Friday, February 9----Four films shared the top Festival prizes at the Rotterdam Film Festival, which ended its 36th edition this past Sunday. Top winners of the VPRO Tiger Awards include: LOVE CONQUERS ALL (Tan Chui Mui, Malaysia), THE UNPOLISHED (Pia Marais, Germany), BOGS OF BEASTS (Baixo Des Bestas, Brazil) and AFR (Morten Hartz Kapler, Denmark). Each winner received a 10,000 Euro cash prize, as well as a guaranteed broadcast by Dutch public television network VPRO.

In other prizes, FOURTEEN (Hirosue Hiromasa, Japan) received the NETPAC Award (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), while DANCING BELLS (Deepak Kumaran Menon, Malaysia) and HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY? (Xiaolu Guo, China/UK), received special mentions. This year's FIPRESCI International Critics Award went to Rafa Cortes' ME.

Other film awards given out at the Awards Ceremony:

KNF Award
OPERATION FILMMAKER (Nina Davenport, USA)

Prix UIP Rotterdam
AMIN (David Dusa,France/Germany/The Netherlands)

MovieSquad Award
REPRISE (Joachim Trier, Norway)

Arte France Cinema Awards
A RATIONAL SOLUTION (Jargen Bergmark, Sweden)
LES PIEDS NUS SUR LES LIMACES (Fabienne Berthaud, France)

Prince Claus Fund Film Grant
INDEPENDENCIA (Raya Martin, The Philippines)

Movies That Matter Award
THE MARK OF CAIN (Marc Munden, UK)

Sandy Mandelberger
Awards Watch Editor