26-07-2016

FESTIVALS: Erlkoning Wins Countryside Animafest Cyprus

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    PAPHOS: The Swiss film Erlkoning by Georges Schwizgebel was awarded the International Grand Prix at the 15th Countryside Animafest Cyprus, while I, the Eye by Eleni Chandriotou won in the national competition.

    This year the festival screened 68 animated films from 21 to 23 July. The jury which decided the winners of the national and the international competition was composed of Kaspar Jancis, Yiorgos Savvinides and Theodore Ushev.

    There were 17 films in the national competition and 26 in the international competition, 12 Danish films in the Animation Workshop and 13 children’s animated films in Children Panorama.

    WINNERS
    International Grand Prix
    Erlkoning (Switzerland)
    Directed by Georges Schwizgebel

    National Competition
    I, the Eye
    Directed by Eleni Chandriotou

    Special Mention in the National Competition
    The Man and the Trees (Cyprus, Hungary and Romania)
    Directed by Constantinos Terlikkas and Dani Pucz

    Jury Special Mentions
    Before Love (Russia)
    Directed by Igor Kovalyov


    Parade de Satie (Japan)
    Directed by Koji Yamamura


    How Long, Not Long (Denmark)
    Directed by Michelle and Uri Kranot