Previous Winners

1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year 5th Year

6th Year 7th Year 8th Year 9th Year 10th Year 11° Edición

1st Year

The Feature Film Jury, namely Valentina Bassi, Barry Gifford, Kim Dong Ho, Fernando Lara, Carlos Marcovich. Meter Van Bueren and Whit Stillman, conferred the following awards:

  • After Life (Japan), by Kore-Eda Hirokazu, obtained awards for Best Film and Best Script.
  • Mundo Grúa (Argentina), by Pablo Trapero, obtained an award for Best Director.
  • Luis Margani obtained the Best Actor award for Mundo Grúa.
  • Monic Hendrickx obtained the Best Actress award for The Polish Bride (Holland).

The Public’s Choice Award went to The Apple (Iran), by Samira Makhamalf.

The OCIC granted the Grand Prize to The Apple and the Special Prize to Mundo Grúa.

2nd Year

The 2nd year’s winners were:

  • Human Resources (France) by Laurent Cantet, award to Best Film.
  • Noemie Lvovsky, for Life Doesn't Scare Me (France), award to Best Director.
  • Sasa Gedeon, for The Idiot Returns (Czech Republic), award to Best Script.
  • Ewen Bremmer, for Julien Donkey-Boy (USA), award to Best Actor.
  • Anna Geislerová and Tatiana Vllhelmová, for The Idiot Returns (Czech Republic), shared award to Best Actress.
  • Enrique Piñeyro (actor) obtained a Special Mention for Esperando al Mesías.

The Public’s Choice Award went to Human Resources (France) and the OCIC granted the Grand Prize to But Forever in My Mind (Italy), by Gabrielle Muccino, and the Special Prize to East is East (England), by Damien O´Donell.

3rd Year

The Official Feature Film Jury, namely Roberto Bolaño, Simon Field, Emmanuel Finkie, lChang-Dong Lee, Steffania Rocca, Jonathan Rosembaum and Beatriz Sarlo, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Platform (Zhan Tai). Directed by Jia Zhangke, China (2000)
  • Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, for Clouds of May, Turkey (2000)
  • Special Prize: The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein. Directed by John Gianvito, USA (2000)
  • Best Actor: Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi and Alfonso Tort, for 25 watts. Directed by J.P. Rebella and P. Stoll, Uruguay (2001)
  • Best Actress: Yuko Nakamura, for Hotaru. Directed by Naomi Kawase, Japan (2000)
  • Special Mention: The Blackboard. Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran (2000)

The Official Short Film Jury, namely Hughan, Marcos Loayza and Pablo Trapero, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Short Film: Des Morceaux de ma Femme, by Frédéric Pelle.
  • Best Director: John Hardwick, for To Have & To Hold.
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Faux Contact, by Eric Jameux.
  • Public’s Choice Award: Jigsaw Venus, by Dean Kapsalis.

Special Mentions:

  • Short Films: Baby, by W.I.Z.; Retrato em Fuga, by Nuno Carinhas; and Ring of FIRE, by Andreas Hykade.
  • Actors: Julio Arrieta, for El Nexo; and Margaret RR Echeverría, for Jigsaw Venus.

4th Year

The Official Feature Film Jury, namely Peggy Chiao, Jacques Gerber, Don McKellar, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Han Sang-jun and Roger Guenveur Smith, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Tornando a Casa, by Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
  • Best Director: Michael Gilio, for Kwik Stop (USA)
  • Best Actress: Ronit Elkabetz, for Late Marriage (Isr/Fra)
  • Best Actor: Lennie Burmeister, for Bungalow (Germany)
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Tan de Repente, by Diego Lerman (Argentina)
  • Jury’s Mention: Lavoura Arcaica, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Bra)

Lo nuevo de lo nuevo / Italia Cinema

  • Best Film: Ciudad de María, by Enrique Bellande
  • Honorable Mention: Late un Corazón, by Raúl Perrone
  • Best Short Film: La Sombra, by Nicolás Tuozzo

