Rotterdam Film Festival Winners

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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