29-07-2013

Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari Scores Top Prize at New Horizons IFF

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    Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari Scores Top Prize at New Horizons IFF Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari dir. Alexey Fedorchenko

    WROCLAW: The fantastical sojourn through eastern Russian pagan rituals from Alexey Fedorchenko, Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari). has taken the main prize in the T-Mobile New Horizons IFF international competiton.

    The jurors Béla Tarr, Dominga Sotomayor-Castillo, Edgar Pêra, Joanna Kos-Krauze and Christoph Terhechte awarded the grand prize and 20,000 EUR to the 23-vignette film at the gala closing of the 13th edition of the fest, where Małgośka Szymowska's new drama, In the Name Of (md4.eu), screened.

    The FIPRESCI jury (Neil Young, István Szathmáry and Błażej Hrapkowicz) awarded Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du lac) a French film from Alain Guiraudie, while the audience prize went to Tomasz Wasilewski and his second feature, Floating Skyscrapers.

    See the full list of winners:

    New Horizons international competition grand prize - Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari, dir. Alexey Fedorchenko, The 29th February Film Company, Red Arrow Film Co.(www.redarrow.tv/)

    FIPRESCI prize - Stranger by the Lake, dir. Alain Guiraudie, Les Films du Worso (www.lesfilmsduworso.com)

    Audience award - Floating Skyscrapers, dir. Tomasz Wasilewski,  Alter Ego Pictures  (www.alteregopictures.pl)

    Films on Art international competition - Sick Birds Die Easy (http://sickbirdsdieeasy.com), dir. Nicholas Fackler

    Polish Short Films best fiction - Mother, dir. Łukasz Ostalski,Gdynia Film School (http://www.gsf.pl/)
    Polish Short Films best animation - Ziegenort, dir. Tomasz Popakul, NoLabel (www.nolabel.pl)
    Polish Short Films best documentary - Mother 24/7, dir. Marcin Janos Krawczyk, Janos Film Production, TVP (www.tvp.pl)

    European short films best documentary - The Day Has Conquered the Night, dir. Jean-Gabriel Périot, Alter Ego production (www.alterego-prod.com)
    European short films best experimental  - Dry Standpipe, dir. Wojciech Bąkowski

    Winners of the international and Films on Art competitions are awarded a proposal for Polish distribution from the New Horizons Association.