Public’s Choice Award (Shared)

  • Tan de Repente, by Diego Lerman (Argentina); and Lavoura Arcaica, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Bra)

The Short Film Jury, namely Bernard Bénoliel, Tiziana Finzi and Albertina Carri, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Short Film: Sobre la Tierra, by María Florencia Alvarez (Arg)
  • Best Director: Kate Cragg, for Shell (UK)

5th Year

The Official Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Cis Bierinckx, Bruni Burres, Michel Demopuolos, John Gianvito, Vincenzo Marra, José María Prado and Pablo Rovito, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Waiting for Happiness, by Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania)
  • Best Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, for Blissfully Yours (Thailand)
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Ana y Los Otros, by Celina Murga (Argentina)
  • Best Actor: Alejandro Ferretis, for Japón (Mexico)
  • Best Actress: Séverine Caneele, for Une part du ciel (France, Belgium, Luxemburg)
  • Jury’s Special Mention: Los Rubios, by Albertina Carri (Argentina)

The Official Short Film Competition Jury, namely Verónica Chen, Juan Ferrer and Martín Schweighofer, conferred the following awards

  • Best Short Film: Felipe, by Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)

The New Argentine Cinema (Cine Argentino: Lo nuevo de lo Nuevo) Jury, namely José Carlos Avellar, Tiziana Finzi and Meter van Brueren, distinguished:

  • Ex Aequo a Extraño, by Santiago Loza; and Los Rubios, by Albertina Carri.

6th Year

The Official Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Manuel Antón, Fréderic Bonnaud, Sara Driver, José Padilla, Valeria Sarmiento, Weiland Speck and Roberto Turigliatto, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Parapalos, by Ana Poliak (Argentina)
  • Best Director: Royston Tan, for 15 (Fifteen) (Singapore)
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Las Horas del Día, by Jaime Rosales (Spain)
  • Best Actor: Pietro Sibille, for Días de Santiago (Peru)
  • Best Actress: Hwang Jeong-min, for Save the Green Planet! (South Korea)

The New Argentine Cinema (Argentina Lo Nuevo de lo Nuevo) Jury, namely Luciano Barisone, Ricardo Bedoya and Ulrico Köhler, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Una de Dos, by Alejo Hernán Taube
  • Special Mention: La Quimera de los Héroes, by Daniel Rosenfeld

The Official Short Film Competition Jury, namely PoChu AuYeung, José María Escriche and Diego Lerman, conferred the following awards:

  • First Place: El Patio, by Milagros Mumenthaler
  • Second Place: Más quel Mundo, by Lautaro Núñez de Arco
  • Special Mention: Abasto/Canes, by Martín Mainoli

The Human Rights Jury, namely Bruni Burres, Martín Caparrós and Gastón Pauls, conferred the following awards:

  • Human Rights Competition: S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, by Rithy Panh (France)
  • Human Rights Special Mention: Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, by Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi (France, Belgium, Germany, UK)

7th Year

The International Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Rudi Barnet, Albertina Carri, Alberto Elena, Andreas Kleinert, Michel Reilhac and Pablo Stoll, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: El Cielo Gira, by Mercedes Álvarez
  • Best Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, for “4”
  • Best Actor: Mohammad Bakri, for Domicilio Privado, directed by Saverio Costanzo
  • Best Actress: Eva Löbau, for The Forest for the Trees
  • Jury’s Special Prize: L´Esquive, by Abdellatif Kechiche

The Local Feature Film Competition Jury, namely Rosario Bléfari, Pablo Ferré, Chris Fujiwara, Paz Alicia Garciadiego and Edouard Waintrop, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Como un Avión Estrellado, by Ezequiel Acuña
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Vida en Falcon, by Jorge Gaggero

