Nastassja Kinski who was present at the festival received special BIAFF Lifetime Achievement award for “contribution to World cinema”.
List of winners BIAFF 2015:
International Competition - Feature Films
Grand Prix
Brother Dejan (Russia, Serbia, 2015)
Directed by Bakur Bakuradze
Best Film Directing
Sharunas Bartas
for his film Peace to Us in Our Dreams (Lithuania/ France/Russia, 2015)
Produced by Studija Kinema (Lithuania)
Coproduced by KinoElektron (France), Lookfilm (Russia)
Supported by the Lithuanian National Film Centre
Best Actress – ensemble of women actresses in film Mustang
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (France/ Germany/Turkey/Qatar, 2015)
Jury Special Prize for the film Mustang
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (France/ Germany/Turkey/Qatar, 2015)
Best Actor – Joachim Fjelstrup in film Itsi Bitsi (Denmark/Croatia/ Sweden/Argentina, 2014)
Directed by Ole Christian Madsen
Produced by Nimbus Film (Denmark), Mp-Films (Croatia)
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC)
International Competition - Documentary Films
The Best Doc film
Double Aliens (Latvia/Georgia, 2015)
Directed by Ugis Olte
Produced by VFS Films (Latvia), SAKDOC (Georgia)
Supported by National Film Centre of Latvia, Georgian National Film Center (GNFC)
Special Mention
Cartel Land (USA/Mexico, 2015)
Directed by Matthew Heineman
International Competition – Short Films
The Best Short film
The Chicken (Germany/Croatia 2014)
Directed by Una Gunjak
Produced by Jelena Goldbach
Jury Special Mention
Adam (Belarus, 2014)
Direced by Yuliya Hanchar
Preparation (Georgia, 2015)
Directed by Giorgi Tsil
BIAFF Life time Achievement awards for contribuitone to World cinema was granted to:
• Nastassja Kinski (Germany)
• Maja Komorowsa (Poland)
• Lana Gogoberidze (Georgia)
• Baadur Tsuladze (Georgia)
BIAFF management also gave two special awards to:
• Harutyun Khachatryan – Armenian film director (President of Golden Apricot film festival) for his contribution to popularization of cinema in Caucasus reigion
• Christopher Kamyszew for his contribution to development of BIAFF film festival
