ZDFdokukanal)

"Automotive Action Painting" (Car Painting),

Directed by: George Barber, England 2007, experimental dokumentary, 6 min.

Jury substantiation:

The jury was not only impressed by Barber’s unusual and dynamic painting technique, where cars drive through ‘puddles of paint’, but also the by the contrasting stillness of the camera. From a bird’s eye view, the audience observes a two-dimensional image gradually emerging, while the actual composition of the image is purely random. However, it is precisely this randomness that builds up the suspense with which the spectators follow the development of the image. An entertaining document of artistic design truly in the tradition of action painting, in this case automotive action painting.

MUSIC IN SHORTS AWARD: 2.000 EUROS EACH

Jury: Christian Buß, Wiebke Colmorgen, Horst Rickels

International: "Passage"

Directed by: Karl Lemieux, Canada 2007, short fiction, 15 min.

A lot of pills are popped in this film, but this does not result in colourful visions. The painful end to four young people’s dirty weekend is presented in stark black-and-white images, and this bitter outcome is anticipated in a very clever and unobtrusive way in the score’s monochrome cascades of sound. The monotony of the rhythms lends a disturbingly subdued hue to the characters’ ecstasy. “The Passage” is an example of great narrative cinema in the short format and excellently proves that music can be used as a narrative element in its own right.

national: "Rauschen & Brausen I,"

Directed by: Daniel Burghardt, Germany 2007, experimental film, 4:52 min. Sound: Gerriet K. Sharma

The world is in ruins, and it’s being put back together, but in a most unconventional way. “Rauschen und Brausen I” takes fragments of reality and reassembles them in a fascinating way to form a seemingly unending jigsaw puzzle. The score’s electronic white noise accompanies these images of “rebuilding”, while counteracting them at the same time. The film may not manage to see the rigour of its formal approach through to the very end, but it remains a brilliant example for a dialectical arrangement of image and music.

SPECIAL MENTION:

"Petzold’s Whistle"

Directed by: Olaf Held, Germany 2008, short fiction, 5:33 min.

What starts off as a debilitating background noise is transformed into a study in techno in a workman’s head. An amusing and illuminating little film about how sound does not only shape music, but can also produce images.

"Trabalenguas para una casa vacia" (World Puzzle for an Empty House),

Directed by: Gabriel Herrera Torres, Mexico 2008, short fiction, 12:15 min.

This film impressively presents a 90-year old man’s living space as an extension of his own body. The ingeniously thought through score made up of music by Mozart, Ligeti and Berio deconstructed by scraping, shoving and shuffling noises creates a very organic overall impression and a portrait of life itself.

The Prize of the Public: "Om Shanti Om"

Director Farah Khan (India, 2007)

The jury of BAFF awarded the prize Cinematk to "Secret Sunshine" by Lee Chang-dong (South Korea, 2007).

The prize Golden Durian has been granted to the emergent director "With to Girl of Black Soil" by Jeon Soo-il (South Korea, 2007).

The D-cinema prize has gone to the Chinese film "Bamboo Shoots" by Jian Yi (China, 2007).

Seven Competition Programs show the best films competing for the "Norman 2008" the "Team Work Award" and the Wand 5 Honorary Award. 75 films were selected out of the 1,400 submissions in the field of film and video. An international jury – Pia Maria Martin (Germany), Torsten Zenas Burns (USA), and Mário Micaelo (Portugal) – was selected the winners.

Norman 2008 (4,000 Euros)

"Part Time Heroes"

Austria 2007

Directed by: Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring

Team-Work Award (2,000 Euros)

"Harrachov"

Netherlands 2006

Directed by: Matt Hulse, Joost van Veen

"Un dimanche à Pripiat" (A Sunday in Pripyat)

France 2006

Directed by: Frederic Cousseau, Blandine Huk

Wand 5 Ehrenpreis

"Curtea de Arges"

Austria 2007

Directed by: Ulrike Ostermann

In the competition category Media in Space international artists compete for a prize of 4,000 Euros. The spectrum ranges from classic video installations to interactive environments and media sculptures. The 10-day long exhibition, featuring artist such as Peter Bogers and Daniel Aschwanden among others, is held in co-operation with exhibition spaces Kunstbezirk – Galerie im Gustav-Siegle-Haus, fluctuating images e.V., and gez. – Raum für Urheber.

The winners are selected by renown artists Birgit Brenner (Germany), Markus Huemer, (Germany), Szabolcs KissPál, (Hungary).

Medien im Raum (Media in Space), (per 2,000 Euros)

"50.000.000 can´t be wrong"

Germany 2006

Directed by: Susanne Bürner, Animation: Julia Pfeiffer, Aleksander Cigale

"Deep Woods"

Great Britain 2005

Directed by: Alison O`Daniel

Wand 5 Ehrenpreis

"Chinese Whispers"

China, Austria 2006

Directed by: Daniel Aschwanden, Peter Stamer

The Filmwinter Stuttgart and Media Space are held and organized by Wand 5 e.V. founded in 1987 as an initiative of filmmakers, architects and art historians. The aim of the organization is to offer an international platform to independent film and media culture.

GRAND PRIX

Prize of 15,000 Euros given by the STATE OF BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG AND CITY OF STUTTGART GRAND AWARD FOR ANIMATED FILM to:

"FRANZ KAFKA INAKA ISHA" (FRANZ KAFKA’S A COUNTRY DOCTOR)

directed by Koji Yamamura, Japan 2007

Producers: Mariko Seto, Fumi Teranishi

Production: Yamamura Animation, Shochiku

World sales: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION AWARD / AWARD FOR BEST GRADUATION FILM

Prize: 10,000 Euros given to: "CAMERA OBSCURA"

directed by Matthieu Buchalski, Jean-Michel Drechsler, Thierry Onillon, France 2007

Production: Supinfocom Valenciennes

World sales: Premium Films

SPECIAL MENTION: "MILK TEETH"

directed by Tibor Banoczki, Great Britain 2007

Producer: Anna Higgs

Production: National Film and Television School

SWR AUDIENCE AWARD

Prize of 6,000 Euros, sponsored by Südwestrunfunk SWR given to: "ISABELLE AU BOIS DORMANT" (SLEEPING BETTY)

directed by Claude Cloutier, Canada 2007

Producer: Marcel Jean

Production/ world sales: National Film Board of Canada

SPECIAL AWARD: MUSIC FOR ANIMATION

Prize of 5,000 Euros, sponsored by the GEMA Foundation given to: "HEZURBELTZAK, UNA FOSA COMUN" (HEZURBELTZAK, A COMMON GRAVE)

directed by Iziben Onederra, Spain 2007

Producer: Pello Gutierrez

Music: Xaber Erkizia

World sales: Kimuak

YOUNG ANIMATION

AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT FILM

Prize of 2,500 Euros, sponsored by the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg given to: "1977"

directed by Peque Varela, Great Britain 2007

Producer: Gavin Humphries / National Film and Television School

SPECIAL MENTION: "DIONYSOS"

directed by Jörg Weidner, Anke Späth, Germany 2007

Production: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

TRICKS FOR KIDS

AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN’S ANIMATED FILM

Prize of 4,000 Euros, sponsored by Nick given to: "THE CURSE OF THE SKULL ROCK"

directed by Ben Smith, Great Britain 2007

Producer: Ben Smith

Production: Red Star Studio Ltd.

World sales: Attraction Media & Entertainment

SPECIAL MENTION: "THE WRONG TRAINERS"

directed by Kez Margrie, Great Britain 2006

Production: BBC

World Sales: Slinky Pictures

and "WAS DENKST DU ÜBER: LIEBE?"

directed by Karsten Killerich, Germany, Denmark, Ireland 2007

Producers: Anders Mastrup, Ralph Christian

Production: WDR, Magma Films, A. Film

World Sales: Bavaria Media Television

ANIMOVIE

AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

2,500 Euros

SLIPP JIMMY FRI (FREE JIMMY)

by Christopher Nielsen

Norway, Great Britain 2006

Producers: Lars Andreas Hellebust, Lars Tømmerbakke, Bill Godfrey

Production: Storm Studio

World sales: The Works International

ANIMATED SERIES

AWARD FOR BEST TV ANIMATED SERIES

Prize of 2,500 Euros sponsored by EM. Entertainment given to: "HAIRY SCARY: NO. 33"

directed by Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss, France, Germany 2007

Producers: Christian Davin, Clément Calvet

Production / world sales: Alphanim

ANIMATION SCREENPLAY AWARD

AWARD FOR THE BEST GERMAN LANGUAGE SCREENPLAY FOR A FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATED FILM

Prize of 5,000 Euros donated by the Evangelical Church in Germany given to: "DER LETZTE NEANDERTALER" (THE LAST NEANDERTHAL MAN)

Author: John Chambers

Prize for the Best Contribution to the German Competition (EUR 5,000): "Die Tragöden aus der Stadt"

Director: Eva Könnemann, Germany 2008

Statement: Eva Könnemann’s film convinced us through its complexity, its sense of humour and efficient montage. The director follows the rehearsals of a production of “Hamlet” by Fabian Hinrichs and Laurent Chétouane, which results in some intelligent interaction between Shakespeare’s play and the plot of the film. The film offers profound insights into the creative process with all its contradictions, highs and lows.

We have chosen four films which illustrate an escalated social reality in different ways.

3sat-Promotional-Award -ex aequo-

3sat-Promotional-Award (EUR 2,500; ex aequo: EUR 1,250) for a work with a particulary innovative approach. This award includes an option for 3sat to purchase the winning title and broadcast it on 3sat:

"Supersensibel"

Director: Xenia Yvon Lesniewski, Germany 2008

Statement: What we liked about Supersensibel was the way the director combines pop animation with the playful representation of a polymorph sexuality, adding enigmatic comments which lend the film a furious energy.

3sat-Promotional-Award -ex aequo-

3sat-Promotional-Award (EUR 2,500, ex aequo: EUR 1,250) for a work with a particulary innovative approach. This award includes an option for 3sat to purchase the winning title and broadcast it on 3sat.

"I Killed the Butterflies"

Director: Cyrill Lachauer, Germany 2007

Statement: "I Killed the Butterflies" finds archaic images for a ritual of liberation set in a wintery mountain landscape. The rough, unpolished camera corresponds to the physical immediacy of this film.

Special Mention of the Jury of the German Competition:

"Heidelberg"

Director: Norman Richter, Germany 2008

"Eure Kinder werden so wie wir" (Your Children Will Be Like Us)

Director: Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler, Germany 2007

Statement: In Heidelberg , Norman Richter takes a trip back into his family history. He reflects on memory, decline and death in quiet, precise images, circling around the pain connected with these things.

"Eure Kinder werden so wie wir" is one of the few films in this programme to choose a political subject. Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler film the confrontations between protesters and policemen in Gorleben and Heiligendamm as an apparently ritualised trial of strength.

Jury of the German Competition 2008: Maria Speth, Cristina Nord, Claus Löser

Children and Youth Competition

Prize of the Children Jury (EUR 1,000): "Koest!"

director: Simone van Dusseldorp, Netherlands 2007

Statement: This film is funny, but it has a serious background. A boy behaves like a dog to recover his parents’ attention. We think that unfortunately this is the everyday life in many families. The strong acting also convinced us.

and "Animatou"

director: Claude Luyet, Switzerland 2007

Statement: The cat and the mouse were animated in various ways. The film shows the technical and artistic possibilities and represents a “journey through time”, from pencil drawings to computer animation.

Prize of the Youth Jury (EUR 1,000): "Pajerama"

director: Leonardo Cadaval, Brazil 2008

Statement: Urbanity – ignorance – the rain forest. This fast-paced animated story of a Brazilian native Indian starts with a harmless hunt. The film manages, without words, to depict the conflict between civilization and nature in fascinating animated pictures. The tension between the cultures is underlined by an intelligently adapted noise and sound design. An audiovisual masterpiece, produced almost single-handedly by the director.

Special Mention of the Youth Jury: "The Sound of People"

director: Simon Fitzmaurice, Ireland 2007

Statement: “The day I die the Internet arrives.” The director manages to find an impressive and poetic visual language to convey his philosophical reflections on life and death.

Children Jury 2008: Max Komes, Jasper Marten Köster, Hannah Mendrina, Fabian Spickeneder, Linnéa Doberstein

Youth Jury 2008: Deborah Tabea Luhnau, Ruth Lange, Sebastian Busch, Jannik Süselbeck, Kim Werth

MuVi-Award:

1st Prize (2,500 euros): "Ich bin der Stricherjunge"

a video by: Simone Gilges

music: Stereo Total

production: SimGil Production

label: Disko B

Germany, 2007

Jury Statements: It has the essence of pop, it’s showing friends, fashion and fun, it’s spontaneous, improvised, authentic, do it yourself and shows good production values. The visual aesthetics are connected in a good way to the lo-fi sound of the song. The director seems part of the scene, at least he shares the style-codes of the band. The best stuff comes from something that you are passionate about. It’s a document of the Berlin punk scene.

2nd Prize (1,500 euros): "Das beste deutsche Musikvideo"

director: Luigi Archetti, Bo Wiget

production: Archetti & Wiget

music: Luigi Archetti, Bo Wiget

label: Happy System

Germany, 2008

Jury Statements: It’s ironic, trippy, pretentious, obviously arty, though the music and video were going really well together. It plays with the conventions of music videos, it’s an anti choreography, anti video, simple and elegant. It made us debate and since it became number two, it’s not the “bestes deutsches musikvideo”.

3rd Prize (1,000 euros): "Dot"

director: Jörg Petri

production: Jörg Petri

musik: Michael Fakesch

label: !K7 Records

Germany, 2007

Jury Statements: The method is its strength: it focuses on one simple idea, connecting traditional craftsmanship to contemporary aesthetics, making good use of the constraints of the letterpress.

Jury of the MuVi Award 2008: Libby Durdy, Warp Films, Sheffield; Jan Jelinek, musician, Berlin; Roel Wouters, director, Amsterdam

The MuVi Online Audience Award:

The MuVi Online Audience Award is determined by the all internet users who cast their votes at www.muvipreis.de (500 euros). It goes to: "Aus meinem Kopf" (Erdmöbel)

director: Sandeep Mehta

production: Sandeep Mehta

music: Erdmöbel

label: Sony BMG,

Germany, 2007

The winner of the MuVi Online Audience Award is chosen by Internet users who cast their votes at www.muvi-preis.de (in co-operation with www.intro.de and Hobnox).

Prize of the Jury of FIPRESCI (Jury of International Film Critics): "Nezrimoe"

director: Pavel Medvedev, Russia 2007

Statement: Taking the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in 2006 as an example, director Pavel Medvedev exposes the rituals of the contemporary business of politics in Nezrimoe: The tired choreography of the press, the brutal ballet of horrendous security machines, the rusty gestures of symbol politics. Like an ethnologist, he approaches the subject from the edges. Images that stand for themselves, without commentary or additional music and which no doubt belong to the large screen and invite the viewer to look again and again add up to this quite elegant film full of reserved, exact observation, full of sensitivity and which, in addition, tells us a lot about the present conditions of oligarchy and Putinism in Russia. A film of distances: as an alienating contrast, there is a graveyard and a stonemason, who chisels away at gravestones. This reminds us of Brecht and his lines on the transience of power: “At the Moldau the stones are moved/Three emperors are buried in Prague/The great one stays great, but the small one not small/The night has twelve hours and then already comes the break of day.”

Prize of the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (EUR 5,000): "Parlez-moi d´amour"

director: Alexia Bonta, Belgium 2008

Statement: A hospital – two old women at the end of their lives. When faced with such circumstances, we usually associate them with decay and death. In "Parlez moi d’amour," Belgian filmmaker Alexia Bonta shows us that this attitude may be careless, that there is a lot of experience to collect here, a knowledge relevant to all of us.

Using a formally reduced documentary approach, the director manages to make two people talk, to make them communicate their experience of life, but also their disappointments, their stubbornness and their sense of humor to the succeeding generation.

For this conversation about love and intimacy, supposedly at the wrong time in the wrong place, the jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia awards its prize to Alexia Bonta and her film Parlez moi d’amour.

The Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia 2008: Christiane Heuwinkel (Bielefeld), Michael Girke (Herford), Klaus Gronenborn (Köln), Rainer

Komers (Mülheim/Ruhr), Ruth Schiffer (Düsseldorf)

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (EUR 1,500): "Senko"

director: Kawamura Yuki, France 2008

Statement: A young Japanese family is confronted with the mother’s death. This impressive short feature film shows us in deeply symbolic images how little Yu and his father are born up by the security offered by the family.

Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury: "Setu"

director: Shyamal Karmakar/Sanghamitra Karmakar, India 2007

Statement: In an Indian boomtown, a little girl is trying to preserve its childhood world. In highly contrasting images, this documentary shows how childhood is threatened by urbanization.

The Ecumenical Jury 2007: Irina Grassmann (Germany), Wolfgang Luley (Germany), Christian Murer (Switzerland), Eberhard Streier (Germany), Perter F. Stucki (Switzerland)

Prize of the Cinema Jury for the best 35mm film under 15 minutes in the International and German Competition, in connection with a buying option on the awarded work by the Short Film Agency Hamburg: "Jos Kaadun"

director: Hannaleena Hauru, Finland 2007

Jury Statement: At a first glance, the finnish production "Jos Kaadun" tells an everyday story – nevertheless the film provides different levels of access, amongst them a documentary approach. Many fondly observed details and the high technical quality make the film a screen-filling cinematic experience.

Prize of the Cinema Jury for the best 35mm film under 15 minutes in the Children's and Youth Competition, in connection with a buying option on the awarded work by the Short Film Agency Hamburg: "Tôt ou tard"

director: Jadwiga Kowalska, Switzerland 2007

Statement: The animation "Tôt ou tard" from Switzerland impresses with its simple, poetic story and with its appropriate technical realization. A film about day, night, and the power of friendship, entertaining both for children and adults.

Cinema Jury 2008: Juliette Duret (Belgium), Ingrid Lüdeke (Germany), Christian Wichmann (Germany)

Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (EUR 500): "Armulaud"

director: Jaan Toomik, Estonia, 2007

Statement: The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen awards its prize to a disturbing film which reflects, in a few precise scenes, a man’s fear of commitment who can find comfort neither in his relationship nor in religious communities nor in nature.

Jury of the International Competition 2008: Alessio Cavallaro, curator, Australia; Shai Heredia, curator, India; Mihnea Mircan, curator, Romania; Keith Sanborn, media artist, theorist and curator, USA; Zelimir Zilnik, filmmaker, Serbia

International Jury Awards:

Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen (EUR 7,500):

"Chainsaw"

director: Dennis Tupicoff, Australia 2007

Statment: For its masterful synthesis of social commentary, formal experimentation, and its exploration of bareback riding both within the rodeo arena and beyond.

Principal Prize (EUR 3,500): "Alexandra"

director: Radu Jude, Romania 2007

Statement: For revealing an honest image of the complex emotional terrain of family life through a rigorous and understated use of cinematic means.

Principal Prize (EUR 3,500): "Kak stat stervoi"

director: Alina Rudnitskaya, Russia 2008

Statement: For its poignant reflections on the reconstruction of femininity in post-communist Russia.

ARTE Prize for a european short film (EUR 2,500): "Kempinsky"

director: Neil Belouta, France 2007

Statement: For its disquieting evocation of a world emerging from the shadows of a kidnapped future.