The Local Short Film Jury, namely Mirta Busnelli, Lee Daniel and Heinz Hermanns, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Short Film: Ricardo Electricista de Automóviles, by Nicolás Bratosevich
  • Best Short Film: Lejos del Sol, by Pablo Agüero
  • Public’s Choice Award: Cándido López won Best Local Film and El Cielo Gira won Best Foreign Film

8th Year

The International Film Official Selection Jury, namely Mercedes Alvarez, Jane Balfour, Alvaro Buela, Michael Fitzgerald, Lucrecia Martel, Paulo Antonio Paranagua and Mary Sweeney, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: En el Hoyo, by Juan Carlos Rulfo
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Sehnsucht – Longing, by Valeska Grisebach

The Local Film Official Selection Jury, namely Paula Astorga Riestra, Paul Cronin, Sandra den Hamer, Alberto Fuguet, Monica Haim, Zhang Ming and Jim Stara, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: Blue, by Alexis dos Santos
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Soledad al Fin del Mundo, by Fernando Zuber and Carlos Casas.

The Human Rights Jury, namely Estela Carlotto, Cristián Leighton, María Luisa Ortega and Pablo Reyero, conferred the following award:

  • Best Film: Pavee Lacken: a traveler girl, by Perry Ogden

The Short Film Official Selection Jury, namely Jorge Gaggero, Fran Gayo and Sonja Heinen, conferred the following award:

  • Best Short: 8 Horas, by Adrián Biniez

9th Year

The International Film Official Selection Jury, namely Maxine Baker, Francesco Di Pace, Roman Gutek, Robert Koehler, Frédéric Maire, Marc Recha and Pablo Trapero, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: In Between Days, by So Yong-Kim.
  • Best Director: Hugo Vieira da Silva, for Body Rice.
  • Jury’s Special Prize: Estrellas, by Federico León and Marcos Martínez.
  • Best Actress: Jiseon Kim, for In Between Days.
  • Best Actor: Arturo Goetz, for El Asaltante

The Local Film Official Selection Jury, namely Vincenzo Bugno, Piotr Kobus, Pawel Pawlikowski, Jaime Pena and Claire Simon, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: UPA! Una película Argentina, by Santiago Giralt, Camila Toker and Tamae Garateguy.
  • Special Mention: La León, by Santiago Otheguy.
  • Best Director: Rafael Filippelli, for Música Nocturna, and Raúl Perrone, for Canadá

The Short Film Official Selection Jury, namely Gabe Klinger, Isaki Lacuesta and Rafael Spregelburd, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Short Film: ABC, etc, by Sergio Subero.
  • Special Mention: Simpatía, by Galel Maidana.
  • Special Mention: Ana, by Gabriela Trettel.

The Human Rights Jury, namely Martin Kohan, Michael Renov and Jannie Langbroek, conferred the following award:

  • Best Human Rights Film: 9 Star Hotel, by Ido Haar.

The Future Film Jury, namely Agustín Mango, Claudio Cordero and Manuel Yánez, conferred the following awards:

  • Best Film: El Tiempo que se Queda, by José Luis Torres Leiva
  • Jury’s Special Mention: Street Thies, by Malik Bader

10th Year

The International Film Official Selection

The International Film Official Selection Jury, namely José Luis Cienfuegos, Fred Kelemen, Luciano Monteagudo, Luis Ospina y Caveh Zahedi, conferred the following awards:
  • Best Film: "Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo", by Yulene Olaizola (México)
  • Best Director: Lance Hammer for "Ballast" (EE.UU.)
  • Special Mention: "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind", by John Gianvito (EE.UU.)
  • Best Actor: Kang Sheng Lee for "Help Me Eros" (Taiwán)
  • Best Actress: Liu Dan for "Night Train" (China)
  • Jury's Special Prize: "Night Train", by Diao Yinan (China)

The Local Film Official Selection

The Local Film Official Selection Jury, namely Rubén Imaz Castro, Amir Muhammad, Corneliu Porumboiu, Jean Pierre Rehm y Gerwin Tamsma, conferred the following awards:
  • Best Film:"Unidad 25", by Alejo Hoijman.
  • Best Director: Gonzalo Castro for "Resfriada".
  • Special Mention: "Süden", by Gastón Solnicki.
  • Special Mention: "Una semana solos", by Celina Murga (Argentina).
  • Jury´s Special Prize: "Historias Extraordinarias", by Mariano Llinás.

