The best animated film for children went to Phantom Boy by Alaina Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli.
The festival’s industry section, the Visegrad Animation Forum VAF pitching session, gave its prize for best short film to the French/Hungarian project Carpel by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó. The VAF prize in the TV Series pitching went to the Hungarian/Croatian project The Piracy of Princess Priceless by director Flora Anna Buda.
Some 27,000 admissions were recorded at the 2016 edition of the festival.
List of Winners:
Best Film for Grown-ups: Anomalisa (USA)
Directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman
Special Mention: Cafard (France, Belgium, Netherlands)
Directed by Jan Bultheel
Best Film for Children: Phantom Boy (France, Belgium)
Directed by Alaina Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
Best Short Film: Peripheria (France)
Directed by David Coquard-Dassault
Best Student Film: Happy End (Czech Republic)
Directed by Jan Saska
Special Mention: Wolf Games (Croatia)
Directed by Jelena Oroz
Best Music Video: EZ3kiel: The Eye of the Storm (France, Japan)
Directed by Masanobu Hiraoka
Best Abstract and Non-narrative Film: Absent (Austria, Germany)
Directed by Nikki Schuster