"The Best Film Award in the International Competition goes to the film that moves, from the first scene, with its urgency to tell a story that exceeds personal experience and speaks to universal themes of attachment to life and to one another. With its subtle touch of hybridity, the film is made with directorial perfection, precise imagery, and performances that subtly describe a supremely sorrowful plot. It proves cinema's ability to work in an almost therapeutic way and elevate a private story to universal resonance. The Best film is SAFE PLACE by Juraj Lerotic."
