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Grand Prix for the best picture of the 13th edition of the International Film Festival Bratislava was awarded to Las Acacias, a minimalistic road movie by Argentinean director Pablo Giorgelli, for “unusual cinematic experience in which acting and cinematography are wedded into a unique film. Sparse dialogues reveal so much, depicting human warmth seldom seen in directing debuts.” This extraordinary and excellent Argentinean–Spanish debut also clinched the FIPRESCI award in Bratislava.

List of the 13the International Film Festival Bratislava winners.

WARSAW:  The Hungarian coproducer of Adrian Sitaru’s Best Intentions has been awarded the prestigious FNE Visegrad Prix for best fiction coproduction.  The prix was awarded at the closing ceremony of Jameson CineFest – Miskolc International Film Festival 2011 (17-25 September). Hungarian coproducer Emoke Vagasi of Cor Leonis Films (www.corleonisfilms.hu[http://www.corleonisfilms.hu/]) collected the 1000 euros cash prize from FNE editor Cathy Meils at the festival’s gala closing ceremony on 24 September 2011.

WARSAW: Czech producer Radim Prochazka was awarded the FNE Visegrad Prix for Obscurantist and His Lineage or the Pyramids' Tearful Valleys (Tmář a jeho rod aneb Slzavé údolí pyramid.  The prix was awarded at the closing ceremony of the 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (www.dokument-festival.com[http://www.dokument-festival.com/]) on 29 October 2011.  The film was directed by legendary Czech experimental documentary filmmaker Karel Vachek. 

The program of the 13th edition of the Bratislava International Film Festival Bratislava (IFFB) has just included another cinematic titbit. The feature film competition will present Alois Nebel, a Czech-German coproduction with minor Slovak participation. An impressive adaptation of a comic novel of the same name, the film is a feature debut by Czech director Tomáš Luňák who will come to present his film in person. In other news: one of the most important guests of this year’s festival will be screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák who will arrive to accept the Award for Artistic Excellence in World Cinematography. His personality and creation will be presented to avid cinemagoers by his son, Academy Award-winning director Jan Svěrák who joined forces with his colleague Martin Dostál to make Tatínek, an intimate documentary on Zdeněk Svěrák. The picture will be presented in person by both the father and the son.

As part of its Made in Slovakia section, the 13th edition of the International Film Festival Bratislava (IFFB) will present four world premieres of Slovak motion pictures along with a representative overview of the best works Slovak cinema has produced over the past year.

The 13th edition of the International Film Festival Bratislava (IFF Bratislava) will roll out red carpets again between November 4 and 9, 2011. The nine-day long film marathon will subsequently move to Banská Bystrica where Festival Days are scheduled for November 10 – 12.

The 13th edition of the International Film Festival Bratislava(IFF Bratislava) that will roll out its red carpet between November 4 and 9 has prepared an attractive program section called Red Westerns for avid cinemagoers. The IFF Bratislava is one of only five European film festivals to feature this celluloid titbit in its program structure this year.