Previous Winners

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AUDIENCE AWARD

Best Short Film: Fibertel awards a laptop computer with Internet access for a year and one thousand pesos
Best Argentine Feature Film: Sponsored by Cinecolor
Best International Feature Film: Sponsored by Cinecolor
Best Film in the BAFICITO competition

HUMAN RIGHTS COMPETITION

Best Feature Film

CINEMA OF THE FUTURE

Best Feature Film: I.Sat awards 15 thousand dollars to acquire the TV rights and as an incentive for the director of the winning film

SHORT FILMS OFFICIAL SELECTION

Best Short Film: El Observatorio grants an award consisting of a tape-to-film transfer.
Best Short Film: El Observatorio grants an award consisting of a tape-to-film transfer.
Best Short Film: Kodak grants an award consisting of 5 rolls of 16mm film.

ARGENTINE OFFICIAL SELECTION

Best Director: Alta Definición Argentina, Metrovisión, and La Burbuja Sonido jointly award the winner with a prize consisting of free rentals of HD CAM equipment, enlargement services (to 35mm), and audio post-production.

Moreover, the Metropolitan Fund of Culture, the Arts and Science gives a grant of 10 thousand pesos.

Best Argentine Film: Cinecolor and Kodak jointly award the winner with a prize consisting of enlargement services (to 35mm) and blank material.

Moreover, the Metropolitan Fund of Culture, the Arts and Science gives a grant of 150 thousand pesos.

Award for Best Image Treatment: Sponsored by Kodak.

INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SELECTION

Award for Best Argentine Feature Film: Fuji grants an award consisting of 60 rolls of 16mm film.
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Feature Film: Z Films grants an award consisting of five thousand dollars to acquire the film, DVD and TV rights in Argentina.

The 13th BAFICI will also be graced with the participation of Juries from the following institutions:

Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos Argentinos (Argentine Film Critics Association)
ADF
SIGNIS
FIPRESCI
FEISAL
UNICEF awards films touching on childhood and youth and gives a laptop to the director of the winning film.

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Voto del Público

De la Selección Oficial Internacional: Mary and Max de Adam Elliot
De la Selección Oficial Argentina: El ambulante, de Eduardo de la Serna - Lucas Marcheggiano - Adriana Yurcovich
Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos “La Forteresse” de Fernand Melgar
De Baficito: Kerity, la maison des contes de Dominique Bonféry

El jurado Competencia de Derechos Humanos integrado por Anahí Berneri, Daniel Rosenfeld y JIM FINN, otorgó los siguientes premios:

Mención para Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio, de Valeria Mapelman
Mención para Petition, de Zhao Liang
Mención para El Rati Horror Show, de Enrique Piñeyro
Mejor película Cuchillo de palo, de Renate Costa

El jurado Cine del Futuro integrado por Álvaro Arroba, Eduardo Stupía y Marie Losier, otorgó los siguientes premios:

Mención para Sewer, de Sherad Anthony Sanchez
Mejor Película auspiciado por I.SAT para Morrer como un homem, de João Pedro Rodriguez

El jurado Selección Oficial Argentina integrado por Alain Guiraudie, Carlos Flores del Pino, Carlos Losilla, Catherine Bizern y Tizza Covi, otorgó los siguientes premios:

Distinción Mejor Fotografía auspiciado por Kodak para Las pistas – Lanhoyij- Nmitaxanaxac, de Sebastián Lingiardi
Premio Especial del Jurado auspiciado por Cinecolor y Kodak para Somos nosotros, de Mariano Blanco
Premio Mejor Director auspiciado por Alta Definición Argentina – Metrovisión, La Burbuja Sonido y el Ministerio de Cultura a través del Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y las Ciencias para Iván Fund y Santiago Loza por Los labios
Premio Mejor Película auspiciado por el Ministerio de Cultura a través del Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y las Ciencias y Hoyts para Invernadero, de Gonzalo Castro

El Jurado Cortos Argentinos integrado por Bárbara Álvarez, Christelle Lheureux y Ezequiel Acuña, otorgó los siguientes premios:

