The prizes of the 63rd Krakow Film Festival were handed out June 3, with the Nick Read and Ayse Toprak’s My Name is Happy winning best film in International Competition. In National Competition, the top prize went to Mateusz Pietrak for Basia: Three Short Stories.
KFF RECOMMENDATION to the European Film Award in the Documentary category
Songs of Earth by Margreth Olin (Norway)
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION. Jury members were Andrzej Fidyk (Poland), Karen Avetisyan (Armenia), Mette Hoffmann Meyer (Denmark), Ada Solomon (Romania):
THE GOLDEN HORN for the directors of the best film – Nick Read and Ayse Toprak for My Name is Happy (United Kingdom, Turkey)
THE SILVER HORN for the director of the film with high artistic merit – Tunde Skovran for Who I Am Not (Romania, Canada)
THE SILVER HORN for the director of the film on social issues – Ella Glendining for Is There Anybody Out There? (United Kingdom)
The FIPRESCI International Film Critics Prize. Jury members were Igor Angjelkov (Macedonia), Antonios Lagarias (France), Paweł Mossakowski (Poland)
Ella Glendining for Is There Anybody Out There (United Kingdom)
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION Jury members were Jan Naszewski (Poland), Isabelle Favez (Switzerland), Anne Gaschütz (Germany) and Brigid O’Shea
GOLDEN DRAGON for the directors of the best film – Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki for Zima (Poland)
SILVER DRAGON for the director of the best documentary film – Yaser Talebi for Daughter (Iran)
Jury Award for the Best European Film (Krakow Candidate to the European Film Award 2023 in the short film category)
Szymon Ruczyński for There Are People in the Forest (Poland)
INTERNATIONAL DOC FILM MUSIC COMPETITION Jury members were Włodek Pawlik – (Polska), Roman Gutek (Polska) and Robert Kirchhoff (Slovakia)
GOLDEN HEYNAL for the director of the best film – Agnieszka Iwańska for Ula (Poland)
SPECIAL MENTION for La Singla directed by Paloma Zapata (Spain)
NATIONAL COMPETITION Jury members were Jagoda Szelc, Damian Kocur and Joanna Wendorff-Ostergaart
GOLDEN HOBBY-HORSE for the director of the best documentary film: Mateusz Pietrak for Basia: Three Short Stories (Poland)
GOLDEN HOBBY-HORSE for the director of the best documentary film above 30 minutes – Małgorzata Kozera for Faces of Agata (Poland)
See all National awards here.
THE AUDIENCE AWARD
Motherland directed by Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka (Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)
EXCELLENCE LINE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING IMAGE QUALITY FUNDED BY SAMSUNG
Songs of Earth directed by Margreth Olin (Norway)
The Industry prizes were handed out June 2 within the DOCS TO START and DOCS TO GO categories, for Polish doc projects in development and in post-production.
