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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AWARDS:
The jury for the International Competition of the 41st Thessaloniki Film
Festival comprised of,
Jerzy Skolimowski, director (Poland), President
Judit Elek, director (Czech Republic)
Fred Kelemen, director (Germany)
Tuncel Kurtiz, actor (Turkey)
Alberto Barbera, film critic (Italy)
Jorge Sanchez, producer (Mexico)
Fotos Lambrinos, director (Greece)
Best Full Length Film Award - Golden Alexander
(12,500,000 drachmas )
LAST RESORT
by Pavel Pawlikowski (Great Britain).
Special Jury Award - Silver Alexander
(7.500,000 drachmas)
LOST KILLERS by Dito Tsintsadze (Germany)
Best Director Award
To: MARZIYEH MESHKINI for
Roozi Keh Zan Shodam (The Day I Became A Woman) - Iran.
Best Screenplay Award
To: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD for
Die Innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In) -Germany.
Best Actress Award
To DINA KORZUN in
Last Resort by Pavel Pawlikowski - Great Britain.
Best Actor Award
ex aequo to:
MISEL MATISEVIC in
Lost Killers by Dito Tsintsadze - Germany.
and
PADDY CONSIDINE in
Last Resort by Pavel Pawlikowski-Great Britain
Artistic Achievement Award
SZCZESLIWY CZLOWIEK (Happy Man)
by Malgorzata Szumowska -Poland
for its visual excellence.
Honorary Mention
To: KLISTI DROMI (Dead End Streets) by Stavros Ioannou -Greece
for the courageous and realistic way of dealing with a difficult subject.
The jury' s decision was unanimous.
The jury appreciates the selection of the films in the International Competition section for their artistic values, reflecting the political and social situation of refugees and the condition of women in the contemporary world.
The FIPRESCI jury (the International Association of Film Critics) for
the 41st International Thessaloniki Film Festival, comprised of,
Hans Beerekamp, President (Netherlands)
Gabrielle Schultz (Austria)
Olga Markova (Bulgaria)
Philip Bergson (Great Britain)
Andreas Tyros (Greece)
Awards,
The FIPRESCI Prize for a film in Competition to,
LAST RESORT by Pavel Pawlikowski, Great Britain,
for its calm, cool and amusingly collected, utterly cinematic look at an urgent international reality.
The FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the Parallel Sections to:
101 REYKJAVIK by Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland-Norway-Denmark-France,
presented in the New Horizons section,
for the homogeneous and literary treating of complicated contemporary sexual relationships with a sense of humour.
The Jury awards a Special Mention to the films,
DIE INNERE SICHERHEIT (The State I am In) by Christian Petzold, Germany,
presented in the "International Competition" section,
for its intelligent, sensitive and stylish approach, presenting a recent
political topic as an existential problem.
and
TO SPITI TOU KAIN (The House Of Cain) by Christos Karakepelis, Greece,
presented in the "Greek Films 2000" section,
for its cinematic, documentary approach and respectful vision of a harsh
social reality.
The jury would like to salute the quality and the independent spirit of
the competition programme.
First Prize for fiction film
Enas ki enas, by Nikos Zapatinas
Second Prize for fiction film
Afti I nychta meni, by Nikos Panagiotopoulos
Third Prize for fiction film
Efimeri poli, Giorgos Zafiris
Best director
Nikos Zapatinas for the direction of the film Enas ki enas
[ List of Awards... ]
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AUDIENCE - DEWAR' S - AWARD |
The Audience Awards, backed by Dewar' s, correspond,
for a foreign film of the International Competition to,
(SAMOTARI) by David Ondricek (Czech Republic-Slovenia).
for a film of the "Greek Festival" section to,
AGELASTOS PETRA (Mourning Rock) by Philippos Koutsaftis.
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THE GREEK FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (PEKK) AWARD. |
The PEKK award to a Greek film in the "Greek Festival" section is
attributed ex aequo to,
AGELASTOS PETRA (Mourning Rock) by Philippos Koutsaftis -Greece
and
TO SPITI TOU KAIN (The House Of Cain) by Christos Karakepelis -Greece
Honorary Mention:
To: KLISTI DROMI (Dead End Streets) by Stavros Ioannou
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