Awards for 2012
Tiger Award
WINNERS
Egg and Stone: Ji Huang
The director creates a sensation by telling the private story of a girl who unwillingly becomes trapped in a life in the margins. The taboo present in the film is broken by means of poetic language. The director does so with a convincing author's approach and sensitive direction of non-professional actors. The beautifully framed, conscious choice of camerawork is relevant to storytelling, and unveils human secrets.
De jueves a domingo: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
In focus, this film is a very precise and gentle depiction of the intimate space of a family. We are captured in a journey seen through a child's perspective, and recall the moments of our own childhood, at the same time experiencing and understanding all the complexities that adult life entails. The minimalistic story is revealed through the fresh angles of the camerawork. A gentle piece, rich with sensitive observations.
Clip: Maja Milos
A vigorous, rebellious, authentic, honest and revealing film using modern means to depict in a punchy way the mobile generation, who capture their lives through images recorded on their phones. An emotionally disturbed main character in a fractured family, within a broken society. Clip provokes many questions and gives no answers.
IN-COMPETITION
Tiger Award for Short Film
WINNERS
Springtime: Jeroen Eisinga
A monumental and transfixing cinematic portrait created out of a fearless performance etched in buzzing bees and 35mm grain.
Big in Vietnam: Mati Diop
Raw, defiant and elliptical, Big in Vietnam is suffused with an unusual mood and disarming intimacy.
Generator: Takashi Makino
With its impressive soundtrack and hybrid layering, Generator creates an explosive, pulsating experience of an environment on the brink of disaster.
IN-COMPETITION
Prix UIP Rotterdam (European Short Film)
WINNER
KNF Award
WINNER
Clip: Maja Milos
The winning film is a daring and stunning debut, portraying an abandoned Serbian post-war generation. Its talented young director succeeds in constructing a brutal portrait using the pervasive and uninhibited visual language of the cell phone generation. It shows teens obsessively identifying with video clips, glorifying sex and violence and turning themselves into victims of pornofication. Though confronting, disturbing and explicit, Clip skilfully succeeds in avoiding the trap of exploitation. We really hope a Dutch distributor will show the same courage as Maja Milos did in making this film.
IN-COMPETITION
FIPRESCI Prize
Tiger Competition
WINNER
Netpac Award
WINNER
Sentimental Animal: Quan Wu
For employing innovative visual and narrative construction to cultivate a poignant cinematic style, thereby creating a subtle metonymy about the power structure and tension-ridden human relationships in Chinese society today.
MovieZone Award
WINNER
IN-COMPETITION
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