Isa Qosja receiving the Best Film Award (®Pavlos Vrionidis)
After being awarded at festivals such as the last Thessaloniki Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival, and screened throughout the world, Qosja΄s film impressed this festival΄s jury as well, which, beside the Best Film Award, awarded the film with an Honorary Distinction for Irena Cahani΄s performance.
The remaining two awards of the International Competition were handed to Kyros Papavassiliou΄s Impressions of a Drowned Man ( Best Director Award) and to the film The Goob, directed by Guy Myhill ( Special Jury Award). Papapvassiliou΄s drama was also named Best National Film of the National Competition.
A second Honorary Distinction was bestowed to the Ethiopian/US Difret, directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, while actor Naveh Tzur received the same prize for his performance in the film Valley by Sophie Artus.
On the rest of awards, the box-office hit Whiplash got the Audience Award, while there was another prize for Three Windows and a Hanging, the Student Jury Award University of Nicosia.
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