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Récompense / February 2, 2015

WINNERS OF THE CANON TIGER AWARDS FOR SHORT FILMS 2015

The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films has completed its deliberation and announced Things by Ben Rivers, La fièvre by Safia Benhaim en Greetings to the Ancestors by Ben Russell as the winners of the Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films 2015.

Moreover, the jury also selected Our Body by Dane Komljen (Serbia/Germany) to compete in the short film category of the European Film Awards (EFA) later this year.

The three winning directors each receive a €3.000 prize plus a professional digital video camera from Canon. The awards ceremony took place this evening, Sunday 25 January at 21:00 hrs at LantarenVenster. Ben Rivers is a previous winner of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films with Ah, Liberty! in 2008 and Ben Russell competed for a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR in 2010.

The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films was comprised of British artist, filmmaker and two-time winner of this award Beatrice Gibson, Dutch programmer and curator Xander Karskens, and artistic director of Image Forum Festival Koyo Yamashita from Japan.

Jury commentary
On making their decision, of Things, the jury commented "We chose this film, for its exquisite crafting and ambitious approach to the personal and the diarystic. For its toilet humour, and the way in which the filmmaker successfully collapses style and rhythm."

La fievre was a worthy winner: "For its poetic and human use of images and sounds to engage with complex political histories. Its feverish pace and arresting cinematography. Its ominous, hallucinogenic soundtrack."

Greetings to the Ancestors was singled out: "For its complex approach to ethnographic filmmaking, its sensuous psychedelia, its self-reflexive and intricate weaving of voice and landscape."

The jury selected Our Body as their nomination the European Film Awards nomination: "For its raw and direct confrontation with its own subject. Its interweaving of the literary and the philosophical, and compelling juxtaposition of the gentle and the abrupt."

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