Winners of the 20th Festival 25 FPS

Here are the laureates of the round edition of our Festival.

GRAND JURY GRAND PRIX

Eve Heller
Pain by Ivan Faktor

"From the first breath of its opening to the last breath of its end credits, this work of tremendous cinematic art is an undiluted communication from a great artist subject to the merciless onslaught of uncontrollable tremors, sleeplessness and disability. An intricate architecture of anguish and beauty is sensitively composed from imagery and sound he captured on his cell phone in the throes of Parkinson's disease. We are challenged to look straight into the eye of his painful storm and to stand by him in his darkest hours. This is one of the most courageous and humane films in the history of cinema."

Tomislav Šoban
Fade by Asako Ujita

"In this film the only protagonists are women, while the men are occupied only by working the machines and building a new landscape. From the very first shot, the author gives us access to her grandmother’s intimate world. In the film of subdues colours we follow her daily routines, rituals, activities and friendship. Through a Japanese persimmon we follow a closing cycle, getting prepared for a shot without image, a blank shot, darkness that brings an encounter with laughter in sound. We witness a cinematic poetry teaching us to see through all the pores of our being."

Varja Močnik
Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

"Detailed and cold deconstruction of a photograph slowly and painfully integrates the viewer into the harrowing violence it depicts. This film about this single photo still sharply blows away the fog of the mainstream discourse that intends to deceive our perception of our collective – in hatred and indifference submerged – reality and confronts us with the realness of our position in the ongoing psychotic violence of the oppressors."

CRITICS' JURY AWARD (Marija Krstanović, Oskar Ban Brejc, Dino Staničić)
Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

"With careful consideration of a single photograph, this film attempts to make sense of how power and violence leave traces in an image. Coming closer to the image, however, doesn’t reveal new information about the actual events taking place but rather obscures the figures in unreadable pixels. The film meditates on how an image gives a us a way into real events but at the same time functions as a barrier."

AUDIENCE AWARD
Shrooms by Jorge Jácome

GREEN DCP AWARD for a Croatian film in the program
Stitch the Ruin by Željka Blakšić (Gita Blak)

"A film that won us over with its tactility, atmosphere and originality with which it explores the socialist heritage and the issues of work and gender through artistic means."