WINNERS OF 33. WFF
33rd Warsaw Film Festival Awards Ceremony, Saturday, 21 October 2017 – Multikino 4;
we have 19 awards and special mentions to give;
NETPAC Jury: Qazi Abdur Rahim - India (chairperson), Olga Khlasheva - Kazakhstan, Sławomir Wasiński - Poland gave the award for the best Asian film to:
1. OUT OF FRAME by Wai Lun Kwok, China
ECUMENICAL: Pastor Heinz-Martin Krauss - Germany (president), Charlotte Timmermans - Belgium, Prof. Witold Kawecki - Poland:
2. Special Mention: THE MINER by Hanna Slak, Slovenia / Croatia
3. Ecumenical Jury Award: BEYOND WORDS by Urszula Antoniak, Poland / Netherlands
Young FIPRESCI Award; the Jury were participants of FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project: Romanita Alexeev - Moldova, Monika Gimbutaitė - Lithuania, Mina Stanikic - Serbia, Arman Fatić - Bosnia, Alexander Gabelia - Georgia, Mikhail Morkin - Russia, Jakub Wanat - Poland, gave the award for best debut from Eastern Europe to the film:
4. Young FIPRESCI Jury Award: HUGO by Wojciech Klimala, Poland
FIPRESCI: Petra Meterc - Slovenia, Kuba Armata - Poland, Pierre-Yves Roger - France, gave the award for best debut from Eastern Europe to the film:
5. NINA by Juraj Lehotský, Slovakia / Czechia
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION Jury: Agnieszka Elbanowska - Poland, Niki Lindroth von Bahr - Sweden, Rich Warren - UK gave the following awards:
6. Special Mention: I Will Always Love You, Conny by Amanda Kernell, Sweden
7. Best Documentary Short: How to become a Pope by Justyna Mytnik, Poland
8. Best Animated Short: Weekends by Trevor Jimenez, USA
9. Best Live Action Short: Offstage by Andrei Huțuleac, Romania
10. Short Grand Prix: 1. Short Grand Prix: May Day by Olivier Magis & Fedrik De Beul, Belgium
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Jury: Volia Chajkouskaya - Belarus, Anna Zamecka - Poland, Jude Ratnam - Sri Lanka awarded:
11. Best Documentary Feature: WONDERFUL LOSERS: A DIFFERENT WORLD by Arūnas Matelis, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland/UK, Spain
FREE SPIRIT COMPETITION Jury: Hana Jusic - Croatia, Tomasz Gąssowski - Poland, Lukas Rinner - Austria, gave:
12. Special Mention: HIGHWAY 318 by Yunxing Nie, China
13. Free Spirit Award: THE RULES FOR EVERYTHING by Kim Hiorthøy, Norway
COMPETITION 1-2 Jury: Agnieszka Dziedzic - Poland, Julia Solomonoff - USA, Laurent Teyssier - France, gave the following awards:
14. Special Mention: FIND THIS DUMB LITTLE BITCH AND THROW HER INTO THE RIVER by Ben Brand, Netherlands
15. Competition 1-2 Winner: THE CHARMER by Milad Alami, Denmark
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Jury: Claudia Landsberger - Netherlands, Jan Hryniak - Poland, Denis Ivanov - Ukraine, Eran Riklis - Israel, Ivica Zubak - Sweden/Croatia
16. Special Mention: THE MINER by Hanna Slak, Slovenia / Croatia
17. Special Jury Award: for Allen Dizon and Angelie Sanoy, actors in THE BOMB by Ralston Gonzales Jover, Philippines
18. Best Director: Joan Chemla for IF YOU SAW HIS HEART, France
19. Warsaw Grand Prix: TO KILL A WATERMELON by Zehao Gao, China
We would like to invite you next year to the 34th Warsaw International Film Festival: 12-21 October, 2018 and to the the Warsaw Industry Days, 18-20 October, 2018.