Awards
of the Festival 2010
THE MAIN
AWARD
| On the Run with Abdul |
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James Newton, David Lale, Kristian Hove
UK, France
2009 | HD | 0:23:00
We went to Calais to make a film about teenage refugees trying to get into Britain. Then we met Abdul and suddenly everything changed. A film about the responsibilities of the first world, as well as documentary filmmakers. |
THE SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award is dedicated to films treating an important subject in a compelling and surprising manner.
| Believe |
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Paul Wright
UK
2009 * 35 mm * 0:20:00
Believe is the story of one man's grief following the death of his wife. The film captures a desperate journey, played out against beautifully isolated highland landscapes.
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THE NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award is deticated to films that celebrate ambivalence and complexity, films that can't be reduced to simple concepts and ideas and evoke a certain enigma, which keeps the spectator in a state of perplecity ans stimulation of ongoing reflexion.
| Exodus |
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Almagul Menlibayeva
Kazaksthan
2009 / DV / 0:11:00
„Exodus“ is showing a weared off tradition in the present Kazakhstan, like a strange and powerful tale. Men and women are in the process of packing up their Yurtas (nomadic tents). An ancient shamanistic normad ritual „The Closing Road“ is persecuted, only perceived by a girl, who is icaptivated by what is ment to be left behind.
Exodus is on the same time evoking the global uprooting. |
THE SPECIAL MENTIONS OF THE JURY
| Girl |
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Siunghoon Hong
South Korea
2008 / 35 mm / 0:17:00
A man receives an unexpecting visit from a girl who is pregnant with his son's baby and asks for his help. The sudden visit complicate his life. |
| The Illusion |
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Susana Barriga
Cuba
2008 * HD * 0:24:00
After having spent the past 26 years imagining what her father is like Susana sets out from Cuba to England to meet him for the first time. She tries to conjure up memories of his face, but all she has left are the few blurred photographs she took clandestinely – and the desire to reconstruct the illusion she had before their meeting. |
| Nunta lui oli (Oli’s Wedding) |
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Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Roumanie
2009 / 35 mm / 0:22:00
Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in the USA. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam toghether with two of his son’s friends. On the small display they are going to meet the bride, her father and will witness the ceremony. A bitter-sweet story about scattered families and lonely parents. |
