INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AWARDS
The jury for the International Competition of the 43rd Thessaloniki Film Festival was comprised of,
Marco Bellocchio, Film Director (Italy), President
Niki Karimi, Actress (Iran)
Thierry Jousse, Film Director, Film and Music Critic (France)
Fatmir Koçi, Film Director (Albania)
Achilleas Kyriakidis, Film Director, Film Critic, Author (Greece)
Bob Rafelson, Film Director (USA)
Miroljub Vuckovic, Film Critic, Journalist (Yugoslavia)

The Αwards,

Best Full Length Film Award Golden Alexander (37.000 euros) ex aequo to, MIZU NO ONNA (Woman of Water) by Hidenori Sugimori (Japan) and SUD SANAEHA (Blissfully Yours) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) Special Jury Award Silver Alexander (22.000 euros) to, BUNGALOW by Ulrich Kοhler (Germany)

Best Director Award
To: CARLOS REYGADAS for,
Japon, (Mexico).

Best Screenplay Award
To: ALICE NELLIS for,
Vylet (Some Secrets) -Czech Republic/ Slovak Republic.

Best Actress Award
To: MANCA DORRER in,
Slepa Pega (Blind Spot) by Hanna W.A. Slak - Slovenia.

Best Actor Award
To: CHRISTOS STERGIOGLOU in,
Diskoli Apoheretismi: O Babas Mou (Hard Goodbyes: My Father) by Penny Panagiotopoulou - Greece
and
Tha to Metaniossis (Think it Over) by Katerina Evangelakou- Greece

Artistic Achievement Award
To: GWENCHANA ULJIMA (Let's not Cry)
by Min Byoung-hun - Korea

Special Mention
To: MUHAMAD RAHIMOV actor of,
Gwenchana Uljima (Let's not Cry) by Min Byoung-hun - Korea

Statement of the Jury.

The Jury of the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival would like to point out that this year's selection of films of the International Competition Section was rich, strong and full of diversities.
As far as the subjects are concerned we realised that many of these first or second films are dealing with the themes of escaping, double identity and loneliness.
As for the cinematic approach or film language, two currents were detected: passionate and constructive connection with narrative cinema and important devotion to innovative visual form.
We would like to congratulate all the filmmakers and thank them for entrusting their work to our judgement.

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