Rotterdam International Film Festival: 1999

Tiger Award

Date:	27 January - 7 February
Jury:	Arturo Ripstein (Mexico); Alex Cox (I) (UK); Sonia Herman Dolz (Netherlands); Kay Armatage (Canada) (programmer); Shozo Ichiyama (Japan)
Notes:	The festival had more than 300,000 admissions, 460 titles presented at 1,060 screenings, 1,999 guests. All of this was covered by 487 journalist, 211 of which were foreign press.


Winners:
	Following (1998) - Christopher Nolan (I) Plus qu'hier moins que demain (1998) - Laurent Achard Zheleznaya pyata oligarkhii (1998) - Aleksandr Bashirov
Other In-Competition Films:
	Arak el-balah (1998) - Radwan El-Kashef Barrio (1998) - Fernando León de Aranoa Bye-Bye Souirty (1998) - Daoud Aoulad-Syad Ha woo deung (1998) - Sion Kim In Heaven (1998) - Michael Bindlechner Jezus is een Palestijn (1999) - Lodewijk Crijns Slidin' - Alles bunt und wunderbar (1998) - Barbara Albert (I); Michael Grimm; Reinhard Jud Terra Nova (1998) - Paul Middleditch Victor... pendant qu'il est trop tard (1998) - Sandrine Veysset Zyklus von Kleinigkeiten (1999) - Ana Torfs

Jury:

Hans Beerekamp (head of jury); Ricci Scheldwacht; Gabrièlle Provaas; Janine Beulink; Belinda van de Graaf


Winner:
	La vida es silbar (1998) - Fernando Pérez (I)

Jury:

Dave Kehr (USA) (head of jury); Monica Haïm (Canada); Alexander Horwath (Austria); Hana Cielowa (Czech Republic); Ernie Tee (Netherlands)


Winner:
	Victor... pendant qu'il est trop tard (1998) - Sandrine Veysset - For the very expressive combination of social realism and fairy-tale fantasies.


Winner:
	Rotterdam International Film Festival - For continuing the exploratory tradition of the programme section Exploding Cinema and for linking cinema and visual arts.

Jury:

Aruna Vasudev (India); Sittirak Tulaphitak (Thailand); Brynjar Bjerkem (Norway)