22nd Warsaw International Film Festival
May 15, 2008
6-15.10.2006
audience: 92,140
cinemas: Relax, Luna (2 screens), Kinoteka (5 screens)
The winner of the Audience Award at the 22nd Warsaw International Film Festival is the German film The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
In the fifth edition of the New Films, New Directors International Competition, the jury comprising Petr Zelenka, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Alberto Fuguet, Ognjen Sviličić, and Piotr Szczepański awarded the Grand Prix NESCAFÉ and 5,000 euros Ivan Vyrypaev for Euphoria (Russia).
The Cinemax Award for Best Script went to Retrieval directed by Sławomir Fabicki (script: Sławomir Fabicki, Denijal Hasanović, Marek Pruchniewski).
The same picture also received a Special Jury Prize for visual quality & sound design.
The competition jury gave another Special Jury Prize (for putting life on the screen), to the German film Longing directed by Valeska Grisebach.
In the Regional Competition for films from Central and Eastern Europe, the jury comprising Ellis Driessen, Peter Belsito, and Gilli Mendel granted the Polsat Award for Best Film Boris Khlebnikov for Free Floating (Russia).
In the Feature Length Documentary Competition, the jury comprising Sergey Lavrentiev, Ewa Banaszkiewicz, and Stefan Uhrik, decided that the best film was God Is My DJ directed by Carin Goeijers from the Netherlands.
The FIPRESCI Award for the best first or second film by a director from Central and Eastern Europe, granted by a jury comprising Ronald Bergan, Jan Olszewski, and Michael Ranze, went to Ágnes Kocsis for Fresh Air (Hungary).
The top ten in the Audience Poll at the 22nd WIFF
1. The Lives of Others, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany.
2. Little Miss Sunshine, dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, USA.
3. Grbavica, dir. Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia/Austria/ Germany.
4. Ghosts of Cité Soleil, dir. Asger Leth, Denmark.
5. Babel, dir. Alejandro Gonzáles Inárritu, USA/Guatemala
6. Eden, dir. Michael Hofmann, Germany/Switzerland.
7. The Border Post, dir. Rajko Grlić, Serbia and Montenegro/Croatia, Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Macedonia.
8. Offside, dir. Jafar Panahi, Iran.
9. The 9th Company, dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk, Russia/Finland/Ukraine.
10. Sketches of Frank Gehry, dir. Sydney Pollack, Germany/USA.
Opening film: Południe-Północ / South by North, dir. Łukasz Karwowski.
Fifth German Panorama
Sidebar events:
The Second CentEast Regional Film Market / Warsaw Screenings, with 170 accredited professionals.
SCENE Insiders - workshops for people who work with screenwriters.
FIPRESCI Warsaw Project - workshops for film journalists.
THE ART OF EDITING - organized by the Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM).
Audiences had the opportunity to attend meetings with:
Martina Gedeck, Pavel Liška, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Sharunas Bartas, Gustave de Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Boris Khlebnikov, Labina Mitevska, Laila Pakalnina, Hans-Christian Schmid, Michael Verhoeven, Petr Zelenka, Danny Lerner, Alan Lerner, Anna Mikhalkova, Sergey Machilskyi, Timo Nowotny, Mark Hammond, Zlatko Buric, Gianfranco Quattrini, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Michaela Pavlatova, Katherina Cerna, Richard Nemec, Roman Borisevich, Piotr Dzięcioł, Łukasz Dzięcioł, Giya Lordkipanidze, Alexander Shein, Manolo Nieto, Andrea Roberti, Milena Andonova, Renato “Ato” Bautista, Tudor Lucaciu, Kristijonas Vildziunas, Jeff Feuerzeig, Asger Leth, Martine Doyen, Adrian Popovici, Cornelia Palos, Daniel Mitulescu, Sabine Michel, Sławomir Grunberg, Marek Janiak, Adam Rzepecki, Andrzej Swietlik, Szabolcs Hajdu, Jerzy Stuhr, Yelena Yatsura, Ezel Akaya, Fyedor Popov, Birgit Moeller, Bjorne Larson, Johan Sandstrom, Aku Louhinies, Markus Selin, Kenneth Kainz, Auraeus Solito, Pavel Lolo, Ben Lewis, Christine Camdessus, Katarzyna Figura, Bogusław Linda, Tali Shemesh, Lena Ber, Miniya Rubin, Alberto Fuguet, Yegor Anashkin, Tomas Donela, Ray McCormack, Mirjam Kubescha, Lars Hellebust, Sławomir Fabicki, Adam Guziński, Łukasz Karwowski, Michał Rosa, Piotr Uklański, Agata Buzek, Agnieszka Grochowska, Borys Szyc, Robert Więckiewicz, Bogumił Godfrejów, Jacek Petrycki.
