At the 32nd Jerusalem Film Festival, the Critics Prize for a debut film in the international competition went to “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” by Chloe Zhao (USA). Motivation: “The…
At the 5th Odessa International Film Festival the critics’ jury focussed on Ukrainian films. The prize for a feature-length film went to “The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls” (Dybuk.…
Romanian director Florin Serban’s second film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015. Festival Head Karel Och writes:
»Nineteen-year-old Rafael is a promising Roma boxer.…
The 33rd edition of the Munich International Film Festival hosted a FIPRESCI jury for the first time. Amid high summer temperatures the screening venues were well-attended, with the German film…
Siegfried Kracauer Prize 2015
For the second time, the German Association of Film Critics together with the Film Subsidising Funds of Baden-Wuerttemberg awarded the “Siedfried Kracauer Prize” for the best…
The Moscow International Film Festival is one of the traditional major European / east European film events, this year already in its 37th edition (June 19-26, 2015). Our jury of…
The Bulgarian film critic and journalist, scientist and scholar Alexander Yanakiev passed unexpectedly away. He was a prominent historian of Bulgarian cinema, author of many articles and of two books:…
At the 14th Transilvania International Film Festival, in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca (May 29 – June 7, 2015), the Prize of the International Film Critics – FIPRESCI Prize –…
At the 24th edition of the International Film Festival Innsbruck, Serbian filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic was awarded the festival’s “Prize of Honor”. In his laudatory speech, FIPRESCI General Secretary Klaus Eder…
The FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the main competition went to “Son of Saul” (Saul Fia) by László Nemes (Hungary 2015, 107 min).
Motivation: “For movingly portraying a Holocaust…
The FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the section “Un Certain Regard” went to “Masaan” by Neeraj Ghaywan (India, France, 2015, 103 min).
Motivation: “Neeraj Ghaywan’s ‘Masaan’ dealing with…
The FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the Parallel Sections went to “Paulina” (La Patota) by Santiago Mitre (Argentine, Brazil, France, 2015, 103 min, presented in the Critics’ Week). …