The Winners of the 13th Brussels Film Festival 2015 #brussels #cinema #movie

Posted on June 12, 2015 10:10 pm by brusselsdiplomatic in NEWS // 0 Comments

Films from Germany, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK, France, Belgium, …

The 13^th edition of the Brussels Film Festival closed this Friday 12^th of June with the awards ceremony in the presence of the winners. It was followed by the screening of the English movie X+Y, LE MONDE DE NATHAN in the presence of director Morgan Matthews. The official jury was formed by the French director Christian Carion, the Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse, the Italian actress Antonella Salvucci, the Belgian actress Erika Sainte, and the Flemish actor Wim Willaert.

Directing the Brussels Film Festival for six years, Ivan Corbisier can be proud of a great success. As a matter of fact, the festival has drown a crowd of 30.000, really happy people coming to watch the films, attend concerts and meetings at this event dedicated to the European cinema.

French director Jacques Doillon, special guest of this edition, has given a masterclass, which was hosted by Inès Rabadan and Véronique Jadin (ARFF), before introducing his film Mes séances de lutte at Cinematek, as a preamble to a retrospective dedicated to him, which runs until August 21st.

The festival opened with the movie LA LOI DU MARCHÉ in the presence of director Stéphane Brizé and the main actor Vincent Lindon, offering a nice meeting in a packed Studio 4 in Flagey.

Traditionally, the Brussels Film Festival presents a film-concert, ZONE LIBRE REVISITS 2001. Fruit of an encounter between two outstanding artistic worlds: Serge Teyssot-Gay, guitarist of Noir Désir and the project Interzone and Cyril Bilbeaud (percussion), Zone Libre provided the mythic “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick with a new soundtrack in a shorter but equally hallucinatory version.

Belgian directors, Stéphane & Guillaume Malandrin came to present the world premiere of their new film, Je suis mort mais j’ai des amis, accompanied by the entire cast led by Bouli Lanners, Wim Willaert, Lyes Salem, Eddy Leduc, Vera Van Dooren, and producers Jacques-Henri & Olivier Bronckart et Tomas Leyers.

This edition has equally welcomed director Alain Choquart and actor Jérémie Rénier (LadyGrey), the french director Denis Dercourt (En équilibre), the Dutch director Sacha Polak and her producers Marleen Slot and Dries Phlypo (Zurich), the French filmmaker Christine Carrière accompanied by actors Salomé Dewaels and Catherine Salée (Une mère), Belgian actress Vera Van Dooren (Kidnapping Freddy Heineken), Polish actress Justyna Suwala (Body), the Luxembourg cineast Donato Rotunno (Baby(a)lone), the Swedish director Beata Gardeler (Flocking), the Polish actress Barbara Kurzaj (Kebab & Horoscope), the German director Christian Frosch (Rough Road Ahead), the Dutch actor Bart Slegers and producer Joram Willink (Gluckauf), director Juris Kursietis (Modris), actor Pierre Rochefort and directorRémy Bezançon (Nos Futurs), the Turkish director Faruk Hacihafizoglu (Snow Pirates), Elliott Grove (Raindance) and also Stéphane Aubier, Alain Berliner, Laurent Brandenbourger, Jacques Campens, Jacques-Henri Compère, Jean-Luc Couchard, Isabelle de Hertogh, Pierre Dherte, Carlo Ferrante, Méryl Fortunat-Rossi, Christine Grulois, Philippe Kaufmann, Yannick Kergoat, Yvan Le Moine, Stefan Liberski, Yolande Moreau, Vincent Patar, Anne Paulicevich, Patrick Quinet, Jean-Jacques Rausin, Anthony Rey, Joseph Rouschop, Xavier Seron, Frédéric Sojcher, Vincent Tavier, Hubert Toint, Jaco Van Dormael, Marc-Henri Wajnberg, etc, and the President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, the Ambassador of Malta H.E. Raymond Azzopardi, the Ambassadeur of Poland at the EUMarek Prawda, the ambassador of Slovakia Stanislav Vallo, the ambassador of Latvia at the EU Lelde Lice-Licite, and Joëlle Milquet, Belgian minister of Culture and Fadila Laanan, Minister-President of the Frenchspeaking Brussels Government.

