Bruxelles Fiction & Documentary Festival - 2010 Awards

 

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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

Best Fiction Film

Best Fiction Film

by JAN-EJE FERLING - Sweden
Cissi 27 and Bernt 59 become friends in AA. She is searching her alcoholic father and Bernt his missing daughter. They cannot respond to each other's wants.
Best Documentary

Best Documentary

by SANTIAGO AGUILAR - Spain
It is a paradox, so typical it is almost a cliche, that the comedian is unsure whether he is living or acting. This ambiguity is present in In Character, and there is no intention to replace the frailty of memory with documentation. Even so, only very occasionally does the tale take the place of the document.
Best Direction

Best Director

by JILL DANIELS - United Kingdom
In this experimental documentary, Rosa and Carlos, the voices of the ghosts of young Spanish republicans killed in the Spanish civil war, roam the ruins of Belchite in Northern Spain, waiting for the discovery of their unmarked graves.
Best Screenplay

Best Screenplay

by WLODZIMIERZ KRYGIER - Germany / Poland
20 years ago the negotianions at the round table began. The polish regime decided to share power with the opposition. Some saw this as the end of Communism in Poland. Since then 400 km of highways were built and various inexplicable fortunes emerged.
Best Integral Realization

Best Integral Realization

LITTLE ALIEN
by NINA KUSTURICA - Austria
They're teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an extremely dangerous journey to Europe, all alone, hoping for one thing: to live. After arriving here, they fight to live normal lives, struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth to an uncertain future.
Best Actress: Margareta Eriksson

Best Actress Performance

by JAN-EJE FERLING - Sweden
Cissi 27 and Bernt 59 become friends in AA. She is searching her alcoholic father and Bernt his missing daughter. They cannot respond to each other's wants.
Best Actor: Carlos Lucas

Best Actor Performance

by SANTIAGO AGUILAR - Spain
It is a paradox, so typical it is almost a cliche, that the comedian is unsure whether he is living or acting. This ambiguity is present in In Character, and there is no intention to replace the frailty of memory with documentation. Even so, only very occasionally does the tale take the place of the document.
Best Photography

Best Cinematography

by TIM DUFFY and LARRY BANKS - USA
'Living The Blues' An intimate look in to the lives of these nine great artists that are living and playing the blues, telling their stories through these portraits and songs from the roots of America.
Best Art Direction

Best Integral Realization

by ISRAEL DEL SANTO - Spain
Beshara, Beyrouth's Cabaret main actor, will be the judge and the translator of the different points of view of the most famous artists of the country. This film is only a question: What beauty is?
Best Editing

Best Edition

by LARA SABA - Lebanon
What does the Military leader of the Communist party and the leader of the female activists that instigated the spirituality in the Christian Resistance have in common? When and why did they lay down arms? What about the thousands of missings? And so many other questions.

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Special Mention

ADRIFT
by DOMINIQUE CHRISTIAN MOLLARD - France / USA
This the story of an incredible Odissey made by an undercover reporter who sailed away with 38 Africans migrants on a fishing raft to Europe: he shared during 3 days and nights the misfortunes of his companions among which were two women and a baby.

Special Mention

by JOHN FREEMAN - USA
Jennifer fights for her new found freedom in a card shop called Scaredy Kat.

Special Mention

by JOSH LANER - Canada
Life on the streets in Canada's most impoverished neighborhood finds two people trying to connect with each other in a city where people aren't connected to much of anything.
 


OFFICIAL SELECTION

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A FASHION FOR BLOOD: TANZANIA'S ALBINO HUNTERS by KAT HODGKINSON and GEMMA CALDWELL
ADRIFT by DOMINIQUE CHRISTIAN MOLLARD
AFGHAN WOMEN: A HISTORY OF STRUGGLE
by KATHLEEN FOSTER
ALTAR. CRUZANDO FRONTERAS, BUILDING BRIDGES
by DANIELE BASILIO and PAOLA ZACCARIA
ANDY ET LES JUMBIES
by LAURENT LICHTENSTEIN
ANGEL'S PREY
by JIM HARD
APHRODITE'S MIRROR
by ISRAEL DEL SANTO
ARNALDO POMODORO ARCO PER TIVOLI
by LUCA CERRI
BEIRUT, TRUTH & VERSIONS
by LARA SABA
BONSAI
by ROBERTO AZNAR
COMEBACK
by SERHIY TSYMBA
CONSERVATION REFUGEES - EXPELLED FROM PARADISE
by STEFFEN KEULIG
DIVERSIONS by HELGA LANDAUER
FINANCIAL ADVISER
by SILVANO PLANK and DANIELE MALFATTI
FIREFLIES by GILI MEISLER
BORDER STORIES
by FLORIAN WYSS
HAULING by SEAN WALSH
IN CHARACTER (PORTRAIT OF AN ACTOR)
by SANTIAGO AGUILAR
JUST FOR TODAY
by JAN-EJE FERLING
KAAY FI by ZAPO
KETCHUP IN TUVA - A TRANSSIBERIAN TREASURE HUNT by EIKE SCHMITZ
LA FOLLE ENTREPRISE, SUR LES PAS DE JEANNE MANCE by ANNABEL LOYOLA
LA ROYALE HARMONIE by MANU BONMARIAGE
LA SAISON DES FUNERAILLES by MATTHEW LANCIT
LIFE LINES
by ELISABETH VON ZIEGLAUER and MARTIN ALBISETTI
LITTLE ALIEN by NINA KUSTURICA
LIVING THE BLUES
by TIM DUFFY and LARRY BANKS
LONTANO UNA VITA by CARLA VESTRONI

LUCKY
by OLGA MAKAROVA
LUMMOX by PETER BOYD MACLEAN
NOT RECONCILED
by JILL DANIELS
PARADISE OF 7 TRIBES
by ISRAEL DEL SANTO
PERCEPTION
by HOWARD-SMITH
RUKMINI
by SHARAT KUMAR
SCAREDY KAT
by JOHN FREEMAN
THE  INTERVIEW by GIOVANNI ZELKO
THE BEAR'S SKIN
by GILLES DAUBEUF
THE THIEF OF THINGS by MOISES ZAMORA
THEOFILOS THE ODYSSEY OF A GREAT GREEK PAINTER
by ANDREAS KATSIMITSOULIAS
TRAS LOS PASOS DEL BANDOLERO by PEDRO JAEN R.
VILLAGE-TALES
by WLODZIMIERZ KRYGIER
WASTINGS & PAIN
by JOSH LANER
ZANSKAR WHERE THE VALLEYS TOUCH THE SKY by SERENA LODOVICI


 

Bruxelles Fiction & Documentary Festival

 

 

"It was a huge pleasure to get to know the work of such talented filmmakers, for what I thank the Festival's organizers for calling me. The diversity of languages, cultures and forms of expression coming from so many diferent countries, make this festival a cinema showcase of worldwide excellence"

Gaston Siriczman
Member of the International Jury 



"Congratulations to all the participants of this year's festival. Your
work represents an interesting cross-section of the knife edge of the
international conciousness in 2010. I truly enjoyed viewing all the films
and certainly learned several new tricks to apply to my own filmmaking
endevours. Best of luck to the winners."

Jeffrey P. Nesker
International Jury 

 

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