04-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Lucifer Wins in Wroclaw

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    FESTIVALS: Lucifer Wins in Wroclaw The Project of the Century by Carlos M. Quintela

    WROCLAW: The Belgian film Lucifer directed by Gust Van den Berghe won the grand prize and a 20,000 EUR award at the 15th T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival, which wrapped last weekend.

    A special mention went to The Project of the Century by Carlos M. Quintela.

    Austria took the Audience Award with Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh) directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz.

    A total of 16 awards and special mentions were handed out, along with 30,000 EUR in prize money.

    The complete list of winners follows.

    Grand Prize
    Lucifer (Belgium)
    Directed by Gust Van den Berghe

    Special Mention
    The Project of the Century (Argentina, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany)
    Directed by Carlos M Quintela

    FIPRESCI Prize
    Arabian Nights (As Mil e uma Noites) (Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland)
    Directed by Miguel Gomes

    Audience Award

    Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh) (Austria)
    Directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz

    Films on Art International Competition Prize
    Twenty Eight Nights and a Poem (Lebanon)
    Directed by Akram Zaatari

    Special Mention

    The Wolfpack (USA)
    Directed by Crystal Moselle

    Polish Short Film Competition First Prize
    LOVE, LOVE (Poland)
    Directed by Grzegorz Zariczny

    Second Prize
    La etiuda (Poland)
    Directed by Martin Rath

    Third Prize
    Woolen Cogwheels (2014)
    Directed by Bartosz Kędzierski

    Special Mention
    Object (Poland)
    Directed by Paulina Skibińska

    European Short Film Competition First Prize
    Moon Blink (Austria, Germany)
    Directed by Rainer Kohlberger

    Second Prize
    All That Is Solid (France, Ghana)
    Directed by Louis Henderson

    Third Prize
    Things (UK)
    Ben Rivers 

    Zoom Competition First Prize
    The Queen of Silence (Poland, Germany)
    Directed by Agnieszka Zwiefka
    Produced by Chilli Productions (www.chilliproductions.com)
    Coproduced by HBO Europe (www.hbo-europe.com), Odra Film (www.odra-film.wroc.pl)

    Best video clip
    The Drift (Poland)
    Directed by Marcin Ożóg

    Special Prize
    America (Poland)
    Directed by Aleksandra Terpińska