MWFF 2017: Awards

41ST WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, MONTREAL 2017

Monday, September 4, 2017

AWARDS

FEATURE FILMS

World Competition

Grand Prix of the Americas (Best Film):

AND SUDDENLY THE DAWN / Y DE PRONTO EL AMANECER by Silvio Caiozzi (Chile)

Special Grand Prix of the Jury:

DEAR ETRANGER / OSANAGO WARERA NI UMARE by Yukiko Mishima (Japan) 

Best Director:

Maciej Sobieszczanski for the film RECONCILIATION / ZGODA (Poland)

Best Actress:

Irena Kovacevic in the film THE BASICS OF KILLING / DRUŽINICA by Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia / Serbia)

Best Actor:

Karel Roden in the film A PROMINENT PATIENT / MASARYK by Julius Ševcík (Czech Republic/Slovakia)

Best Screenplay:

Hosein Namazi for the screenplay of his film APPENDIX (Iran)

Best Artistic Contribution (ex-aequo):

- THE HIDDEN SWORD by Xu Haofeng (China)
- ANNA KARENINA. VRONSKY’S STORY / ANNA KARENINA. ISTORIYA VRONSKOGO by Karen Shakhnazarov (Russia)

Visual Innovation Award for Transmitting the Oral Traditions:

SAYAKBAY - HOMER OF 20TH CENTURY by Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan)

ZENITHS FOR THE BEST FIRST FICTION FEATURE FILMS

First Films World Competition

Golden Zenith:

THE RETURN / DOLAONDA by Chul Heo (South Korea)

Silver Zenith: 

SWEET PARENTS by David Bly (Canada / USA)

Bronze Zenith: 

THE LOST ELEPHANTS / LES ÉLÉPHANTS PERDUS by Claude Andrieux (France)

SHORT FILMS

  

1st prize:

THE LAST CHURCH BELLS / POSLEDENITE KAMBANI by Nicola Popovski (Macedonia)

Jury Award:

THE CLOWN / LE CLOWN by Maxime Genois (Canada)

Special Mentions: 

UCHEBNIK by David Csicskár (Hungary)

WOLF / VARG by Erik Andersson et Frida Kempff (Sweden)

Special Prize of Laughter:

THIS IS ED!! by Bob Hiltermann (USA)

  

CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL

1st Prize:  THE AMBER by Chen Peng'ao (China)

2nd Prize:  THE BLOOD HOUND by Jianhua Liu (China)

3rd Prize:  ACROSS THE RIVER by Zhang Yueling (China)

AWARDS OF THE 48TH STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL, MONTREAL 2017

(Held under the auspices and in collaboration with MWFF 2017)

Awards granted on Sunday, September 3, 2017

NATIONAL COMPETITION (CANADA)

Norman McLaren Award (Best Film):

LAND by Samiramis Kia (York University, Toronto)

  

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

1st Prize - Best Film of International Competition

ELENE by Sezen Kayhan (Koç University, Istanbul,Turkey)

BEST FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

Fiction Film:

THE BABYSITTER by Heli Hardy

(The Steve Tisch School of film and Television, University of Tel Aviv, Israel)

Special Mention:

NINE KNOTS / NUEVE NUDOS by Lorena Colmenares

(University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia)

  

Animation Film:

WISHING BOX by Wenli (Lizzie) Zhang

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, USA)

Documentary Film:

OPEN DOORS by Pavel Marcano (Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

  

Experimental Film:

NIPENTHES by Jon Simvonis (AMC Metropolitan College, Athens, Greece)

For more information about the film festival visit the  Montreal World Film Festival's website.

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