The Short Film Official Selection Jury, namely Astrid Ofner, Matías Piñeiro y Jean Philippe Tessé, conferred the following awards :

  • "El contrabajo" (foto) by Alejo Franzetti
  • "Ahendu nde sapukai" (Oigo tu grito), by Pablo Lama
  • "Fedra o la desesperación", by Gustavo Galuppo.

The Human Rights Jury, namely Mariana Arruti, Ricardo Giraldo Monttes y Santiago Palavecino, conferred the following awards:

  • "Mi vida dentro", by Lucía Gajá
  • "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind", by John Gianvito

The Future Film Jury, namely Francisco Ferreira, Romina Paula e Iván Pablo Pinto Veas, conferred the following award:

  • "Llavallol", by Grupo Tierra en Trance

Los restantes premios y menciones del Festival

  • Premio Asociación Cronistas Cinematográficos Argentinos
    Mención Especial: "Construcción de una ciudad", de Néstor Frenkel
    Primer Premio: "Süden", de Gastón Solnicki
  • Premio ADF
    Mención Especial: Peng Jung Liao por "Help Me Eros"
    Premio: Jing Song Dong por "Night Train"
  • Premio SIGNIS
    Mención: "Correction", de Thanos Anastopoulos
    Mención: "Cochochi", de Israel Cárdenas y Laura Amelia Guzmán.
    Premio: "Ballast", de Lance Hammer
  • Premio FIPRESCI
    "Ballast", de Lance Hammer
  • Premio Revista Ñ y Cinecolor Voto del Públicoz
    Mejor película Argentina: "Historias Extraordinarias", de Mariano Llinás

11th Year

  • Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos
    Nobody’s Perfect de Niko Von Glasow
  • Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos
    “La Mere” de Antoine Cattin y Pavel Kostomarov
  • Mención Especial Competencia Derechos Humanos
    “La Forteresse” de Fernand Melgar
  • Mejor Película Competencia Derechos Humanos
    “Bagatela” de Jorge Caballero
  • Mención Especial Competencia Cine del Futuro
    Filmefobia de Kiko Goiffman
  • Mejor Película Competencia Cine del Futuro
    La Neige au Village de Martin Ritt
  • Mejor Cortometraje Selección Oficial Argentina
    “Yo, Natalia” de Guillermina Pico
  • Mejor Cortometraje Selección Oficial Argentina
    “Pehuajó” de Catalina Marín
  • Mejor Cortometraje Selección Oficial Argentina
    “Silencio en la Sala” de Felipe Galvez Haberle
  • Premio Especial del Jurado Selección Oficial Argentina
    “Rosa Patria” de Santiago Loza
  • Mejor Director Selección Oficial Argentina
    a Pablo Agüero por “77 Doronship”
  • Premio Mejor Película Selección Oficial Argentina
    “Castro” de Alejo Moguillansky
  • Mención Especial Selección Oficial Internacional
    “Todos Mienten” de Matías Piñeiro
  • Mejor Actriz Selección Oficial Internacional
    Maria Dinulescu por “Hooked” de Adrian Sitaru
  • Mejor Actor Selección Oficial Internacional
    Alfredo Castro por “Tony Manero” de Pablo Larraín, Chile.
  • Mejor Director Selección Oficial Internacional
    Maren Ade por “Everyone Else”
  • Premio Especial del Jurado Selección Oficial Internacional
    “Gasolina”, de Julio Hernández Cordón
  • Mejor Película Selección Oficial Internacional
    “Aquele querido mes de Agosto” de Miguel Gomes