The UPC Audience Award of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 goes to Philippe Falardeau’s MONSIEUR LAZHAR (Canada, 2011). The award comes with prize money of 10,000 Euro.The Dioraphte Award (also 10,000 Euro) for the highest-scoring film in the audience poll among the seventeen festival films made with support from the Hubert Bals Fund was won by GOODBYE by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof.IFFR 2012 counted 274,000 visits to films, exhibitions, performances and events. The first...

The Spanish comedy „What are Bears for?" (original title: ¿Para qué sirve un oso?) has won the „Heinrich", the audience award of Braunschweig's 25th International Film Festival. The award ceremony took place on Sunday, 13.11. at 7:00 pm in Braunschweig's State Theater's Great Hall. The prize money of 10.000 Euro is equally divided between director Tom Fernández and a German distributor who has decided to take the film to the screens. The prize money is donated by the festival's ...

  The 10th International Bitfilm Festival for Digital Film will reach its climax on October 1st when the award ceremony will take place at the Cinematheque Tel Aviv.   For six weeks internet users from all over world could vote for the 66 nominated films which competed for a total prize money of 10,000 Euros and the Bitfilm robot trophies. Bitfilm's director Aaron Koenig will disclose the winners in a public award show in Israel's economic and cultural metropolis. The show wi...