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Warsaw International Film Festival

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    Audience Award

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    Documentary

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      Get the Picture

      7.9 (123)
      Cathy Pearson

    Feature Film

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      Tangerines

      8.1 (51K)
      Zaza Urushadze

    Short Film

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      Little Secret

      7.2 (51)
      Martin Krejcí

    Grand Prix

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      Ida

      7.4 (62K)
      Pawel Pawlikowski
      From the superb combination of script, directing, cinematography, acting and music comes a beautiful and delicate film that portrays a post-war Polish society, trying to get past its demons.
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      Trap Street

      6.3 (242)
      Vivian Qu
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      A Very Unsettled Summer

      5.4 (173)
      Anca Damian
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      Abuse of Weakness

      5.9 (1.4K)
      Catherine Breillat
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      Concrete Night

      6.4 (1.3K)
      Pirjo Honkasalo
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      In Hiding

      5.7 (309)
      Jan Kidawa-Blonski
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      Kids Return: The Reunion

      6.1 (78)
      Hiroshi Shimizu
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      Jako nikdy

      6.3 (73)
      Zdenek Tyc
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      Love Is Blind

      7.3 (998)
      Ilmar Raag
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      Paat

      5.4 (71)
      Amir Toodehroosta
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      Paradise for the Damned

      5.4 (131)
      Alejandro Montiel
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      Tangerines

      8.1 (51K)
      Zaza Urushadze
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      The Gambler

      7.1 (1.8K)
      Ignas Jonynas
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      The Green Jacket

      6.6 (80)
      Volodymyr Tykhyy
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      Zhazhda

      6.9 (194)
      Dmitriy Tyurin

    International Competition

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      The Green Jacket

      6.6 (80)
      Igor Savychenko(producer)

    Special Jury Award

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      The Gambler

      7.1 (1.8K)
      Uljana Kim(producer)
      Roberts Vinovskis(producer)
      From a country where film production is still in its infancy comes a film trying to deal with contemporary issues in its own society. Considering the limited resources, the producer created a vivid world, with a lot of production value.

    Free Spirit Award

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      Much Better Than You

      6.4 (187)
      Che Sandoval
      The Jury appreciates the simplicity of storytelling of "Much Better Than You" and its free spirit in a comedy genre film about an important topic of the transformation of intimacy and gender roles in modern society - the story told from male antihero's point of view.
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      AKP: Job 27

      6.3 (44)
      Michael L. Suan
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      Distant

      6.7 (18)
      Zhengfan Yang
    • Micul Spartan

      6.8 (16)
      Dragos-Bogdan Iuga
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      Mistaken for Strangers

      7.3 (4.7K)
      Tom Berninger
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      Senotaji

      6.5 (77)
      Ivars Tontegode
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      Rites of Passage

      6.6 (317)
      Phillip Crawford
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      The Awakening of the Soul

      Rosana Matecki
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      Three Marks of Existence

      6.1 (20)
      Gunparwitt Phuwadolwisid
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      Trolling

      6.3 (594)
      Kosta Djordjevic

    Best Documentary

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      Dirty Wars

      7.4 (9.5K)
      Rick Rowley
      We have chosen "Dirty Wars" because of its outstanding filmmaking and also for its courageous line of questioning. There is humanity to this film which values a single life above and beyond any governing system. It provokes thought and leaves us moved well after it is over.
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      A Universal Language

      6.0 (12)
      Igal Hecht
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      Running of the Bulls

      7.3 (98)
      Olivier van der Zee
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      Ten no shizuku: Tatsumi Yoshiko Inochi no sûpu

      6.5 (11)
      Atsunori Kawamura
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      Gorgona, Stories on the Run

      5.2 (22)
      Camilo Botero
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      Humano

      6.4 (255)
      Alan Stivelman
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      La Paz in Buenos Aires

      6.1 (42)
      Marcelo Charras
    • Vilje av Stål

      Hallgrim Haug
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      My Stuff

      6.4 (812)
      Petri Luukkainen
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      Normalization

      6.9 (54)
      Robert Kirchhoff
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      Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border

      6.3 (40)
      Rodrigo Reyes
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      Powrót Agnieszki H.

      6.8 (34)
      Krystyna Krauze
      Jacek Petrycki
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      The International Criminal Court

      7.0 (53)
      Marcus Vetter
      Michele Gentile
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      The Kill Team

      7.0 (1.4K)
      Dan Krauss
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      10%: What Makes a Hero?

      5.4 (548)
      Yoav Shamir

    FIPRESCI Prize

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      Yozgat Blues

      6.8 (3.7K)
      Mahmut Fazil Coskun
      Our award at the 29th Warsaw Film Festival goes to "Yozgat Blues" by the Turkish Director Mahmut Fazil Coskun for its moving and full of humor portrait of human relations in a well adapted cinematographic language.

    Competition 1-2 Award

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      Otchuzhdenie

      5.1 (137)
      Milko Lazarov
      (Ex-aequo) For the unadorned and poetic narration of a fundamental theme.
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      The Japanese Dog

      6.5 (616)
      Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
      (Ex-aequo) For tenderness in showing the characters and the world.
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      Errata

      6.3 (45)
      Iván Vescovo
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      Family Tour

      5.1 (137)
      Liliana Torres
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      Le bonheur

      5.6 (19)
      Fabrice Grange
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      Heavenly Shift

      7.4 (3K)
      Márk Bodzsár
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      Heavy Mental

      5.4 (63)
      Sebastian Buttny
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      Kuro

      6.8 (58)
      Daisuke Shimote
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      Love Hunter

      7.4 (123)
      Branislav 'Brane' Bala
      Nemanja Bala
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      No Autumn, No Spring

