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Anifilm 2015 knows its winners

Anifilm 2015 knows its winners

 The sixth edition of the International Festival of Animated Films Anifilm 2015 knows its winners of the festival competitions have been announced. The award in the International Competition of Feature Films for Adults went to the Spanish director Sam Conflictivos for his film Possessed produced in his studios Conflictivos Productions. The special mention of the jury was awarded to animator Signe Baumane for her Rocks in my Pockets. The jury of the International Competition of feature films for children has decided to award The Tale of Princess Kaguya by the Japanese director Isao Takahata from therenowned Ghibli Studio. Irish director Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea produced by the Irish Cartoon Saloon studio was awarded a special mention.

The winner of the International Competition of Short Films is The World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt. The special mention of the jury was awarded to the Czech film Anatomy of a Spider by Vojtěch Kiss.

The jury of the International Competition of Student Films awarded Daisy Jacobs,director and National Film and Television School student at the University of Hull, for her film The Bigger Picture, which was also nominated for the Academy Award. Another student film called Food by Siqi Song from the California Institute of the Arts was awarded the special mention.

The first winner of our new International Competition of Non-narrative, Experimental and Boundary Forms of Animation is the famous Polish director Jerzy Kucia and his Fugue for Cello, Trumpet and Landscape. The special mention of the jury went to the film Fok Nabo Distorio created at the Estonian Academy of Arts by Francesco Rosso. The second new category introduced at this year’s Anifilm is the International Competition of Music Videos was won by TomekDucki from Polandand his music video for the song Zhu: Paradise Awaits.

Apart from financial rewards, the winners also received Animorpha, a crystal award designed by the Morphe studio.

One of the jury members, Bastien Dubois, who was nominated for an Academy Award a few years ago, commented his work and role in Třeboň: “We all enjoyed being jury members. The hospitability of the festival was incredible. We have seen lots of great films and their selection is a reminder that animated film is not only for children, it can be enjoyed by all age groups.”