New Horizons International Film Festival
- Grand Prix and a cheque for 20,000 EUR was won by ‘Lucifer’ – a film by the Belgian director Gust Van den Berghe. It is a story of Lucifer who found himself in a Mexican village; he seduces a shepherdess’ daughter and heals the sick, and everything is shown in an unconventional manner with a Tondoscope (the pictures look as if they were captured with a fisheye).
- A distinction was granted to Carlos Quintela’s ‘The Project of the Century’ – a story of a three-generation Cuban family living in a small town Juragua near an unfinished nuclear power plant.
- The FIPRESCI award went to Miguel Gomes’ ‘Arabian Nights’; in his trilogy, the director shows Portugal as a place suspended between reality and a dream of old huge power.
- The Audience Award was granted to the film ‘Goodnight Mommy’ by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz – a stirring story of twin brothers who try to explore the mystery of their sick mother.
Films About Art International Competition
- The award of 10,000 EUR went to ‘Twenty Eight Nights and a Poem’ by Akram Zaatari. The Lebanese director’s film is a poetic story where the word ‘moon’ repeats in 28 different ways. ‘Most films shown in this section refer to some kind of artistic form, but this one is a work of art in itself,’ the jury explained.
Polish Short Film Competition
- 1st award and 10,000 PLN was granted to ‘Love Love’ by Grzegorz Zariczny.
European Short Film Competition
- This category was won by Rainer Kohlberger and his ‘Moon Blink’; in addition, the director received also a scholarship from the London Film Academy.
Zoom Competition
- Here, the award went to ‘The Queen of Silence [Polish: ‘Królowa ciszy>>'<<] by Agnieszka Zwiefka. It is a story of Denisa – a deaf Roma girl living with her family in one of the Wroclaw camps who communicates through dance.
- ESK 2016 Special Award – the scholarship and the possibility of preparing a project in the Audiovisual Technology Centre went to Aleksandra Terpińska, the director of ‘America’.
The full list of winners is available on the website of the festival.
