japanese

YIDFF ’95

October 3–9

YIDFF ’95 Programs


International Competition


--YIDFF ’95 Award Recipients

Prizes for the International Competition
The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (The Grand Prize):
Choice and Destiny  Dir: Tsipi Reibenbach / ISRAEL

The Mayor’s Prize (Prize of Excellence):
Metal and Melancholy  Dir: Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS

Runner-up Prize:
Screenplay: The Times—Three Decades with the Children of Golzow and the DEFA Documentary Film Studio  Dir: Barbara Junge, Winfried Junge / GERMANY
Picture of Light  Dir: Peter Mettler / SWITZERLAND, CANADA

Special Prize:
Father, Son, and Holy War  Dir: Anand Patwardhan / INDIA

New Asian Currents Awards
Ogawa Shinsuke Prize:
Murmuring  Dir: Byun YoungJoo / KOREA

Awards of Excellence:
Scenes of Violence  Dir: Chen Yi-wen / TAIWAN
Katatsumori  Dir: Kawase Naomi / JAPAN

Special Mentions:
The Clap Trap  Dir: Jill Misquitta / INDIA
The Other Bank  Dir: Jiang Yue / CHINA

Citizens’ Prize
Screenplay: The Times—Three Decades with the Children of Golzow and the DEFA Documentary Film Studio  Dir: Barbara Junge, Winfried Junge / GERMANY

------------------------------
FIPRESCI Prize
The Square  Dir: Zhang Yuan, Duan Jinchuan / CHINA, JAPAN
Last Farewell USSR  Dir: Alexander Rodnyansky / UKRAINE

Special Mention:
Embracing  Dir: Kawase Naomi / JAPAN

------------------------------
“We Love Cinema” Awards
Last Farewell USSR  Dir: Alexander Rodnyansky / UKRAINE
Scenes of Violence  Dir: Chen Yi-wen / TAIWAN

--YIDFF ’95 Facts and Figures

Total Films Shown: 278
Attendance: 21,028