Bratislava International Film Festival Explained
| Bratislava International Film Festival |
| Location: | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Established: | 1999 |
The Bratislava International Film Festival (also known as Bratislava IFF) is an international film festival established in 1999 and held annually in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Apart from the international competition programme, it also regularly features renowned authors' film retrospectives, a European film program, independent film programmes and various theme programmes.
Awards
Awards are presented in the following categories:
- Grand Prix for best film in the international competition
- Best Director
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- FIPRESCI Award for best film, as determined by a jury of film critics
Award winners
Grand Prix
2003 IFF Bratislava
2004 IFF Bratislava
2005 IFF Bratislava
2006 IFF Bratislava
- Grand Prix – (directed by Royston Tan, Singapore)
- Best Director – Amat Escalante (Blood, Mexico)
- Best Actress – Hermila Guedes (Suely in the Sky, Brazil)
- Best Actor – Antoni Pawlicki (Retrieval, Poland)
- FIPRESCI Award – Retrieval (directed by Slawomir Fabicki, Poland)
2007 IFF Bratislava
2008 IFF Bratislava
- Grand Prix – Mid–August Lunch (directed by Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy)
- Best Director – Amat Escalante (The Bastards, Mexico, France, United States)
- Best Actress – Nada Abou Farhat (Under the Bombs, Lebanon, France, United Kingdom, Belgium)
- Best Actor – Zsolt Anger (The Investigator, Hungary, Sweden, Ireland)
- FIPRESCI Award – Under the Bombs (directed by Philippe Aractingi, Lebanon, France, United Kingdom, Belgium)
2009 IFF Bratislava
- Grand Prix – The Day God Walked Away (directed by Philippe Van Leeuw, Belgium, France)
- Best Director – Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays, Bulgaria, Sweden)
- Best Actress – Ruth Nirere (The Day God Walked Away, France, Belgium)
- Best Actor – Christo Christov (Eastern Plays, Bulgaria, Sweden)– Ex-aequo / Post-mortem
- Best Actor – Harold Torres (Northless, Mexico, Spain)– Ex-aequo
- FIPRESCI Award – Northless (directed by Rigoberto Perezcano, Mexico, Spain)
- Special mention – Northless (directed by Rigoberto Perezcano, Mexico, Spain)
- Ecumenical Jury Award – Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays, Bulgaria, Sweden)
- Ecumenical Jury Award special mention – Optical Illusions (directed by Cristian Jiménez, Chile, France)
- Student Jury Award – Whisper With the Wind (directed by Shahram Alidi, Iraq)
- Best Documentary Film – Petition (directed by Zhao Liang, France, China)
- Best Short Film – Rita (directed by Zhao Liang, Italy)
- Shorts Jury special mention – A Man Overboard (directed by Fabien Gorgeart, France)
- Shorts Jury special mention – Party (directed by Dalibor Matanić, Croatia)
- The IFF Bratislava Award for Artistic Excellence in World Cinematography – Juraj Herz (director)
2010 IFF Bratislava
- Grand Prix – The Four Times (directed by Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, Germany, Switzerland)
- Best Director
- Dragomir Sholev (Shelter, Bulgaria)
- Constantine Popescu (Portrait of the Fighter As A Young Man)
- Best Actress – Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Tree, France, Australia)
- Best Actor – Robert Naylor (10½, Canada)
2011 IFF Bratislava
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