Special Mention of the international Jury: "Running Sushi"

director: Mara Mattuschka and Chris Harring, Austria 2008

Special Mention of the international Jury: "Jai"

director: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand 2007

Grand prix (tie)

Prize: € 2000 to share between the two winners

"COMO TODO EL MUNDO"

Director: FRANCOLOLLI

France - 26’ - 2007

and "MOMPELAAR"

Director: MARC ROELS ET WIN REYGAERT

Belgique - 20’ - 2007

Best Actress:

France - 10’ - 2007

CECILE DUCROCQ in "UNE LECON PARTICULIERE"

Director: RAPHAEL CHEVENEMENT

France - 10’ - 2007

Prize: € 1000 offered by l’Echevinat de la Culture de la Ville de Bruxelles

Best Actor: RAPHAEL GOLDMANN in "UNE LECON PARTICULIERE"

Director: RAPHAEL CHEVENEMENT

Prize: € 1000 offered by l’Echevinat de la Culture de la Ville de Bruxelles

Prize of the Young Jury: "MILAN"

Director: MICHAELA KEZELE

Allemagne/Serbie - 22’ - 2007

Prize: € 1000 offered by l’Echevinat de la Culture de la Ville de Bruxelles

Special Mention: "REORDER"

Director: SEAN GARRITY

Canada - 14’ - 2007

The BeTV: "C’EST DIMANCHE"

Director: SAMIRGUESMI

France - 30’ - 2007

€ 1500 including the purchase of distribution rights on BeTV

The Public Prize: "LE SECRET DE SALOMON"

Director: DAVID CHARHON

France - 20’ - 2007

€ 1000 offered by the Commune d’Ixelles

Belgium National Award Winners:

National Grand Prize: "LE PONT"

Director: VINCENT BIERREWAERTS

Belgium - 14’ - 2007

Prize: € 2500 offered by the SACD

Le Prix de la Communaute Franncaise: "LE SONGE D’UNE FEMME DEMENAGE"

Director: BANU ANESKI

Belgium - 15’ - 2007

Prize: € 2500 offered to the director

The Photo Prize: NICOLAS PROVOST for "PLOT POINT"

Director: NICOLAS PROVOST

Belgium - 15’ - 2007

Prize: € 1750 in film offered to the director by Kodak

Best Actress: SERRA YILMAZ for "LE SONGE D’UNE FEMME DE MENAGE"

Director: BANU ANESKI

Belgium - 15’ - 2007

Prize: € 500 offered by the Commune d’Ixelles

Best Actor: GILLES DESCHRYVER for "OU QUOI"

Director: CECILIA VERHEYDEN

Belgium - 24’ - 2007

Prize: € 500 offered by the Commune d’Ixelles

Audience Prize: "VOIX DE GARAGE"

Director: SAMUEL TILMAN

Belgium - 15’ - 2007

Le Deux Prize: "PLOT POINT"

Director: NICOLAS PROVOST

Belgium - 15’ - 2007

Prize: € 1500 including the purchase of distribution rights for the broadcast on La Deux

Given by a representive of La Deux

The Critics Prize: "A DAY IN A LIFE"

Director: NICOLAS DAENENS

Belgium - 21’ - 2007

Prize: Subtitles offered by LTI - Studio L’Equipe (given by the press jury)

Special Mention: "MOMPELAAR"

Director: MARC ROELS & WIN REYGAERT

Belgium - 20’ – 2007

Spielfilmpreis

"A few simple words"

Kilka Prostych Sów

Anna Kazejak-Dawid

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Lobende Erwähnung der Spielfilmjury

"Wianbu – Comfort Woman"

James Bang

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Animationsfilmpreis

"Tir Nan Og - Amour Toujours"

Fursy Teyssier

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Dokumentarfilmpreis

"Sonbol"

Niko Apel

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Schnittpreis

"Roads"

Amit Ginton

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Preis gegen Ausgrenzung

"Wie ich bin"

Ingrid Demetz & Caroline Leitner

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Produzentenpreis

"Sieben Tage Sonntag"

T. Bartl, A. Dierbach, N. Laupert

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Bester Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis

"Teenage Angst"

Thomas Stuber

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Fokus-Dialog-Preis

"Chill Pill"

Ehiz Ojesebholo

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

MTV Musikvideopreis

"Geboren im Winter"

Andreas Mühe & Christopher Wendland

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Schauspielpreis

"Ou quoi"

Gilles De Schryver

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Kamerapreis

"Teenage Angst"

Peter Matjasko

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Kinderfilmpreis

"Die kleine Giftmischerin"

Alex Schmidt

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Pitch Preis

"Vergiss mein nicht, Machu Picchu"

Markus F. Adrian

Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Drehbuchpreis

"Baby Daddy"

Marc Oliver Seng

37. Internationales Studenten Filmfestival sehsüchte

Publikumspreis

"Stiller Frühling"

Nico Sommer

Directed by: Steve Hyde

Special Jury Prize: "The Two brothers" from "8 moments in Barcelona as seen by Johan Kramer"

Development Prize: "Dash Dot"

Directed by Ian Helliwell

The Best UK Film and Audience Prize: "The Flasher"

Directed by Magnus Irvin

In addition, two films received special mentions from the Jury, "Lunch"

Directed by Miklos Solyom

and "Burnt Out and Inarticulate"

Directed by Ian Weake.

Directed by: Alex Budovsky

The Best animation for adults: "Stuart"

Directed by: Zepe (Jose Pedro, Cavelheiro)

The Best experimental / abstract film: "Primitive Scene"

Directed by: Daniel Faubert

The Best debut: "Beton"

Directed by: Ariel Belinco & Michael Faust

The Best film for children: "Insight"

Directed by: Salvador Simo Busom

The Best Georgian animation film: "A legend about wine"

Directed by: Vladimer (Lado) Sulakvelidze

Category - debut

For the harmony of music and image: "Illuminations"

Directed by: Itai Froumin

For the best humor in Animation: "Zoologic"

Directed by: Nicole Mitchell

For brilliant debut: "Fool girl"

Directed by: Zojya Kireeva

Category - animation for adults

For creating special environment: "Lullaby"

Directed by: Andrey Zolotukhin

Prize Winners 2008

No easy job for the jury. The eight entries in this year's Best International Debut Feature Film Competition for women film directors were all completely different in style and content, which ranged from war parable through road movie to literary film. And the winner was … "L’HOMME QUI MARCHE" by French director Aurélia Georges who was in Cologne personally to pick up €10,000 prize at the evening awards ceremony held in the Film Forum.

According to jury members Dr Barbara Buhl (Cologne), Prof. Dai Jinhua (Peking) and Nina Menkes (Los Angeles)

"L’HOMME QUI MARCHE is an unconventional film portrait of an unknown author seen from a contemporary viewpoint. Screenplay, main actor, camerawork and editing all come together in a bonafide and sparing way to create a convincing, authentic, true-to-detail piece of work about the life of an unsuccessful artist who gradually loses contact with society."

The jury also gave special praise to the Dutch social comedy "MAYBE SWEDEN" by Margien Rogaar, saying …

"Thanks to successful mix of outstanding direction, interplay between the actors, a taut dramatic structure and a sharp sense of humour, the outcome is a strong and politically relevant film."

The winner of the Audience Prize, which comes with €1,000 donated by Choices, the listings magazine, was "COWBOY ANGELS" by Kim Massée (F)

The Focus on China section of the program offered a good overview of the films currently being made by Chinese women film directors and the chance to talk to the film-makers in person. Unique opportunities which, in this form, will probably not be possible in Germany for some time to come. Either way, the variety of the works on view left an impression of an incredibly vital, creative and self-aware film scene.

Unlike previous years, all the programme sections were given equal footing — with Queer Looks, as ever, proving to be the audience magnet. With her comedy "TICK TOCK LULLABY," for example, Lisa Gornik (UK) simply enchanted the Film Forum audience on the Saturday evening.

The ideal of allowing more space and time for the need to talk about film and content also went down very well. For instance, the Panorama film & discussion event with Medica Mondiale revolving round Meira Asher's documentary film "WOMAN SEE A LOT OF THINGS" about former girl soldiers in Sierra Leone made a deep and moving impression on the audience.

Meanwhile, as if in no time at all, our brand-new Festival Blog – a collaborative venture by students at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of Dortmund – became a lively online platform for all the latest news about the festival. It will continue after the festival has finished at: festivalblog.or.yourweb.de

Jury:

Anna Anders, UDK Berlin

Jan Schuijren, NMA Kurator, Amsterdam

Gabriel Soucheyre, Videoformes

Winners:

Reynold Reynolds, Title: "SECRET LIFE"

Installation

Nicholas Provost, Title: "PLOT POINT"

B 2007, BetaCam 13:39

Statement of the jury:

The jury jointly decided to split the EMAF-prize of 3000 Euro, awarding the installation "Secret Life" by American artist Reynold Reynolds, and the video "Plot Point" by Belgian artist Nicholas Provost.

Reynold Reynolds "Secret Life", two channel video installation, 2008

(Quote Reynolds) "One thing that I enjoy about dreams is the way that narrative collapses. Emotion and context replace the question of plot. The subconscious meaning of things becomes prevalent. Reynolds background in physics and philosophy, becomes apparent in both works presented in the EMAF exhibition. The jury decided to award "Secret Life". Set in an apartment, Reynolds frames reality in a laboratory, showing us to what extent our connection with Œreal life_ is a very subconscious or even unconscious one. In ŒSecret Life_, time becomes an entity of its own, contracting and expanding, becoming circular and repetitive time becoming the agent of life. The apartment becomes an activity of life and destruction, and the familiar becomes uncanny and frightening, leaving the spectator hovering between emotional fascination and physical repulsion.

Nicholas Provost / Plot Point / 13:39 min / 2007

The crowded streets of New York City turn into fictive, cinematographic scenery. Provost is playing with our collective memory, its cinematic codes and narrative languages _ questioning the boundaries between a staged, suggested reality and authentic fiction. Although for the most part filmed with a hidden camera, ŒPlot Point_ presents a highly dramatic construction with overly sophisticated images and a subtle but tangible urge in the soundtrack. The meticulousness with which Provost shoots and edits the images and sounds make "Plot Point" the perfect trailer for dramatized experience in our daily life, an ordinary walk on the street will never be the same again.

Dialogue Award:

Jury:

Anna Anders, UDK Berlin

Jan Schuijren, NMA Kurator, Amsterdam

Gabriel Soucheyre, Videoformes

Giesela Rueb, Goethe Institut Paris

Winner:

Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, Titel: WE WILL LIVE TO SEE THESE THINGS, OR, FIVE PICTURES OF WHAT MAY COME TO PASS /USA 2007 / Mini DVD / 47:04

Neil Beloufa, Titel: KEMPINSKI / F7Mali 2007 / DVD / 13:58

Statement of the jury

The ministry for external affairs (Auswärtiges Amt) offers a 2.000 EUR dialogue prize for a work which supports the intercultural dialogue between different cultures and regions of the world.

The jury selected two works. Each of them gets 1.000 €:

1) Neil Beloufa /"Kempinski" / 13:58 min/ 2007

We choose "Kempinski" by Neil Beloufa, who lives in Paris, for the Dialogue Prize because this work questions our expectations and projections of Africa in a very clever way and on a extremely high visual level. The story is set in a small village in Africa. It is night time with little artificial light. The villagers are talking directly into the camera, telling present-time stories of a futuristic, magical world which seems to connect to African culture. It takes some time to realize that it might not be a documentary that we're confronted with, and slowly but surely you begin to wonder about the surrealistic elements they speak so naturally about being married to a cow, telepathy and teleportation, spaceships. Irritation and fascination alternate continuously, culminating in the neon sign of Hotel Kempinski.

2) Julia Meltzer & David Thorne / "We Will Live to See These Things, or, Five Pictures of What May Come to Pass"/ 47:04 min / 2007

"We Will Live to See These Things, or, Five Pictures of What May Come to Pass" is a political and yet poetic documentary in five parts, each stylistically autonomous and concise. The video delivers a kaleidoscopic and subtle portrait of Syria, opening up possible futures. In a very elaborate but simple visual language the work offers a different perspective on a place where people live between the competing forces of a repressive regime, a growing conservative Islamic movement, and intense pressure of the United States. The two American artists provide information without making fixed statements. The essayistic approach evokes an active and engaged reading of the work, turning a highly complex situation into a very accessable one, allowing the viewer to draw his own conclusions.

Prize for Best German Experimental Film:

This year's "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" in the category "Experimentalfilm", conferred during the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück by the "Verband der deutschen Filmkritiker" goes to Sylvia Schedelbauer for her film "Falsche Freunde" (false friends).

Jury

Leni Höllerer, Marc Heirapetian, Hans-Jürgen Tast

Statement of the jury

With the simple means of old black-and-white archive material and rather familiar, albeit slightly alienated horror soundtrack, the director manages to draw the viewer into the nightmarish atmosphere of the images by the unsettling rhythm of the cuts. "Falsche Freunde" takes place in the undefined space between video art and feature film narration. The oppressive tension never abates, even though the mysteriousness, which is reminiscent of David Lynch, of the dark - in both senses of the word - scenes do not look set to be deciphered.

"FGM" (Spain, 2008). Directed by Jon Garaño.

International Competition

Neil Beloufa for "Kempinski," 2007, FR/ML, 15’

Neil Beloufa (Algerian/French, born in Paris in 1985) studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts and Arts Decoratifs in Paris. As an exchange student he studied at Cooper Union in New York and the California institute of Arts. Beloufa mainly works with video and sculpture.

The Jury:

An unusual and fresh documentary experiment. You have to see the film twice, to really get it. Beloufa made portraits of several Malinese people. He gave them these guidelines: Imagine how your future looks, but talk about it in the present tense. As soon as you know this you want to see the film again, to look for more details. Visions of the future, that to us are hopeful and spiritual. The futuristic feel of the film clashes with our western ideas about that part of the world. With some very simple elements Beloufa succeeds in building an effective scenography. The fluorescent light adds a futuristic feel to the filmed environment. The sounddesign is build on a simple element effectively: a humming noise strange to the context. Light and sound support a coherent scenario.

International Competition

Isabelle Tollenaere for "Stil Leven / Still Life," 2007, BE, 17’

Isabelle Tollenaere just graduated from the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels.

The jury:

A film that starts with a dead cat being hoovered, an image that I wouldn’t have expected to see. The mise-en-scene is happy and colourful. But something about the image is unsettling. It seeks a balance between cute and morbid.

The Prizes:

The international competition: Avid - the new Media Composer

The national competition: Eye-Lite - light and camera rental, Noise Reduction - sound, set and studio

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Jury: Brigitte Berg (Denmark), Peter Furtado (UK)

Irene Lichtscheidl (Austria), Paul Pissanos (Greece) and Robert A. Rosenstone (USA)

Award for Best International Popular-scientific Documentary Film

"In the Name of Roses"

Director: Thierry Berrod / France 2008 / 52 min.

With charm and humor Thierry Berrod sets off to gather excrements or roses as he calls them. The film offers a look into alchemists’ laboratories as well as much insight into the modern technologies involved in the processing of stools.

CZECH COMPETITION

Jury: Mgr. Pavel Černuška, Ph.D. (Czech Republic), Ing. Marcel Grün (Czech Republic), PhDr. Ivan Klimeš (Czech Republic), Tomáš Škrdlant (Czech Republic) and RNDr. Stanislav Vaněk (Czech Republic)

Award for Best Czech Popular-scientific Documentary Film

"Mr. Parkinson"

Director: Petr Jančárek / CZ 2007 / 26 min.

Coming to terms with a disease that turns one’s life upside down can be done with vast wisdom. A composer of classical music, whose movements have changed to something of a dance creation, wrote parodiable music that compliments the film. Brain surgery and its affects on family life projected on screen.

OTHER AWARDS

Lifetime Achievement Award in Popular-scientific Film: Nigel Marven

A biologist, filmmaker and a long-time BBC associate who has cooperated, among others, with Sir David Attenborough, a leading pioneer in promoting science on television. Today Marven is rightly considered among international celebrities in his field.

Audience Award

"Mr. Parkinson"

Director: Petr Jančárek / CZ 2007 / 26 min.

Coming to terms with a disease that turns one’s life upside down can be done with vast wisdom. A composer of classical music, whose movements have changed to something of a dance creation, wrote parodiable music that compliments the film. Brain surgery and its affects on family life projected on screen.

Student Jury Award

Jury: Vojtěch Hanulík, Zuzka Jašková

Ester Kadlecová, Josef Kaštil, Dominika Linhartová, Rodion Procjuk, Jan Přeček and Tomáš Vynikal

"Peace with Seals"

Director: Miloslav Novák / CZ 2007 / 96 min.

Peace with Seals is an extraordinary viewing experience of peaceful coexistence between seal and man. A feature-length documentary film creation of unique picture poetry produced in the Czech Republic.

SPECIAL MENTION

Vesmír magazine Award for Best Czech Documentary Film in Natural Sciences

"Fish’n’Pills"

Director: Tereza Tara / CZ 2007 / 20 min.

“Females know little about the causes, signs and side effects of hormone pill intake. Males lose their sexuality.” The black and white film tells of environmental hormonal pollution.

Dějiny a současnost magazine Award for Best Czech Documentary Film in the Humanities and Social Sciences

"Forgotten Transports"

Director: Lukáš Přibyl / CZ 2007 / 86 min.

The Forgotten transports to Byelorussia project was gradually developed in the years of 2000 – 2006 and consists of testimonies of individuals that survived practically unknown concentration camps in Latvia, Byelorussia, Estonia and Eastern Poland.

History Today magazine Award for Best International Documentary Film in the Humanities

"Nanking"

Director: Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman / USA 2007 / 88 min.

The night before the Second World War broke out the Japanese military invaded Chinese territory and occupied the then capital city of Nanking, which subsequently set the stage for Japanese military barbarity and horror.

Award for Best Student Film - V. Ř. E. D.

JÁ (a music video for LAJKY)│Czech Republic, 2008

Director: Miloš Kameník

GUESTS

The 43rd Academia Olomouc - International Festival of Popular-scientific and Documentary Films welcomed the following guests: Josef Abrhám ml., Petr Baran, Václav Bělohradský, Luboš Bělka, Brigitte Berg, David Čeněk, Pavel Černuška, Jakub Červena, Jaroslav Flegr, Peter Furtado, Marcel Grün, Nikolaj Hrib, Vít Janeček, Pavel Jirásek, Ivan Klimeš, Natacha von Kopp, Jiřina Kosíková, Steve L. Lichtag, Irene Lichtsheidel, Petr Lokaj, Daniel Luther, Peter Lynch, Nigel Marven, František Mikeš, Miloslav Novák, Emil Paleček, Paul Pissanos, Lukáš Přibyl, Robert Rosenstone, Alice Růžičková, Martin Řezníček, Otakáro Maria Schmidt, Pavel Smetana, Jiří Straus, Jaroslav Šabata, Martin Škabraha, Tomáš Škrdlant, Pavel Štingl, Jiří Vácha, Stanislav Vaněk and others.

STUDIO

This section included a wide range of discussions, panels, lectures and film screenings. This year's main themes were: Year 1968: Global Revolt; Evolution, or a Miracle?; and Science Inside Out. Audiences had the opportunity to see several internationally renown documentary films, e.g. Project Grizzly, Cyberman, The Herd and A Whale of a Tale, by Canadian filmmaker Peter Lynch who attended the screenings.

The panel Evolution or a Miracle? brought together the supporters and opponents of the intelligent design theory vs. the evolution theory: philosopher Doc. Luboš Bělka, evolution biologist prof. Jaroslav Flegr, theologian and chemist Ing. František Mikeš, PhD., molecular biologist prof. Emil Paleček, and physiologist Prof. MUDr. Jiří Vácha, DrSc.

Prof. Robert A. Rosenstone from the California Institute of Technology gave a remarkable lecture supplemented with film clips that aimed to prove that the treatment of history in film can have a number of other aspects.

Prof. PhDr. Jiří Straus, DrSc. and Ing. Nikolaj Hrib delivered a successful lecture comparing the current practice of criminal investigation with the methods promoted by popular television shows, such as CSI Miami and others.

Alice Růžičková, Vice Dean at FAMU, dedicated her lecture to Czech popular-scientific film in the 1950s.

RETROSPECTIVE

At this year's festival, audiences had a chance to find out more about French filmmaker Jean Painlevé, a pioneer in ocean filmmaking. The screenings were introduced by Painlevé's former associate Brigitte Berg and film historian David Čeněk. Jean Painlevé made nearly 200 films, the AFO selection included e.g., The Sea Horse, The Vampire,

Notre planète la Terre, Hyas et stenorinques, Comment naissent les méduses, etc.

DOC.Port

A comprehensive video library that serves as an representative international market of popular-scientific films that offers a meeting point for producers, buyers, distributors and journalists. Each visitor with the AFO accreditation can visit the Doc.port and watch a broad selection of films. Apart from the competition films Doc.port contains also films that were not selected for the main competition. This year the DOC.Port database included 582 films from 50 countries. Hundreds of visitors watched films on DOC.Port during the festival; after the end of AFO, these films will still be available at the university library.

