Latest Critics' Prizes
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Venice:
"The Land of Silence" |
Athens. At the 27th Panorama of European Cinema Festival Corn Island (Simindis kundzuli) by George Ovashvili won the FIPRESCI prize. More 
Seville. At the Seville European Film Festival the FIPRESCI jury awarded Here and in Other Time (Equí y N'otru Tiempu) directed by Spanish Ramón Lluís Bande. More
Stockholm. Our winner, Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts, was announced at the festival's ceremony alongside many other awards. More
Thessaloniki. Our jury at the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in the international competition awarded Goodnight Mommy (Ich Seh, Ich Seh), directed by Austrian Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. In the Greek competition Norway (Norviyia) directed by Yiannis Veslemes won the FIPRESCI prize. More
Mannheim. Our jury judged the International Competition in Mannheim-Heidelberg, and the FIPRESCI Prize was awarded unanimously to Nabat for its "extraordinary depiction of the committed, compassionate and solitary resistance of an old woman during wartime, and for the director's unique use of film language, with images poetically evolving from village landscapes to allegory." More
Cottbus. At the 24th Festival of East European Cinema the FIPRESCI Prize went to Corrections Class (Klass Korrektsii) by Ivan I. Tverdovsky. More
Valladolid. Seminci has been a major event for almost 60 years, which makes it one of the oldest film festivals in Europe. This year the FIPRESCI prize wnet to the German-French feature Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) by Dietrich Brüggemann — a poignant story of a girl which is ultimately sacrificed upon the altar of hardcore religious beliefs. More
Chemnitz. At the International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences our jury awarded Cuban Behavior (Benimm Dich) by Ernesto Daranas Serrano. More
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Locarno:
"From What Is Before" |
Warsaw. Assessing films from a range of sections, the FIPRESCI jury finally agreed on What a Wonderful World (Ce lume minunată), Anatol Durbală's pained study of the underreported-on events that rocked Chisinau and other Moldovan cities in April 2009, following widespread allegations of a rigged election. More
Busan. At the prestigous Far-East Film Festival in South Korea the FIPRESCI jury awarded the Iranian What's the Time in Your World (Dat donyaye to sa'at chand ast?) by Safi Yazdanian. More
Reykjavík. At the 11th Reykjavík International Film Festival our jury awarded Bota by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci (Albania, Italy, 2014). More
Venice. It is the last of the three major European festivals after Berlin in February, and Cannes in May. It has the reputation of fostering artistic rather than commercial films but still attracts well-known stars and directors from all over the world. For the past three years it has been directed by Alberto Barbera, who returned to Venice in 2012 after a ten-year absence. More
Montreal. In a very quebecois spirit of resistance, the Festival des Films du Monde stood up proudly in a difficult context which was worth a screenplay itself with twists and suspense: main public sponsors cutting back their sponsorship, strained relationship with the French-Canadian film industry and some existential crisis about the very essence of the event. More
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| Motovun: "Force Majeure" |
Locarno. Filipino director Lav Diaz is the winner of this edition of the Locarno Festival. His film From What is Before got the Golden Leopard and the FIPRESCI Prize. The critics appreciated it "for its outstanding cinematographic achievement in story-telling and its very impressive visual and narrative style that is unique and exceptional in terms of world cinematography and is linked with a profound political awareness of the country's history and with a deeply philosophical contemplation on time and space". More
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