FIPRESCI AWARDS
The FIPRESCI jury (The International Association of Film Critics) for the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival, comprised of,

Elie Castiel (Canada), President
Dubravka Lakic (Yugoslavia)
Nina Tsyrkun (Russia)
Carlo Gentille (Italy)
Christos Mitsis (Greece)

Awards,

The FIPRESCI Prize for the International Competition
ex aequo to,

VYLET, (Some Secrets) by Alice Nellis, Czech Republic /Slovak Republic,
for the humorous way of narrating a dramatic story with a brilliant command of all film devices.

and to,

DYSKOLI APOHERETISMI: O BABAS MOU, (Hard Goodbyes: my father) by Penny Panagiotopoulou, Greece,
for its acute symbiosis of daily routine and metaphorical sense of life.

The FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the Parallel Sections to,

MAN TARANEH,15 SAL DARAM (I'm Taraneh, 15) by Rassul Sadr-Ameli, Iran, presented in the New Horizons section,
for its visual effectiveness in showing a new perspective of the condition of women in Iranian society.

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