IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival's blog

Silver Princess Statuette

(replica of the original "The Palace" statue of Ilejana,
daughter of the Romanian Queen Mary of Edingburgh)

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Nominees for BEST FICTION:

• Joey ( dir. David Forster / Australia / 07'24'')
• Guang ( dir. Shio Chuan Quek / Malaysia / 14'00'')
• Short For Vernesa B. ( dir. Jons Vukorep / Germany / 10'47'')
• The Factory ( dir. Aly Muritiba / Brazil / 15'03'')
• To All My Friends ( dir. Behrouz Bigdeli Bigdeli / Denmark / 28'30'')

BEST FICTION AWARD:

The Factory

JURY AWARD:

Short For Vernesa B.

SPECIAL MENTION:

Joey
for outstanding performance of William Fisher in the part of Joey

AUDIENCE AWARD:

Guang

Nominees for BEST ANIMATION:

• One more time! ( dir. Pavlyicheva Nataliya,Ovchinnikova Ekaterina, Okruznova Tatyana, Yakhyaeva Alina, Petrova Elena, Arkhipova Mariya / Russia / 02'40'')
• QQQ ( dir. Song YungSung / Japan / 08'20'')
• Zing ( dir. Kyra Buschor, Cynthia Collins / Germany / 07'31'')

BEST ANIMATION AWARD:

One more time!

Nominees for BEST DOCUMENTARY:

• Machine Man ( dir. Roser Corella, Alfonso Moral / Spain / documentary / 15'00'')
• Ochre and Ink ( dir. James Bradley / Australia / 27'30'')
• Taxi ( dir. Asier Urbieta / Spain / 08'00'')

BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD:

Machine Man

Nominees for BEST EXPERIMENTAL:

• Geometric Poetry ( dir. Stephan Kloß / Germany / 04'06'')
• Sivan ( dir. Zohar Elefant / Israel / 13'30'')
• The Night of the Moon Has Many Hours ( dir. Mauricio Arango / USA, Colombia / 11'00'')

BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD:

The Night of the Moon Has Many Hours

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS | NATIONAL COMPETITION

BEST NATIONAL FILM:

The Paraffin Prince ( dir. Pavel G. Vesnakov / fiction / Bulgaria / 2012 / 23')

BEST ANIMATION:

Father ( dir. Ivan Bogdanov / Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany / 2012 / 16'30'')

SPECIAL MENTION:

Rew Day (dir. Svilen Dimitrov / animation / Bulgaria / 2012 / 6'40'')

for exceptional sense of time

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

Section 59 (dir.David Djambazov, Anna Stoeva / Bulgaria / 2012 / 27')

JURY MEMBERS: Firat Yücel, Pavel Kostomarov, Sanna Kyllönen, Snejina Latev, Vladan Petkovic