Festival Promo
Art Direction & Animation: Jelena Milunović
Sound Design: Tatjana Ščerbak
Jury
Main Jury: Carolina LópezCaballero (Spain), Tal Gadon (Israel), Vassilis Kroustallis (Greece)
Films for Children Jury: Olga Bobrowska (Poland), Timon Leder (Slovenia) and Milan Milosavljević (Serbia)
Awarded Films
Grand Prix
Nighthawk
Špela Čadež (Slovenia)
Explanation: An impressionistic, hypnotizing journey and a very well-crafted film that guides you with determination but gently to intoxicating states of consciousness.
Special Jury Award
Drop by Drop
Laura Gonçalves & Xá (Portugal)
Explanation: For its great artistic effort and originality in documenting a rather overseen issue, and the strong, poetic inages that stay in your mind even after the film is screened.
Carolina López Caballero - Special Distinction
Manivald
Chintis Lundgren (Estonia)
Explanation: For the humour portraying a not-so-easy mother and son relationship.
Tal Gadon - Special Distinction
Negative Space
Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata (France)
Explanation: Beautifully crafted, well animated and cleverly portrayed, the director succeeds in conveying deep emotions and telling a family story through a surprisingly ordinary routine.
Vassilis Kroustallis - Special Distinction
Dolls Don’t Cry
Frédérick Tremblay (Canada)
Explanation: For it subtle, complex but still deeply affecting re-creation of love and abandonment relationships between humans and puppets.
Films for Children - Main Award
The Unicorn
Remi Durin (France)
Explanation: An enchanting book adaptation tells us that, no matter how much you love somebody, you need to set them free. The film demostrates the immersive power of 2d hand-drawn animation. A well-evolved story intertwines with classic animation atmosphere.
Films for Children - Special Jury Award
Nobody
Elham Toroghi (Iran)
Explanation: Our Special Award of the Jury goes to a cinematographic jewel with a sad story, for precise elaborated views of cinematic means of expression, componented with brilliant hand-drawn animation. A bitter sweet story about never giving up.
Films for Children - Special Distinction Of The Jury
Gamlet. Comedy.
Evgeniy Fadeyev (Russia)
Explanation: A cheerful and sophisticated comedy uses minimalistic means of expression. It is seasoned with intriguing use of snappy animation and positive-negative space.
Audience Award
Hedgehog's House
Eva Cvijanovic (Canada)
