STIFF 2017 Awards | Complete list of winners.

See the full list of winners here:

1. Best Music:  

WHERE EUPHRATES AND SAVA FLOW TOGETHER – Andreas Muggli  (Winner)

Nominees :

• I AM SPECIAL – Di Evantile

• THE WORLD WE LIVE IN – David Lashcari

Where Euphrates An Sava Flow Together – Only a few days before the Macedonian frontier is closed, many refugees decamp for the last leg of the Balkan route, in the hope of a better life. By train and on foot the filmmaker accompanies them, capturing unpretentious yet aesthetically captivating images. Without commentary he films huge garbage dumps and the wide fallow land which they pass, and the desolation that this evokes. A male voice recites in Arabic the poems of the late Syrian author Fuad Rifka, from his 2002 collection “The Valley Of Rituals”.

2. Best Short Feature Film                           

LUNCH TIME – Alireza Ghasem (Winner)

Nominees :

• BEER AND CALIPPO – Paul Proberger

• ELUSIVE – Ely Chevillot

• PRIA – Yudho Aditya

The award for the best short feature film goes to a motion picture that tackles the problem of the degradation of a woman resulting in her complete dehumanization. The disharmony in social relations leads to a breakdown of a family that is compelled to highly immoral actions in order to survive.

3.  Best Educational Film

I AM SPECIAL – Priyakanta Laishram (Winner)

Nominees :

• PRIA – Yudho Aditya

• JIYAN – Jan Fabi and Milena Aboyan

• EDUCATION – Emi Buchwald

The award for the best educational film goes to Priyakanta Laishram’s docu-fiction film that deals with the real issues, problems and struggles faced by the differently abled people and also their willpower & strength. The film has all the awareness and educational materials – exactly what one needs to know and understand about the differently abled people around us. 

4. Best Actor       

 Chicco Kurniawan – PRIA (Winner)                                                                                                                   

Nominees: 

• Maresi Riegner – BEER AND CALIPPO

• Christopher Perez – LUNCH TIME

• Liisa Mustonen – BORN WRONG

  

The Best Actor Award goes to Chicco Kurniawan for his natural and amazing performance as Aris, a young boy who is caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom and also a teenager who struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood

5. Best Writer

DIFFERENT BAYERN – Brix Vinzent Koeth (Winner)

Nominees :

• LUIZA – Ciao Bau

• THE TEST – Gregor Valentovic

• ABOUT MY SISTER –Barbora Sliepkova

Different Bayern is a story about Austin Abasi – professional football player from Ghana who is being sold against his will to a club in Germany. Despite the Bavarian culture clash of the highest order, he has to find a way to prove himself on and off the pitch.

 

6. Best Narration

CHAMPIONS – Anastasija Brauniger (Winner)

Nominees: 

• PRIA – Yudho Aditya

• I AM SPECIAL – Priyakanta Laishram

• ABOUT MY SISTER – Barbora Sliepkova

• LOST CITY – Sara Radusinovic                                                                                                                          

 

               

Synopsis : On the day of the football European Championship finals 2016, a group of Kurdish children from a refugee camp in Northern Iraq, tries to contact the FIFA. The children call the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland to register their team for the football World Championship in 2018. “Champions” was filmed 2016 in a refugee camp between Erbil and Mosul, where Kurdish and Syrian refugees from Kobane are accommodated.

7. Best Animated Short Film

WE ARE THE IMMIGRANTS – Catalina Matamoros (Winner)

Nominees:

• JIYAN – Jan Fabi and Milena Aboyan

• POILUS – Guillaume Auberval, Lea Dozoul, Simon Gomez.

• THE INDIGESTION – Mathilde Remy

• BOND – Judit Wunder

Very well animated and directed film in which a personal story of one family brings forth the challenges and the danger that many immigrants are faced with.