THE INTERNATIONAL JURY:

Claire Aguilar (producer ITVS, USA), Séverine Barde (cinematographer, Switzerland), Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich (producer, Netherlands), Andreas Horvath

(director, photogapher), awards the following prizes:

Grand Prix La Poste Suisse – Visions du Réel, CHF 20'000.- to:

THE LIE OF THE LAND

Directed by: Molly Dineen, UK

Prix SRG SSR idée suisse, CHF 10'000.- to:

NUIT DE CHINE

Directed by: Ju An-Qi, France/Italia/China

LE JURY DU PUBLIC:

Claude Bernhard, Camelia Cioara, Vincent Milliard, Vreni Müller-Hemmi, awarded:

Prix du public de la Ville de Nyon, CHF 10'000.- awarded by the Municipalité de Nyon to:

ENTRE OURS ET LOUP (24H DANS LA VILLE DE N.)

Directed by: Denis Sneguirev, France/Russia

LE JURY INTERRELIGIEUX:

Viviane Borderie (France), Gisela Blau (Switzerland), Elâ Gurmen (Turkey), Serge Mulla (Switzerland), decided

Prix du interreligious jury of CHF 5'000.- awarded by the Eglise catholique suisse and by the Conférence des Eglises protestantes de Romandie (CER)

THE EXISTENCE

Directed by: Marcin Koszalka, Poland

and a Special Mention to

ENTRE OURS ET LOUP (24H DANS LA VILLE DE N.)

Directed by: Denis Sneguirev, France/Russia

LE JURY DU JEUNE PUBLIC:

Aline Fuchs, Ibrahim Obeida, Bastien Métraux, Lia Rossion, Emilie Walbaum, decided that

Prix de la DDC of CHF 5'000.- to

D’UN MUR L’AUTRE – DE BERLIN A CEUTA

Directed by: Patric Jean, Belgium/France

THe Ypung Jury Prize of the Société des Hôteliers de la Côte of CHF 2'500.- to

THE EXISTENCE

Directed by: Marcin Koszalka, Poland

REGARDS NEUFS:

LE JURY REGARDS NEUFS:

Ernesto Baca (director, Argentina), Jan Peters (director, Germany), Thomas Thümena (producer Hugofilm, Switzerland), Wang Pai-Zhang (director Taiwan), decided both:

Prix de l'Etat de Vaud de CHF 2 X 5’000.- each to

LES HOMMES DE LA FORET 21

Directed by: Julien Samani, France

NO LONDON TODAY de Delphine Deloget, France

and a Special Mention to

SOLLBRUCHSTELLE

Directed by: Eva Stotz, Allemagne

SWISS CINEMA:

THE JURY SWISS CINEMA:

Roger de Diesbach (journalist, Switzerland, Ulle Schröder (Arte Strasbourg, France), Bruno Ulmer (director, France), decided that

Prix George Foundation for the Best Newcomer in Film CHF 10'000.- to

LA MERE

Directed by: Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov, Switzerland/France/Russia

Prix Suissimage/Société suisse des auteurs SSA – film suisse le plus novateur, CHF 10'000.- to

TEMOIN INDESIRABLE

Directed by: Juan Lozano, Switzerland

The Swiss jury awarded a Special Mention to

THE BEAST WITHIN

Directed by: Yves Scagliola, Switzerland

ALL SECTIONS:

LE JURY FOR CRIME CINEMA:

Thomas Krompecher (professor), Anne Reiser (lawyer), Stéphane Blok (musician and writer), awarded the

Prix «Regards sur le crime» of CHF 5’000.- decided by a group of lawyers for Geneva to

LA PETITE BOITEUSE de Robin Harsch, Switzerland

and a Special Mention to the film

ARTICLE 43

Directed by: Denise Gilliand, Switzerland

Animation: "Holi Hana - Dawnsio Bale"

Directed by: Tom Edgar

Calon / S4C

Current Affairs: "Tales from the Edge: The Children who Disappear"

Directed by: Lindsay Hill

BBC Scotland

Documentary Feature: "Padraic O Conaire - An Fear"

Directed by: Johnny White

Seanchas Productions / TG4 / BCI

Factual Documentary: "O’r Galon – Martin Thomas"

Directed by: Dylan Richards

Fflic TV / S4C

Arts Documentary: "R.S Thomas: The Man Who Went Into the West"

Directed by: Catrin Mair Thomas

BBC Wales / Fulmar

Short Drama: "River Child"

Directed by: Damian Wood

Storymix Ltd / Screen Academy Scotland

Drama Series: "Prosperity - Episode 1"

Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson

Element Films

Feature Length Drama: "The Last King of Scotland"

Directed by: Kevin MacDonald

Cowboy Films

Education: "Rygbi 100% - Series 2"

Directed by: Guto Williams

Cwmni Da / S4C

Entertainment: "Tom and the Giant"

Directed by: Will Coleman

Brave Tales Ltd

Sport Profile: "Wynebau Newydd - Merch y Gadair Ddur"

Directed by: Sian Pari Huws

Ffilmiau’r Nant / S4C

Childrens: "Aifric - Prog 4 Gafa Le Mata"

Directed by: Paul Mercier

Telegael / TG4

Young People: "On the Block"

Directed by: Katie Lincoln / Children

Macalla Teo

Glimmer International Award

£1000 prize supplied to winning film from World Trade Centre Hull and Humber

"Hairlady"

Director: David Birdsell

This experimental 8 minute film from the US showed ‘great invention’ and ‘enormous wit’ according to our jury members

Glimmer UK Award

£500 Prize supported by Hull Trains

"Dog’s Mercury"

Director: Martin Radich

A weird and wonderful glimpse into life providing an ‘aching humanity’ and ‘dark humour’ that the jury members adored

Glimmer Yorkshire Award

£500 Prize supported by Yorkshire Forward

"You, Me and Captain Longbridge"

Director: Kenny Doughty

This film, receiving it’s world premiere at Glimmer, was ‘beautifully shot’ and told an ‘emotional story’ that resonated with our jury.

A special mention also went to:

"Christmas In Huddersfield"

Director: Peter Spence

A simple documentary telling an extraordinary story.

Glimmer Hull Award

Prize of Nokia 6550 sponsored by The Mobile Point

"What You Do by Cool Fun"

Director: Jay Moy

This music video was ‘fun to watch’ and filmed in a ‘visually exciting way’

Golden Horseman Animated Film:

"Madame Tutli-Putli"

Directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Canada, 2007)

€ 7 500

Golden Horseman Short Fiction Film:

"Valuri (Waves)"

Directed by Adrian Saturi ( Romania, 2007)

€ 7 500

and "Examen"

Directed by Paul Negoescu (Romania, 2007)

Golden Horseman - Youth Jury

"Moen-Koey" (Always)

Directed by Sivaroj Kongsakul ( Thailand, 2006)

€ 2 000

Stiftung für Kunst & Kultur der Stadtsparkasse Dresden

Golden Horseman Audience Award: "Run"

Directed by Mark Albiston (New-Zealand 2007)

€ 2 000

Sächsische Zeitung

ARTE Short Fiction Film Prize: "La Parabólica" (The Parabolic Dish)

Directed by Xavi Sala ( Spain, 2007)

€ 6 000

National Competition

Golden Horseman Best Animated Film: "Weiss" by Florian Grolig (2007)

€ 3 000

German Institute for Animated Film

Golden Horseman Best Short Fiction Film: "Robin"

Directed by Hanno Olderdissen (2007)

€ 3 000

Saxony Film Association

Mitteldeutscher Film- und Fernsehproduzentenverband

Golden Horseman Audience Award

"Bende-Sira Ich bin dran" ( It's my turn )

Directed by Ismet Ergün ( 2007)

€ 2 000

MDR Public Broadcaster

Minister of Fine Arts Promotion Prize

"Liebeskrank" (Lovesick)

Directed by Spela Cadez (2007)

€ 20 000

Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts

Best Sound(scape) Award

Golden Horseman

Best Sound(scape) Award of the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau

National and International Competition

"Madame Tutli-Putli"

Directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Germany, 2007)

€ 3 000

European Centre for the Arts Hellerau

Exchange Forum

"Perspectives for Animated Film"

Promotion Prize

min. € 4 000

DEFA Foundation

by JEON Soo-il (South Korea)

JURY PRIZE: "FLOWER IN THE POCKET"

by LIEW Seng Tat (Malaysia)

"WONDERFUL TOWN"

by Aditya ASSARAT (Thailand)

LOTUS AIR FRANCE | CRITICS' PRIZE: "WITH A GIRL OF BLACK SOIL"

by JEON Soo-il (South Korea)

LOTUS ACTION ASIA | BEST ACTION ASIA FILM: "HEROS DE GUERRE"

by FENG Xiaogang (China)

TV SERIES FOR INFANTS to the program: "MY FRIEND RABBIT"

Canada, Nelvana Limited

For creating subtle, charming characters that warmly

connect with its audience

TV SERIES FOR CHILDREN to the program: "FRANKENSTEIN'S CAT"

United Kingdom, Mackinnon & Saunders Productions Ltd, Kayenta Production

For presenting a unique and gloriously quirky fast-paced, funny tale

TV SERIES FOR ALL AGES to the program: "WATER & BUBBLES"

Italy, Maga Animation Studio - Rai Fiction

For its jovial, witty, word play and for portraying a typical Italian family from a fresh, watery-perspective

TV SERIES OF ACTION & ADVENTURE to the program: "Gladiators"

Italy, Rai Fiction, Mondo TV

For its epic portrayal of historical storytelling within beautiful and accurate settings that told a resonating personal drama

EDUCATIONAL & SOCIAL PROGRAMME - UNICEF

to the program: "BBC CHUNNILAL"

India, Famous House of Animation

For giving families succinct information that empowers them to make the necessary changes in fighting a universal disease and for showing that there is no prejudice to those already suffering

PILOT OF TV SERIES to the program: "BUDDY & ELVIS"

United Kingdom, The Illuminated Film Company

For creating a rich, love-hate relationship between a cat and a dog that was touching, humorous and credible

TV SPECIAL to the program: "WANTED"

South Korea, Electric Circus

For originality and beauty in artwork, and for its well-observed character design and for a surprising, unspoken, narrative

SHORT FILM to the program: "JOHN AND KAREN"

United Kingdom, Arthur Cox

For displaying a complex relationship using wonderful rhythm with nuanced performances

BEST CHARACTER: ELLEN THE WILDEBEEST, from "NO ROOM FOR GEROLD"

Germany, Studio Film Bilder

For a vividly, originally realized, raw, and well-acted character portrayal in an outstanding ensemble show

BEST TV SERIES: "RICK & STEVE: THE HAPPIEST GAY COUPLE IN ALL THE WORLD"

Canada, Cuppa Coffee Studios - Logo

For pushing social boundaries and tackling stereotypes in a wickedly well-written, irreverent and hysterical one-of-a-kind television series

BEST EUROPEAN PROGRAM: "THE BUNJIES"

Germany, Studio Film Bilder

For its dry, well-acted humor that combined technical innovations with witty design and appropriate use of movement for comedic timing

BEST SOUNDTRACK OF THE YEAR: "TAK AND THE POWER OF JUJU"

USA, Nickelodeon

For its successful use of surprising instruments that delightfully added to an already vivid visual palate

SPECIAL MENTIONS for Best Screenplay to: "MY FRIENDS TIGGER AND POOH"

USA, Walt Disney Television Animation

SPECIAL MENTIONS for Best Direction to: "A BICYCLE TRIP"

Italy, Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia, Dipartimento Animazione

SPECIAL MENTIONS for Best Animation to "SLEEPING BETTY"

Canada, National Film Board Of Canada

Jury consisted of: Patricia Hidalgo (Executive Director, Programming Walt Disney TV Italia), Giovanna Milano

(Management Consultant, France-Italy), Barry Purves

(Artist, United Kingdom), Claudia Sasso (Broadcasting for kids Manager, Rai Due), Eric Shaw (Writer, USA)

The Jury of Rai Subscribers has assigned the Pulcinella Awards 2008 to

TV SERIES FOR INFANTS: "ME MYSELF AND THE OTHERS"

Italy, Enarmonia Motionworks

The award goes to "Me myself and the others" for the lively animation, the fun characters, the hilarious dialogues and cheerful music. The message on the importance of friendship got to us children in a simple and ironic way.

TV SERIES FOR CHILDREN: "TAK and the power of JUJU"

USA, Nickelodeon

It is fun and jolly cartoon. The story involves and excites and it makes you live fun and magical adventures. The colours and graphics are exceptional and reflect the high quality of the overall film.

TV SERIES FOR ALL AGES: "Water & Bubbles"

Italy, Maga Animation Studio - Rai Fiction

It was chosen for the message it sends out right from the start. To understand that in order to not be afraid of what’s different from us we must know ourselves and each other. The authors got this message to us in a simple and serene way.

Youth Card Euro<26 Award: "Sleeping Betty"

Canada, National Film Board Of Canada

For the subtle irony, the paradoxical subversion of roles, the surreal Look and finally, the somewhat "feminist' element evident in the final assertion

"sleep is mine and I’ll manage it".

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Each year Cartoons on the Bay assigns two Pulcinella lifetime achievements awards, one Italian and one international, to the animation world’s important personalities. The Italian Pulcinella lifetime achievements 2008 award went to Fusako Yusaki. This is Hiroshi Azuma’s, Japan’s Consul in Italy, message: "I would like to express my sincere congratulations for the Pulcinella lifetime achievements 2008 award to Fusako Yusaki. This prestigious award doesn’t only recognizer Yusaki’s professional activity, but is also a tangible evidence of Italy’s appreciation towards a deeply and profoundly sensitive artist; with great admiration and looking forward for even more success."

The Pulcinella International Lifetime Achievement Award went to Gerald Potterton. The Canadian Ambassador in Italy, his Excellency Mr. Alex Himelfarb, sent a few words to Mr. Potterton: "Dear Mr. Potterton, please accept my warmest congratulations for the prestigious award that the festival Cartoons on the Bay in Salerno conferred you. Cartoons on the Bay and its director, Alfio Bastianchio, have been great friends of Canada and have supported and encouraged Canadian talents over the years. The official recognition for your work’s high quality by this important festival honours us greatly. On behalf of Canada, I send my most heartfelt thank you for your career’s considerable creative achievements and for your long and constant commitment to art. Yours sincerely, Alex Himelfarb, Ambassador of Canadian.”

Special Career Award went to Pietro Campedelli. Pietro Campedelli, born in Milan, fell in love for animation in the mid 1990s when he met with author and director Giuseppe Laganà. Industrial consultant, from the Bocconi University, he immediately understood that it was a field with great development potential. Campedelli, with his consultancy studio, worked on the first series Co produced by Rai Fiction among which Lupo Alberto by Animation Band and Cocco Bill by De Mas & Partners and later many others. He was a founder in 1998 and President until last December of the Associazione Aziende Audiovisivi in Animazione Cartoon Italy and Board Member of the European association Cartoon. Cartoons on the bay’s recognition is: for giving Italian animation, from a business and associative point of view, the spirit and the experience of his long and intense activity as an industrial Manager providing, in more than ten years of activity, a significant contribution to the field’s national and international development.

During the closing ceremony of the 24th AFFF the winners of the jury awards were announced. The Black Tulip was awarded to TIMECRIMES. Due to illness director Nacho Vigalondo was unable to attend, but in a video message he thanked the jury. Director Gonzalo Lopez Gallego was present to accept the Silver Méliès for best European fantastic film for his KING OF THE HILL. A very enthusiastic Ivan Nunez Lopez accepted a nomination for best European fantastic short for his DE OVERKANT.

Silver Scream Award: [REC]

Director Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

[REC] headed the chart for days and neither the closing night (DOOMSDAY by director Neil Marshall ) nor the Eyes Wide Open double-bills could change that (although the Japanese THE MACHINE GIRL by director Noboru Iguchidid very well). So the Spanish horror hit took the Silver Scream Award home. This marks the return of true horror at the top of the list, since ever since 1996 (Robert Rodriguez' FROM DUSK TILL DAWN) the audience favored other fantastic genres such as anime, fantasy, science-fiction and thriller.

The race for second and third place was much closer in which WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY by director Goran Dukicwas bumped off the podium by ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by director Julie Taymor (2) and FIDO by director Andrew Currie (3). 8,768 votes were counted, an increase of almost 20% compared to 2007.

Winner of the Jameson Award for the Best Short Film

"THE SOUND OF PEOPLE"

Director: Simon Fitzmaurice

The jury felt that this is a stylish, wonderfully cinematic film of great imagination. A marvelous central performance, an extraordinary voice over and some remarkable and compelling cinematography combine to provide a feast for the eyes and ears.

Winner of the Skillset Award to the best NI film

"JAMES"

Director: Connor Clements

The jury felt that the director had handled the extremely sensitive and emotive subject with care, skill and style. There was an impressive performance from the young actor whose character was seeking guidance about his concerns over his sexuality and whilst there was the danger that the story could be reduced to stereotypical characterisation, the writer / director avoided this trap and delivered a truly moving film.

Highly commended

The Jury highly commend the films "NEW BOY" directed by Steph Green and "BUA," directed by Sonya Gildea. New Boy for the mature performance of the young actors, witty dialogue and impressive story telling, including some brilliantly conceived, designed and filmed African settings. Bua for such courageous directing, editing and shot selection and in dealing with the subject matter so energetically and particularly with the added difficulty of having a horse as a central character in the piece

Winner of the Maysles Brothers Documentary Award

"END OF THE RAINBOW"

Director: Robert Nugent

The jury commented:

“We were struck by the way in which End of the Rainbow told an important and powerful story with breathtaking clarity, economy and beauty. We were also impressed by the way in which the director avoided what could have been an easy and obvious stereotyping of his characters and, in doing so, left the audience to reflect on the universal themes explored in the documentary.”

Winner of the Best Documentary Short

"THE FIRST DAY"

Director: Marcin Sauter.