Please find hereunder the complete list of winners of this edition.

Le 14^th BRUSSELS FILM FESTIVAL will take place from the 17^th till the 24^th of June 2016 at Flagey.

LIST OF WINNERS 2015

AWARDS > LONG FEATURE FILMS – OFFICIAL COMPETITION

Official Jury

Christian Carion (director)

Olivier Masset-Depasse (director)

Erika Sainte (actress)

Antonella Salvucci (actress)

Wim Willaert (actor)

Official Competition

BODY by Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland)

BRIDGEND by Jeppe Rønde (Denmark/UK/USA)

DORA or the Sexual Neuroses of our Parents by Stina Werenfels (Switzerland/Germany )

FLOCKING by Beata Gårdeler (Sweden)

GLUCKAUF by Remy van Heugten (The Netherlands)

IN YOUR ARMS by Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm (Denmark/Germany)

LIFE IN A FISHBOWL by Baldvin Zophoníasson (Iceland)

ROUGH ROAD AHEAD by Christian Frosch (Germany)

THE LESSON by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece)

UNE MERE by Christine Carrière (France)

ZURICH by Sacha Polak (The Netherlands/Belgium/Germany )

Golden Iris Award
Best film – value 10.000€. Official competition.
10.000€ to the right keeper (distributor or seller or producer).

ROUGH ROAD AHEAD

by Christian Frosch (Germany)

The prize was delivered to the director Christian Frosch

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White Iris Award
Best 1st film. Official competition.

IN YOUR ARMS

by Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm (Denmark/Germany)

The prize was delivered to Uta von Fintel,

attaché at the Embassy of Denmark

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Jury Award
7.000€ to the director of the film for a next post production. Sponsored by Dame Blanche.

BODY

by Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland)

The prize was delivered to Natalia Mosor,

Polish Institute – Cultural Service of the Embassy of Poland

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Cinelab Award for Best Image
3.000€ for a next post production. Sponsored by Cinelab.

DORA or the Sexual Neuroses of our Parents

by Stina Werenfels (Switzerland/Germany)

The prize was delivered to Emmanuel Bichet, ‎

Second Deputy Head of Mission at Mission of Switzerland to the EU

Best Screenplay Award
Official Competition. 2.000€ to the scriptwriter.

GLUCKAUF

by Remy van Heugten (The Netherlands)

ASA Jury

Jean-Baptiste Delannoy

Vincent Guillemot

The prize was delivered to the director Remy van Heugten & the screenwriter Gustaaf Peek

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Cineuropa Award
Official Competition. It is a promotion award, value 5.000€.

DORA or the Sexual Neuroses of our Parents

by Stina Werenfels (Switzerland/Germany)

Cineuropa Jury

Valerio Caruso

David Gonzalez

The prize was delivered to Emmanuel Bichet, ‎

Second Deputy Head of Mission at Mission of Swizerland to the EU

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UPS Cinephile Award
Official Competition. Helps to send the film all over the world. Value 3000€.

BRIDGEND

by Jeppe Rønde (Denmark/UK/USA)

The prize was delivered to Uta von Fintel,

attaché at the Embassy of Denmark

UPS Jury

5 young cinema lovers

AWARDS > LONG FEATURE FILM – ALL SECTIONS

Audience Award

supported by Brussels Airlines
All sections.

LA LOI DU MARCHE

by Stéphane Brizé (France)

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RTBF TV Prize of Best Film
Distribution support 10.000€ – All sections.
10.000€ to the right keeper for Belgium (distributor or seller or producer…).

X + Y – Le Monde de Nathan

by Morgan Matthews (UK)

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BeTV Prize of Best Film
Distribution support 5.000€ – All sections.
5.000€ to the right keeper for Belgium (distributor or seller or producer)

EN EQUILIBRE

by Denis Dercourt (France)

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TELENET Prize of Best Film
Distribution support 5.000€ – All sections.

5.000€ to the right keeper for Belgium (distributor or seller or producer)

JE SUIS MORT MAIS J’AI DES AMIS

by Guillaume & Stéphane Malandrin (Belgium)

AWARDS > SHORT FILMS – NATIONAL COMPETITION