FIPRESCI Prize

Austria’s most important international film event, as well as one of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking world, the Viennale offers a program of high quality in a relaxed urban atmosphere in autumn, when Vienna is at its most attractive, and it takes place in the city’s historic center, providing the festival with an international orientation and a distinctive urban flair. In its program, the Viennale shows a selection of new films from all over the globe as well as from Austria, some of them international premieres, showcasing a cross-section of bold film-making which stands apart from the aesthetics of mainstream conventionality and is politically relevant. Retrospectives on relevant aspects of film history are organized every year in collaboration with the Austrian Filmmuseum, and special events and parties are as much part of the festival as interviews, audience discussions and opportunities to meet the many international guests of the festival. Our jury of three members will focus on cross-section young cinema (first or second features in various sections).

A lively, bold, popular, innovative event! For more than 50 years, the FNC has been making national and international auteur cinema accessible, treating audiences to works of diversity and originality by emerging and major filmmakers. Our focus on the NEW is threefold: new creators, new approaches and new technologies. Dean of Canadian film festivals and a major Quebec event, the FNC presents over 200 works from 60 different countries to celebrate the best of today’s cinema! The festival focuses on a series of first or second feature-length films and on the innovative work of young filmmakers. The FIPRESCI prize at FNC celebrates young voices and new talents in filmmaking.

Founded in 1968, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia was the first film festival in the world created specifically to celebrate fantastic cinema and remains its most prestigious international event. A pioneer in recognizing fantasy, horror, science fiction and other forms of genre filmmaking as a distinct cultural and artistic field. Today, the festival serves as the foremost international meeting point for filmmakers, critics, scholars, industry professionals and audiences dedicated to the genre, presenting an extensive program of competitions, world premieres, retrospectives, exhibitions, educational initiatives and industry activities. Our jury of three members (one Spanish and two international) will award the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the Official Fantastic Competition, recognizing the most outstanding feature in the festival’s main competitive section.