17-10-2016

FESTIVALS: Malaria Wins the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival

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    WARSAW: The Iranian drama Malaria by Parviz Shahbazi won the Grand Prix of the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival. The closing ceremony took place on 15 October 2016.

    Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson was awarded Best Director for Heartsone, a coproduction between Iceland and Denmark, while the winner of 1-2 Competition was the French production Toril directed by Laurent Teyssier.

    The International Competition jury was composed of Ralitza Petrova (Bulgaria), Maria Sadowska (Poland), Bence Fliegauf (Hungary), Mehmet Can Mertoğlu (Turkey) and Rodrigo Plá (Mexico).

    The FIPRESCI jury composed of Marcin Adamczak (Poland), Alberto Castellano (Italy) and Jan Schulz-Ojala (Germany) gave the award for best debut from Eastern Europe to the Bulgarian film Godless by Ralitza Petrova.

    The 12th edition of the Centeast Warsaw annual industry event also took place as part of the festival from 14 to 16 October 2016 and included presentations of works-in-progress selected from Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Georgia and Estonia. CentEast Market is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

    FULL LIST OF WINNERS:


    International Competition

    Warsaw Grand Prix:
    Malaria (Iran)
    Directed by Parviz Shahbaz

    Best Director:
    Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson for Heartsone (Iceland, Denmark)

    Special Jury Award:
    Ahmad Thaher for his role in Blessed Benefit (Jordan, Germany, Netherlands, Qatar)

    Special Mention:
    Baldur Einarsson for his role in Heartsone (Iceland, Denmark)

    Competition 1-2:

    Best Film:
    Toril (France)
    Directed by Laurent Teyssier

    Special Mention:
    Playground (Poland)
    Directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski
    Produced by Film It
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    Special Mention:
    Quit Staring At My Plate (Croatia, Denmark)
    Directed by Hana Jušić
    Produced by Kinorama
    Coproduced by Beofilm
    Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Croatian Radiotelevision
     
    Documentary Competition:

    Best Long Documentary:
    Communion (Poland)
    Directed by Anna Zamecka
    Produced by Otter Films, Wajda Studio, HBO Europe
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    Special Mention:
    An Insignificant Man (India)
    Directed by Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

    Free Spirit Competition:


    Free Spirit Award:
    The Giant (Sweden, Denmark)
    Directed by Johannes Nyholm

    Special Mention:
    Anomie (Russia)
    Directed by Vladimir Kozlov

    Short Film Competition:


    Short Grand Prix:
    First Pole On Mars (Poland)
    Directed by Agnieszka Elbanowska

    Best Live Action Short:
    The Play-Off (Poland)
    Directed by Tomasz Gąssowski

    Best Short Animated Film:
    The Talk. True Stories About the Birds and the Bees (Canada)
    Directed by Alain Delannoy

    Best Short Documentary:
    Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturnbig Black & White Drawings (UK)
    Directed by James Scott

    Special Mention:
    Fabricated (USA)
    Directed by Brett Foxwell

    FIPRESCI Award:
    Godless (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Ralitza Petrova
    Produced by Klas Film
    Coproduced by SnowGlobe
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Danish Film Institute, Eurimages

    Young FIPRESCI Award:
    Hristo (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Grifor Lefterov, Todor Matsanov
    Produced by Lema Film
    Supported by the Bulgarian Film Center

    Ecumenical Jury Prize:
    Heartsone (Iceland, Denmark)
    Directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

    NETPAC Jury Prize for the best Asian film:
    Blessed Benefit (Jordan, Germany, Netherlands, Qatar)
    Directed by Mahmoud al Massad

    Audience Awards:

    Feature Film:
    My Life as a Courgette (Switzerland, France)
    Directed by Claude Barras

    Long Documentary:
    Dancer (UK)
    Directed by Steven Cantor

    Short Film:
    Greetings from Kropsdam (Netherlands)
    Directed by Joren Molter

    Films for Children:

    Feature film: Louis &Luca - The Big Cheese Race / Solan og Ludvig - Herfra til Flåklypa (Norway)
    Directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen

    Short film: Mr. Toti and the Magic Wand (Poland)
    Directed by Grzegorz Handzlik, Jarosław Baran