Mención: Los árboles se mueven, Sergio. Sí, Christian. De Christian Nunclares y Sergio Subero
Mejor Cortometraje auspiciado por CIEVYC para Sábado uno, de Ignacio Rogers
Mejor Cortometraje auspiciado por CIEVYC para Mientras paseo en cisne, de Lara Arellano
Mejor Cortometraje auspiciado por Kodak para La mia casa, de Marcelo Scoccia

El jurado Selección Oficial Internacional integrado por Angela Bassett, Vance César Aira, João Pedro Rodrigues, Olivier Père y Raya Martin, , otorgó los siguientes premios:

Distinción a Mejor Película Argentina auspiciado por Fuji y Che Revolution Post Lo que más quiero, de Delfina Castagnino
Mejor Actor para Dragos Bucur por Police, Adjective
Mejor Actriz para Pilar Gamboa y María Villar por Lo que más quiero
Premio Especial del Jurado para La bocca del lupo, de Pietro Marcello
Mejor Director para Corneliu Poromboiu por Police, Adjective
Mejor Película auspiciado por Z Films y Hoyts para Alamar, de Pedro González-Rubio

Otras premiaciones y menciones del Festival

FEISAL

Mención a El vuelco del Cangrejo, de Oscar Ruíz Navia
Premio a Los labios, de Santiago Loza e Iván Fund

Premio Asociación Cronistas Cinematográficos Argentinos

Premio para Los labios, de Santiago Loza e Iván Fund

Premio ADF

Premio al DIRECTOR DE FOTOGRAFIA: MAURO PINHEIRO JR.por su trabajo en el film Os famosos e os duendes da morte, de Esmir Filho

Premio SIGNIS

Mención especial: Alamar, de Pedro González-Rubio
Premio: La Bocca del lupo, de Pietro Marcell

Premio FIPRESCI

Premio a Lo que más quiero, de Delfina Castagnino

Premio UNICEF

Mención para la película Alamar, de Pedro González-Rubio
Premio para La Pivellina, de Tizza Covi y Rainer Frimmel

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Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos
Nobody’s Perfect de Niko Von Glasow

Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos
“La Mere” de Antoine Cattin y Pavel Kostomarov

Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos
“La Forteresse” de Fernand Melgar

Mejor Película Competencia Derechos Humanos
“Bagatela” de Jorge Caballero

Mención Especial Competencia Cine del Futuro
Filmefobia de Kiko Goiffman

Mejor Película Competencia Cine del Futuro
La Neige au Village de Martin Ritt

Mejor Cortometraje Selección Oficial Argentina
“Yo, Natalia” de Guillermina Pico

Mejor Cortometraje Selección Oficial Argentina
“Pehuajó” de Catalina Marín

Mejor Cortometraje Selección Oficial Argentina
“Silencio en la Sala” de Felipe Galvez Haberle

Premio Especial del Jurado Selección Oficial Argentina
“Rosa Patria” de Santiago Loza

Mejor Director Selección Oficial Argentina
a Pablo Agüero por “77 Doronship”

Premio Mejor Película Selección Oficial Argentina
“Castro” de Alejo Moguillansky

Mención Especial Selección Oficial Internacional
“Todos Mienten” de Matías Piñeiro

Mejor Actriz Selección Oficial Internacional
Maria Dinulescu por “Hooked” de Adrian Sitaru

Mejor Actor Selección Oficial Internacional
Alfredo Castro por “Tony Manero” de Pablo Larraín, Chile.

Mejor Director Selección Oficial Internacional
Maren Ade por “Everyone Else”

Premio Especial del Jurado Selección Oficial Internacional
“Gasolina”, de Julio Hernández Cordón

Mejor Película Selección Oficial Internacional
“Aquele querido mes de Agosto” de Miguel Gomes

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The International Film Official Selection

The International Film Official Selection Jury, namely José Luis Cienfuegos, Fred Kelemen, Luciano Monteagudo, Luis Ospina y Caveh Zahedi, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: "Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo", by Yulene Olaizola (México)
Best Director: Lance Hammer for "Ballast" (EE.UU.)
Special Mention: "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind", by John Gianvito (EE.UU.)
Best Actor: Kang Sheng Lee for "Help Me Eros" (Taiwán)
Best Actress: Liu Dan for "Night Train" (China)
Jury's Special Prize: "Night Train", by Diao Yinan (China)

The Local Film Official Selection

The Local Film Official Selection Jury, namely Rubén Imaz Castro, Amir Muhammad, Corneliu Porumboiu, Jean Pierre Rehm y Gerwin Tamsma, conferred the following awards:

Best Film:"Unidad 25", by Alejo Hoijman.
Best Director: Gonzalo Castro for "Resfriada".
Special Mention: "Süden", by Gastón Solnicki.
Special Mention: "Una semana solos", by Celina Murga (Argentina).
Jury´s Special Prize: "Historias Extraordinarias", by Mariano Llinás.

