The festival screened 96 feature films and 25 short films representing 54 countries in Ljubljana and satellite locations in the cities of Maribor, Celje and Novo Mesto, with attendance around 46,000 and 53 sold-out screenings (among 282 altogether).
LIFFe also celebrated its one-millionth visitor in the festival’s 30-year history this year.
The complete list of winners follows:
Kingfisher Award for Best Film: Beanpole / Dilda (Russia)
Directed by Kantemir Balagov
Special Mention 1: Angelo (Austria, Luxembourg)
Directed by Markus Schleinzer
Special Mention 2: Lara (Germany)
Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster
FIPRESCI Prize: Monos (Columbia, Argentina, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany)
Directed by Alejandro Landes
Best Short Film: Last Year When the Train Passed by / L'An dernier quand le train passait (France)
Directed by Pang-Chuan Huang
Special Mention: The Christmas Gift / Cadoul de Craciun (Romania, Spain)
Directed by Bogdan Muresanu
Produced by Bogdan Mureşanu, Vistor Dumitrovici & Eduardo M Escribano Solera
Audience Dragon Award: Every Day a Good Day / Nichinichi Kore Kojitsu (Japan)
Directed by Tatsushi Ohmori
Kinotrip Young Jury Award: Sorry We Missed You (UK, France, Belgium)
Directed by Ken Loach
Art Cinema Network of Slovenia Award: Ema (Chile)
Directed by Pablo Larrain