THE SKODA AWARD FOR BEST FILM – THE “GOLDEN LILY”

MAGNUS / MAGNUS

Estonia / Great Britain 2007

Director: Kadri Kousaar

DOCUMENTARY AWARD "REMEMBRANCE AND FUTURE" OF THE FOUNDATION

"REMEMBRANCE, RESPONSIBILITY AND FUTURE"

THE FLOWER BRIDGE / PODUL DI FLORI

Romania 2008

Director: Thomas Ciulei

AWARD OF THE CITY OF WIESBADEN FOR BEST DIRECTOR

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES / LJUBAV I DRUGI ZLOCINI

Serbia / Germany / Austria / Slovenia 2008

Director: Stefan Arsenijevic

AWARD OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE

AT THE RIVER / BILJA RICKI (U REKI)

Ukraine 2006

Director: Eva Nejman

HONORARY MENTIONS

SIMPLE THINGS / PROSTYE VESCI

Russia 2006

Director: Aleksej Popogrebskij

THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM AND OTHER STORIES / PROBLEMAT S KOMARITE I DRUGI

ISTORII

Bulgaria / Germany / USA 2007

Director: Andrej Paunov

INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITIC’S AWARD (FIPRESCI-PRIZE)

MAGNUS / MAGNUS

Estonia / Great Britain 2007

Director: Kadri Kousaar

GOEAST-PRIZE IN REMEMBRANCE OF REINHARD KAMPF

THE FLOWER BRIDGE / PODUL DI FLORI

Romania 2008

Director: Thomas Ciulei

THE ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG’S PROMOTIONAL PRIZE FOR JOINT FILM PRODUCTIONS

BY YOUNG GERMAN AND EASTERN / SOUTH EASTERN FILMMAKERS

CATEGORY SHORT FEATURE FILM

SUNSTROKE

Germany / Hungary

Director: Lili Horvath, Producer: Henning Kamm, Camera: Robert Maly

RENOVATION

Germany / Romania

Director: Paul Negoescu, Producer: David Lindner, Screenplay: Simona Ghita, Camera: Paul Andrei

Butica

CATEGORY DOCUMENTARY FILM

KEIN ORT – NOWHERE IN EUROPE

Germany / Poland

Director: Kerstin Nickig, Producer: Michael Truckenbrodt, Co-Producer: Marcin Wierrzchoslawski,

Camera: Michal Tywoniuk

STUDENT’S COMPETITION

THE BHF-BANK FOUNDATION AWARD

BY THE RIVER / PRZY RZECE

Director: Magdalena Kowalczyk, Poland 2006

Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, Warschau

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

BY THE RIVER / PRZY RZECE

Director: Magdalena Kowalczyk, Poland 2006

Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, Warschau

BEST ANIMATED FILM

CHORD

Director: Simon Rauh, Germany 2008

Fachhochschule Mainz

BEST SHORT FEATURE

I DON’T FEEL LIKE DANCING

Director: Evi Goldbrunner and Joachim Dollhopf, Germany 2008

HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg

Directed by Imar Raag (Estonia)

Best Feature film: "THE CLASS"

Directed by Imar Raag (Estonia)

Best First Feature film: "The Paper Prince"

Directed by Marko Kostic (Serbia)

New Vision 2008 award: "Chi nasce tondo"

Directed by Alessandro Valori (Italy)

Best Documentary: "The Greatest Silence: Rape In The Congo"

Directed by Lisa F. Jackson (USA)

Best Italian Short film: "L’Oro Rosso"

Directed by Cesare Fragnelli

Special Mention Italian Shorts: "La strana infedeltà"

Directed by Livio Rositani and

"La Moglie"

Directed by Andrea Zaccariello

Best Foreign Short: "Bathing"

Directed by Philipp Batereau (Germany)

Best Short for “Students short” section: "The Simple Life" Directed by Christina Schiewe (Germany)

Best Animation Short: "Standby"

Directed by Jannis Walz (Germany)

Best Feature film screenplay: "La Sirena"

Directed by Ezio Maisto and Maria Cristina Di Meo

Best Short film screenplay: "La Badante"

Directed by Erica Liffredo

Directed by: James Wood, USA. www.crudeimpact.com/show.asp

Best Short Documentary with 2000 euros: "Pura Vida"

Directed by: Jan Nimmo, Scottland. www.greengold.org.uk/film.htm

Jury's Special Award : "Facedor de Montanhas"

Directed by Juan Figueroa, Brasil - Spain.

Critical Lense Award, HDV Pro- Camcorder: "Nama Saya Jakarta"

Directed by: Camino San José, Spain.

Audience Award: "Terra Promesa"

Directed by: Xavi Manzanet, Spain.

The Jury presided by Umberto Lenzi (Italy) was composed of Joon-Ho Bong (Korea), Thomas Gunzig (Belgium), Brett Leonard (USA), Lisa Marie (USA), Catherine Wilkening (France) has attributed

THE GOLDEN RAVEN: "13 Beloved"

directed by Chookiat Sakveerakul (Thaïland). An Artwork by Joseph Henrion.

TWO SILVER RAVEN: "Stuck"

directed by Stuart Gordon (USA) &

"[Rec]"

directed by Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza (Spain). An Artwork Michel Devillers

For the originality of the sceenplay and the extraordinaire children performance, the Jury gives also

A SPECIAL MENTION: "The Substitute"

directed by Ole Borneval.

THE PEGASUS- Prize of the Public: "[Rec]"

directed by Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza (Spain). An Artwork by Daniel Monic. The Prize of the Public of the 25th Festival is awarded by the subscribers of the Festival.

EUROPEAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

The Jury presided by Jean-Marie Verhasselt (Belgium) and composed of Nadine Monfils, François Bertrand, Sandrine Deegen, Bruno Forzani, Joëlle Rochette, has attributed

THE SILVER MELIES: "Frontière(s)"

directed by Xavier Gens (France)

The Golden Meliès 2008 Award Ceremony will take place in Sitges.

7TH ORBITH

The Jury composed of Thibaut Dopchie, Ils Huygens, Nathalie Meyer has attributed

7TH ORBITH AWARD: "The Aerial"

directed by Esteban Sapir (Argentina). An artwork by de Michel Devillers.

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION

The Jury of the Television Channels of 2006 composed of Bénédicte Bourgois, RTBF (Belgium), Brigitte Dithard, SWE (Germany), Sandrine Waller, TSR (Switzerland), Brice Van Der Haegen, Plug Tv (Belgium), BeTV (Belgium), Alexandre Soloviev, Russian State Tv (Russia), Srdjan Mitrovic, B92 (Serbia), Roland Nguyen, France 3 (France) has attributed

THE PRIZE OF THE BROADCASTERS - GRAND PRIZE: "Berni’s Doll"

directed by Yann J. (France). This Short Film will be shown on the represented television channels.

SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY/SABAM PRIZE

a value of 2500 € has been attributed to "The Boxed" directed by Bryn Rhys Chainey (Australia).

PRIZE OF THE AUDIENCE: "Berni’s Doll"

directed by Yann J. (France). A sculpture de Michel DEVILLERS.

BE TV AWARD a value of 1500 € has been attributed to "The Boxed"

directed by Bryn Rhys Chainy (Australia)

MELIES D’OR FINALIST: "Of Cats & Women"

directed by Jonas Govaerts (Belgium).

BELGIAN SHORT FILM COMPETITION

SACD PRIZE: "Les Deux Soeurs"

directed by Emmanuel Jespers. The SACD offers a prize with a value of 1.250 €.

MICHEL DEVILLERS PRIZE: "Les Deux Soeurs"

directed by Emmanuel Jespers. A sculpture de Michel Devillers.

13TH WORKSHOP ’FANTASTIC BRUSSELS’

EYE-LITE AWARD: "Easter Bunnies"

directed by Roel Goyens and crew. Eye-Lite Eye –Lite offers 2.500 euros in light materials for a next film.

Le jury Catégorie Documentaires de Création, composé de Gilles Bataillon, Camille Jouhair et Jean-Baptiste Legrand, a décerné le Grand Prix à la réalisatrice Lucia Gaja pour son film "Ma vie dedans" (122 mn, Mexique, 2007). Le Prix Spécial du Jury est revenu au film "Mourir à Jérusalem" (76 mn) de la réalisatrice israélienne Hilla Medalia .

Le jury de la Catégorie Dossiers et Grands Reportages, composé de Pierre Guyot, Karim Lahidji et Christian Vélot a attribué le Grand Prix du Festival à "War Made Easy : la guerre pour les Nuls" de Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp (72 mn, USA, 2007) et le Prix Spécial du Jury à la réalisatrice hollandaise Klaartje Quirijns pour "Chasseur de dictateurs" (72mn, Hollande, 2007).

Le jury Etudiants, quant à lui, a décerné son prix au film "Des monstres qui dorment" de Markus CM Schmidt et Jan Bernotat (92 min, Allemagne).

Le Festival tient à remercier toutes celles et tous ceux qui ont contribué au succès de cette nouvelle édition et vous donne rendez-vous dès jeudi prochain 10 avril à 20H30 au cinéma Action Christine pour la reprise de ses projections mensuelles dans le cadre des Jeudis du FIFDH (projection à 20H30 de "Rwanda, à travers nous l’humanité")

Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Best Newcomer feature –"Hotel Very Welcome"

Directed by: Sonja Heiss

Best Documentary – "Hold Me Tight Let Me Go"

Directed by: Kim Longinotto

Best Short – "Sophie "

Directed by: Birgitte Staermose

The Jury comprised of:

Best Short Film Jury:

Julia Short is co-owner of Verve Pictures, an independent distribution company which has released "Bullet Boy," the BAFTA award winner Amma Asante's "A Way of Life," Andrea Arnold's "Red Road" and Penny Woolcock's "Mischief Night."

Matthieu de Braconier manages and exec-produces Cinema Extreme: a short film scheme funded by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4. Past commissions include "Wasp" by Andrea Arnold and "Strange Little Girls" by Savina Dellicour.

Kate Vogel is the Commissioning Editor for "3 Minute Wonders," Channel 4's short documentary strand for new talent and innovation.

Barbara Stone produces features, directs documentaries and short films and founded the Gate Cinema in London. Unrelated, directed by Joanna Hogg and screened at BEV on Tuesday March 11th, is her latest production.

Best feature Film Jury

Harriet Walter is a Laurence Olivier Award winning stage actress. Her film credits include "Atonement," "Babel" and Martha Fiennes' "Chromophobia."

Damon Wise is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Times Online and Empire (for which he was previously the Film Editor).

Jane Giles , formerly Head of Acquisitions at Tartan Films UK & USA, is now Head of Content at the British Film Institute.

Sarfraz Manzoor is a leading UK journalist, author and broadcaster, regularly contributing to The Guardian. His critically acclaimed memoir "Greetings from Bury Park" was published last year.

Best Feature Newcomer Jury:

Sharman MacDonald is a playwright and novelist. Her plays include "When We Were Women" and "The Winter Guest." She has just finished writing the film "The Edge of Love" which stars her daughter Keira Knightley.

Matt Bochenski is the co-founder and editor of cutting edge independent film magazine, "Little White Lies."

Monica Ali's first novel "Brick Lane" was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It has recently been made into a feature film, directed by Sarah Gavron. Ali's second novel, "Alentejo Blue," was published in 2006.

Wendy Mitchell is the Senior Editor of Screen International, and its sister website ScreenDaily.com. Prior to that, she was based in New York as Managing Editor of independent film publication indieWIRE.

Best Documentary Jury:

Sarah Mulvey is Channel 4's Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, commissioning Cutting Edge and the documentary strand for up and coming directors, First Cut.

Geoff Andrew is a film writer and critic who worked for a number of years as Film Editor at Time Out magazine. He is currently Head of Film Programming at BFI Southbank.

Beadie Finzi produced "Unknown White Male" and is now directing two new films, "The Hunger Season" for More 4 and "Vida Ballet" for Channel 4 and Arte France. Beadie is also a director of the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, and the festival director for BRITDOC

Franny Armstrong made "McLibel," watched by 35 million people and featured in the BFI's Ten Documentaries "Which Shook The World" season. She is now filming her new climate change epic, "The Age of Stupid."

Le Jury de la 24° compétition:

Bruno Danan, réalisateur, lauréat de la compétition 2007 avec Bonne nuit Malik.

Andrew Kötting, réalisateur, scénariste, et comédien.

Alexandra Lamy, comédienne (Au Suivant, On va s’aimer…).

Michelange Quay, réalisateur (Mange, ceci est mon corps), mention spéciale à Alès en 2006 pour L’Évangile du cochon créole.

Le Jury Sacem: Guy Lukowski, guitariste classique, compositeur, il a joué avec Jean Wiener,

Astor Piazzolla, Ennio Morriconne.

Gilles Marc Dardenne, pianiste de jazz, il a joué avec Sunny Murray, Byard Lancaster,

Archie Shepp et a donné le premier ciné concert du Festival, en 1995.

Jérôme Hauffman, compositeur.

Le Jury de l’option cinéma audiovisuel Composé d’élèves de la classe de 1ère option CAV du lycée Jean-Baptiste Dumas :

Typhaine Augusto, Douania Jauneaud, Hélène Mathieu, Charles Huck, Jonathan Lanau.

La compétition : le Palmarès

Prix décerné par le public

Prix du public : "Surprise!"

réalisateur Fabrice Maruca

1500 € offerts par la région Languedoc-Roussillon

Prix décernés par le jury de la 24° compétition

Grand prix du jury: "Taxi Wala"

réalisateur: Lola Frederich

2500 € offerts par la fondation Groupama Gan pour le cinéma

Prix spécial du jury: "Songes d’une femme de ménage" réalisateur: Banu Akseki

1000 € de prestation offerts par Titra films

Prix décerné par le jury Sacem

Prix de la musique originale : Patrice Sanchez

Prix de la musique originale : pour la musique de "Pièces détachées"

1500 € offerts par la Sacem

Prix décerné par CINECINEMA

Prix Ciné court: "Pièces détachées"

réalisateur: Sébastien Drouin

Achat des droits de diffusion pour CINECINEMA

Prix décerné par le jury de l’option cinéma

Prix de l’option audiovisuel: "Songes d’une femme de ménage"

réalisateur: Banu Akseki

Mention de l’option audiovisuel : "Le Genre Humain"

réalisateur: Patrick Bossard

Prix de l’École des Mines

Prix de l’École des Mines: "Surprise!"

réalisateur: Fabrice Maruca

Best Fiction Film: "Mainline"

directed by: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad & Mohsen Abdolvahab - Iran

PRIX DOCS LYCEENS

Best documentary: "A côté"

directed by: Stéphane Mercurio

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Best Fiction Film: "Hidden Faces"

directed by: Handan Ipekçi - Turkey/Germany

Best Documentary: "Babel Caucase toujours!"

directed by: Mylène Sauloy - France

Best French Short Film: "Ata"

directed by: Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti - France

Best Foreign Short Film: "Hush"

directed by: Dena Curtis - Australia

BEAUMARCHAIS ASSOCIATION AWARD

Best French-Speaking Short Film: "Sarah"

directed by: Kadija Leclere (Belgium)

‘Graine de Cinéphage’ JURY AWARD: "Maati Maay"

directed by: Chitra Palekar - India

CANAL + AWARD: "Un hombre Tranquilo"

directed by: Arantzazu Gomez Bayon - Espagne

UNIVERSITY PARIS XII JURY AWARD

Best European Short Film: "Milan"

directed by: Michaela Kezele - Serbia/Germany

Special Mention to: "Ela"

directed by: Silvana Aguirre - United-Kingdom

SCREENPLAY AWARD

IN ASSOCIATION WITH LE MANUSCRIT

"Tombée des nues"

directed by: Stéphanie de Mareuil

FRESNES WOMEN AWARD: "Juste une heure"

directed by: Virginie Peignien - France

"Ata"

directed by: Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti - France

The Grand Prix of the short film competition for a best musical score goes the composer Gilles ALONZO for «Les Miettes» by Pierre PINAUD (France). The jury was seduced by «the narrative quality of its score which celebrates the link between music and cinema».

The Grand Prix for a best musical score for a feature is awarded to Tom HOLKENBERG for the feature «Blind» by Tamar Van den Dop which seduced the jury for «the quality of the composition and interpretation, which is completely part of the story telling».

Feature Film Competition

Grand Prix of the best original music score doted with 2 000€, awarded to the dutch composer Tom Holkenberg, also know as Junkie XL, for "Blind" by Tamar van den Dop - Hollande, Belgique, Bulgarie - 2007 - Fiction - 1st feature film

Best Feature Film: "Continental, un film sans fusil"

Directed by: Stéphane Lafleur - Québec 2007 - Fiction - for its «artistic and human qualities, and its achieved approach»

Special mention of the Jury «for originality and creative work» to: "La Antena" (Telepolis)

Directed by: Esteban Sapir - Argentine - 2007 - Fiction - 2nd feature film.

Short film competition Great Prize for a best music doted with 3000€ (1 500€ going to the composer and 1 500€ to the director): Gilles Alonzo for "Les Miettes by Pierre Pinaud"

Special Mention of the Jury for SOUND DESIGN:

Tiffany Veys and Kris van Roy for the film "Administrators" by Roman Klochkov - Belgium - 2006 - 2nd film

Best Fiction doted with 750€: "Alterego"

Directed by: Ferenc Sebö - Hungary - 2006 - Fiction - 2nd film

Special mention for a fiction: "Galerianki"

Directed by: Kasia Roslaniec - Poland - 2007 - Fiction - 1st film

Special Mention of the Jury for best directing: "Sexy thing"

Directed by: Denie Pentecost - Australia - 2006 - Fiction - 1st film

Special Mention of the Jury for best script

ex-aequo: "Fereshtegan dar khak mimirand"

Directed by: Babak Amini - Iran - 2007 - Fiction - 1st film and "Roads by Lior Geller" - Israël - 2007 - Fiction - 1st film

Special Mention for Humur: "Tony Zoreil"

Directed by: Valentin Potier - France - 2007 - Fiction - 1st film

Best documentary doted with 750€: "Raghs haye talayee"

Directed by: Ali Kalantari - Iran - 2006 - Documentary - 2nd film

Special mention: "Un déchet parmi d'autres"

Directed by: Sébastien Pierre - France - 2007 - Documentary - 1st film

Best Animation doted with 750€: "Liebeskrank"

Directed by: Spela Cadez - Germany/Slovénia - 2007 - 1st film

Best Expérimental doted with 750€: "Under construction" by Zhenchen Liu - France - 2007 - Documentary - 3rd film

OFQJ prize for Soundtrack: Gilles ALONZO composer of the film "Les Miettes"

Directed by: Pierre Pinaud

Audience Prize voted by the audience during the short film night, doted with 750€ by the newspaper Zibeline: "Fini de rire"

Directed by: Pénélope Bagieu - France - 2006 - 1st film

College jury prize

"Mr Schwartz, Mr Hazem & Mr Horlocker"

Directed by: Stefan Müller - Germany - 2006 - 1st film

12th SIRAR grant: Pierre DAIGNIÈRE (Paris) for the script «L’âge adulte »received the 12th SIRAR Grant. He wins a grant of 22 000€, doted by the city of Aubagne and the Regional Council of Paca. He will also enjoy different help from a network of partners : Groupe de Recherche d’Essais Cinématographiques (GREC), Régie Culturelle Régionale, the Département des Sciences, Arts et Techniques de l’Image et du Son (Satis) de l’Université de Provence à Aubagne, France 3, Fujifilm).

Moreover, a jury composed by the Céfédem Sud chose 3 composers : Valerio SANNICADRO (Paris), Alireza FARHANG (Paris) et Jonathan BELL (Parisamong who the young director will choose the author who will compose his film's music. This one will receive a grant of 2 000 € offered by SACEM.

Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award for a film over 45’

i. A Greek production, accompanied by a cash prize of 4.000 € to the film "Birds In The Mire"

Directed by: Alinda Dimitriou

ii. A Foreign production, accompanied by a cash prize of 4.000 € to the film "As seen through these eyes"

Directed by: Hilary Helstein.

Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award for a film under 45’

i. A Greek production accompanied by a cash prize of 2.000 €, to the film "The Archelon Bubble"

Directed by: Eleftherios Fylaktos

ii. A foreign production accompanied by a cash prize of 2.000 €, to the film "City of cranes"

Directed by: Eva Weber.

THE FIPRESCI AWARDS

This year’s The FIRPESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Jury consisted of:

Michel Euvrard, President (Canada)

Caroline Buck (Germany)

Matti Rämö (Finland)

Alex Leo Serban (Romania)

Vassilis Kehagias (Greece)

The FIPRESCI Awards go to:

i. A Greek production, to the film "The Lovers From Axos" Directed by: Nicos Ligouris

ii. A foreign producion, to the film "Be Like Others" Directed by: Tanaz Eshagian

MINISTRY OF MACEDONIA - THRACE AWARD

The Ministry of Macedonia - Thrace Award, for a film in the Portraits – Human Journeys section goes to the film "The Mirror and the Knife"

Directed by: Dimitris Vernikos. The award is accompanied by a cash prize of 6,000 €.

GREEK FILM CENTER AWARDS

The Greek Film Center, gives the following awards:

- Award for a medium length documentary, accompanied by a cash prize of 2000 € goes to the film "Etel Adnan Words in Exile"

Directed by: Vouvoula Skoura.

- Award for a medium length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 2000 € goes to the film "Alex"

Directed by: Alexandros Papanikolaou and Emily Yiannoukou.

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "Birds in the Mire" Directed by: Alinda Dimitriou.

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "The Third Takis" Directed by: Katerina Patroni.

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "The Lovers of Axos"

Directed by: Nicos Ligouris.

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "The Mirror and the Knife"

Directed by: Dimitris Vernikos.

ERT3 (Greek Public Television) BROADCASTING AWARD

The Jury consisting of:

Nelli Zika – Tsemelegou – Greece (ERT 3 Administration Committee)

Yorgos Botsos – Greece (Director)

Phaedon Lazaridis – Greece (Head of Educational and Cultural Screenings Office)

The ERT3 Greek Public Television awards the best film in the Stories to Tell section to: "The lovers of Axos"

Directed by: Nikos Ligouris. The award includes one broadcast of the film on ERT3 which is equivalent to the sum of 3,000 €.

THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD

The Amnesty International Jury consisting of:

Stelios Kouloglou – Greece (Journalist)

Pavlos Nerantzis – Greece (Journalist)

Tassos Teloglou – Greece (Journalist)

Katerina Kalogera – Greece (Director, scriptwriter)

Nikolas Kominis - Greece (Photographer)

Irini Tsolaki – Greece (Member of the Board, Greek Section of Amnesty International)

and Hans Thoolen – Greece (President of the Martin Ennals Awards for Human Rights Defenders)

Awards the best film in the Human Rights section to: "The Price of Sugar"

Directed by: Bill Haney

THE WWF AWARD

The WWF Jury consisting of:

Konstantinos Liarikos – Greece (Head of Environmental Programs WWF Greece)

Yorgos Vellidis – Greece (Head of Communications, WWF Greece)

Kostas Livadas - Greece (Composer - lyricist)

Awards the best film in the Habitat section to: "About Water: People And Yellow Cans"

Directed by: Udo Maurer, Austria / Luxembourg, 2007

Lav Diaz, filmmaker (The Philippines)

Françoise Etchegaray, filmmaker (France)

Gulya Mirzoeva, filmmaker (France) Scam representative

Eugenio Polgovsky, filmmaker (Mexico)

Olaf Möller, critic (Germany)

Has awarded

- Cinéma du Réel Grand Prize with the support of the Procirep (8000€): "Holunderblüte"

Directed by: Volker Koepp (Germany)

Honorable mentions: "Wollis Paradies"

Directed by: Gerd Kroske (Germany)

and "San"

Directed by: Du Haibin (China)

- Scam International Award (4600€)

ex aequo

"Qian men Qian"

Directed by: Olivier Meys (Belgium, France)

"Invisible City"

Directed by: Tan Pin Pin (Singapore)

- Short Film Award (2500€): "Minot North Dakota"

Directed by: Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak (United States/Austria)

- Joris Ivens Award, attributed to a young filmmaker (2500€): "La Frontera Infinita"

Directed by: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Mexico)

The Young Jury composed of 5 highschool students and of filmmaker Pierre-Oscar Levy has awarded

- the Young Jury Award – Cinéma du Réel, with the support of the Centre Pompidou and of Paris Townhall (2500€): "L’Empreinte"

Directed by: Guillaume Bordier, France

The Young Jury wishes to attribute honorable mentions to "La Frontera infinita"

Directed by: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Mexico) and

"Podul de Flori"

Directed by: Thomas Ciulei (Romania)

The Librarian Committee, composed of

Julien Farenc, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)

Thierry Maillot, Bibliothèque Kateb Yacine (Grenoble)

Dominique Rousselet, Bibliothèque de Villepinte

And of filmmaker Vincent Martorana

has awarded

- the Library Award (6000€)

to "Podul de Flori"

Directed by: Thomas Ciulei (Romania)

- The Intangible Heritage Award (2500€): "Gugara"

Directed by: Jacek Naglowski and Andrzej Dybczak (Poland)

Honorable Mentions: "C’est beau les vacances"

Directed by: Anna Zisman (France) and

"Le Chamane son neveu et le capitaine"

Directed by: Pierre Boccanfuso (France)

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has awarded

- The Louis Marcorelles Award (purchase of rights, english and spanish subtitling, DVD edition, DVD promotion, mission abroad, equivalent to about 15000€)

to "Barcelone ou la mort"

Directed by: Idrissa Guiro (France)

The Festival selection committee has awarded

The Pierre and Yolande Perrault Grant, attributed to a young filmmaker (2500€)

to "Listener’s Tale"

Directed by: Arghya Basu (India)

"The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat"

(Titanics ti liv.) Norway 2007. Director: Grethe Bøe.

Jury 2008:

Leontine Petit, Producer, Lemming Film, The Netherlands

Thomas Hailer, Festivaldirector Berlinale Generation, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany

Lynn Ljungberg, kultur- och fritids kommunalråd, Malmö Kulturnämnd

Bengt Hall, Head of the Culture Affaires

Cornelia Röjner, Member of the Culture Board of Malmö

Award: 5 500 EURO och statuette made by Martin Jönsson.

Sydsvenskan and BUFF's Honorary Award:

Each year BUFF and Sydsvenskan award a person or an organisation who´s made great efforts for Children- and Young People´s Film.

Award winner:

Lennart and Ylva Li Gustafsson

Prize Amount: 3 900 EURO and a beautiful iron filmstrip made by Håkon Garpestad.

Jury 2008:

Johan Strömbeck and Emma Leijnse, Sydsvenskan, Andreas Hoffsten, Svenska Filminstitutet,

Krister Kjellström and Cecilia Grubb, BUFF.

The Film Factory for Young People and BUFF's Youth Jury Award:

"Keith"

USA 2006. Director: Todd Kessler.

Prize Award: Vase of glass

Jury 2008:

Class 8A from the Oxievångs school in Malmö.

The Swedish Church Award:

"Fighter"

Denmark 2007. Director: Natasha Arthy.

Jury 2008:

Janne Rantala, documentary filmmaker, Malmö

Fredrik Holmberg, filmteacher, Göteborg

Charlotta Rosman Nissen, parish pedagogue, Malmö

Lena Sjöstrand, priest, Lund

The award is 5 500 EURO.

County Council of Skåne Short Film Award:

"Doggie"

Koest. The Netherlands 2007. Director: Simone van Dusseldorp

Jury 2008:

Filippa Frejd, director, Malmö

Mats Olof Olsson, director, Stockholm

Charlotte Wachtmeister, Chairman of the Culture Board of Culture Skåne

Claes Göran Jönsson, Executive Chairman Culture Board of Culture Skåne

Chris Marschall, Head of Culture, Culture Skåne

Prize Amount: 2 800 EURO

GOLDEN ROSA CAMUNA: "MIEHEN TYO"(Un lavoro da uomo)

Directed by: Aleksi Salmenpera, Finland 2007

SILVER ROSA CAMUNA: "GOODNIGHT IRENE" (Buonanotte Irene)

Directed by: Paolo Marinou-Blanco, Portugal 2007

BRONZE ROSA CAMUNA EX AEQUO: "TAJNOSTI" (Segreti)

Directed by: Alice Nellis, Czech Republic 2007

and "PRZEBACZ" (Perdono)

Directed by: Marek Stracharski, Poland 2006

by Marc Evans

exaequo

"Suffering and Smiling"

by Dan Ollman

Special prize of the Jury: "Faces"

by Gmax

The OMCT Award: "Calle Santa Fe"

by Carmen Castillo

The Junior Jury Award: "Suffering and Smiling"

by: Dan Ollman

SOFIA FILM FESTIVAL GRAND PRIX FOR BEST FILM in the international competition goes to "THE MERMAID" (Rusia) directed by ANNA MElIKYAN .

The award is given for its achievements in art direction, cinematography, decoupage production, acting and it’s play for energy and invention.

The award includes a diploma and EUR 5000

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

For film in the International Competition (diploma)

THE SPECIAL MENTION AWARD goes to “Bird can’t fly” (The Netherlands- South Africa- UK) directed by THREES ANNA for creating a unique and magical world the jury awards a Special Mention to the “Bird can’t fly”.

AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR PROVIDED BY CADILLAC

For film in the International Competition (diploma and a prize of 1000 Euro)

THE CADILAC AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTING goes to director Stefan Arsenijevic for his film “LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES”( Serbia-Germany-Austria-Slovenia) for the humanity and lyricism of his style.

KODAK AWARD FOR BEST BULGARIAN FEATURE FILM

(diploma, a trophy, film negative and laboratory services amounted of 4000 USD, provided by Kodak)

JAMESON SHORT FILM AWARD FOR BEST BULGARIAN SHORT FILM

THE JAMESON AWARD FOR A BULGARIAN SHORT FILM goes to "Family Therapy" directed by PETAR VALCHANOV. Of all the short films that jury saw they narrowed the choice down to three films. They very much liked “The Third Floor” and “The go – Between”, but the winner, for its combination of dark humor and dramatic intensity is “Family Therapy.”

The award consists of a diploma, a statuette and EUR 6000 provided by JAMESON Irish Whiskey.

AUDIENCE AWARD

(provided by Sofia Municipality)

Audience award goes to "THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER" directed by Stephan Komandarev

NO MAN’S LAND AWARD FOR BEST BALKAN FILM

THE BEST BALKAN FILM AWARD NO MAN’S LAND is presented by the Bulgarian Film Critics’ Guild to “4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days” directed by Cristian Mungiu.

The award is a diploma and a box of No Man’s Land.

FIPRESCI AWARD

The Jury of FIPRESSI consisting of

Leo Soesanto - ( France)

Kerem Akca – ( Turkey)

Antonia Kovacheva – ( Bulgaria) handed out its award to

film "SEAMSTRESSES" (Bulgaria) and director LUDMIL TODOROV.

The award is given because the film is a honest and refreshing story about broken dreams and beauty of hope in modern Bulgaria, filmed in a modern Bulgaria, filmed in a classical neat way.

The animation that has been the topic of raging debates in Finland, "The Butterfly from Ural," was awarded the prize of the Best Finnish Animation. Director Katariina Lillqvist thinks that the prize will silence the debates down a little. After the film festival, "The Butterfly from Ural" will be screened in Helsinki and in Niagara cinema in Tampere. The film will also tour film festivals abroad.

"Palna's Daughters" by Kiti Luostarinen was the winner of Risto Jarva Prize, and "The Life Size Zoetrope" by Mark Simon Hewis was awarded the Main Prize of the LAB1O Competition. "René" by Swiss Tobias Nölle was chosen as the Best Fiction, and the Best Documentary was "Bidcatcher" by Pim Zwier and Marc Schmidt from the Netherlands. "The Pearce Sisters" by Luis Cook got the Prix UIP Prize.

Best Film Award: Behave

Directed by: Maria Ramos

Best Director Award: Crime and Punishment

Directed by: Zhao Liang

Václav Havel Special Award: Letter to Anna

Directed by: Eric Bergkraut

Rudolf Vrba Award: Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case

Directed by: Andrei Nekrasov

Mayor of Prague Award: One Day

Directed by: Ditte Haarlov–Johnsen

Main Jury Special Mention: Citizen Havel

Directed by: Pavel Koutecký

Rudolf Vrba Jury Special Mention: A Jihad for Love

Directed by: Parvez Sharma

Mayor of Prague Special Mention: The First Day

Directed by: Marcin Sauter

Czech Radio Award: Faces [:phases]

Directed by: Holger Ernst

Student Award: Iron Ladies of Liberia

Directed by: Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson

Audience Award: Citizen Havel

Directed by: Pavel Koutecký

CATEGORY: UNDER 12 YEAR OLDS- ANIMATION:

“Power Pig”

2007 | Norway | 4’32” | dvd | Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival workshop | Producer: Danckert Monrad-Krohn | d.krohn@krskino.no

It’s another lovely morning at the farm. All the animals are looking forward to another day of grazing and enjoying the good life. Suddenly the butcher’s lorry arrives and everything turns into a nightmare.

JURY:

The film has a creative way of making traditional two-dimensional animation. It is an ingenious and funny work that has a good rhythm and well-characterised animals. The work makes a good general impression with its brilliant realization, in which the music and sound work in a co-supportive way.

CATEGORY: FICTION AND DOCUMENTARIES:

"Why?”

2007 | Sweden | 9’30“ | Mini-dv | Ida Lundgård and Frida Andersson | Söllerö School | Mora Media Center | Producer: Britt-Marie Meyer | britt-marie.meyer@utb.mora.se

Why? is about two girls and three boys who are mean to a girl called Johanna in their class. The girls really don’t understand why they bully her and want them to stop.

JURY:

The theme of the film deals with a difficult subject and due to a well-written, functioning script and good acting it becomes both a realistic, recognizable and touching film. It has a balanced way of dealing with the subject and shows the various sides and possible reasons for a common problem.

The film works on all levels including duration, continuity and editing.

CATEGORY: 13-16 YEAR OLDS- ANIMATION:

“Scarcesmith”

2007 | Finland | 3’03” | dvd | Lasten ja nuorten kulttuuri- ja monitoimitalo Vernissa | Producer: Anneli Nikolajeff | anneli.nikolajeff@vantaa.fi

Fighting on the front of love, in the fields of different youth cultures.

JURY:

The theme of the film is a traditional love story that uses the media in a creative and efficient way.

It shows a realistic aspect of the youth culture with its recognisable, diverse characters and personal humorous details. This touching story has a specific atmosphere and is carried through with great technical skills.

ONE MINUTE FILMs:

"What Comes Around"

2006 | Finland | 1’03” | dvd | Keihäslahden koulu | Teacher: Ritva Kortelahti | Producer: Kelaa vähän

… goes around.

JURY:

The film succeeds in having a good dramaturgy and a simple, clear idea. In the compact work the sound supports the idea and in general the realization corresponds to the category and makes full use of the limited format.

FICTION AND DOCUMENTARIES:

"The Line

2006 | Finland | 1’32” | dvd | Tammerkosken koulu | Teacher: Heli Schultz | Producer: Kelaa vähän

The journey of cotton from fields to fabric.

JURY:

In a successful way the film challenges the traditional way of making a fiction and documentary film and impressed the jury with its brilliant and simple idea. It also has a strong and original visual style and language. Good music.

THE BEST NORDIC AND BALTIC KIDS FOR KIDS FILM 2008:

“MC Doc”

2007 | Finland | 7’ | dvd | Porin Pajaluokka | Työpajan ohjaaja: Jari Forsman & Kim Tapper | Porin Kaupungin kouluvirasto ja Satakunnan Elävän Kuvan Keskus | sekk@sekk.fi

MC Doc lives in the country, drives a tractor and dreams about rapping.

JURY:

Acted comedy with a somewhat serious theme is a difficult genre to work with. The jury has taken special notice of the film from the area of Pori, and it clearly succeeds in that aspect.

The Best Baltic and Nordic Kids for Kids Film 2008 has a good script with a duration of correct and efficient length. It especially succeeds in continuously surprising the jury with its brilliant and humorous way of dealing with the seriousness of a young persons longing and ambitions. The film has believable and good characters and the acting is of good quality. All in all it is a unique, fresh and successful film in the gender of acted comedy.

«Le Regard d’Or» (Golden Gaze) or Grand Prize of the

Fribourg International Film Festival, consists of CHF

30,000, the State of Fribourg contributing CHF

20,000 and the Municipality of Fribourg, CHF 10,000.

This award is conferred on the director (CHF 20,000)

and the producer (CHF 10,000) of the winning film

designated by the International Jury.

The members of the International Jury of the 22nd

Fribourg International Film Festival are:

Celina Murga (president)

Hugues de Wurstemberger

Prune Engler

Michel Khleifi

Tobias Noelle

This award goes to: "Flower in the Pocket"

Directed by: Liew Seng Tat

Malaysia, 2007

The director managed to take a tender and poetic

look at a complex and rich particularity of his society,

without forgetting the cinematographic adventure.

SPECIAL MENTION: "Geomen Tangyi Sonyeo Oi" (With the Girl of Black Soil)

Directed by: Jeon Soo-il

South Korea / France, 2007

The International Jury awards a special mention to

"With the Girl of Black Soil" for the extraordinary

performance of the young actress who guides us

through her world of human misery.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD GRANTED BY THE SSA AND SUISSIMAGE

This award (CHF 5,000) is conferred by the Swiss

Authors Society (Societe Suisse des Auteurs – SSA)

and Suissimage on the director of the winning film

designated by the International Jury for inventiveness

in script and directing, for renewal of cinematographic

language or for thematic and formal audacity.

This award goes to: "El Camino"

Directed by: Ishtar Yasin

Costa Rica, 2008

The film draws its power from the thin line between

fiction and documentary, between poetry and reality.

THE SWISS OIKOCREDIT AWARD

This award, conferred by the International Jury,

amounts to 5,000 Swiss francs. Oikocredit grants

loans, especially micro credit, to the neediest, the

nonbankables, to give them at last a chance to grow.

Priority goes to groups for the realization of their fare

trade projects and to micro-finance institutions. In this

spirit, the prize is bestowed upon a male or female

producer whose financial support enabled a male or

female director to complete his or her first or second

long feature.

This award goes to: "He Fengming

Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman"

Directed by: Wang Bing

China, 2007

An exceptional and touching testimony, presented in

a minimal, daring and radical form.

AUDIENCE AWARD

This award (CHF 5,000) is bestowed by the Swiss

Federal Agency for Development and Cooperation on

the director of the film selected by the public.

This award goes to: "La Zona"

Directed by: Rodrigo Pla

Mexico, 2007

ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD

This award (CHF 5,000) is conferred jointly by two

organisations of development, «Action de Careme»

(Catholic) and «Pain pour le Prochain» (Protestant), to

the director whose film best reflects the values upon

which these two organizations are basing their

support of the struggle of poor populations in African,

Asian or Latin American countries. The Ecumenical

Jury is composed of a representative of the two

associations, and a representative each of the Swiss

Catholic Media Agency and the Protestant Cinema

Agency.

The members of the Ecumenical Jury of the 22nd

Fribourg International Film Festival are:

Jean-Michel Zucker (president)

Regine Luthy

Bernadette Meier

This award goes to: "El Camino"

Directed by: Ishtar Yasin

Costa Rica, 2008

This award goes to the film El Camino by Ishtar Yasin

for the universal nature of its denunciation of the

scourge called sexual child abuse and the silence that

surrounds it, by showing the courage and the

determination of a twelve year old girl and her mute

brother. With the sophistication of the subjective

image reflecting the children’s look at the enigmatic

adult world, the director tells a true tale without

pathos or vain pedagogy, the poetic transposition of

which is undertaken with purely cinematic means.

SPECIAL MENTION

"He Fengming Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman"

Directed by: Wang Bing

China, 2007

For the courageous restitution of half a century of

China’s Maoist history with a quite conceptional

cinematographic installation that depicts the painful

relationship of a woman with her personal history that

became a daily struggle. The exaltation of the

extreme richness of her emotions and notably of her

conjugal love adds a particular spark to this shattering

testimony.

THE FIPRESCI JURY AWARD

Conferred by the representatives of the International

Federation of the Cinematographic Press, this award

aims to promote cinema as an art and encourage

new, young cinematographers.

The members of the FIPRESCI Jury of the 22nd

Fribourg International Film Festival are:

Jose Carlos Avellar (president)

Lotfi Ben Khelifa

Malvina Grochowska

Claude Loser

Leo Soesanto

This award goes to: "Geomen Tangyi Sonyeo Oi" (With the Girl of Black Soil)

Directed by: Jeon Soo-il

South Korea / France, 2007

From a number of impressive films that let the

audience freely interpret their subject matter as they

were openly constructed, one was finally chosen – for

its humanistic and cinematographic qualities, for its

intelligent use of silence, elliptic narration and off-

screen information, the Jury decided to honour With

the Girl of Black Soil by Jeon Soo-il.

E-CHANGER AWARD

Conferred by E-CHANGER, a Fribourg-based agency

of North-South co-operation, this award (CHF 5,000)

is bestowed by the Youth Jury. Its aim is to

encourage the younger people to express themselves

at the festival, but also to give preference to a film that

takes into account the problems they encounter in

today’s world. It is bent on awakening students and

apprentices to the fact that, beyond entertainment,

cinema is an irreplaceable means to discover the

riches of other cultures and to learn tolerance and

justice.

The members of the E-CHANGER Jury of the 22nd

Fribourg International Film Festival are:

Shendra Stucki (president)

Aline Baeriswyl

Pablo Ferrari

David Muhlemann

Vincent Saerens

Julien Tannier

Katarina Tereh

This award goes to: "God Man Dog"

Directed by: Singing Chen

Taiwan, 2007

Many films would have deserved the award of the

Youth Jury, but we had to make a choice, and it was

not an easy one. After a long and passionate

discussion we decided to award the film "God Man

Dog," a Taiwanese fiction by Singing Chen.

We appreciated the originality of its script, its images

and its characters. The filmmaker managed to create

a specific mood that deeply touched us. The

presence of music increased the emotional power of

many scenes. The subtle humur added a lighter

touch to some of the sad situations of the film. The

film also embraces a number of different and universal

topics that everyone can identify with.