The Short Film Official Selection Jury, namely Astrid Ofner, Matías Piñeiro y Jean Philippe Tessé, conferred the following awards :

"El contrabajo" (foto) by Alejo Franzetti
"Ahendu nde sapukai" (Oigo tu grito), by Pablo Lama
"Fedra o la desesperación", by Gustavo Galuppo.

The Human Rights Jury, namely Mariana Arruti, Ricardo Giraldo Monttes y Santiago Palavecino, conferred the following awards:

"Mi vida dentro", by Lucía Gajá
"Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind", by John Gianvito

The Future Film Jury, namely Francisco Ferreira, Romina Paula e Iván Pablo Pinto Veas, conferred the following award:

"Llavallol", by Grupo Tierra en Trance

Los restantes premios y menciones del Festival

Premio Asociación Cronistas Cinematográficos Argentinos
Mención Especial: "Construcción de una ciudad", de Néstor Frenkel
Primer Premio: "Süden", de Gastón Solnicki

Premio ADF
Mención Especial: Peng Jung Liao por "Help Me Eros"
Premio: Jing Song Dong por "Night Train"

Premio SIGNIS
Mención: "Correction", de Thanos Anastopoulos
Mención: "Cochochi", de Israel Cárdenas y Laura Amelia Guzmán.
Premio: "Ballast", de Lance Hammer

Premio FIPRESCI
"Ballast", de Lance Hammer

Premio Revista Ñ y Cinecolor Voto del Públicoz
Mejor película Argentina: "Historias Extraordinarias", de Mariano Llinás

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The International Film Official Selection Jury, namely Maxine Baker, Francesco Di Pace, Roman Gutek, Robert Koehler, Frédéric Maire, Marc Recha and Pablo Trapero, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: In Between Days, by So Yong-Kim.
Best Director: Hugo Vieira da Silva, for Body Rice.
Jury’s Special Prize: Estrellas, by Federico León and Marcos Martínez.
Best Actress: Jiseon Kim, for In Between Days.
Best Actor: Arturo Goetz, for El Asaltante

The Local Film Official Selection Jury, namely Vincenzo Bugno, Piotr Kobus, Pawel Pawlikowski, Jaime Pena and Claire Simon, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: UPA! Una película Argentina, by Santiago Giralt, Camila Toker and Tamae Garateguy.
Special Mention: La León, by Santiago Otheguy.
Best Director: Rafael Filippelli, for Música Nocturna, and Raúl Perrone, for Canadá

The Short Film Official Selection Jury, namely Gabe Klinger, Isaki Lacuesta and Rafael Spregelburd, conferred the following awards:

Best Short Film: ABC, etc, by Sergio Subero.
Special Mention: Simpatía, by Galel Maidana.
Special Mention: Ana, by Gabriela Trettel.

The Human Rights Jury, namely Martin Kohan, Michael Renov and Jannie Langbroek, conferred the following award:

Best Human Rights Film: 9 Star Hotel, by Ido Haar.

The Future Film Jury, namely Agustín Mango, Claudio Cordero and Manuel Yánez, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: El Tiempo que se Queda, by José Luis Torres Leiva
Jury’s Special Mention: Street Thies, by Malik Bader

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The International Film Official Selection Jury, namely Mercedes Alvarez, Jane Balfour, Alvaro Buela, Michael Fitzgerald, Lucrecia Martel, Paulo Antonio Paranagua and Mary Sweeney, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: En el Hoyo, by Juan Carlos Rulfo
Jury’s Special Prize: Sehnsucht – Longing, by Valeska Grisebach

The Local Film Official Selection Jury, namely Paula Astorga Riestra, Paul Cronin, Sandra den Hamer, Alberto Fuguet, Monica Haim, Zhang Ming and Jim Stara, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Blue, by Alexis dos Santos
Jury’s Special Prize: Soledad al Fin del Mundo, by Fernando Zuber and Carlos Casas.

