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compelling lead performance, the jury found this
moving tale about the dark confusing chaos of
adolescence to be horrific, humorous and sweet,
combining gruesome and surreal elements of body
horror with an assured narrative.
Best DirectorAward
The Best Director Award, accompanied by the
sum of €2,500, went to Cem Oztufekci from
Turkey for the film
Nolya
for his clever use of
changing mise-en-scene to help develop the nar-
rative, for the way the camera and the actors
work together, and for the creation of a unique
atmosphere and a surrealistic world within an
entertaining film.
DocumentaryAward
The award for Best Documentary, accompanied
by the sum of €4,000, went to the film
After
, by
Lukasz Konopa from Poland. Visually confident,
this documentary examines the nature of memory
and allows us to view a very familiar event in a
bold, new light.
International Special Mentions
Special mention went to the scriptwriters Pavlos
Methenitis and Kostas Yerampinis for the film
Ice-
berg
, by Kostas Yerampinis from Greece. The film,
which dealswith the outburst of an outsider as a state-
ment about the actual social struggles currently facing
Greek society, also features excellent performances
fromhits lead actors. Based on the report of a rejected
asylumapplication, the film reconstructs the protago-
nist’s storywith artistic, visual language.
For its imaginative and outstanding approach to
documentary filmmaking, the jury awarded spe-
cial mention to the film
Lack of Evidence
, by Hay-
oun Kwon from France.
Special Mention also went to a film that impressed
the jury with its unique storytelling,
25 Square
Kilometres
by Jana Minarikova from Slovakia.
Made with a minimal budget, the film comprises
different narrative layers and is full of humour and
postmodern elements.
Student PrizeAward
Students from the
Cyprus University of Technol-
ogy (Department of Multimedia and GraphicArts)
awarded the Student Prize Award to the following
six shorts:
Lost and Found
,
Box of Human Sen-
sations, Little King, The Foreigner, Dripped
and
God’s Amnesia.
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Marios Ioannou’s unique performance
Artistic committee: Alexia Roider and Ioakim Mylonas
The Director of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of
Education and Culture, Mr Pavlos Paraskevas