Winners:

JURY PRIZE FOR BEST FEATURE: The Doe Boy (96 min., USA) directed by Eitan Gorlin. Set in Jerusalem, a rabbinical student falls in love with a Russian prostitute during a period of suicide bus bombings. Award sponsored by JVC Professional.

JURY PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY: Harmful Insects (82 min., Sweden) directed by Annica Lundgard. The daughter of a visionary Stockholm architect chronicles her father's work and in the process gains insight into her estranged father as a human being.

GRAND JURY AWARDS FOR BEST SHORTS: SHORT NARRATIVE: Showtime (20 min., Germany) directed by Boris Hans-Tschachotin. A man develops a special interest in the liquids used to preserve animals in bottles at Berlin's Natural History Museum.

SHORT EXPERIMENTAL: Nevernights (13 min. Norway) directed by Lisa Sund. Blood-sugar-sex-magic breeds in this sensuous claymation.

SHORT ANIMATION: Bisex (12 min., UK) directed by Atsuko Kubota. Vividly colored, multiple forms of animation comment on the routine of our daily lives.

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE: The Reaper (84 min. UK) directed by Alan Gibbs. A horror film about what happens at the end of days and all debts come due.

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT: The Bros (16 min. UK) directed by Tom Stibbons. Tells a Franz Kafka story about a performer whose art consists of denying himself nourishment.

POLAR AWARD: Nordic Nights (35 min.) directed by Kimi Takesue. A striking travelogue through Lappland.

Other films in the Official Selection:

The Book that Wrote Itself:
A frustrated author begins an epic quest for fame.
Dir: Liam O'Mochian


Trash Baby:
Mia's life falls apart when romantic obsession takes hold.
Dir: Ryuichi Hiroki


Hell Hole:
Five lost soldiers hide out from WWI in a haunted mine.

Dir: Rob D. Green


Il Mare:
Two lovers find life's meaning on a beach in Northern Italy

Dir: Isabella Tornio


Stone Reader:
Mark crosses America to find the author of a great book he once read.
Dir: Mark Maskowitz


Louder than Bombs:
Marcin deals with the death of his father in rural Poland.
Dir: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek


La Spagnola:
A mother and child hunt down the man who left them behind.
Dir: Steve Jacobs


Derrida:
Traces the life of the French philosopher and his many critics.

Dir: Amy Kofman