FICC «DON QUIJOTE AWARD»

The members of the IFFS (International Federation of

the Film Societies) are:

Regula Treichler (president)

Ursula Philipp-Schurmann

Christi Grunwald-Merz

This award goes to: "Geomen Tangyi Sonyeo Oi" (With the Girl of Black Soil)

Directed By: Jeon Soo-il

South Korea, 2007

The film depicts the family life of a nine year old girl,

living with her father and her mentally retarded brother

in a mining village. The growing responsibility for her

brother and her everyday life become unbearable: the

father loses his job at the mine and - after some

additional blows of fate - increasingly resorts to

alcohol. The maternal, caring attitude of the girl finally

leads to radical decisions.

The powerful images of the dying industrial landscape

reflect the story in an impressive way. The film delivers

a convincing and respectful representation of the

protagonists, whose integrity is never betrayed. At the

same time, the director has created a work of global

validity.

SPECIAL MENTION: "He Fengming Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman"

Directed by: Wang Bing

China, 2007

In deliberately static shots, this three hour

documentary creates enough space for seventy year

old Chinese woman He Fengming to talk about her

life and about her fate during the phases of cleansing.

We believe that this film deserves particular

recognition as a historic document and as a personal

testimony.

OFFICIAL FANTASY SECTION

Best Film Award: "REC" ­

Directed by: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza (Spain)

Special Prize of the Jury: "HOW TO GET RID OF OTHERS"

Directed by: Anders Ronnow Klarlund (Denmark)

Best Direction: JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA ­for "El Orfanato"

(Spain)

Best Actor: MARC BORKOWSKI ­for the "The Ungodly" (USA)

Best Actress: BELÉN RUEDA ­for "El Orfanato" (Spain)

Best Screenplay: "LA HABITACION DE FERMAT" ­

by: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña (Spain)

Best Cinematography: "GÁBOR KAMONDI" ­

Directed by: Dolina ­ Zoltan Kamondi (Hungary)

Best Fantasy Short: "ROJO RED"

by: Juan Manuel Betancourt

(Columbia)

Special Mention of the Jury: "I'M A CYBORG, BUT THAT'S OK" ­

Directed by: Chan-wook Park (South Korea)

18th DIRECTOR´S WEEK

Best Film Award Directors Week: "OPIUM, DIARY OF MADWOMAN" ­

Directed by: Janos Szasz (Hungary)

Special Prize of the Jury: "THE LOVEBIRDS" ­

Directed by: Bruno de Almeida (Portugal)

Best Director: ROY ANDERSSON for "You, The Living" (Sweden)

Best Actor: SASSOM GABAI ­for "The Band's Visit ­ Era Kolirin"

(Isreal/France)

Best Actress: KIRSTI STUBO ­for "Opium, Diary of a Madwoman"

Directed by: Janos Szasz (Hungary)

Best Screenplay: STEVE BUSCEMI, DAVID SCHECHTER ­ for "Interview"

(USA)

ORIENT EXPRESS COMPETITIVE SECTION

Best Film Award Orient Express: "TRIANGLE"

Directed by: Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark (Hong Kong)

Special Jury Award: "BREATH" ­ Kim Ki Duk (South Korea)

MÉLIÈS D'ARGENT AWARDS

Méliès D¹Argent: "LA HABITACION DE FERMAT" ­

Directed by: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña (Spain)

Méliès D'Argent Short Film: "ARK "­

Directed by: Grzegorz Jonkajtys (Poland)

PRÉMIO DA CRÍTICA

The Critics Jury of Fantasporto 2008 has decided to grant its Award to: "THE BAND'S VISIT" ­

Directed by: Eran Kolirin (Isreal, France)

PRÉMIO DO PÚBLICO

The Audience Award went to: "REC" ­

Directed by: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza

(Spain)

CAREER AWARD:

Max Von Sydow

Fernando Lopes

After careful consideration of all eight films in the competitive program, the ’Politika’ Award Jury consisting of: Mr Kim Dong Ho, President of the Jury and Director of Pusan Film Festival; Mr Hrvoje Hribar, film director and Ms Dubravka Lakić, film critic, would firstly like to mention the special artistic qualities of the Russian film ’Traveling With Pets’ by Vera Storozheva.

However, ’Politika’ Award for Best Film in Europe out of Europe program unanimously goes to Kristijan Milić for the film with precise directing, expressive acting and sensible cinematography work - the Croatian-Bosnian anti-war film ’The Living and The Dead’.

The "Nebojsa Djukelic Award"

The "Nebojsa Djukelic Award" is traditionally awarded in memory and respect of one of the FEST selectors, renown film critic Nebojsa Djukelic, author of the TV program “Moving Pictures”, that had become a synonym for an well-thought, analytical and authoritative approach to interpreting and presenting the art of film. This year, the Association of Film Journalists and Critics of Belgrade and the Film Critics Society award this Award jointly, which will remain a tradition in the future.

In quest of a film, from the program of this year’s FEST, which is first and foremost the result of inspiration, but at the same time a film with integrity, recognizable and different by the virtue of its expression and style, we have agreed that this year’s “Nebojsa Djukelic Award” is to go to the Israeli film “The Band’s Visit” of novice director Eran Kolirin.

The Jury for “Nebojsa Djukelic Award”: Dubravka Vojvodic, Bogdan Zlatic and Ivan Arandjelovic, members of the Film Critics Society and the Association of Film Journalists and Critics of Belgrade.

The FIPRESCI Award for BEST FILM of FEST 2008

The Jury of FIPRESCI Serbia of the 36th FEST is awarding the FIPRESCI Award for BEST FILM to the Russian film “12”of Nikita Mihalkov. The Award has been received on the final press conference of FEST by the Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Belgrade, Mr. Oleg Buldakov, on behalf of the director and the crew of the film.

The Jury of FIPRESCI Serbia of the 36th FEST is awarding the SPECIAL FIPRESCI AWARD to the Turkish-German film “THE EDGE OF HEAVEN” of Fatih Akin. The Award was handed over on the final press conference of FEST to Mr. Igor Stankovic, the Director of the distribution company MCF.

The Jury of the FIPRESCI Award deliberated in the following composition: Aleksandar Sasa Erdeljanovic (Chairman of the Jury, the Yugoslav Film Archive), Sandra Perovic (RTS) and Vladan Petkovic (Screen International).

The films "Manufactured Landscapes" by Canadian Jennifer Baichwal and "Sounds of Sand" by Belgian Marion Hänsel, shared the first prize of 8.000€ of this year's ECOCINEMA Feature Length Films.

In the same category of prizes, the film "4 Elements" by Jiska Rickels from the Netherlands received a special mention.

The prize for Journalistic Research and Documentation Films worth 4.000€ was awarded to the documentary film "Palestine Blues" by Nida Sinnokrot, while at the same time, there was a special mention to the greek film "Delta, Oil's Dirty Business" by Giorgos Avgeropoulos.

Finally in the category of Short and Medium Length Films, the prize of 3.000€ was given to the film "Sinking Village" by Hungarian Marton Szirmai and a special mention was made for the film "Le Mammouth Pobalski" of French director Jacques Mitsch.

The award shows the strength of Irish documentary making in Ireland, with these two events selling early and proving must-see events. “I’m overwhelmed and delighted! As a totally indigenous project funded on the island of Ireland, it is great to get recognition on home turf in the biggest film festival in Ireland. With so many big films and big filmmakers it is a real honour to win this award for everyone involved in the film.”

Closely following in third place was "Lars and the Real Girl," with "The Orphanage" in fourth and "In Bruges" and "There Will Be Blood" in joint fifth.

"BINGAI"

Directed by: Feng Yan

China, 2007. 114'

PRIZE JEAN VIGO FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR:

Prize: 5,000 euros

"HER DEAR OLD HOUSE"

Directed by: Tatsuya Yamamoto

Japan, 2006. 80'

FIRST PRIZE FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM:

Prize: 3,500 euros

"52 PERCENT"

Directed by: Rafal Skalski

Poland, 2007. 20'

THE AUDIENCE'S SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE BEST FILM: Prize: 2,500 euros

"TOVARISCH, I AM NOT DEAD"

Directed by: Stuart Urban

United Kingdom, 2007. 85'

FIRST SPECIAL MENTION:

Prize: 1,000 euros

"MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH"

Directed by: Morgan Dews

Spain / USA, 2007. 72'

SECOND SPECIAL MENTION:

Prize: 1,000 euros

"A STORY OF PEOPLE IN WAR AND PEACE"

Directed by: Vardan Hovhannisyan

Armenia, 2007. 70'

Justus Paul Bauch

Jana Marie Bussmann

Jesper Ole Ebbert

Tita-Antonia Hagen

Carl-Ludwig Hausl

Ntozake Iglesias

Max Kressner

Lisa Frederike Lassen

Joelle Marianek

Lino Steinwärder

Nina-Liliht Völsch

give the following awards:

The Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film goes to

"Buda Az Sharm Foru Rikht"

by Hana Makmalbaf (Iran/France)

This film is exciting and provocative and at the same time it is very shocking. It is about a little girl who is struggling to be allowed to go to school. We were moved by the poignant way the film depicts how a country dominated by violence affects the everyday life of children. The film showed us the senselessness of just sending soldiers to a troubled region. More necessary are people who can convince children that violence is not the solution.

The Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film goes to

"Nana"

by Warwick Thornton (Australia)

A little girl is talking about her special relationship with her dear old nana. She is always cooking for her granddaughter and looking after the old people in the village. But there’s another side to her as well. The film is funny and full of humour.

The Special Mention for a Feature Film goes to

"Titanics ti liv"

by Grethe Bøe (Norway)

Great actors combined with an excitement and mystery were the ingredients which convinced us in this film. The story was also accompanied by wonderful music.

The Special Mention for a Short Film goes to

"New Boy"

by Steph Green (Ireland)

The plot is easy to follow even though there is not much dialogue. The portrayal of the characters’ feelings touched us and swept us along and the reminder of Joseph’s earlier homeland gave us a realistic insight into his former life as well as his feelings. In the end we learned that having prejudices just isn’t worth it.

The members of the International Jury Generation Kplus:

Yasmin Ahmad

Anna Justice

Omri Levy

Antonia Ringbom

give the following awards:

The Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix for the best feature film goes to

"TOUS A L’OUEST! Une aventure de Lucky Luke"

by Olivier Jean-Marie (France)

A rollercoaster ride of laughs and adventures, delivered with great wit, genius, and humor. A film full of inventive visual gags combined with an intelligent use of music, mixing historical and modern life elements. A celebration of the joy of cinema.

The Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk Special Prize for the best short film goes to "Min morbror tyckte mycket om gult" by Mats Olof Olsson (Sweden)

Lasting merely 9 minutes this film leads us through a whole range of deep human emotions. An homage to all that is good in people, reminding us to be careful with the fragility surrounding us. A moving story told with simple masterly cinematic strokes.

The Special Mention is awarded to the film "Mutum"

by Sandra Kogut (Brazil/France)

A journey into a young boy’s life that leads you gently through a world infused with love as well as rejection, confusion and heartbreak. With a curious mix of dreamy, open-ended events, it paints a picture of remote Brazil with bursts of poetry and humanity.

The Special Mention is awarded to the film "POST!"

by Christian Asmussen and Matthias Bruhn (Germany)

A joyful film with inventive visual solutions, crazy anarchistic humor and a warm message about one man’s ability to make a whole community happy.

As in previous years, a young jury of three German and four French film lovers aged between 18 and 29 selected which film will win the "Dialogue en perspective." Together with their jury president Peter Sehr, who received the German Film Prize in 1994 as director of the film Kaspar Hauser, the jury members watched all films presented in the Berlinale-section Perspektive Deutsches Kino and discussed which film deserved the "Dialogue en perspective."

A Special Mention goes to the short film "Lostage."

With the "Dialogue en perspective" award, TV5MONDE and the GFYO above all want to encourage the young German-French exchange and the intercultural dialogue about German film. The Berlinale, as the most important German film festival, is the perfect platform.

The winning film will be presented on the Festival of the German Film in Paris in autumn 2008.

Synopsis winning film:

Aileen (16), Angel (23) and Daniel (25) have escaped the remnants of their families and the constraints of their villages in search of the anonymity of the big city of Berlin. Their territory is the Zoo station and its environs. This is where they prostitute themselves in order to earn money for their drug addiction; they stay at doss houses, at friends’ places, or with their regular clients. They all have dreams and desires and a vague plan for their lives, but everything remains a building site, just as the world in which they are constantly obliged to reshape their lives and themselves – a world of transitions and unstable places in between; of backstreets, deals, niches and places of transit.

Prize of the professional jury- Short film: "MY HAPPY END"

Directed By: Milen Vitanov (Germany);

Prize of the children's jury Antwerp- Feature film: "MAX MINKSY"

Directed By: Anna Justice (Germany)

Prize of the children's jury Antwerp- Short film: "THE MONSTROUS TOILET" (Het monsterlijk toilet)

Directed By: Simone Van Dusseldorp (The Netherlands)

Prize of the children's jury Bruges- Feature film: "MAHARAL"

Directed By: Pavel Jandourek (Czech Republic)

Prize of the children's jury Bruges- Short film: "REBELLE" Directed By: Marc Levie (Belgium)

Prize of the audience - Antwerp: "RADIOPIRATES"

Directed By: Stig Svendsen (Norway)

Prize of the audience - Bruges: "MAHARAL"

Directed By: Pavel Jandoure (Czech Republic).

Directed by: Franco Lolli / France / 2007

Pablo, aged sixteen, lives with his mother. Over the last few years, she has done her best to deal with financial difficulties, but it hasn't been easy. Pablo tries to...

Audience Prize: "C'est dimanche!"

Directed by: Samir Guesmi / France / 2007

Thirteen-year-old Ibrahim is expelled from middle school and has his father believe that he received a diploma.

Special Jury Prize: "Erémia Erèmia"

Directed by: Anthony Quéré , Olivier Broudeur / France / 2007

A man tries to free himself from an alienating job through intense exercise. By subjecting his body to the rigors of the elements, and living these sensations, he hopes...

Best First Film: "Les Ombres qui me traversent"

Directed by: Emilie Carpentier / France, Romania / 2007

In Romania, the 15th of August is a huge religious and popular celebration. Fourteen-year-old Alia works with her mother in the bar at the heart of the celebration. Her...

Best Actor: "La Main sur la gueule"

Directed by: Arthur Harari / France / 2007

Bruno, accompanied by his friend Liliane, pays a visit to his father, who lives deep in the countryside. He has something to ask of him.

Best Actress: "Primrose hill"

Directed by: Mikhaël Hers / France / 2007

A western suburb of Paris, a big park overlooking the city, the Seine below, a hill in London, the tune of a dissonant melody, friendship, forgotten faces, the shadow of...

Best Soundtrack Creation Award: "Les Miettes"

Pierre Pinaud / France / 2008

A woman lives in her house, goes to work in a factory, and goes shopping at the local store. One morning she learns that the factory, which is the background of her...

Best Animation Film Award: "La Saint Festin"

Directed by: Léo Marchand , Anne-Laure Daffis / France / 2007

Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November! It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet hurry up now... and good hunting!

Canal + Award: "Tony Zoreil"

Directed by: Valentin Potier / France / 2007

Tony is a 28 year-old bachelor who inherited a remarkable physical particularity. Like the rest of his family, he has very big ears and suffers from an extreme...

Procirep's Award for Best Producer: "Irinka et Sandrinka"

Directed by: Sandrine Stoïanov , Jean-Charles Finck / France, Belgium

Fifty years separate Irène and Sandrine. One, from Russian nobility, lived through the fall of the regime, the absence of an exiled father, and an adoptive family. The...

"Attention Talent" FNAC Award: "664 Km"

Arnaud Bigeard / France / 2008

Two men are looking for stashed cash in abandoned stations. Competition is stiff and things turn south. David's a small-time crook who gets cold feet and hides out with...

Youth Jury Prize: "Les Miettes "

Pierre Pinaud / France / 2008

A woman lives in her house, goes to work in a factory, and goes shopping at the local store. One morning she learns that the factory, which is the background of her...

Press Prize: "Lisa"

Lorenzo Recio / France / 2007

Lisa is a young girl who lives in an isolated house with her parents and her two brothers, under the firm authority of her father. One day, Lisa shatters his sacred...

Special Jury Mention: "La Saint Festin"

Léo Marchand , Anne-Laure Daffis / France / 2007

Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November! It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet hurry up now... and good hunting!

and "Les Illusions"

Directed by: James Thierrée / France / 2007

How do you, as an artist, when the show is over, leave the imaginary world of the stage and deal with life after seven years spent performing a first play you gave birth...

and "Tony Zoreil"

Directed by: Valentin Potier / France / 2007

Tony is a 28 year-old bachelor who inherited a remarkable physical particularity. Like the rest of his family, he has very big ears and suffers from an extreme...

and "La Main sur la gueule"

Directed by: Arthur Harari / France / 2007

Bruno, accompanied by his friend Liliane, pays a visit to his father, who lives deep in the countryside. He has something to ask of him.

Jury Mention: "Pour la comédienne Marie Nicolle

Lucas sur terre"

Maud Alpi / France / 2007

Today is Isabelle's birthday. She would have been 25. Lucas got a bottle out, then went to work next to the silo, to his favorite song... That's when she appeared, the...

Youth Jury Mention: "Résistance aux tremblements"

Olivier Hems / France / 2007

A mysterious old lady lives in an abandoned apartment block. She lives alone but simply will not leave the place.

Press Mention: "La Saint Festin"

Directed by: Léo Marchand , Anne-Laure Daffis / France / 2007

Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November! It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet hurry up now... and good hunting!

and "Le Vacant"

Directed by: Julien Guetta / France / 2007

Pierre is a man in his sixties who refuses to accept early retirement for health reasons. Between hardship and makeshift solutions, he comes up with occasionally...

Directed by: Kazue Monno , Takeshi Nagata / Japan / 2007

Exploring parks, train tracks, schools, hallways and Tokyo Bay.

Audience Prize: "Charlotte Sieling"

Directed by: Annette Kristina Olesen / Denmark / 2007

A man and a woman pass each other in a hotel corridor. They notice each other – it is possible that their personal space will be invaded in the very moment they pass...

Special Jury Prize: "Plot Point"

Directed by: Nicolas Provost / Belgium, United States

This is a land of New York cops, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances, and crowded streets, which soon turns into the perfect scenery of a nation in fear....

Canal + Award: "Yours Truly"

Directed by: Osbert Parker / United Kingdom, England / 2007

Re-assembled into a surreal city this dark romance of Frank and Charlie is told with unexpected plot twists as they sacrifice their morals to find more than what they...

Press Prize: "Do-It-Yourself "

Directed by: Eric Ledune / Belgium / 2007

“If you don’t violate someone’s human rights some of the time, you probably aren’t doing your job.” Washington Post – December 26, 2002

Digital Work of Art Award (SCAM): "Cuisine"

Directed by: François Vogel / France / 2007

What is the relationship between a banana and your field of vision? How can a box of camembert cheese modify your perception of reality?

Special Jury Mention: "Plivnuti polibkem"

Directed by: Milos Tomic / Czech Rep. / 2007

Jakub sees the world from a different perspective, as he spends his days lying on the ground. Many legs pass him by, and one pair especially catches his attention -...

"The Apology Line"

Directed by: James Lees / United Kingdom, England / 2007

The creation of an "apology line" where members of the public can anonymously confess absolutely everything over the phone.

Press Mention: "Silencio"

Directed by: Sivaroj Kongsakul / Thailand / 2007

A soundman goes in search of that rarest of sounds – silence.

"Milk Teeth"

Directed by: Tibor Bànòczki / United Kingdom, England / 2007

A young boy follows his sister into a field as she sneaks out to see her boyfriend. Lost in the strange world of the cornfield, the siblings experience fear, love and...

Directed By: Reto Caffi / Germany, Switzerland / 2007

A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping someone who was being attacked in the subway.

Audience Prize: "The Wednesdays"

Directed By: Conor Ferguson / Ireland / 2007

Sometimes, when you’re in the autumn of your days, you’ll try anything to put a smile on your face again. Two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they’d almost...

