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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:
Best Fiction Film
For the credibility of the acting and good directing. Excellent script development. |
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by ARI CANDIDO FERNANDES - Brazil
Itamar's wallet is full. He gets pissed off. One day he spots one of the thiefs and decides to kill him, but the bullets don't come out. Later..he 'discover' at this was his live chance of redemption... | |
Best Documentary Film
An everyday life story not easy to capture in a documentary. For its solid sript structure from the start until the end. For the beauty of its shots. |
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ESCAPELAND
by OREN TIROSH - Canada
"Escapeland" follows a love story that develops against-all-odds between Eshel, a young Israeli woman from a kibbutz and Adel, a Sudanese Muslim, a UN refugee, who is not allowed entry into Israel. | |
Best Direction
For using the image in personal and courage manner. A drama told without words. |
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by MAX FRANCOS - Spain
NAKBA: arabic word meaning "disaster".
It describes the most tragic event in the history of Palestinian people, driven from their land during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. | |
Best Screenplay, Raul Urbina & Francisco Alvarez
Simplicity and originality in the development of an idea. |
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by FRANCISCO ALVAREZ - Spain
Atroz is a singular teddy bear whose owner, Luna, is a little girl who will make his live a bit uncomfortable. | |
Best Integral Realization
All elements (sound, image, editing) harmoniously complement each other to tell the story. |
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by MAX FRANCOS - Spain
NAKBA: arabic word meaning "disaster".
It describes the most tragic event in the history of Palestinian people, driven from their land during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. | |
Best Actress, Ana Sofrenovic
For the abitlty to express and tell the story without using any word. |
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OUT OF CONTROL
by GALA GOLIANI - Serbia
Sonja is a medical doctor who specializes in in-vitro fertilization. She is a single, career-driven, emancipated woman in her forties who seemingly has it all. One day, she discovers that something is missing. She begins to desire having a child. | |
Best Actor, Flavio Bauraqui
Acting shows credibility and naturalness that captures you in the story. |
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by ARI CANDIDO FERNANDES - Brazil
Itamar's wallet is full. He gets pissed off. One day he spots one of the thiefs and decides to kill him, but the bullets don't come out. Later..he 'discover' at this was his live chance of redemption... | |
Best Photography, LATI MARANA
Cleanliness and carefulness in each shot, taking into account the contex and the meaning. |
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by ISRAEL DEL SANTO - Spain
'Mouth is not a hole in a wall that can be covered with mud'. This is what Kurdish people use to say if somebody ask them about the dark years they lived during the war. In Halabja, a small town in the north of Iraq, 5,000 people were killed during the two hours of relentless bombing with chemical weapons. | |
Best Art Direction, Meredith Woodley
Expresiveness of the scenes and background. |
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APOCALYPSE STORY
by JEFFREY P. NESKER - Canada
Not long after the end of the world, a chance meeting in the wasteland. Two adolescents. The encounter draws surprising new emotions. People are people, especially those who are still figuring out who they are. No matter the circumstances. | |
Best Editing, Nikos Papanastasiou
For the complexity of the edition given by the script and good resolution of it. |
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by NICHOLAS VEZIRGIANNIS - Greece
In 1976, Argentina suffered a military coup. General Videla's cruel and violently oppressive regime remained in power for 7 years. During that time, 30,000 citizens, mostly students and unionists, were silently and systematically erased from existence. | |
Special Mention
Very good photography and camera movement. |
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by PIERRE FRIQUET - India
Yesa young Ethiopian woman runs away from her tyrannic father and lands up in the unknown city of Bombay with no money or contact while she was on her way to meet her lover, in Antartica. It's about a princess with no kingdom, a soul seeking for a fitting space. | |
Special Mention
Very well edited and well told the story of New Guinea. |
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CHANGEMENT, L'HISTOIRE A TRAVERS LES YEUX DES GUINACENS
by CHIARA CAVALLAZZ - Italy
The Country that best represents African independence: 2/3 of the World's bauxite, diamonds, gold, oil, uranium, greedy corporations, illiteracy, diseases, dictatorships and slaughters of political enemies. | |
Special Mention
Great harmony in plot and acting of the actors and actresses which I think a masterpiece. |
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IL FUNGO SIRENA
by STEFAN ARCHETTI - Italy / UK
Since their parents died in a tragic car accident 4 years previously Saverio and his seven-year-old brother Augusto have been living, in a village in the Italian Alps, with Uncle Fausto and Aunt Domenica. Saverio has a strong spiritual bond with nature. | | |
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The President of the 2011 Jury was Aleyda Valdez, from Spain.
The Members of the Jury were Cristobal Braun Mesples (Argentina),
Jung Seungil (South Korea) and Florian Wyss (Switzerland).
"I really enjoyed the films from the start until the end.
It has been a great experience and pleasure to watch the selection list,
and some times difficult to select the winner, because of the quality of the movies."
Aleyda Valdez
President of the Jury
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Festival de Cine de Granada - 2011 Awards
