Latest Critics' Prizes
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San Francisco: "Nights with Théodore"
(Sébastien Betbeder)
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Ankara. "Cinema can be full of joy", writes our jury about the winner of the Critics' Prize at the "Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival" (in the Turkish city of Ankara), Queen of Montreuil, directed by French Solveig Anspach. More 
San Francisco. Our jury awarded the Critics Prize to "Nights with Théodore" by Sébastien Betbeder. "With a bold and inventive take on narrative and structure, this beguiling and truly original film is a glowing testament to a new generation of French filmmakers" states the jury. More
Oberhausen. The traditional festival (Germany) offered an overview on the recent situation of the short film genre. More
Independent Cinema is featured in the festivals of Buenos Aires (Argentina, BAFICI) and Krakow (Poland, OffPlusCamera). More about Buenos Aires / More about Krakow
Wiesbaden. The goEast Film Festival offers a wonderful overview on eastern European cinemas, which recently became highly interesting again. More
Istanbul. Costa-Gavras, Peter Weir, Carlos Reygadas were among the guests of the festival's 32nd edition. Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915 won the FIPRESCI Prize. Interesting was the overview on recent Turkish films, made up, to a big part, by young filmmakers. More
Lecce. At the Festival of European Cinema in the south Italian city of Lecce critics discovered the emergence of a promising new director, Turkish Elif Refig (Ships). More
Hong Kong. The international festival is particularly worth attending because of its diverse selection of Asian films. Our jury discovered a young Georgian movie, In Bloom, which could signalize after a long crisis the rebirth of Georgain cinema. More
Fribourg. "Like five games of chess in one" describes our jury Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Penance, the winner of our prize at this festival dedicated to the cinemas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. More
 Toulouse. The meeting point of Latin American cinemas offered a wonderful overview on the recent production of the continent. Photo: FIPRESCI-Prize winning film The Devil's Liquor by Chilean Ignacio Rodriguez. More
Thessaloniki. The Documentary Film Festival in the Greek city presented an overview on recent international docs and focused in particular on new Greek documentaries. The critics jury headed by Canadian Peter Wintonick awarded They Glow In The Dark directed by Panagiotis Evangelidis, and Parts Of A Family directed by Diego Gutierrez (a Mexico-Netherlands co-production). More
Sofia. A Romanian film was liked most by the critics attending this major Balkan festival: A Month In Thailand by Paul Negoescu. More
Guadalajara. The Mexican festival went first time without a Mexican competition and focused on Ibero-American films (and offered a Nordic Panorama). Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Gomes won the Critics Prize (Once Upon A Time Was I, Veronica). More
Cartagena. Our jurors enjoyed the colombian festival directed by the enthusiastic Monica Wagenberg. She honored Harvey Keitel and Julio Medem with tributes. Paul Schrader and Raoul Peck got retrospectives. More
Göteborg. The Göteborg IFF is not just Scandinavia's biggest film festival; it also boasts one of the most lucrative film prizes in the world. Our FIPRESCI jury awarded Danish Northwest (Nordvest) by Michael Noer "for its solid acting performances and its balanced and realistic portrayal of a young man's descent into a criminal world." More
Rotterdam. In The Netherlands the FIPRESCI jury admired Alberto Gracia's radical and audacious desire to capture the world as seen through the eyes of a legendary rebel madman. Mysterious and bravely resisting any amount of words to precisely describe what he's achieved on screen, Gracia's work is both meticulously structured and yet as untamed as a dream in the deepest dark of night. The FIPRESCI prize went to The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser (O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser). More
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