Monday September 4, 2017
FEATURE FILMS
Grand Prix of the Americas (Best Film):
AND SUDDENLY THE DAWN / Y DE PRONTO EL AMANECER by Silvio Caiozzi (Chile)
Special Grand Prix of the Jury:
DEAR ETRANGER / OSANAGO WARERA NI UMARE by Yukiko Mishima (Japan)
Best Director:
Maciej Sobieszczanski for the film RECONCILIATION / ZGODA (Poland)
Best Actress:
Irena Kovacevic in the film THE BASICS OF KILLING / DRUŽINICA by Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia / Serbia)
Best Actor:
Karel Roden in the film A PROMINENT PATIENT / MASARYK by Julius Ševcík (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Best Screenplay:
Hossein Namazi for the screenplay of his film APPENDIX (Iran)
Best Artistic Contribution (ex-aequo):
THE HIDDEN SWORD by Xu Haofeng (China)
ANNA KARENINA. VRONSKY’S STORY / ANNA KARENINA. ISTORIYA VRONSKOGO by Karen Shakhnazarov (Russia)
Visual Innovation Award for Transmitting the Oral Traditions:
SAYAKBAY - HOMER OF 20TH CENTURY by Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan)
SHORT FILMS
1st prize:
THE LAST CHURCH BELLS / POSLEDENITE KAMBANI by Nikola Popovski (Macedonia)
Jury Award:
THE CLOWN / LE CLOWN by Maxime Genois (Canada)
Special Mentions:
UCHEBNIK by David Csicskár (Hungary)
WOLF / VARG by Erik Andersson et Frida Kempff (Sweden)
Special Prize of Laughter:
THIS IS ED!! by Bob Hiltermann (USA)
ZENITHS FOR THE BEST FIRST FICTION FEATURE FILMS
First Films World Competition
Golden Zenith:
THE RETURN / DOLAONDA by Chul Heo (South Korea)
Silver Zenith:
SWEET PARENTS by David Bly (Canada / USA)
Bronze Zenith:
THE LOST ELEPHANTS / LES ÉLÉPHANTS PERDUS by Claude Andrieux (France)
CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL
1st Prize: THE AMBER by Chen Peng'ao (China)
2nd Prize: THE BLOOD HOUND by Jianhua Liu (China)
3rd Prize: ACROSS THE RIVER by Zhang Yueling (China)
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD
1st Prize:
WERNER NEKES - THE LIFE BETWEEN IMAGES / WERNER NEKES - DAS LEBEN ZWISCHEN DEN BILDERN by Ulrike Pfeiffer (Germany)
2nd Prize:
CONDEMNED TO REMEMBER by Gerry Gregg (Ireland)
3rd Prize:
WHEN THEY AWAKE by P. J. Marcellino and Hermon Farahi (Canada, USA)
