Award List, Cinéma du Réel Film Festival 30th edition, March 7th – 18th 2008

The International Jury composed of :
Lav Diaz, filmmaker (The Philippines)
Françoise Etchegaray, filmmaker (France)
Gulya Mirzoeva, filmmaker (France) Scam representative
Eugenio Polgovsky, filmmaker (Mexico)
Olaf Möller, critique (Germany)

Has awarded

Cinéma du Réel Grand Prize with the support of the Procirep (8000€) :
to Holunderblüte, Volker Koepp (Germany)
Honorable mentions : Wollis Paradies, Gerd Kroske (Germany) and San, Du Haibin (China)

Scam International Award (4600€)
ex aequo
Qian men Qian, Olivier Meys (Belgium, France)
Invisible City, Tan Pin Pin (Singapore)

Short Film Award (2500€)
to Minot North Dakota, Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak (United States/Austria)

Joris Ivens Award, attributed to a young filmmaker (2500€)
to La Frontera infinita, Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Mexico)

The Young Jury composed of 5 highschool students and of filmmaker Pierre-Oscar Levy has awarded

the Young Jury Award – Cinéma du Réel, with the support of the Centre Pompidou and of Paris Townhall (2500€)
to L’Empreinte, Guillaume Bordier, France

The Young Jury wishes to attribute honorable mentions to La Frontera infinita, Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Mexico) and Podul de Flori,Thomas Ciulei (Romania)

The Librarian Committee, composed of
Julien Farenc, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)
Thierry Maillot, Bibliothèque Kateb Yacine (Grenoble)
Dominique Rousselet, Bibliothèque de Villepinte
And of filmmaker Vincent Martorana

has awarded

the Library Award (6000€)
to Podul de Flori, Thomas Ciulei (Romania)

The Intangible Heritage Award (2500€)
to Gugara, Jacek Naglowski and Andrzej Dybczak (Poland)

honorable mentions to C’est beau les vacances, Anna Zisman (France) and to Le Chamane, son neveu et le capitaine, Pierre Boccanfuso (France)

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has awarded

The Louis Marcorelles Award (purchase of rights, english and spanish subtitling, DVD edition, DVD promotion, mission abroad, equivalent to about 15000€)
to Barcelone ou la mort, Idrissa Guiro (France)

The Festival selection committee has awarded

The Pierre and Yolande Perrault Grant, attributed to a young filmmaker (2500€)
to Listener’s Tale, Arghya Basu (India)

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