18/04/2017 - Ralitza Petrova’s film has won the 2017 Sauvage Award, while Donkeyote and Mister Universo snagged Special Mentions

Handed out by a jury chaired by Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabó, the Sauvage Award of the 12^th edition of the L'Europe autour de l'Europe Festival (which unspooled from 15 March–16 April in Paris) went to Godless [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ralitza Petrova
film profile] by Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova (winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and the Leopard for Best Actress at Locarno last year).

Two Special Mentions were handed out: one to Spaniard Chico Pereira for Donkeyote [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (popular at Rotterdam in January) and the other to the duo comprising Italy’s Tizza Covi and Austria’s Rainer Frimmel, for Mister Universo [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Special Jury Mention at Locarno – set to be released in France on 26 April, courtesy of Zeugma Films).

In the competitive section dedicated to documentaries, organised for the second year in a row, the Présent Award was taken home by the Portuguese production Maybe Desert, Perhaps Universe [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes.

Here is the complete list of award winners:

Sauvage Award – Best Fiction Film
Godless [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ralitza Petrova
film profile] - Ralitza Petrova (Bulgaria/Denmark/France)

Special Mentions
Chico Pereira – Donkeyote [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Germany/Spain/UK)
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel - Mister Universo [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Italy/Austria)

Présent Award – Best Documentary Film
Maybe Desert, Perhaps Universe [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes (Portugal)

Luna Award – Best Fiction Film 
Chico Pereira - Donkeyote

(Translated from French)