This year the festival hosted about 600 directors, festival programmers and other film professionals as guests.
Top prize for best music doc, the Golden Heynal went to Jay Bulger the director of Beware Mr Baker (USA) for his film about the 60s rock music drummer Ginger Baker. In the International Documentary competition the top prize the, Golden Horn, for director of the best film went to Tora Mårtens, the director of Colombianos, (Sweden, Finland) a documentary about a family coping with the problems of drug and alcohol addiction.
Russian director Sergei Loznitsz took the Golden Dragon, the top prize in the International Short Film Competition, for his film Letter which the jury called a “unique cinematographic way of contemplating life.”
In the Polish National Competition the top award, the Golden Hobby-Horse went to director Filip Dzierzawski for his film Love about the generation born and maturing in a free Poland.
In the Dragon Forum, the Dragon of Dragons, went to Netherlands director and animator Paul Driessen who was honoured for his life-time achievements. Driessen was nominated for the Oscar in 2000 for his short film 3 Misses. HBO Development Award Film of the Dragon Forum went to the project LOVE XXXXL directed by Joanna Frydrych (Poland).
The 8th edition of the Dragon Forum was held in Krakow as part of a year long training and pitching programme for documentary filmmakers.
This year’s Krakow Film Market, the biggest film market for documentary and short film in Central East Europe, gave buyers and film professionals a chance to see about 300 newest titles from all over the world, selected from among 1500 films, documentaries, short films and animations that were entered.
Krakow Film Festival Prize Winners
International Music Documentary Competition: DocFilmMusic
Golden Heynal for the Director of the Best Film
Jay Bulger, the director of Beware of Mr Baker (USA)
International Documentary Competition
Golden Horn for the Director of the Best Film
Tora Mårtens, the director of Colombianos (Sweden, Finland)
Silver Horn for the Director of the Best Medium-Length Documentary
Marat Sargsyan, the director of The Father (Lithuania)
Silver Horn for the Director of the Best Feature-Length Documentary
Marcel Łoziński, the director of Father and Son On A Journey and Paweł Łoziński, the director of Father and Son (Poland)
Special Mention
Mahdi Fleifel the director of A World Not Ours (UK, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon)
Award of the Polish Society of Cinematographers (PSC)
Linas Dabriska (Lithuania) for the best cinematography to The Father directed by Marat Sargsyan
FIPRESCI (International Film Critics) Award
The Last Black Sea Pirates directed by Svetoslav Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
Student Jury for Documentary Competition Prize
Mahdi Fleifel the director of A World Not Ours (UK, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon)
International Short Film Competition
Golden Dragon for Director of the Best Film
Sergei Loznitsa, the director of Letter (Russia)
Silver Dragon for Director of the Best Documentary Film
Aleksandra Maciuszek, the director of Previous Scenes (Cuba)
Silver Dragon for Director of the Best Animated Film
Kawai + Okamura, the directors of Columbos (Japan)
Silver Dragon for Director of the Best Short Fiction Film
Marianne Blicher, the director of Belinda Beautiful (Denmark)
Special Mention
To Thy Heart directed by Ewa Borysewicz (Poland)
Prix EFA for the Best European Film (nomination to the European Film Award 2013 in the short film category) for Letter directed by Sergei Loznitsa (Russia)
FICC (international Federation of Film Societies) Prize
Don Quichote Award to Tired of Being Handsome directed by Léo Marchand and Anne-Laure Daffis (France)
Special Mention
Anne Zohra Berrached for the film Saint and Whore (Germany)
Student Jury of the Short Film Competition Prize
Allah is Great directed by Andrea Ianetta (India)
Polish National Competition
Golden Hobby-Horse for Director of the Best Film
Filip Dzierżawski, the director of Love (Poland)
Silver Hobby-Horse for Director of the Best Documentary Film
Bartosz M. Kowalski, the director of A Dream in the Making (Poland)
Special Mention
A Diary of a Journey, directed by Piotr Stasik
Silver Hobby-Horse for Director of the Best Animated Film
Tomasz Popakul, the director of Ziegenort (Poland).
Special Mention
To Thy Heart, directed by Ewa Borysewicz
Silver Hobby Horse for Director of the Best Fiction Film
Jędrzej Bączyk , the director of Coyote (Poland)
Special Mention
Killing Auntie, directed by Mateusz Głowacki
The President of TVP S.A. (Polish Television) Award for the Best Directing
Jakub Pączek, director of The 12th Rat
The President of TVP S.A (Polish Television) Award for the Best Cinematography
Mateusz Skalski, for the cinematography to A Dream in the Making directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski
The President of the Association of Polish Filmmakers Award
Agnieszka Elbanowska the director of The Love Equation of Henry Fast
The President of the Association of Polish Filmmakers Award for the Best Film Editing
Bartek Pietras, editor of the film The Big Leap directed by Kristoffer Rus
Maciej Szumowski Award for remarkable social awareness founded by the National Broadcasting Council
Bartosz M. Kowalski, the director of A Dream in the Making
The Award for the Best Short and Documentary Films Producer in Poland founded by the Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce (KIPA)
Piotr Kielar from Lifetime Productions for the film Love
Student Jury for National Competition Prize
Killing Auntie directed by Mateusz Głowacki (Poland).
Audience Award
Love directed by Filip Dzierżawski
Dragon Forum
HBO Development Award
Film project LOVE XXXXL directed by Joanna Frydrych (Poland).
