Małgorzata Szumowska΄s Body (Poland, 2015) was last Friday΄s big winner at the 8th edition of the CinEast Festival for Central and Eastern European Films. The juror Ina Ivanceanu highlighted Body΄s complex characters and its surreal atmosphere which didn΄t lost its grounding in reality and "subtle humour in the darkest hour”.

Father by Visar Morina (Germany/Kosovo*/FYROM/France, 2015) got the Special Jury Prize, which jury member Vicky Krieps described as a film "shot in a documentary style, but with an impressive aesthetic research in terms of camera and lighting". Ivaylo Hristov΄s coming-of-age film Losers (Bulgaria, 2015) went away with an Audience Award.

Lazlo Nemes΄ Cannes 2015 awarded and strong foreign language Oscar contender, Son of Saul (Hungary, 2015), received the Critics’ Prize. 

The UK/Kosovo* short Shok by Jamie Donoughue (2014, 21΄) won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Short Film.  The other two Audience Short Awards were handed to Nina by Veronika Obertova & Michaela Copikova (Slovakia, 2014, 17΄ – Best Short Animation) and 2nd Floor by Hajni Kiss (Hungary, 2014, 20΄ - Best Short Documentary).

CinEast 2015 awards ceremony was followed by the screening of jury president Andrzej Zulawski΄s last film Cosmos, as well as some of the best, recent films from Central and Eastern Europe.