      6.2 (152)
      Iván Mora Manzano
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      Seduce Me

      5.8 (149)
      Marko Santic
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      Táu

      6.7 (28)
      Daniel Castro Zimbrón
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      The Selfish Giant

      7.3 (13K)
      Clio Barnard
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      The Spider's Lair

      7.0 (44)
      Jason Paul Laxamana
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      Ummah - Unter Freunden

      6.4 (857)
      Cüneyt Kaya

    Best Live Action Short

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      Whale Valley

      7.2 (854)
      Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
      For outstanding cinematographic expression of a human relationship, with a extremely perceptive direction and remarkable cast performance.
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      La hora señalada

      8.8 (58)
      Ivan Mazza

    NETPAC Award

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      Harmony Lessons

      7.3 (1.1K)
      Emir Baigazin
      For the depiction of a highly sensitive subject matter expressed in a striking visual manner, for its perfect casting and its amazing feeling of mise-en-scene.

    Best Animated Short

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      Hasta Santiago

      6.2 (32)
      Mauro Carraro
      For beautifully art directed visual choreography and emotional story, excellence in animation reminding us the greatest masters of animation.

    Best Director

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      Tangerines

      8.1 (51K)
      Zaza Urushadze
      The director of the film succeeded in telling a simple, yet very powerful story in a manner that created a warm, delicate, sweet and sour world.

    Ecumenical Jury Award

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      Ida

      7.4 (62K)
      Pawel Pawlikowski
      "Ida" is a strong and complex drama of young girl brought up at a convent who undertakes a strange journey to find her true identity in hard times of postwar communist Poland. This subtle and elliptic film, shot in an ambitious black and white cinematographic style, raises questions of family bounds, forgiveness and mature faith.

    Short Grand Prix

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      The Pandas

      7.6 (127)
      Matus Vizar
      For cynical, sad, dark, horrible but yet again hillarious reminder of what humanity has become. An original masterpiece of visual storytelling.
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      Saturntage

      5.4 (10)
      Sara Bungartz
    • History of Pets

      5.1 (30)
      Kris Genijn
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      Mr. Hublot

      7.2 (5.4K)
      Laurent Witz
      Alexandre Espigares
    • [object Object]

      You Built Me a Labyrinth

      6.5 (13)
      Lauri-Matti Parppei
    • Bandits

      5.4 (7)
      Antoine Giorgini
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      Beat

      6.8 (149)
      Aneil Karia
    • [object Object]

      Moritz and the Woodwose

      7.0 (39)
      Bryn Chainey
    • [object Object]

      The Dead Kid

      8.4 (63)
      Gregory D. Goyins
    • [object Object]

      Whale Valley

      7.2 (854)
      Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
    • [object Object]

      Butter Lamp

      7.0 (787)
      Wei Hu
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      Encrages

      Simon Lamontagne
      David Tougas
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      Sequence

      7.5 (424)
      Carles Torrens
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      StrAngel: The Angel of the Odd

      6.5 (25)
      Daniel von Braun
      Georg-Sebastian Dreßler
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      El Tiple

      7.3 (24)
      Iván Gaona
    • Les voiles du partage

      6.7 (7)
      Pierre Mousquet
      Jérôme Cauwe
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      Nur 2 cm

      8.0 (7)
      Sanela Salketic
    • [object Object]

      Blued

      9.3 (7)
      Rama Mari
    • Bait, Bechi

      Lior Har-Lev
    • [object Object]

      Little Secret

      7.2 (51)
      Martin Krejcí
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      Mia

      7.5 (24)
      Wouter Bongaerts
    • [object Object]

      Sous bois

      Henri Pardo
    • [object Object]

      Acts of God

      7.1 (11)
      Sarah-Jane Woulahan
    • [object Object]

      Boles

      7.1 (195)
      Spela Cadez
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      Gravity

      7.0 (9)
      Pau Camarasa
      Àlex Lora
    • [object Object]

      Hasta Santiago

      6.2 (32)
      Mauro Carraro
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      Powrót

      4.9 (8)
      Ewa Bukowska
    • 1000 Cranes

      Kaz Cai
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      Aftermath

      6.4 (226)
      Jeremy Robbins
    • [object Object]

      In Autumn

      Rosanna Scarcella
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      Miss Todd

      7.3 (66)
      Kristina Yee
    • [object Object]

      The Gravedigger's Tale

      8.4 (11)
      Min Young Oh
    • [object Object]

      The Note

      7.2 (45)
      Ciaran Creagh
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      The Pledge for Mister Bunny

      7.2 (21)
      Kevin Lim
    • [object Object]

      Beat Beat Beat

      6.9 (104)
      Christin Freitag
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      Center Stage

      7.3 (12)
      Anton Breum
    • Framed

      Evgenia Gostrer
    • [object Object]

      The Landing

      7.1 (544)
      Josh Tanner
    • [object Object]

      Woodwoo

      7.6 (23)
      Jonny Phillips
    • [object Object]

      Callback

      David Findlay
    • [object Object]

      Condom Lead

      6.0 (167)
      Tarzan Nasser
      Arab Nasser

    Competition 1-2 Award - Special Mention

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      Winner

      Seduce Me

      5.8 (149)
      Marko Santic
      For the cleverly formulated sort telling and the outstanding performance of the main character.

    Free Spirit Award - Special Mention

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      Winner

      Rites of Passage

      6.6 (317)
      Phillip Crawford
      Jury gives a special mention to the film "Rites of Passage" appreciating its interesting approach to film making based on director's social work experience.

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    • Warsaw Film Festival
    • Warsaw Film Week
    • Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy
    • Warszawski Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy
    • Warszawski Tydzien Filmowy

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