Tiger Competition

Van de maximaal 16 genomineerde regisseurs gaat er aan het eind van het festival één met een Tiger Award én een geldbedrag van €40.000 naar huis. Daarnaast zullen twee speciale juryprijzen, elk ter waarde van €10.000, worden uitgereikt aan een buitengewone artistieke prestatie binnen de competitie. Even belangrijk als dit geldbedrag is de internationale erkenning en belangstelling die een Tiger Competition-nominatie met zich meebrengt. Tiger Awards vormen voor veel filmmakers dat onontbeerlijke steuntje in de rug: niet zelden trekken ze bijvoorbeeld financiers over de streep om een volgend project mogelijk te maken.

Winnaars per editie

2023
Le spectre de Boko Haram van Cyrielle Raingou
Special Jury Award: Munnel van Visakesa Chandrasekaram
Special Jury Award: New Strains van Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan

2022
EAMI van Paz Encina
Special Jury Award: Excess Will Save Us van Morgane Dziurla-Petit
Special Jury Award: To Love Again van Gao Linyang

2021
Pebbles van Vinothraj P.S.
Special Jury Award: I Comete – A Corsican Summer van Pascal Tagnati
Special Jury Award: Looking for Venera van Norika Sefa

2020
The Cloud in Her Room van Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Special Jury Award: Beasts Clawing at Straws van Kim Yonghoon

2019
Present.Perfect. van Zhu Shengze
Special Jury Award: Take Me Somewhere Nice van Ena Sendijarević

2018
The Widowed Witch van Cai Chengjie
Special Jury Award: het scenario van The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, geschreven door Rami Alayan

2017
Sexy Durga van Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Special Jury Award: Rey van Niles Atallah

2016
Radio Dreams van Babak Jalali
Special Jury Award: La última tierra van Pablo Lamar, voor een uitzonderlijke artistieke prestatie op het gebied van sound design

2015
La obra del siglo van Carlos M. Quintela
Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) van Juan Daniel F. Molero
Vanishing Point van Jakrawal Nilthamrong

2014
Anatomy of a Paper Clip van Ikeda Akira
Han Gong-Ju van Lee Su-Jin
Something Must Break van Ester Martin Bergsmark

2013
Fat Shaker van Mohammad Shirvani (Iran)
My Dog Killer van Mira Fornay (Slowakije, Tsjechië)
Soldate Jeannette van Daniel Hoesl (Oostenrijk)

2012
Clip van Maja Miloš (Servië)
De jueves a domingo van Dominga Sotomayor (Chili/Nederland)
Egg and Stone van Huang Ji (China, 2012)

2011
Tee-rak / Eternity van Sivaroj Kongsakul (Thailand)
Musan il-gy / The Journals of Musan van Park Jung-Bum (Zuid-Korea)
Finisterrae van Sergio Caballero (Spanje)

2010
Mundane History van Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand)
Alamar van Pedro González-Rubio (Mexico)
Agua fría de mar van Paz Fábrega (Costa Rica)

2009
Be Calm and Count to Seven van Ramtin Ravafipour (Iran)
Breathless van Yang Ik-June (Zuid-Korea)
Wrong Rosary van Mahmut Fazil Coskun (Turkije)

2008
Flower in the Pocket van Liew Seng Tat (Maleisië)
Go with Peace Jamil van Omar Shargawi (Denemarken)
Wonderful Town van Aditya Assarat (Thailand)

2007
Love Conquers All van Tan Chui Mui (Maleisië)
Die Unerzogenen van Pia Marais (Duitsland)

Ex aequo:
AFR van Morten Hartz Kaplers (Denemarken)
Bog Of Beasts van Claudio Assis (Brazilië)

2006
Old Joy van Kelly Reichardt (USA)
La Perrera van Manuel Nieto Zas (Uruguay/Argentinië/Canada/Spanje)
Walking On the Wild Side Han Jie (China/Frankrijk)

2005
4 van Ilya Khrzhanovsky (Rusland)
El cielo gira van Mercedes Alvarez ( Spanje)
Nemmeno il destino van Daniele Gaglianone (Italië)

Speciale vermeldingen voor:
Bride of Silence van Doan Minh Phuong & Doan Thanh Nhgia (Vietnam/Duitsland)
Sanctuary van Ho Yuhang (Maleisië)

2004
The Missing van Lee Kang-sheng (Taiwan)
Summer in the Golden Valley van Srdjan Vuletic (Bosnie-Herzegovina)
Unterwegs van Jan Krueger (Duitsland)

