Complete List of Awards

Grand Competition
Jury: Joanna Quinn (Great Britain), Moustapha Alassane (Niger), Caroline Leaf (U.S./Canada/Great Britain), Igor Kovaljov (Russia/USA) and Danijel Suljic (Croatia)

Grand Prize (festival statue, cash award of 2,500 Euros, and honorary presidency at the next festival): The Pearce Sisters (Luis Cook, Great Britain) -- "For its original and unique graphics and direction which pulls us into the bleak world of two misfit characters."

Golden Zagreb Prize (festival statue and cash award of 2,000 Euros): The Runt (Andreas Hykade, Germany) -- "The jury has given the Golden Zagreb to the film we consider the second film of the festival for its strong, simple, clear design and direction which delivers a powerful and shocking message."

Zlatko Grgic Prize (best first production apart from educational institutions; festival statue and cash award of 1,500 Euros): Hezurbelzak, The Common Grave (Izibene Onederra, Spain) -- "For its anarchic stream of consciousness to pursue her stream of vision."

Three Special Prizes at the Discretion of the Jury
KJFG No. 5 (Aleksei Alekseev, Hungary) -- "For its excellent humor."
Forecast (Adriaan Lokman, The Netherlands) - "For best non-narrative film."
Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, Canada)

Three Special Mentions at the Discretion of the Jury
Sony Bravia: Play-doh (Frank Budgen and Darren Walsh, Great Britian) -- "To a visually surprising commercial."
The Beloved Ones (Samantha Moore, Great Britain/Uganda) -- "For its message, told in a personal, accessible way."
She Who Measures (Veljko Popovic, Croatia) -- "For using 3D animation in an organic and handcrafted way."

Student Competition
Jury: Regina Pessoa (Portugal), Helena Klakocar Vuksic (The Netherlands/Croatia), Saeed Tavakolian (Iran), Erik van Drunen (The Netherlands), Nedzad Begovic (Bosnia Herzegovina) -- "We travelled through an artistic universe in 78 films. We enjoyed the quality and diversity and we are confident about the future of the medium."

Dusan Vukotic Prize (best student film; Dusan Vukotic Medal and 1,000 Euros): The Irresistible Smile (Ami Lindholm, Finland) - "For its charming and effective humor and simplicity of design. The pleasure and freshness of the animation with touching dramatic details leaves no spectator indifferent."

Three Special Mentions at the Discretion of the Jury
Beton (Ariel Belinco, Michael Faust, Israel/The Netherlands) -- "For the artist's engagement clearly executed, beautifully designed and animated. The film has a strong voice."
Camera Obscura (Matthieu Buchalski, Jean-Michel Drechsler and Thierry Onillion, France) -- "For its fresh, outstanding and innovative approach of the medium. It brought the members of the jury in an imaginative world where anything is possible."
Can You Go Through? (Banj Ju-Young, Republic of Korea) -- "For a strange but intimately intriguing universe, elegantly designed."

Films for Children Competition
Jury: Patrik Horvat, Paloma Quinn Mills, Anja Sever, Anna Sagadin, Andela Zapcic

Best Children's Film
My Happy End (Milen Vitanov, Germany) -- "It was a hard choice, because there were so many great movies and in the end we had to choose only one. After a lot of hard thinking we came to the decision to give the main prize to the movie which had the most original story, smooth and unusual animation -- which all fitted the profile we were looking for."

Three Special Mentions at the Discretion of the Jury
Animatou (Claude Luyet, Gerorges Schwizgebel, Dominique Delachaux-Lambert, Claude Barras and Remero Andreani , Switzerland)
Oktapodi (Julien Bocabeille, Francois Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Emund Mokhber and Quetin Marmier, France)
KJFG No. 5 (Alexsei Alekseev, Hungary)

Other Awards

Audience Award Mr. M (best film in Grand and Student Competitions): KJFG No. 5 (Aleksei Alekseev, Hungary)

Best Film (at the discretion of the animation and new media student jury): Skhizein (Jeremy Clapin, France)

Nancy Denney-Phelps has produced music for animation for the past 15 years. She has written about animation and animation festivals for such publications as Animatoons, Film/Tape World, Reel World and the ASIFA /San Francisco news magazine and is a member of the ASIFA International Board. In 2006, Nancy and her composer/musician husband Nik Phelps moved from San Francisco to Gent, Belgium, where they now have their home.