17/10/2005

The Croatian director Ognjen Svilicic left the Polish capital with the Nescafé Grand Prize in the “New films, new directors” section of Warsaw International Film Festival 's 21st edition. Headed by Pawel Pawlikowski, the jury chose Sorry for Kung-fu (Oprosti Za Kung Fu), a film where the director "turned a simple, touching and fun story into a complex situation for the characters".

In his film,Svilicic tells the story of Mirjana (Daria Lorenci) who returns to Croatia after staying in Germany during the Balcan war. Mirjana gets used to a completely different reality to that of her family in her homevillage. The author builds his satire on the contrast of her family's xenophobic tendecies and Mirjana's distance itself. The film was produced by Croatian Television's Vesna Mort in 2004.

The Cinamax Prize for best script went to Kim Fupz Aakeson for the Danish film Accused by Jacob Thuesen. And it was the Danish directorAnders Thomas Jensen who won the public's prize for his third feature film Adam's Apples [+see also:
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interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
interview: Mads Mikkelsen
interview: Tivi Magnusson
film profile]. The jury's special prize went to the Rusian director Aleksiej Fedorczenko for his film First People On The Moon.
The FIPRESCI jury, present for the first time in the Warsaw Film Festival , gave its prize for best first or second Central and Eastern European film to Srdjan Koljevic for Red Coloured Grey Truck (Sivi Kamion Crvene Boje). The film was a co-production between Serbia, Montenegro, Eslovenia and Germany.

Among the films presented in the local CentEast- Warsaw Screening, the president of the Polish public television TVP awarded two Polish lady directors: Dorota Kędzierzawska for I am (Jestem) and Anna Jadowska for It's Me Now (Teraz Ja), while the prize given by the Polish private TV channel Polsat was for Jan Cvitkovic's co-production between Eslovenia and Croatia Gravehopping.

(Translated from French)