Special Jury Prize: "Mompelaar"

Directed By: Wim Reygaert , Marc Roels / Belgium / 2007

Lubbert is a withdrawn young man living with his overbearing mother in a little house. A morning walk through the Flemish hinterland is upset by a surreal encounter with...

Best Animation Film Award: "The Pearce Sisters"

Directed By: Luis Cook / United Kingdom, England / 2007

Lol and Edna Pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. When the sea offers up a handsome but half drowned man they do their best to resuscitate him.

Canal + Award: "I Love Sarah Jane"

Directed By: Spencer Susser / Australia, United States / 2007

Jimbo is thirteen. All he can think about is one girl, Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way - bullies, violence, chaos, zombies - nothing is going to stop...

Youth Jury Prize: "René"

Directed By: Tobias Nölle / Switzerland / 2007

A man in a yellow raincoat is desperately trying to break out of his solitude.

Press Prize: "La Rebelion de los pinguinos"

Directed By: Simón Bergman / Chile, Spain, Finland / 2007

While Chilean students demonstrate to demand better schooling, all Diego can think about is sex. He encounters a political conspiracy and has a love affair.

Special Jury Mention: "Wrestling"

Directed By: Grimur Hakonarson / Iceland / 2007

A love story about two gay wrestlers living in rural Iceland.

and "Ryba"

Directed By: Alexander Kott / Russia / 2008

A cold winter... Only hope can melt the ice.

and "John and Karen"

Directed By: Matthew Walker / United Kingdom, England / 2007

John the polar bear apologises to Karen the penguin after an argument they had and then has some tea and a biscuit.

Mediatheques Award: "La Rebelion de los pinguinos"

Directed By: Simón Bergman / Chile, Spain, Finland / 2007

While Chilean students demonstrate to demand better schooling, all Diego can think about is sex. He encounters a political conspiracy and has a love affair.

Youth Jury Mention: "Mompelaar'

Wim Reygaert , Marc Roels / Belgium / 2007

Lubbert is a withdrawn young man living with his overbearing mother in a little house. A morning walk through the Flemish hinterland is upset by a surreal encounter with...

Press Mention: "Giganti"

Directed By: Fabio Mollo / Italy / 2007 / Fiction

In his attempt to become a man, Pietro, a 15-year-old boy who lives in the deep south of Italy, begins to understand the reality in which he is growing up and...

and "Lacreme napulitane"

Francesco Satta / Italy / 2007

Two contrasting characters clash on a train from Naples to Milan on Christmas Eve. In the background, the Italian landscape is made of old, colourful postcards.

Best Comedy "Fernand Raynaud" Award: "I Am Bob"

Donald Rice / United Kingdom, England / 2007

Bob Geldof – rockstar, campaigner, international man of action - gets accidentally stranded at a look-alike convention. Will anyone believe he is the real deal?

"The Tale of How," by The Blackheart Gang (South Africa) won the Anima 2008 Short Film Grand Prix. This was chosen by Anima 2008’s international jury.

The “Grand Prix de la Communauté française de Belgique” was given to the film "Le Pont" created by Vincent Bierrewaerts. This film was awarded by the Belgian jury of Anima.

Twenty other prizes were awarded to a variety of films in different categories by the three sets of juries, including short international films, music videos, commercials and short Belgian films.

For the first time at the Anima Festival there were two new categories dedicated to commercials and music videos that adopt animation techniques.

British Corin Hardy won the award for Best Music Video for his piece: "The Horrors - She’s the New Thing."

Lloyds TSB - "For the Journey” by the Marc Craste won the award for Best Commercial.

The Golden Bear: "O zi buna de plaja"

Directed by: Bogdan Mustata (Romania)

The film raises questions about its issues rather than bring resolution to them. It does so in a very precise and unpredictable way. We feel that it is one of the most precious things when a film stays with you and keeps unravelling long after the final credits have ended.

The Silver Bear: "Udedh bun"

Directed by: Siddharth Sinha (India)

The Silver Bear goes to Udedh bun for its modern narration. A sharp focus that relies on a harmony between images and sound rather than words. We are also sensitive to the new erotica brought to the traditional figure of the desired woman in the history of cinema.

Prix UIP: "Frankie"

Directed by Darren Thornton (Ireland)

A simple and powerful approach. The straight forward point of view of a working class teenager on love, responsibility and fatherhood. We also want to re-encourage the director in developing his project of short films for young makers.

DAAD Short Film Prize: "B teme"

Directed by Olga Popova (Russian Federation)

We feel this film achieves a physical and sensual intimacy with its subjects without ever violating the secret of this intimacy. We wish to encourage the director’s talent as a filmmaker.

And two Special Mentions to

A special mention for directing goes to a film for its precise and sensitive direction on a topic which otherwise would have felt politically correct. "Superfície" Directed by Rui Xavier.

A special mention for a very contemporary gesture in animation in a wonderful nasty sense of humour goes to "RGB XYZ" Directed by David OReilly.

The second prize (2,500 euros) goes to UBERMORGEN.COM from Austria with Paolo Cirio and

Alessandro Ludovico from Italy for their joint web project "Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime" (2006). A third prize (1.500 euros) is awarded to Gordan Savicic from Vienna for his per- formative intervention ‚Constraint City: The Pain of Everyday Life’ (2007). Further works received an honorary mention: Francis Hunger ("The Setun Conspiracy") and Christoph Wachter with Mathias Jud (picidae.net).

The transmediale Vilem Flusser Theory Award is awarded for the first time in order to reflect the growing number of theoretical and critical practice works submitted for the competition.

The winner in 2008 is Simon Yuill from Great Britain with ‘All problems of notation will be solved by the masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice’ (2008). He receives 1,000 euros. 500 euros each go to the Special Mentions: Bureau d'Etudes (‚End of Secrecy’) and Naeem Mohaiemen ("Fear of a Muslim Planet: Hip-Hop’s Hidden History").

The prize money for both, the transmediale Award 2008 and the Transmediale Vilem Flusser Theory Award is donated by Gravis GmbH Berlin. 1,117 entries from 57 countries were submitted for this year’s competition. The jury was composed of Olga Goriunova (Moscow),

Nat Muller (Rotterdam), Wonil Rhee (Seoul), Mihaela Vasile (Bucharest) and Florian Wust (Berlin).

The Nordic Film Award

The Göteborg International Film Festival's Nordic Film Prize is awarded the director Tomas Alfredson for his film "Let the Right One in." The motivation is: "The Göteborg International Film Festival Nordic Award goes to director Tomas Alfredson for the film Let the Right One in. He succeeds to transform a vampire movie to a truly original, touching, amusing and heart-warming story about friendship and marginalisation."

The prize consists of 100.000 SEK from Västra Götalandsregionen and the Filmdraken (the Film Dragon), a statuette covered in mosaic, created by Ernst Billgren.

The Kodak Nordic Vision Award

The Kodak Nordic Vision Award goes to the photographer Hoyte van Hoytema for his excellent camera work in "Let the Right One In." The motivation is: "The Kodak Nordic Vision Award goes to the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoyten for his exquisite camera work in "Let the Right One In." His images, observant and full of details, bring out the human beings and their environment, thus adding dimensions to a multilayered story."

The Nordic jury consisted of Monika Tunbäck-Hanson (Chair Woman, Sweden), Aku Louhimies (director, Finland), Ragnar Bragason (director, Island), Anna Anthony (producer, Sweden), Sonja Richter (Sweden, Danmark), and Jørgen Storm Rosenberg (producer, Norway).

The Church of Sweden Film Award

The Danish film "Go With Peace Jamil" by Omar Shargawi is awarded the Church of Sweden Film Award. The prize consists of 50.000 SEK. The motivation is: "In the middle of an outburst of revenge, a conversation is made about freedom and human dignity. Faced with predestinated violence, the film describes human beings as responsible for each other and God with a possibility of freedom and reconciliation."

This year's jury consisted of Mikael Ringlander (Chair Man), Andja Arnebäck (director), Anne-Louise Eriksson (Swedish Church), Jes Nysten (clergyman and film critic).

The FIPRESCI Award

The FIPRESCI award is given by the International federation of film critics to one the competing Nordic feature films. This year the film "Go With Peace Jamil" by Omar Shargawi is awarded the FIPRESCI prize. The jury made the following statement about the winner: "The FIPRESCI Jury was unanimous in selecting Go With Peace, Jamil as our winner. It impressed us with its energy, force and originality, and the way it addressed serious, topical, social and political themes in an accessible and absorbing way. We are sure that first-time director Omar Shargawi will go on to become established as a major name in Nordic cinema, and we would also like to express our delight that his film has yesterday been named as a Tiger Award winner at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Of course, we made our decision several days BEFORE the Tiger Jury: once again, where Gothenburg leads, the rest of the world follows!"

This year's jury consisted of Henrik Uth Jensen (Denmark), Bregtje Schudel (Netherlands), and Neil Young, (United Kingdom).

The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award

This year's Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award goes to "Solitary Fragments" by Jaime Rosales from Spain. The motivation is: "Following Ingmar Bergman's vision for the award for 'a director making his or her debut with a film dealing with, in a broad sense, existential issu es and displaying a dynamic or experimental awareness of the cinematic means of expression', the jury has decided on Solitary Fragments directed by Jaime Rosales for its skilfully orchestrated acting, for portraying every character with love, for expressing emotions with human faces and for inviting the audience to watch the film with patience."

The TIBIDA jury consisted of Margarethe von Trotta, director, Germany, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, director, Thailand, István Szabó, director, Hungary, and Anu Koivunen, film professor, Sweden.

Startsladden - the Short Film Award

The winner of the short film award Startsladden is "I stället för Abrakadabra" by Patrik Eklund. The motivation is: "The jury awards a colorful fi lm, whose creators will surely supply Swedish film with a healthy dose of humour. We are looking forward to seeing more films by Patrik Eklund."

The Startsladden jury consisted of Nanna Huolman, director, Robert Lillhonga, director, Mimmi Forss, Stockholm Film Commission, Henrik A. Persson, Dagsljus.

The Producer Award Lorens

The winner of Stockholm Post Production's new producer award is Fredrik Heining for "Darling." The award consists of free development of the winning producer's next feature film and is estimated to about 500.000 SEK. The winner was picked from 2007 year's Swedish feature films.

The jury consisted of Tony Forsberg (photographer), Petra Ahlin (editor), Reza Parsa (director), Jesper Bergom-Larsson (producer), Ali Boriri (film lab manager and filmer).

Viewer's Choice Award

The viewers have made their choice;

Best feature film: "Three Miles North of Molkom" by Robert Cannan and Corinna Villari-McFarlane, United Kingdom.

Best short film: "I stället för Abrakadabra" by Patrik Eklund.

"L'ORPHELINAT" (El Orfanato)

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona

(Spain/Mexico)

JURY PRIZE ex-aequo:

"REC"

Director: Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza (Spain)

"TEETH"

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein (USA)

CRITIC’S PRIZE

"DIARY OF THE DEAD"

Director: George A. Romero (USA)

STUDENT’S PRIZE

"REC"

Director: Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza (Spain)

AUDIENCE AWARD

"REC"

Director: Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza (Spain)

PRIX DU JURY SCI FI - SCI FI JURY PRIZE

"L'ORPHELINAT" (El Orfanato)

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona (Spain/Mexico)

BEST SHORT FILM

"DANS LEUR PEAU"

Director: Arnaud Malherbe (France)

BEST "DIRECT" TO VIDEO FILM

"DETOUR MORTEL 2"

Director: Joe Lynch (USA)

south of Thailand recovering from the Tsunami; "Flower in the Pocket", Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat’s touching teen drama; and "Go with Peace Jamil," Omar Shargawi’s urban revenge drama set among Copenhagen’s young Muslim community.

The award includes a cash prize of €15,000, up €5,000 on last year. In a statement released by the five-person jury chaired by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, the jurors praised the winning films.

FIPRESCI Award

Also announced last night, the FIPRESCI Award went to "El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia" (The Sky, the Earth and the Rain), Chilean director Jose Luis Torres Leiva’s debut fiction feature. Chosen from entries for the VPRO Tiger Awards competition, the film is an atmospheric rural drama revolving around three lonely women in southern Chile.

Dioraphte Award

Awarded to the twenty-two Hubert Bals-supported films playing at IFFR, the Dioraphte Award went to "Mutum," Sandra Kogut’s Brazilian drama revolving around a sensitive child protagonist on a remote farm.

NETPAC Award

Established to promote Asian cinema, the NETPAC Award, open to all Asian titles at IFFR, went to "What On Earth Have I Done Wrong?!," Taiwanese director Niu Chen-zer’s mockumentary self-portrait.

Explaining their decision, the three-member jury said: ‘It is a début film that has deftly crafted a humorous drama that mocks filmmaking with great sensitivity and arrives at a profound insight into the human condition.’

They also made a Special Mention of "Crude Oil," Wang Bing’s documentary about oil refining in the Gobi Desert. ‘Its dispassionate expose of the hardship of human labour which is the basis of economic progress.’

KNF Award

"Cargo 200," Alexei Balabanov’s grueling thriller, won the KNF Award, the Association of Dutch Film Critics’ prize for best film in the official selection that hasn’t yet been acquired for Dutch distribution.

Donner’s directorial career began with a documentary: he made his debut at the age of 21 with Aamua kaupungissa (Morning in the City), which examines the city of Helsinki. As a documentarist Donner is an exception among Finnish film-makers because many of his works are essay films in form. As a film-maker Donner is a strong auteur, whose presence and life-experience are seen and heard on screen. Among others, Donner’s filmography includes the Finnish documentary classic Fuck Off!, a ruthless and frank description of the state of the union in the beginning of the 1970’s.

Jörn Donner is among the most successful international film-makers in Finland. Ingmar Bergman’s Academy Award-winning Fanny and Alexander (1982) is the most famous of Donner’s productions, but with his company Jörn Donner Productions he has produced several documentaries by high-profile Finnish directors, including Marja Pensala, Pirjo Honkasalo, Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui.

“Plac Zbawiciela” (Saviour’s Square)

Director: Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, (Poland, 2006)

Special Mentions:

“Instalacija ljubezni” (Installation of Love)

Director: Maja Weiss, 2007

“Pora umieraç” (Time to Die)

Director: Dorota K´dzierzawska, Poland

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

“Annem Sinema Ogreniyor” (My Mother Learns Cinema)

Director: Ismet Ergun

Special Mentions

“Bende Sira-Ich bin Dran!” (My Turn)

Director: Janez Burger

“Porno”

Director: Jan Wagner

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

“DasLeben is Ein Langer Tag” ( Life is one long day)

Director: Svenja Kluh

“Plosca” (Kalinovski Square)

Director: Jurij Chascevatskij

CCEI AWARD

“ San sanyc” ‘

Director: George Agadjanean

PUBLIC PRIZE

Feature Film Award:

1. “Pora Unierac” (Tiem to Die)

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska

2. “Estrellita – Pesem za Domov” (Estrellita)

Director: Metod Pevec

3. “Klopka” (The Trap)

Director: Srdan Golubovic

Short Film Competition

1. “Intre Zidure” (In Between Walls)

Director: Ana-Felicia Scuteinicu

2. “Szalontudo” (Tripe and Onions)

Director: Marton Szirmal

3. “Sasa, Grisa si Ion”

Director: Igor Cobileanski

Documentary Competition

1. “Das Geheiminis von Deva” (The Secret of Deva)

Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu

2. “Otroci s Petricka” (The Children of Petricek)

Director: Miran Zupanic

3. “Gyveno Senelis ir Bobute” (Grandma and Granddad)

Director: Giedre Beinoriute

GRAND PRIX DU JURY

“PROSTYE VESHCHI “

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky (Russia)

PRIX SPÉCIAL DU JURY

“SZTUCZKI”

Director: Andrzej Jakimowski (Poland)

PRIX DU PUBLIC

“SZTUCZKI”

Director: Andrzej Jakimowski (Poland)

PRIX DE LA CREATION MUSICALE

ÜLO KRIGUL for “SÜGISBALL “

Director: Veiko Õunpuu (Estonia)

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM AWARDS

GRAND PRIX DU JURY

"TURELEM"

Director: Laszlo Nemes Jeles (Hungry)

PRIX DU PUBLIC

"LA DRUMUL MARE"

Director: Gabriel Sirbu (Romania)

PRIX SPECIAL DU JURY

"LA DRUMUL MARE"

Director: Gabriel Sirbu (Romania)

PRIX ARTE

TURELEM

Director: Laszlo Nemes Jeles (Hungry)

PRIX DU PUBLIC - FEATURES

"LA VACILLANTE"

Director: Philippe Van Leeuw

PRIX DU PUBLIC - SHORT FILMS

"CE N'EST QU'UN HOMME" (LA NOIRAUDE II)

Director: Fabienne & Veronique Kanor

FRENCH SHORT FILM AWARDS

GRAND PRIX DU JURY

"SUR SES DEUX OREILLES"

Director: Emma Luchini

PRIX DU PUBLIC

"CHOISIR D’AIMER"

Director: Rachid Hami

PRIX CCAS

"PETITE FLAMME"

Director: Eric Morfaux

PRIX DES BIBLIOTHECAIRES

"FACCIA D'ANGELO"

Director: Elsa Amiel

European Film School Awards:

GRAND PRIX DU JURY:

"COMO TODO EL MUNDO"

Director: Franco Lolli (France)

PRIX DU PUBLIC: "DAS BABY"

Director: Falco Jagau (Germany)

PRIX UIP

"PROCRASTINATION"

Director: Johnny Kelly (UK)

PRIX MIKROCINE /CANAL+ CINEMA

"FRIENDS FOREVER"

Director: Marcal Fores (UK)

PRIX DE LA CREATION MUSICALE

CHRIS BALDWIN in "DOG ALTOGETHER"

Director: Paddy Considine -(UK)

SPECIAL MENTION

MIRO MANTERE pour "LILLI"

ACTOR AWARDS:

PRIX “JEAN CARMET”

Sergey Puskepalis in "PROSTYE VESHCHI"

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky(Russia)

PRIX MADEMOISELLE LADUBAY

Ceci Schmitz-Chuch in "DIE UNERZOGENEN"

Director: Pia Marais (Allemagne)

PRIX D’INTERPRETATION FEMININE

Virag Marjai in "TURELEM"

Director: Laszlo Nemes Jeles (Hungry)

PRIX D’INTERPRETATION MASCULINE

Carlo Brandt in "TAXI WALA"

Director: Lola Frederich (France)

ANIMATION FILM AWARDS

GRAND PRIX DU JURY

"IRINKA ET SANDRINKA"

Director: Sandrine Stoianov & Jean-Charles Finck (France)

SPECIAL MENTION

"PROCRASTINATION"

Director: Johnny Kelly (UK)

"LA MAIN DE L'OURS"

Director: Marina Rosset (Switzerland)

Director: Makoto Shinkai

“for the ability of combining poetry, art and technical skills with animation and new technologies, a touching and deep-rooted story and a model direction. Every element of the movie, from the screenplay to the editing, is realized with great professionalism and inspiration.”

A special mention: "Tekkonkinkreet"

Directed by: Michael Arias

“for the interesting and original graphics; an involving story with a non-rhetorical message”.

has decided to present the following prizes:

In the animated film category

The Golden Goats goes to the film whose simple style of animation, irreplaceable by any other film form, showed the heroic struggle of a young girl to protect her personal freedom.

"Persepolis" directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

The Silver Goats goes to the film whose warm and philosophical humour makes both children and adult audiences identify with its heroes.

"Aston’s Stones"

directed by Lotta and Uzi Geffenblad

The Bronze Goats goes to an important film, which allows the invisible good children to shout and become visible to grown-ups.

"Good Girl"

directed by Astrid Aakra

In the live-action film category

The Golden Goats goes to the film whose hero is one of the strongest, most moving and most unpredictable child characters we have ever seen on the screen. This film is universal and true in every respect.

"Vanaja" directed by Rajnesh Domalpalli

The Silver Goats goes to the story of two young heroes trying to survive and preserve dignity in the system based on a lie.

"The Way I Spent the End of the World"

directed by Catalin Mitulescu

The Bronze Goats goes to the film which enchanted us with acting, directing, and the story of historical chaos shown through the eyes of a child.

