EXPIFF2010 Award Winning Films & Jury Statements

The Members of the International Jury would like to congratulate the film festival director Mr Moscu Copel and all the curators of the program and all the film festival team for setting up an important and innovative event with passion and professionality.

We believe that Events like this one have to be continued and encouraged, to promote in Romania, like everywhere, an exchange of artistic dialogues and creation.

The International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest is giving to the audience the great opportunity to spend some days discovering the new tendencies of cinema and the experimental films heritage. 

SPECIAL MENTION

For the never ending and passionate exploration of filmmaking the first special mention goes to Werner Herzog for LA BOHEME, UK.

JURY SPECIAL MENTION

The film puts together fluently all different aspects of art: painting, collage, photography, animation, computer graphic and sound design. The special mention goes to WESTCOAST, Ulu Braun, Germany.

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE ofered by ROMANIA FILM (500 euro)

The prize goes to a person who developed through his experience, in a different and creative way, narrative and experimental expressions.
This prize is for the director of photography George Chiper for 2 films: THE PALM LINES, Romania, and SPACES, Denmark/Romania.

THE THIRD PRIZE offered by JTI (1000 euro)

We award the passion of the author who transforms documentary footage in another cinematic language making us reflect of nature of cinema and in the same time allowing us to be engaged and absorbed by it's inherent power: PLOT POINT, Nicolas Provost, Belgium.

THE SECOND PRIZE offered by KODAK Cinelabs (1000 euro in stock and processing)

With this prize, we want to recognize an emerging voice for their challenging content and means of narrative filmmaking, specially for their exploration in acting. We give the KODAK prize which consists of film stock and developing to OLYMPIA I & II and A HISTORY OF MUTUAL RESPECT, by Gabriel Abrantes/ Katie Widloski, Portugal.

THE FIRST PRIZE offered by ARCUB (1500 euro)

This film shows us the ambiguous complexity of the history on many levels in particular the moral and the persistence of memories of the events. The filmmaker allows the viewers to understand the emotion of all participants in a deep and intimate way through a powerful work of sound, editing and research. The prize goes to EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL, Jean Gabriel Periot, France.