The International Jury of the 52nd DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL consisting of the members
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (President)
YAMINA BENGUIGUI
TOM DiCILLO
MARTA ESTEBAN
LAURA MORANTE
EDUARDO SERRA
DITO TSINTSADZE
has decided to grant the following awards:

JURY AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to
Guy Hibbert y Paul Greengrass OMAGH (UK-Ireland)

JURY AWARD FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY to
Marcel Zyskind. NINE SONGS (UK-USA)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR to
Ulrich Thomsen BRODRE (BROTHERS) (Denmark)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS to
Connie Nielsen BRODRE (BROTHERS) (Denmark)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR to
Xu Junglei. YI GENG MO SHENG NU REN DE LAI XIN (LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN) (China)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to
“SAM ZIMSKE NOCI” by Goran Paskaljevic (Serbia and Montenegro)
For the way it evokes the tragic consequences of a civil conflict by means of the relationship between a survivor and an autistic girl

GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM to
“TURTLES CAN FLY” by Bahman Ghobadi (Iran-Iraq)
On the Iran-Iraq border, weeks before the invasion of the latter by USA troops, in a camp of Kurdish refugees attempting to escape from Sadam's repression, a kid who has taken the lead procures a satellite dish to keep up-to-date with the news, translating it as he sees fit, organizing mine defusing operations and trying to help two Kurdish kids encumbered with a baby...
A comical opening for one of today's tragedies.
Latest movie by one of the best Kurdish directors in Iran, author among others of A Time for Drunken Horses, winner of the Caméra d'Or at Cannes in 2000.

Other prizes:
The ALTADIS-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD JURY of the 52nd Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival consisting of the followings members:
JORGE DE COMINGES
ROBERT DAUDELIN
NICK JAMES
SATU LAAKSONEN
MARIASUN LANDA
ALAN PAULS
HÜLYA UÇANSU
has decided to grant a Mention to:

KARPUZ KABUGUNDAN GEMILER YAPMAK (BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON RINDS), Ahmet Uluçay (Turkey)
for its humour and the freshness of its approach to the language of Cinema
and by majority grant the ALTADIS-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD to the film:

INNOCENCE, Lucile Hadzihalilovic (France)
for its aesthetic rigor and its creation of a disturbing and original universe.

The HORIZONTES Jury at the 52nd Donostia-San Sebastian Intenational Film Festival, consisting of the members:
RUY GUERRA (President)
JORGE SÁNCHEZ
DENIS W. DELAROCA
Has decided to award two special mentions to:

FERNANDA MONTENEGRO and DAMIAN ALCAZAR for their sensitive performances in the films “O OUTRO LADO DA RUA ” (Brazil) and “CRÓNICAS” (Ecuador)
and the HORIZONTES AWARD, carrying €18,000 for the director of the winning film, to:

MALA LECHE by León Errazuriz (Chile)