04-12-2011

FESTIVALS: In Darkness Wins Plus Camerimage

By FNE Staff

    In Darkness, the Polish Oscar entry directed by Agnieszka Holland won the main competition award, the Golden Frog, for cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska at the Plus Camerimage IFF (www.pluscamerimage.pl), which ended on 3 December 2012.

    In the Polish competition, the prize went to The Suicide Room directed by Jan Komasa with cinematography by Radosław Ładczuk.

    Students from Hungary, Poland, and Germany won the three student competition awards.

    Director/cinematographer Tomasz Wolski won the grand prix in the full-length documentary competition for his film Doctors, and Łukasz Żal, Piotr Bernaś shared the main prize in the short documentary competition for Paparazzi (directed by Bernaś), with a special mention going to cinematographer/director Wojciech Staroń for Argentinean Lesson.

    The best director debut prize went to Karl Markovics for Breathing (cinematographer Martin Gschlacht), while Komasa picked up a second prize for best debuting cinematographer, again for The Suicide Room.

    A complete list of prize winners follows:


    MAIN COMPETITION

    The Golden Frog: IN DARKNESS
    cin. Jolanta Dylewska
    dir. Agnieszka Holland

    The Silver Frog: NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION
    cin. Mahmoud Kalari
    dir. Asghar Farhadi

    The Bronze Frog: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    cin. Robbie Ryan
    dir. Andrea Arnold
    POLISH FILMS COMPETITION
    under patronage of Plus network operator

    The Best Polish Film: SUICIDE ROOM
    cin. Radosław Ładczuk
    dir. Jan Komasa

    *** *** ***

    STUDENT ETUDES COMPETITION

    Laszlo Kovacs Student Award - The Golden Tadpole: FINALE
    cin. Balazs Revesz
    dir. Balazs Simonyi
    Fotografus Foundation and School for the Hungarian Film & Photography

    The Silver Tadpole: NORMAL PEOPLE
    cin. Nicolas Villegas Hernandez
    dir. Piotr Złotorowicz
    National Łódź Film School

    The Bronze Tadpole: RAJU
    cin. Sin Huh
    dir. Max Zahle
    Hamburg Media School
    FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION
    under patronage of Discovery Networks CEEMEA

    The Golden Frog - Grand Prix: DOCTORS
    cin. Tomasz Wolski
    dir. Tomasz Wolski

    The Special Mention: BLINDING
    cin. Steve Sanguedolce
    dir. Steve Sanguedolce

    *** *** ***

    SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION
    under patronage of Discovery Networks CEEMEA

    The Golden Frog - Grand Prix: PAPARAZZI
    cin. Łukasz Żal, Piotr Bernaś
    dir. Piotr Bernaś

    The Special Mention: ARGENTINEAN LESSON
    cin. Wojciech Staroń
    dir. Wojciech Staroń
    DIRECTORS' DEBUTS COMPETITION

    The Best Director Debut: BREATHING
    cin. Martin Gschlacht
    dir. Karl Markovics
    CINEMATOGRAPHERS' DEBUTS COMPETITION

    The Best Cinematographer Debut: SUICIDE ROOM
    cin. Radosław Ładczuk
    dir. Jan Komasa
    MUSIC VIDEOS COMPETITION

    The Best Music Video: MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA "SIMPLE MATH"
    cin. Jackson Hunt
    dir. DANIELS

    The Best Cinematography in a Music Video: DU "SO HOT"
    cin. Karl Erik Brøndbo
    dir. Karl Erik Brøndbo, Solfrid Kjets