The Human Rights Jury, namely Estela Carlotto, Cristián Leighton, María Luisa Ortega and Pablo Reyero, conferred the following award:

Best Film: Pavee Lacken: a traveler girl, by Perry Ogden

The Short Film Official Selection Jury, namely Jorge Gaggero, Fran Gayo and Sonja Heinen, conferred the following award:

Best Short: 8 Horas, by Adrián Biniez

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The International Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Rudi Barnet, Albertina Carri, Alberto Elena, Andreas Kleinert, Michel Reilhac and Pablo Stoll, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: El Cielo Gira, by Mercedes Álvarez
Best Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, for “4”
Best Actor: Mohammad Bakri, for Domicilio Privado, directed by Saverio Costanzo
Best Actress: Eva Löbau, for The Forest for the Trees
Jury’s Special Prize: L´Esquive, by Abdellatif Kechiche

The Local Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Rosario Bléfari, Pablo Ferré, Chris Fujiwara, Paz Alicia Garciadiego and Edouard Waintrop, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Como un Avión Estrellado, by Ezequiel Acuña
Jury’s Special Prize: Vida en Falcon, by Jorge Gaggero

The Local Short Film Jury, namely Mirta Busnelli, Lee Daniel and Heinz Hermanns, conferred the following awards:

Best Short Film: Ricardo Electricista de Automóviles, by Nicolás Bratosevich
Best Short Film: Lejos del Sol, by Pablo Agüero
Public’s Choice Award: Cándido López won Best Local Film and El Cielo Gira won Best Foreign Film

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The Official Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Manuel Antón, Fréderic Bonnaud, Sara Driver, José Padilla, Valeria Sarmiento, Weiland Speck and Roberto Turigliatto, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Parapalos, by Ana Poliak (Argentina)
Best Director: Royston Tan, for 15 (Fifteen) (Singapore)
Jury’s Special Prize: Las Horas del Día, by Jaime Rosales (Spain)
Best Actor: Pietro Sibille, for Días de Santiago (Peru)
Best Actress: Hwang Jeong-min, for Save the Green Planet! (South Korea)

The New Argentine Cinema (Argentina Lo Nuevo de lo Nuevo) Jury, namely Luciano Barisone, Ricardo Bedoya and Ulrico Köhler, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Una de Dos, by Alejo Hernán Taube
Special Mention: La Quimera de los Héroes, by Daniel Rosenfeld

The Official Short Film Competition Jury, namely PoChu AuYeung, José María Escriche and Diego Lerman, conferred the following awards:

First Place: El Patio, by Milagros Mumenthaler
Second Place: Más quel Mundo, by Lautaro Núñez de Arco
Special Mention: Abasto/Canes, by Martín Mainoli

The Human Rights Jury, namely Bruni Burres, Martín Caparrós and Gastón Pauls, conferred the following awards:

Human Rights Competition: S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, by Rithy Panh (France)
Human Rights Special Mention: Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, by Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi (France, Belgium, Germany, UK)

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The Official Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Cis Bierinckx, Bruni Burres, Michel Demopuolos, John Gianvito, Vincenzo Marra, José María Prado and Pablo Rovito, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Waiting for Happiness, by Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania)
Best Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, for Blissfully Yours (Thailand)
Jury’s Special Prize: Ana y Los Otros, by Celina Murga (Argentina)
Best Actor: Alejandro Ferretis, for Japón (Mexico)
Best Actress: Séverine Caneele, for Une part du ciel (France, Belgium, Luxemburg)
Jury’s Special Mention: Los Rubios, by Albertina Carri (Argentina)

The Official Short Film Competition Jury, namely Verónica Chen, Juan Ferrer and Martín Schweighofer, conferred the following awards

Best Short Film: Felipe, by Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)

The New Argentine Cinema (Cine Argentino: Lo nuevo de lo Nuevo) Jury, namely José Carlos Avellar, Tiziana Finzi and Meter van Brueren, distinguished:

Ex Aequo a Extraño, by Santiago Loza; and Los Rubios, by Albertina Carri.