"The Year my Parents Went on Vacation"

directed by Cao Hamburger

Honourable mention

For the visually dazzling film poem about uprooting.

"Khadak" directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth

For the creative use of music and songs in the film which raises a very important social issue.

"Kidz in Da Hood"

directed by Ylva Gustavsson and Catti Edfeldt

Directed By: François-Xavier Bologna, Théophile Bondoux, Lyonel Charmette et Vincent le Ster

Audience Choice Prize for Best Short in the category of "curosity": "Musicothérapie"

Directed By: Amael Isnard, Manuel Javelle et Clément Picon

Audience Choice Prize for Best Fantasy Short: "Marin"

Directed By: Alexandre Bernard, Pierre Pages et Damien Laurent

Audience Choice Prize for Best Adult Comedy Short: "Le Café"

Directed By: Stéphanie Marguerite et Emilie Tarascou

Audience Choice Prize for Best Feature: "Les Trois Brigands"

Directed By: Rayo Freitag

Youth Audience Choice Award: "La queue de la souris"

Directed By: Benjamin Remer

Youth Jury Prize: "Blue"

Directed By: Vincent Coni, Anne-Sophie Palermo et Julien Thebault

Beaumarchais Prize: "Le Pont"

Directed By: Vincent Bierrewaerts

de François-Xavier Bologna, Théophile Bondoux, Lyonel Charmette et Vincent le Ster

Prix du Public pour le meilleur court métrage de la catégorie "curiosités": "Musicothérapie"

de Amael Isnard, Manuel Javelle et Clément Picon

Prix du Public pour le meilleur court métrage fantastique: "Marin"

de Alexandre Bernard, Pierre Pages et Damien Laurent

Prix du Public pour le meilleur court métrage humoristique adulte: "Le Café"

de Stéphanie Marguerite et Emilie Tarascou

Prix du Public pour le meilleur long métrage: "Les Trois Brigands"

de Rayo Freitag

Prix du Jeune Public: "La queue de la souris"

de Benjamin Remer

Prix du Jury Jeune: "Blue"

de Vincent Coni, Anne-Sophie Palermo et Julien Thebault

Prix Beaumarchais: "Le Pont"

de Vincent Bierrewaerts

DOCNOIR Award for the Best Documentary: "THE DICTATOR HUNTER"

by Klaartje Quirijns, The Netherlands

For its honesty, the intellectual engagement and its work on the field. The Jury wants to point out /remark the esthetic values and the sharpness of its work as well

The Young European Film Critic Jury also gives a special mention to: "HAMISHE BARAYE AZADI DIR AST" (It’s always late for Freedom)

by Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran

For its capacity to raise up the word and the humanity of the characters and for its refined style

International Jury for Cinema composed by Dario Argento, director (Italy) – President, Paolo Briguglia, actor (Italy), Sabrina Impacciatore, actress (Italy), Jeff Lindsay, screenwriter, (USA), Michèle Maheux, managing director Toronto Int’l Film Festival (Canada), has awarded the following prizes:

NAPAPIJRI PRIZE FOR THE BEST ACTING PERFORMANCE: INGVAR E. SIGURÐSSON in "MÝRIN" (Jar City)

by Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland

In a film from Iceland’s less internationally known but nuanced cinema, Sigurðsson shows a new way of depicting a police officer and offers a restrained but powerful performance that is unforgettable.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD "THE AIR I BREATHE"

by Jieho Lee, USA

The Jury awards its special prize to this debut feature by Jieho Lee for his talent as a writer and a director of such a diverse cast which establishes him firmly as one to watch.

BLACK LION FOR THE BEST FILM: "DER ANDERE JUNGE" (The other Boy)

by Volker Einrauch, Germany

An important film in many aspects, for its commitment to an important contemporary social issue and for the seamless narration and powerful ensemble cast which reflect the director’s command of his craft.

FOX CRIME AUDIENCE AWARD: "VOUS ẾTES DE LA POLICE?"

by Romuald Beugnon, France

Directed by: Michaela Kezele (Allemagne/Serbie – 2007)

Prix Spécial du Jury (ex-æquo): "Décroche"

Directed by: Manuel Schapira (France – 2006)

and "Photograph"

Directed by: Sarah Lambert (Australie – 2006)

Prix Fujifilm: "La Dernière journée"

Directed by: Olivier Bourbeillon – (France 2006)

Prix de la Musique Originale: "Flonja Kodheli pour Chimio"

Directed by: Pascal Colson – (Belgique – 2006)

Special Mention of the Jury: "By The Kiss"

Directed by: Yann Gonzales – (France – 2006)

Special Mention of the Jury: "200 000 Fantômes"

Directed by: Jean-Gabriel Périot – (France – 2007)

Special Mention of the Jury: "Tanghi Argentini"

Directed by: Guido Thys – (Belgium - 2006)

Prix Libre Court: "Même pas mort" d

Directed by: Claudine Natkin – (France – 2007)

Prix Cinécourts: "Regarding Sarah"

Directed by: Michelle Porter – (Canada – 2006)

Prize of the Youth Jury: "Soft"

Directed by: Simon Ellis – (UK – 2006)

Special Mention of the Youth Jury: "Graffiti"

Directed by: Vano Burduli – (Georgia – 2006)

Prize of the Children's Jury: - "Titi"

Directed by: Béatrice et Hugues Espinasse - (France - 2007)

Directed by: Li Yang, (China, Hong Kong, Germany, 2007)

A masterful film on a topic not limited to the special story. Blind mountains exist in many disguises and concern the fate of women in large parts of the world.

Prize for the Best Director - "The Autumn Ball" (Sügisball)

Directed by: Veiko Ounpuu, (Estonia, 2007)

Its director successfully opens a window in a dysfunctional society.

Prize for the Best Actress - Julie Kolbeck for "The Art of Crying" (Kunsten at graede i kor)

Directed by: Peter Schonau Fog, (Denmark, 2006)

Despite of her young age she succeeds in portraying complicated levels of a daughter who has to cope with an impossible relationship to her father and family.

Prize for the Best Actor - Sam Riley for "Control"

Directed by: Anton Corbijn, (Great Britain, 2007)

For convincing portrait of a talented man who can't deliver yet what life demands of him.

Special Mention of the Jury - "Jellyfish" (Meduzot)

Directed by: Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen, (Israel, France, 2007)

There is great humanity in these short stories which are woven into a poetic image with questions and no answers.

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - "Jellyfish" (Meduzot)

Directed by: Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen, (Israel, France, 2007)

For the poetic and symbolic reconciliation with others and themselves of individuals facing existential torments.

Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury - "Garage"

Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson, (Ireland, 2007)

Garage emphasises in a minimalist style the behaviour of a simple guy who offers and searches foe compassion, giving us a great lesson of human dignity.

Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury - "Blind Mountain" (Mang shan)

Directed by: Li Yang, China, (Hong Kong, Germany, 2007)

Blind Mountain presents the tragic history of Chinese young girl sold and imprisoned, who with the only aid of a little boy tries to break the indifference and ignorance of a rural community.

Prize of the FIPRESCI - "Tricks" (Sztuczki)

Directed by: Andrzej Jakimowski, (Poland, 2007)

Student Jury Award - "California Dreamin' (Endless)" / California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)

Directed by: Cristian Nemescu, Romania, 2006)

For an apt allegoric depiction of geopolitical situation not only in the Central Europe, but also in the rest of the world.

The Slovak television Award - "The Art of Crying" (Kunsten at graede i kor)

Directed by: Peter Schonau Fog, (Denmark, 2006)

For original, non-pathetic and impressive narration about tragic victims of perverted love between parents and their children.

Zlatý Bažant People's Choice Prize - "Halflife" (Polčas rozpadu)

Directed by: Vlado Fischer, (Slovak Republic, 2007)

The IFF Bratislava Award for Artistic Excellence in world cinematography Austrian director Ulrich Seidl

de Benoit Forgeard

GRAND PRIX COMPETITION EUROPÉENNE: "Plot point"

de Nicolas Provost -

PRIX SPECIAL DU JURY COMPETITION NATIONALE: "Roc & Canyon"

de Sophie Letourneur

PRIX SPECIAL DU JURY COMPETITION EUROPÉENNE: "Vita di giocomo"

de Luca & Diego Governatori

PRIX DE LA JEUNESSE COMPETITION NATIONAL: "Nijunan no borei"

de Jean-Gabriel Périot

PRIX DE LA JEUNESSE COMPETITION EUROPÉENNE: "Adjustment"

de Ian Mackinnon

PRIX DE LA MISE EN SCENE DECERNE PAR LE JURY ETUDIANT: "Adjustment"

de Ian Mackinnon -

PRIX DU PUBLIC: "Premier voyage"

de Grégoire Sivan

PRIX D’INTERPRETATION: Salomé Stévenin pour

"Tel père, telle fille"

de Sylvie Ballyot

PRIX CINECOLE EN VENDOMOIS: "Premier voyage"

de Grégoire Sivan

Directed by: Abdelatif Hwidar

Spain / fiction / 11’

Best Fiction (EX EQUO): "Iron mungary"

Directed by: Burim Haliti

Kosova / fiction / 26’

and "Children who never existed"

Directed by: David Valero

Spain / fictio / 30’

Fiction Special Mention: "New Boy"

Directed by: Steph Green

Ireland / fiction / 11’

and "Stand Straight"

Directed by: Hannah Scheweier

Germany / fiction / 30’

Best Animation: "Ark"

Directed by: Grzegorz Jonkajtys

Poland / animation / 8’

Animation Special Mention: "George grows"

Directed by: Martin Schmidt

Germany / animation / 2’

and "Butterfly"

Directed by: Stefan Taci

Albania / animation / 9’

and "The memories of dogs"

Directed by: Simone Massi

France / animation / 8’

Best Documentary: "The Bridge"

Directed by: Haris Bilajbegovic

Austria / documentary / 12’

Documentary Special Mention: "Giovanni and the impossible myth"

Directed by: Gabriele Gismondi

Italy / documentary / 18’

Best Experimental: "Magnetic movie"

Directed by: R. Jarman & J. Gerhardt

UK & USA/ experimental/ 5’

Experimental Special Mention: "Hydrophil"

Directed by: Grau Mia

Germany / experimental / 10’

Prize of Media Jury: "Rise and shine"

Directed by: Sherif Elbendary

Egypt / fiction / 9’

Best Albanian Film: "Birth does not ask when"

Directed by: Parta Kelmendi

Documentary/Kosovo/ 20’

Public Award: "New Boy"

Directed by: Steph Green

Ireland / fiction / 11’

Director: Eugenia Mumenthaler / David Epiney

GRAN PREMIO CINE ESPAÑOL: "EL NIÑO Y EL MAR"

Director: Tito Molina

GRAN PREMIO DE CINE VASCO: "FOOTNOTES TO A HOUSE OF LOVE"

Director: Laida Lertxundi

MIKELDI DE ORO DE ANIMACIÓN: "LE PRINTEMPS DE SANT PONÇ"

Director: Eugenia Mumenthaler / David Epiney

MIKELDI DE PLATA DE ANIMACIÓN: "ANHALTER

Director: Daniel Höpfner

MIKELDI DE ORO DOCUMENTAL: "FAMILIA 068"

Director: Rubén Margalló / Toni Edo

MIKELDI DE PLATA DOCUMENTAL: "RETRO VISIÓN"

Director: Mauricio Godoy

MIKELDI DE ORO DE FICCIÓN: "KRAMASHA"

Director: Amit Dutta

MIKELDI DE PLATA DE FICCIÓN: "TÜRELEM"

Director: László Nemes

CARABELA DE PLATA A LA MEJOR PELÍCULA DE AMÉRICA LATINA: "EL CUARTO DEL FONDO"

Director: Leticia Jorge / Ana Guevara

PREMIO DEL PÚBLICO: L'OFFRE ET LA DEMANDE"

Director:Frédéric Farruci

Premio de la Federación Iberoamericana de productores cinematográficos y audiovisuales FIPCA y de la Entidad de gestión de los derechos de los productores audiovisuales EGEDA a la mejor producción iberoamericana dotado con 1500€: "DECIR ADIÓS"

Director: Víctor Iriarte

PREMIO DE LA SOCIEDAD GENERAL DE AUTORES Y EDITORES Y ASOCIACIÓN PROFESIONAL DE GUIONISTAS DE EUSKAL HERRIA AL MEJOR GUIÓN VASCO: "ITZALAK"

Director: Iñigo Kintana

PRESENT PERFECT

Director: Mikel Rueda

PREMIO CINE CLUB FAS: "LAS HORAS MUERTAS"

Director: Haritz Zubillaga

PREMIO DEIA: "ÎNTRE ZIDURI"

Director: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu

PREMIO UNICEF: "DEZ CENTAVOS"

Director: Cesar Fernando de Oliveira

MIKELDI DE HONOR: "PÈRE PORTABELLA"

Brett Ratner - President, Piotr Dumała, Paweł Edelman, Robbie Greenberg, Lawrence Grobel, Lilly Kilvert, Pierre Lhomme, Karl Walter Lindenlaub and Oliver Stapleton

During the seven days of deliberation, the criteria that the Jury decided upon were craftsmanship, creativity, and contribution to the story. The Jury also considered the lighting, the composition, the movement, and the choices the cinematographers made. After the in-depth discussions they were impressed by the tremendous efforts and creativity that went into all the competitive films.

The Plus Camerimage 2007 Golden Frog went to Janusz Kamiński for the cinematography on "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."

According to the Jury, this film has advanced the art of cinematogeraphy and also takes the audience on a journey, one is totally unprepared for. It’s a film where the collaboration between the cinematographer and the director felt seamless. It’s bold, audacious, and visually challenging. It allows to see an extraordinary part of human nature in a fresh and profound way. It’s a very personal film whose photography was organic to the story - a story that expresses the trapped circumstances of an individual. The frame of composition and camera gives the feeling of being trapped - and yet it also gives a feeling of exhilaration and hope.

The Plus Camerimage 2007 Silver Frog went to Bruno Delbonnel for the cinematography in "Across the Universe."

The verdict of the Jury says: "This award goes to one of those movies that accomplishes what movies should do — take us on a journey. Technically, it was difficult to execute, and yet it captured the fluctuating movements of the times it portrayed. It was intelligently and beautifully photographed; it had moments of great emotion and was both though-provoking and inspired. It gave us a refreshing interpretation of music and story through an effective use of iconic songs. And, most of all, it was joyful."

The Plus Camerimage 2007 Bronze Frog went to Ed Lachman for the cinematography in "I’m Not There."

The Jury justified their choice: "For this award we have chosen the film which was one of the most experimental and innovative films we have seen. We admired the construction and the composition, the complexity and the style, the sensitive homage to the period black and white film, and the unique and individual perspective that brought us the songs of Bob Dylan."

STUDENTS ETUDES COMPETITION

Students Etudes were judged by: Vilmos Zsigmond - Jury President, Murray Close, Witold Giersz, Rüdiger Laske, Chris Niedenthal, Billy Williams and Zhanabek Zhetiruov

This year the Student Jury has shared in a visual feast of the art of cinematography, enjoying films shot in traditional style and also being surprised by others, which have fully embraced and exploited the newest technology. The Jury admired students' sense of adventure and the passion they have expressed on the screen.

Laszlo Kovacs Student Award - Golden Tadpole Plus Camerimage 2007 was granted to Tomasz Woźniczka, cinematographer of "Beyond the Horizon"

The Golden Tadpole was presented to a film of dramatic complexity. The director and cinematographer explore the instability of a society searching for their identity. They combine to create a new horizon, bravely exploring the new technology with visual flare and power.Tomasz Woźniczka is a student of the Department of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia.

Plus Camerimage 2007 Silver Tadpole was granted to Raphael Beinder, cinematographer of "My Father is Sleeping"

The Silver Tadpole was presented to a film of exquisite imagery. Rich and finely textured. The camera seamlessly, without dialogue, expressed the family drama with a poetic vision. Raphael Beinder is a student of the German School of Film and Television in Berlin.

Plus Camerimage 2007 Bronze Tadpole was granted to Michał Sobociński, cinematographer of "Father."

The Bronze Tadpole is presented to a film told with simplicity and sensitivity. It is a work of pure photography, a fluid composition of light and shade. Michał Sobociński is a student of Łódź Film School.

Additional Awards were presented in the Student Etudes Competition:

Association of Polish Filmmakers (Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich) granded the Award of 2000 USD to Tomasz Woźniczka, the winner of Laszlo Kovacs Student Award - Golden Tadpole .

The Light for the Arts - OSRAM Company Award for a creative use of light in a film. The award of PLN 10,000 was granted to Weronika Bilska the cinematographer of Varsovienne

PANAVISION granted the Special Award for Best Picture Technique in Student Film Competition to Felix Novo de Oliveira, cinematographer of Milan

POLISH FILMS COMPETITION UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF PLUS NETWORK OPERATOR

The films presented within the competition were judged by: Jaromir Sofr - Jury President, Affonso Beato, Cesar Charlone, Roman Osin and Franz Rath

The Jury admitted that the level of quality, richness and diversity made it a challenge for them to reach the final decision.

The Award for the Best Film in the Polish Film Competition went to Adam Bajerski for "Tricks."

The winning film integrated cinematography and direction with technical accomplishment and a sensitivity to the subject matter of the story. It showed an ingenious creativity and courage in the use of color and light.

NOKIA MOBILE MOVIE COMPETITION

Films were judged by: Sławomir Idziak - Jury President, Phil Meheux and Louis-Philippe Capellle

The audience chose James Kambeitz’s Decision as the best film.

The Jury Award went to Angela Święc for "The City of Joy."

"The Jury unanimously felt that of this year’s entries this film really fulfilled the brief of “This happy day." It was both informative and entertaining, very well edited and enhanced with the director’s own, enchanting music score. The film also showed a particular artistry in the composition and choice of the atmospheric cutaways."

Best Film: "GARAGE"

Directed By: Lenny Abrahamson

(Ireland, 2007, 35mm, 85’)

Special Jury Prize to: "THE ELEPHANT AND THE SEA" Directed By: Woo Ming Jin

(Malaysia-Netherlands, 2007, HD, 95’)

Best Actress Award to: JOAN CHEN for the film "THE HOME SONG STORIES"

Directed By: Tony Ayres

(Australia, 2007, 35mm, 103’)

Best Actor Award to: KIM KANG-WOO for the film "GYEONGUI SEON" (THE RAILROAD)

Directed By: Park Heung-sik

(South Korea, 2006, 35mm, 107’)

ITALIANA.DOC

Best Italian Documentary, in collaboration with Persol to:

"LA NACION MA PUCE"

Directed By: Fausta Quattrini (Switzerland/Italy/Argentina, 2007, DVcam, 96’)

Special Jury Prize to: "L’ESAME DI XHODI"

Directed By: Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio

(Italy, 2007, HD, 62’)

Special Mention to: "BIUTIFUL CAUNTRI"

Directed By: Esmeralda Calabria, Giuseppe Ruggiero and Andrea D’Ambrosio

(Italy, 2007, DVcam, 73’)

ITALIANA.CORTI

Best Italian Short-length Film, in collaboration with Lancia to: "GIGANTI"

Directed By: Fabio Mollo (Italy, 2007, Super16 mm, 24’)

Special Jury Prize –Kodak Award to: "PRIMOGENITO COMPLESSO"

Directed By: Lavinia Chianello and Tomas Creus (Italy-Brazil, 2007, anim., 11’)

Special Mention to: "IL RESTO DI UNA STORIA"

Directed By: Antonio Prata

(Italy-Switzerland, 2007, DVcam, 30’)

REGIONAL COMPETITION / SPAZIO TORINO

Best Short-length Film (euros 2.600 in laboratory services offered by Blue Gold, Milan; euros 5.000 in technical services offered by Unistudio, Torino) to: "IL LAVORO"

Directed By: Lorenzo De Nicola

(Italy, 2007, Digibeta, 16’)

CIPPUTI AWARD

Best Film About the Working World to: "IN FABBRICA"

Directed By: Francesca Comencini

(Italy, 2007, 35 mm, 73’)

FIPRESCI AWARD

Feature Films Competition: Best Film to: "GYEONGUI SEON" (THE RAILROAD)

Directed By: Park Heung-sik

(South Korea, 2007, 35mm, 107’)