16/03/2015 - The film by young Hungarian director Virág Zomborácz has taken home the top prize, while Anywhere Else and Flowers came in in second and third place

Ferenc Pusztai, the producer of Afterlife, with the first prize

Afterlife [+see also:
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Second place went to Anywhere Else [+see also:
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And thus the 33^rd edition of the Bergamo Film Meeting drew to a close, following a nine-day programme and the screening of 141 movies divided into various categories: the feature-film competition; the section devoted to documentaries; the exhibition dedicated to the works of Czech animation director Pavel Koutský; and “Europe: Feminine, Singular”, the second part of an examination of European cinema with a feminine twist, which featured the participation of directors Andrea Arnold (Great Britain), Teresa Villaverde (Portugal), Aida Begić (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Ágnes Kocsis (Hungary). In addition, the event also included a selection of documentaries from European film schools in partnership with the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan, a retrospective on crime films, and the premieres of National Gallery [+see also:
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The 34^th edition is scheduled to take place from 5-13 March 2016.

(Translated from Italian)