Hungarian director Gyorgi Palfi picked up the Special Jury Prize as well as Best Director for his film Free Fall. Free Fall was also awarded the Europa Cinemas Label Award. Corrections Class by Russian director Ivan I Tverdovsky took the top prize in the East of the West Competition.
The international FIPRESCI critics award went to Rocks in My Pocket by Latvian director Signe Baumane. The winning film Corn Island was also the top rated film in the FNE FIPRESCI Critic ratings, a joint FNE FIPRESCI project that invites international critics attending the festival to rate the films in the main programmes with results published on FNE each day during the festival.
This year also saw the first edition of the FNE Coproduction Meetings at the festival which looks like it will become an annual fixture with all four of the film funds from the four Visegrad countries represented and four regional coproductions presented.
Over all more than 12 000 accredited visitors attended the festival including 478 filmmakers, 825 film professionals, and 640 journalists and over 130 000 tickets were sold for 478 screenings of 245 films.
KVIFF 2014 Prize Winners
Main Competition
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE
Corn Island / Simindis kundzuli
Directed by: George Ovashvili
Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan
Production Alamdary Films (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Axman Production (www.axmanproduction.com)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Free Fall / Szabadesés
Directed by: György Pálfi
Hungary, France, South Korea
Production KMH Film Productions (www.kmhfilm.com)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
György Pálfi for the film Free Fall / Szabadesés
Hungary, France, South Korea
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Elle Fanning for her role in the film Low Down
Directed by: Jeff Preiss
USA
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart for his role in the film All Yours / Je suis à toi
Directed by: David Lambert
Belgium, Canada
EAST OF THE WEST – COMPETITION
EAST OF THE WEST AWARD
Corrections Class / Klass korrektsii
Directed by: Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Russia, Germany
SPECIAL MENTION
Barbarians / Varvari
Directed by: Ivan Ikić
Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia
DOCUMENTARY FILMS – COMPETITION
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM OVER 60 MINUTES
Waiting for August
Directed by: Teodora Ana Mihai
Belgium
SPECIAL MENTION
Steadiness / Sitzfleisch
Directed by: Lisa Weber
Austria
BEST DOCUMENTARY UNDER 30 MINUTES
Autofocus
Directed by: Boris Poljak
Croatia
SPECIAL MENTION
The Queen / La reina
Directed by: Manuel Abramovich
Argentina
FORUM OF INDEPENDENTS – COMPETITION
FORUM OF INDEPENDENTS AWARD
Anywhere Else / Anderswo
Directed by: Ester Amrami
Germany
AUDIENCE AWARD
The Magic Voice of a Rebel / Magický hlas rebelky
Directed by: Olga Sommerová
Czech Republic
Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema
Mel Gibson, USA
William Friedkin, USA
Festival President’s Award for Contribution to Czech Cinematography
Zdeněk Svěrák, Czech Republic
NON-STATUTORY AWARDS
AWARD OF INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI)
Rocks in My Pockets
Directed by: Signe Baumane
Lativa, USA
Produced by Signe Baumane Studio www.signebaumane.com
THE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
Corn Island / Simindis kundzuli
Directed by: George Ovashvili
Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan
SPECIAL MENTION
Rocks in My Pockets
Directed by: Signe Baumane
USA, Latvia
FEDEORA AWARD
Awarded by the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and The Mediterranean (FEDEORA) to the best film from East of the West - Competition
Bota
Directed by: Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci
Albania, Italy, Kosovo
SPECIAL MENTION
Corrections Class / Klass korrektsii
Directed by: Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Russia, Germany
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
For the best European film in the Official Selection - Competition and in the East of the West - Competition.
Free Fall / Szabadesés
Directed by: György Pálfi
Hungary, France, South Korea
Works in Progress 2014
AWARD FOR THE MOST PROMISING PROJECT
Goat / Koza
Directed by: Ivan Ostrochovský
Slovakia, Czech Republic
