The Munich Film Festival (28 June-7 July) came to an end this weekend by announcing this year's winners. Besides the CineMerit Awards that went to Emma Thompson and Terry Gilliam, another prominent figure, Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, was saluted for his latest opus, presented in the CineMasters Competition: the Cannes-winning Shoplifters. Another Croisette favourite, Danish director Ali Abbasi's Border [+leggi anche:
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The German Cinema New Talent Awards, which go to the best newcomers in the main New German Cinema section in the categories of director, producer, screenwriter and actor/actress, come with a total of €70,000 in prize money. Best Director was granted to first-time helmer Eva Trobisch for All Good [+leggi anche:
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The Bayern 2 and SZ Audience Award, for which all films screening in the festival are eligible, also went to a title from the New German Cinema section: Oliver Haffner's Wackersdorf [+leggi anche:
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The One-Future-Prize, presented since 1986 to a film that shows, ethically as well as aesthetically, that our world has one common future, was won by Roya Sadat's A Letter to the President, which was the Afghan entry for the latest Oscar for Best Foreign-language Film. Christian Krönes and Florian Weigensamer's frighteningly real dystopia Welcome to Sodom [+leggi anche:
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The German Cinema Award for Peace - The Bridge, awarded to film artists whose work builds bridges and inspires tolerance and humanitarianism, went to four separate winners: Ziad Doueiri for The Insult [+leggi anche:
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Here is the list of the winners of the main prizes at the 2018 Munich Film Festival:

CineVision Competition for Best International Film by an Emerging Director
Border [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
The Great Buddha + - Hsin-Yao Huang (Taiwan)

ARRI/OSRAM Award for Best International Film in the CineMasters Competition
Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)

FIPRESCI Award
All Good [+leggi anche:
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German Cinema New Talent Awards

Best Director
Eva Trobisch – All Good

Best Producer
Anna de Paoli – A Young Man With High Potential [+leggi anche:
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Best Screenplay
Damian John Harper – In the Middle of the River [+leggi anche:
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Best Actor/Actress
Aenne Schwarz – All Good

The One-Future-Prize
A Letter to the President – Roya Sadat (Afghanistan)
Honorary Mention
Welcome to Sodom [+leggi anche:
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Bayern 2 and SZ Audience Award
Wackersdorf [+leggi anche:
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German Cinema Award for Peace - The Bridge

Best Director
Ziad Doueiri – The Insult [+leggi anche:
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Best German Director
Lars Kraume – The Silent Revolution [+leggi anche:
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Young Talent Prize
Katja Benrath – Watu Wote: All of Us (Germany/Kenya)

Special Prize
Feras Fayyad – Last Men in Aleppo [+leggi anche:
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CineMerit Awards
Emma Thompson
Terry Gilliam

Kinderfilmfest Audience Award
100% COCO – Tessa Schram (Netherlands)