Prague Independent Film Festival

Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF) is an international film festival held annually in August in Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. The festival focuses on independent cinema.

Prague Independent Film Festival
LocationPrague, Czech Republic
Websiteprague-film-festival.com

History

2016

Prague Independent Film Festival was held for the first time on 15–18 August 2016 in the cinemas Kino Evald, Kino Atlas and Kino Lucerna. The festival program consisted of 33 films. Opening film of the festival was Rocco has Your Name by Angelo Orlando. Angelo Orlando won the Best Screenplay award and the leading actor Michele Venitucci received the Best Actor award.

Grand Prix of the festival – The Golden Eagle – was awarded to the Bulgarian drama film Sinking of Sozopol by Kostadin Bonev.[1][2][3][4]

Shamim Sarif received the Best Feature Film award for her espionage drama Despite the Falling Snow based on the best selling eponymous novel written by herself.[5][6] Rebecca Ferguson was awarded Best Actress and Anthony Head received the Best Supporting Actor award.[7][8][9]

Best Animated Film was awarded to The Snow Queen 2 from the Russian animation company Wizart Animation.[10][11][12][13] The film was written and directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.

Best Short Film was awarded to the short film Cora made by Kevin Maxwell, a student of Santa Monica College who was supervised by Salvador Carrasco.[14]

2017

The opening film of the festival was Collector by Alexei Krasovsky. Alexei Krasovsky received the Best Director, Gustav Meyrink Prize and Konstantin Khabensky received the Best Actor award.[15][16][17]

The film Maya Dardel, written and directed by Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Cotler received the Best Screenplay award and Lena Olin received the Best Actress award.[16][18]

Train Driver's Diary directed by Milos Radovic received the Grand Prix, Best Feature Film and Lazar Ristovski received the Best Actor prize.[19][20][21]

  • Actor and director Konstantin Khabensky receiving his honorary award from the festival director
  • Director Anna Eriksson presenting the film M
  • Actor and producer Lazar Ristovski at the presentation of Train Driver's Diary
  • Lazar Ristovski presenting the film Train Driver's Diary
  • Directors Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Cotler presenting the film Maya Dardel
  • Director Angelo Orlando and musician Saro Cosentino presenting the film Rocco Has Your Name
  • Angelo Orlando presenting the film Rocco Has Your Name
  • Sinking of Sozopol screening
  • Kostadin Bonev with the Grand Prix

Winners

2019

Grand Prix

Gustav Meyrink Prize (Jury Prize)

Best Feature Film

  • M — Directed by Anna Eriksson

Best Director

  • Kostadin Bonev — Away from the Shore

Best Screenplay

Best Actor

Best Short Film

  • Aji — Anastasia Berezovsky

Best Music Video

  • Dark like the night. Karenina-2019 — Directed by Radda Novikova

Best Student Film

  • Hinge — Directed by Lisa Ann Mayo

Best Art Direction

  • Land of Winter — Directed by Tommy Creagh

Best Documentary

  • To tell a Ghost — Directed by Chris Piotrowicz, Stefan Ehrhardt

Best Cinematography

  • Away from the Shore — Cinematography by Konstantin Zankov

Best Animated Film

  • Burning Bright — Directed by Aaron Bierman

Best Experimental Film

  • We are in a Dream — Directed by Henna Välkky, Eesu Lehtola

2018

Grand Prix

  • Octav — Directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi[23]

Honorary Award

Best Feature Film

  • Ivanov — Directed by Dimitri Falkovich

Best Director

Best Screenplay

  • I May Regret — Graham Streeter

Best Actor

  • Marcel Iures — Octav

Best Short Film

  • Mr. Goody — Jason MacDonald

Best Music Video

Best Art Direction

Best Documentary

Best Cinematography

  • Ivanov — Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois

Best Animated Film

  • Moon's Milk — Directed by Ri Crawford

Best Experimental Film

  • It Grows Dark — Directed by Benjamin Capps

2017

Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

  • Train Driver's Diary – Directed by Milos Radovic

Best Director

Best Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Short Film

  • The Light Thief – Eva Daoud

Best Experimental Film

  • Time – Retrograde — Directed by David Ellis

Best Art Direction

  • Ghosts on the Road to Camalt – Directed by Jason Tovey

Best Music Video

Best Student Film

  • Muñecas – Directed by Ozzy Ozuna

Gustav Meyrink Prize (Jury Prize)

  • Collector – Directed by Alexei Krasovsky

2016

Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Director

  • Kostadin Bonev — Sinking of Sozopol

Best Screenplay

Best Cinematography

  • Konstantin Zankov — Sinking of Sozopol

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Short Film

  • Cora — Directed by Kevin Maxwell

Best Experimental Film

  • NO SIGNAL — Directed by David Ellis

Best Animated Film

  • The Snow Queen 2 — Directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin

Best Comedy Film

  • Seth — Directed by Zach Lasry

Best Horror Film

  • Woods — Directed by Sean van Leijenhorst

Best Art Direction

  • Forgiveness — Directed by Rima Irani

Best Special Effects

  • Forgiveness — Directed by Rima Irani

Best Music Score

  • Green Lake — Directed by Derek Frey

Best Music Video

References
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  25. "Диана Арбенина и Валерия Гай Германика получили престижную кинопремию". Passion.ru.
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