8. Best Documentary

LUIZA – Caio Baú (Winner)

Nominees:

• SABINE’S NURSERY – Manuel Rees

• CHAMPIONS – Anastasija Brauniger

• WHERE EUPHRATES AND SAVA FLOW TOGETHER – Andreas Muggli

• GYPSY – Carmen Baltzar

The best documentary goes to ‘’Luiza’’ by Caio Baú, a film on confession about prejudice, relationships between parents and children, over-protection, autonomy and love affairs.

9. Best Film On Social Cause

ELUSIVE – Ely Chevillot (Winner)

Nominees:

• I AM SPECIAL – Priyakanta Laishram

• BEER & CALIPPO – Paul Ploberger

• WHO GIVES – Lenka Jovanovic

  

 Elusive (Ely Chevillot, Feature Film) problematizes child’s sexuality from the perspective of a   mother.

10. Best Editing

BREAD IS GONE – Soran Qurbani (Winner)

Nominees :

• CHAPTERS – Ivan Marco

• LOST CITY – Sara Radusinovic

• POILUS – Timothe Hek, Hugo Lagrange, Antoine Laroye, David Lahcari

Documentary Bread is Gone(Soran Qurbani) is an existentialist miniature filmed in Sevdinan refugee camp in Mosul. Aysha (52) and her six year old son search for bread in Sevdinan refugee camp in Mosul.

11. Best Cinematography

BEER & CALIPPO – Paul Ploberger (Winner)

Nominees :

• LUIZA – Ciao Bau

• PUSSY – Renata Gasiorowska

• MAYDAY RELAY – Florain Tscharf

“Beer & Calippo’”-  coming of age short feature film by Paul Ploberger about a young pregnant Jojo who has to make important life choices.

12. Best Direction

VALENTINA – Maximilian Feldmann (Winner)

Nominees :

• PRIA – Yudho Aditya

• CHAMPIONS – Anastasija Brauniger

‘Valentina’ is a warm story about a common theme we rarely think of. It gives a different, humane view of Roman population leading us to sympathies with them without pity. The excellent camera work puts the emphasis on details and shapes the whole story in which even though the heroine is a charismatic girl Valentina, the same attention is given to the other members of her family and their relationships.

13. First Time Filmmaker Excellence Award 

LUIZA – Caio Baú (Winner)

Nominee :

• Carmen Baltzar – GYPSY

The best documentary goes to ‘’Luiza’’ by Caio Baú, a film on confession about prejudice, relationships between parents and children, over-protection, autonomy and love affairs.

14. Jury’s Special Choice Award (Film) 

•       The World We Live In – Baden Württemberg   and   

•       Pussy – Renata Gasiorowska

 

1. THE WORLD WE LIVE IN – Incorporating animation elements in their documentary, directors gave fresh angle on difficult subject concerning Eastern European migrants in Western Europe

2. PUSSY – Film which talks about a delicate subject in a direct way using playful humor and simple yet poignant visual.

15. Jury’s Special Choice Award (Actor)

Maresi Riegner – BEER AND CALIPPO 

“Beer & Calippo’”-  coming of age short feature film by Paul Ploberger about a young pregnant Jojo who has to make important life choices.

16. Jury’s Special Choice Award (Director)

Yudho Aditya – PRIA

The story of a young man Aris caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.

17. Audience Special Mention ( For Film With Maximum Number of Nominations)

     Award shared by  –

• PRIA by Yudho Aditya (4 Nominations)

• I AM SPECIAL by Priyakanta Laishram (4 Nominations)

• BEER & CALIPPO by Paul Ploberger (4 Nominations)

• LUIZA by Caio Baú (4 Nominations)

                       

                                      STIFF 2017 : 25/10/2017 : Wednesday : 12:30 pm               

• 400 Euros [€400], STIFF 2017 Winning Trophy and Winning Certificate for all the winners. 
• Certificate of Appreciation and Nomination Certificate for all the nominees.
• Certificate of Appreciation for all the participants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                            

                  World Cinema Club – Magnificent Films Life Line : We just wanted to give a              HUGE congratulations to all of our 2017 STIFF Award Winners.