COMPETITION FEATURES

For the Competition Features category, the jury was comprised of the following members: Bea de Visser (The Netherlands) , Sarah Skoric (Belgium) i Dean Šoša (Croatia).

GRAND PRIX

Juan Daniel F. Molero
VIDEOFILIA (Y OTROS SÍNDROMES VIRALES) /
VIDEOPHILIA (AND OTHER VIRAL SYNDROMES)
Peru

“The Grand Prix goes to Videophilia (and other Viral Syndromes) because of its rich visual language. We honor that the director sympathizes with all his characters that live in the movie. In this film the international phenomenon of cybersex, parties, drugs and teenage misfits has an overall subtext about the Peruvian society, going back to its Maya culture towards today’s icons and rituals that provides the soundtrack of the movie.”

 SPECIAL AWARDS

Ingo Haeb
DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN / THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN
Germany

“It is a fresh film, we feel, for its outstanding personage, its scenario, its coherent and optimistic story. After seeing this movie, sleeping in a hotel will never be the same.”

Damir Čučić 
RAKIJAŠKI DNEVNIK / THE SPIRITS DIARY
Croatia

“We have decided to give a Special Award to a film that balances between documentary and fiction, thus crossing the borders between disciplines. The photography is well labored, as astonishing close-ups mix with colourful images that come from recording, never from post production. As it is a very skillful and a masterful piece.”

COMPETITION SHORTS

GRAND PRIX

Maryam Tafakory
I WAS FIVE WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN
The United Kingdom

“The Grand Prix in the Competition Shorts the film I Was Five When I Became a Woman for dealing with the intimate and painful subject of young girls being tortured through a metaphorical association with the practice of tailoring (sewing). We would also like to highlight the exquisite editing and the use of close ups in this small yet big movie that shows us how to cope with strong traumas in an artistic way.”

 SPECIAL AWARDS

Daria Yurkevich       
MAMIE, VANYA ET LA CHÈVRE / GRANNY, VANYA AND THE GOAT
France / Belarus

“The Special Award goes to Granny, Vanya and the Goat for a universal story about our lost European heritage of small villages and farmer’s silent everyday lives, told with an appropriate, slow rhythm, with editing and camera that allows the characters to express themselves freely and thus impress us as parts of this touching tableau vivant.”

Izumi Yoshida
KINKI
Poland

“The jury has decided to give a Special Award to Kinki for a brave use of camera, music and sound in composing abstract film language of poetic character and wonderful sense of textures.”