Fresh Film Fest 2009
The 6th annual of Fresh Film Fest International Film Festival took place in Karlovy Vary from 12th to 16th August 2009. Fresh Generation Award for the Best First or Second Feature film was given to film Truffle by Canadian director Kim Nguyen. Swedish director Gabriela Pilcher was awarded in Main Student Competition for her short film Skrapsår (Scratches), which was made at Gothenburg Film School. To Finland goes the prize for the film Kuolema keltaisessa talossa (Death in the Yellow House) by Anna Virtenen, which was considered the best in the Theatre Optique Competition focused on animation and new media. And finally the Centropa Award, orientated on the films from Central Europe, went to Polish director Tomasz Jurkiewicz for his piece Babcia Wyjezdza (Grandma Has Gone).
Awarded films at 6th Fresh Film Fest:
Main Competition
Scratches / Skrapsår
Director: Gabriela Pichler
Sweden, 2008
Special Jury Prize
Introduction to General Linguistics / Bevezetés az általános nyelvészetbe
Director: Péter Szeiler
Hungary, 2008
Fresh Generation
Truffle
Director: Kim Nguyen
Canada, 2008
Theatre Optique
Death in the Yellow House / Kuolema keltaisessa talossa
Director: Anna Virtanen
Finland, 2008
Special Jury Prize
Yellow Belly End
Director: Philip Bacon
Great Britain, 2009
Centropa
Kontakt
Audience Award
Notebook
Director: Evelien Lohbeck
Netherlands, 2008
Jury:
Fresh Generation:
Marcel When, Germany
Csaba Bollók, Hungary
Petr Fischer, Czech Republic
Main Student Competition:
Klaus Fuxjäger, Austria
Larry Sider, Great Britain
Jiří Ornest, Czech Republic
Matthias Luthardt, Germany
Martin Kollár, Slovakia
Theatre Optique:
Alexei Alexeiev, Russia
Vladimír Kokolia, Czech Repubic
Sjón (Sigurdsson), Iceland
Centropa:
Simone Massi, Italy
Kristián Suda, Czech Republic
Dragica Petrović, Slovenia