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The Official Feature Film Jury, namely Peggy Chiao, Jacques Gerber, Don McKellar, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Han Sang-jun and Roger Guenveur Smith, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Tornando a Casa, by Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
Best Director: Michael Gilio, for Kwik Stop (USA)
Best Actress: Ronit Elkabetz, for Late Marriage (Isr/Fra)
Best Actor: Lennie Burmeister, for Bungalow (Germany)
Jury’s Special Prize: Tan de Repente, by Diego Lerman (Argentina)
Jury’s Mention: Lavoura Arcaica, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Bra)

Lo nuevo de lo nuevo / Italia Cinema

Best Film: Ciudad de María, by Enrique Bellande
Honorable Mention: Late un Corazón, by Raúl Perrone
Best Short Film: La Sombra, by Nicolás Tuozzo

Public’s Choice Award (Shared)

Tan de Repente, by Diego Lerman (Argentina); and Lavoura Arcaica, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Bra)

The Short Film Jury, namely Bernard Bénoliel, Tiziana Finzi and Albertina Carri, conferred the following awards:

Best Short Film: Sobre la Tierra, by María Florencia Alvarez (Arg)
Best Director: Kate Cragg, for Shell (UK)

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The Official Feature Film Jury, namely Roberto Bolaño, Simon Field, Emmanuel Finkie, lChang-Dong Lee, Steffania Rocca, Jonathan Rosembaum and Beatriz Sarlo, conferred the following awards:

Best Film: Platform (Zhan Tai). Directed by Jia Zhangke, China (2000)
Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, for Clouds of May, Turkey (2000)
Special Prize: The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein. Directed by John Gianvito, USA (2000)
Best Actor: Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi and Alfonso Tort, for 25 watts. Directed by J.P. Rebella and P. Stoll, Uruguay (2001)
Best Actress: Yuko Nakamura, for Hotaru. Directed by Naomi Kawase, Japan (2000)
Special Mention: The Blackboard. Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran (2000)

The Official Short Film Jury, namely Hughan, Marcos Loayza and Pablo Trapero, conferred the following awards:

Best Short Film: Des Morceaux de ma Femme, by Frédéric Pelle.
Best Director: John Hardwick, for To Have & To Hold.
Jury’s Special Prize: Faux Contact, by Eric Jameux.
Public’s Choice Award: Jigsaw Venus, by Dean Kapsalis.

Special Mentions:

Short Films: Baby, by W.I.Z.; Retrato em Fuga, by Nuno Carinhas; and Ring of FIRE, by Andreas Hykade.
Actors: Julio Arrieta, for El Nexo; and Margaret RR Echeverría, for Jigsaw Venus.

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The 2nd year’s winners were:

Human Resources (France) by Laurent Cantet, award to Best Film.
Noemie Lvovsky, for Life Doesn't Scare Me (France), award to Best Director.
Sasa Gedeon, for The Idiot Returns (Czech Republic), award to Best Script.
Ewen Bremmer, for Julien Donkey-Boy (USA), award to Best Actor.
Anna Geislerová and Tatiana Vllhelmová, for The Idiot Returns (Czech Republic), shared award to Best Actress.
Enrique Piñeyro (actor) obtained a Special Mention for Esperando al Mesías.

The Public’s Choice Award went to Human Resources (France) and the OCIC granted the Grand Prize to But Forever in My Mind (Italy), by Gabrielle Muccino, and the Special Prize to East is East (England), by Damien O´Donell.

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The Feature Film Jury, namely Valentina Bassi, Barry Gifford, Kim Dong Ho, Fernando Lara, Carlos Marcovich. Meter Van Bueren and Whit Stillman, conferred the following awards:

After Life (Japan), by Kore-Eda Hirokazu, obtained awards for Best Film and Best Script.
Mundo Grúa (Argentina), by Pablo Trapero, obtained an award for Best Director.
Luis Margani obtained the Best Actor award for Mundo Grúa.
Monic Hendrickx obtained the Best Actress award for The Polish Bride (Holland).

The Public’s Choice Award went to The Apple (Iran), by Samira Makhamalf.

The OCIC granted the Grand Prize to The Apple and the Special Prize to Mundo Grúa.