2003
Extraño van Santiago Loza (Argentinië)
Jealousy Is My Middle Name van Park Chan-Ok (Zuid-Korea)
With Love. Lilya van Larisa Sadilova (Rusland)

2002
Everyday God Kisses Us On The Mouth van Sinisa Dragin (Roemenië)
Tussenland van Eugenie Jansen (Nederland)
Wild Bees van Bohhdan Slama (Tjechië)

2001
25 Watts van Juan Pablo Rebella en Pablo Stoll (Uruguay)
Bad Company van Furumaya Tomoyuki (Japan)
In den Tag hinein van Maria Speth (Duitsland)

2000
Bye Bye Blue Bird van Katrin Ottarsdottír (Denemarken)
Mundo grúa van Pablo Trapero (Argentinië)
Suzhou River van Lou Ye (China)

1999
Following van Christopher Nolan (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
The Iron Heel of Oligarchy van Alexander Bashirov (Rusland)
Plus qu'hier, moins que demain van Laurent Achard (Frankrijk)

1998
Die Siebtelbauern van Stefan Ruzowitzky (Oostenrijk)
Giro di Lune tra terra e mare van Giuseppe Gaudino (Italië)
Knoflíkari van Petr Zelenka (Tsjechië)

1997
The Day a Pig Fell into the Well van Hung Sang-Soo (Zuid-Korea)
Last Holiday van Amir Karakulov (Kazachstan)
Robinson in Space van Patrick Keiller (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

1996
Erzi van Zhang Yuan (China)
Like Grains of Sand van Hasiguchi Ryosuke (Japan)
Small Faces van Gillies MacKinnon (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

1995
Fuyu no kappa van Kazama Shiori (Japan)
Postman van He Jianjun (China)
Thalassa, Thalassa, Rückkehr zum Meer van Bogdan Dumitrescu (Roemenië/Duitsland)

Tiger Competition 2023

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Jury 2023

Alonso Díaz de la Vega

Alonso DÍAZ DE LA VEGA is a Mexican film critic for Gatopardo. In 2015 he was the first critic from his country to attend Berlinale Talents. He has written on film for La Tempestad, El Universal, Revista Ambulante, Tierra Adentro, Frente, Butaca Ancha and Cuadrivio. He also participated in Mexican television on Canal Once’s Mi cine, tu cine, and is part of the selection committee at the Morelia International Film Festival.

Anisia Uzeyman

Anisia UZEYMAN is an actress, playwright and director born in Rwanda. She studied drama at the Superior School of Theater in France. She is the co-director and Spirit Award 2023 nominee cinematographer of the critically acclaimed sci-fi musical Neptune Frost, co-directed by Saul Williams, which premiered in Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Her experimental debut feature, Dreamstates, a road-movie entirely shot on iPhones premiered at the LA Film Festival (2016). As an actress Anisia starred in the award winning film Tey, Aujourd’hui by Alain Gomis (2014) and the feature film Ayiti Mon Amour by Guetty Felin (2017). Her first book, a poetic treatment of her original screenplay Saolomea, Saolomea is published by Not a Cult  (2021).

Christine Vachon

Christine VACHON is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner, who co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films with producer Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over the past two decades, they have produced over 100 films, including: Still Alice (2014), Boys Don't Cry (1999), Kids (1995), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), and I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). Vachon has a longstanding collaboration with fellow Brown University alum and filmmaker Todd Haynes, together they've worked on films like: Carol (2015), Far From Heaven (2002), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Safe (1995), and I'm Not There (2007), and the upcoming May December starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton. In television, Vachon executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe-awarded miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011; Todd Haynes) as well as Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015). Recent releases include Janicza Bravo's Zola (2020), Mona Fastvold's The World to Come (2020), and the limited series Halston (2021).

Lav Diaz

Lav DIAZ (1958, Philippines) has been labelled "the ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema" by the Venice Film Festival. His breakthrough came with the five-hour feature Batang West Side (2002), which won prizes at the film festivals of Brussels and Singapore. Since his 630-minute-long Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), many of Diaz's films have been shown at IFFR. From What Is Before (2014) won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and The Woman Who Left (2016) won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Diaz received the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

Sabrina Baracetti

Sabrina BARACETTI is a founding member and president of Udine Far East Film Festival and president of cultural organisation and arthouse exhibition company Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche, head of acquisitions of the distribution company Tucker Film, co-founder and consultant for Ties That Bind and member of the Board of Directors at Gemona Film Archive. She served as a jury member on various film festivals dedicated to Asian Cinema.