Awards 2007

VPRO Tiger Awards

This year’s VPRO Tiger Awards jury, chaired by Toronto International Film Festival director Piers Handling, took an unusual decision to award the VPRO Tiger Awards to four films, rather than the usual three. Tan Chui Mui’s Love Conquers All, Pia Marais’ The unpolished, Claudio Assis’ Bog of Beasts and Morten Hartz Kapler’s AFR, were honoured by the 36th IFFR.

Tiger Awards voor Korte Film

The three winning short films are Video Game by Vipin Vijay, Hinterland by Geoffrey Boulangé and The Flag by Köken Ergun.

NETPAC Awards

NETPAC chose Hirosue Hiroyama’s tense psychological drama Fourteen, citing its “insight into psychology and generational barriers, and its bold analysis of a complex culture”.

FIPRESCI Award

FIPRESCI selected Rafa Cortes’s Yo, quoting its intense depiction of one man’s struggle to acquire an identity.

KNF Award

The KNF (the jury of Dutch film critics) chose US filmmaker Nina Davenport’s Operation Filmmaker, a documentary film which follows an aspiring film director in Baghdad. “The director is constantly challenging herself and the viewer to reconsider Western opinions on cultural differences,” states the KNF jury. The award enables the winning film to be subtitled in Dutch to help it achieve distribution in the Netherlands.

KPN Audience Award

The festival’s final award, the KPN Audience Award, was given to Das Leben der Anderen by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Moviesquad Award

The young people's jury chose Reprise by Joachim Trier for the MovieSquad Award.

Prix UIP Rotterdam

The Prix UIP Rotterdam was handed to Amin by David Dusa.

Lions Film Award

It's Winter by Rafi Pitts has won The Lions Film Award, an award presented to a promising film project which previously received post production support from the Hubert Bals Fund.