2008 Winners

Prizes

Grand Prix

MAZAL
Director, script Roy Sher
Tel Aviv University, Israel
 


the Best Fiction Film

BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Director Per Hanefjord
Drama Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
 


the Best Director’s Work

AGAPE
Director, script Slobodan Maksimovic
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 


the Best Director’s Work

ROADMARKERS
Director Juho Kuosmanen
University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
 


the Best Camera Work

IN BETWEEN
Camera Joonas Pulkkanen
University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
 


the Best Script of Fiction Film

WOLFY
Director, script Matevz Luzar
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Ljubljana, Slovenia


 


the Best Sound Supervisor

BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Sound Ilona Pettersson, Martin Taesler
Drama Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
 


the Best Documentary Film

NIGHTWATCHER
Director Menno Otten
Netherlands Film and Television Academy, Amsterdam
 



the Best Animation Film

EARLY OR LATE
Director, script, animation Jadwiga Kowalska
Lucerne High School of Art and Design, Switzerland
 



the Best Fiction Film Less Than 5 Minutes

LOVE IS HARD AS WALLS
Director Marvin Kren
Hamburg Media School, Germany
 


 

the Best Experimental Film

PLASTIC BAGS
Director, script, camera Milos Tomic
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts. Prague, Czechia
 

 

 

Special Prize from the team of the film “Beginning”

For a good start

BOULEVARD
Director Alisa Khmelnitskaya
Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Moscow, Russia


the Best Script of full-length film

DISSONANCES
Script Valery Baklanov
St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia


the Best Script of short film

TRAILING CAR
Script Anna Tougareva
St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia


Prize from St. Petersburg Cinema Press Federation
For the Most Promising Beginning

AN HONOURABLE DAY
Director: Anders Habenicht
Drama Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
 


Sergey Dobrotvorsky’s Prize instituted by Seance magazine
For the fruitful search of sources of the impossible

INSOMNIA
Director Galina Krasnoborova
The Russian Federation State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow 
 

 


Special Prize from Cinemotion Group
For the Best Script of Russian Fiction Film

THE SACK
Script Sergey Muratov
Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Moscow, Russia


 

For original graphic decision of the principal character in “Dean Dankov” by Evgeny Grishkovets
Artist Anastasiya Kopyrina
Director of the workshop – Honorable Artist of Russia Larisa Konnikova


For bright graphic and compositional decision of the characters in Chekhov’s “Bride”

Artist Maria Krasnoselskikh
Director of the workshop – Honorable Artist of Russia Larisa Konnikova

For expressive composition and high technical skill in graphic work “Scale”
Artist Kseniya Boulatova
Professor – Peter Konnikov

 

Diplomas

For the best professional training of young filmmakers in multiple genres
University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, USA

For the best training of young filmmakers and national traditionalism
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Ljubljana, Slovenia

For the best training of young filmmakers and national traditionalism
University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland


For aspiration to discover the theme of cruelty and repentance
I DON'T FEEL LIKE DANCING
Directors Joachim Dollhopf, Evi Goldbrunner
The Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf”, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany

 


For successful decision of a theme of the first love

OLD HOUSE PARADISE
Director Karina Klimenko
St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia

 

 

For high artistry of graphic decision
THREE
Director, script, camera Dariela Ludlow
Centre of Cinema Training, Mexico

 

 

For expressive laconism of the director’s work
CHEEESE…
Director Huseyin Tabak
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria

 


 

For genuine cinematic decision and harmony
52 PERCENT
Director, script Rafal Skalski
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Lodz


 

For unexpected revelation of the theme of relations between man and woman
RED RABBIT
Director, script, animation Egmont Mayer
Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany

 


For reverent attitude to a sound partition

KITES KNOW NO CHASTITY
Director, script Hooshmand Varaei
Tehran Sooreh Higher Education Institute, Iran

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