20th International Festival of Local Television, Kosice, Slovakia
Jury Awards:
- Golden Beggar for the best local television program
Sower (Poland /Belsat), directed by: Jerzy Kalina, chosen for the way it skilfully uses the rhythm of sowing and harvesting as a metaphor for life.
- Golden Beggar for the best production company film
La Parada (Spain), directed by: Lino Varela Cerviño, chosen for the quietly intense way in which it told a national drama through one person.
- Golden Beggar for the best young author’s film
Electric Indigo (Belgium), directed by: Jean–Julien Collette, chosen for the originality of its story and the smartness of its execution.
- Prize of the Journalists Association of Serbia “Zora”
Goran (Serbia), directed by: Roberto Santaguida, chosen for the technique it developed to permit a man with disabilities to tell his own story.
- Prize of the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Transmission for the Best Slovak Film
Sledge Hockey (Slovakia), directed by: Matej Ligač, chosen for the sympathetic yet direct way in which It tells the story of a young man who transforms a handicap.
- Prize of the TV Festival Vitez
Battiti (Italy), directed by: Simeone Latini, chosen for the elegant simplicity with which it tells the story of an unexpected pregnancy.
- Prize of the Fogelsong Family Foundation of the USA
Destino (France), directed by: Zangro, Sylvain de Zagroniz, chosen for the wonderfully animated way in which it tells a love story.
- Honorable mentions of the jury
Historias de Balcones (Cuba/Denmark) Directed by: Helle Windeløv-Lindzélius
Not Alone (Belarus) Directed by: Volha Dashuk
I and Lucia (Slovakia) Directed by: Peter Komár
Echoes (Spain) Directed by: Sergio Martinez Alberto
The Fugue (France) Directed by: Xavier Bonnin
Faces (Italy) Directed by: Antonio de Palo
