48th International Film Festival Rotterdam

Netherlands, January 23 - February 3 2019

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The jury

Rasha Hosny (Egypt), Kristin Aalen (Norway), Giovanni Vimercati (Slovenia / Italy), José Antonio Teodoro (Canada), Renata Habets (The Netherlands)

Awarded films

End of Season by Elmar Imanov
(Germany, Azerbaijan, Georgia, 2019, 92 min)

Reports

Another Story about the World War II by Rasha Hosny

The FIPRESCI Award was given to the filmmaker of the best film among all the world premieres in Bright Future (excluding the Tiger Competition), by the jury of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI).

The winning film was awarded with the following motivation: “For its deeply mysterious depiction of familial disintegration, its frequently surprising narrative angularity, and its refreshing evocation of a world in which every home is a private chamber of frustrated desire – most especially for women.”