2010 TIDF Award-Winning List
International Feature Length Competition
Grand Prize
In The Garden of Sounds
Nicola BELLUCCI｜Switzerland
The film is an immersive experience for an audience, one which resonates with us long after it is viewed. This film sets itself apart from regular narrative treatments because we are allowed to enter the sensory world of both the main character and those children he transforms.
Merit Prize
Let the Wind Carry Me
CHIANG Hsiu-chiung, KWAN Pun-leung｜Taiwan
More than a dramatic celebrity tribute to a film craftsman, the film opens up to be an inner portrait of an artist as a human being. The film displays great cinematic qualities and it seamlessly weaves itself into the life and work of one of the world’s great poetic cinematographers, Mark Lee.
War Don Don
Rebecca Richman COHEN｜Sierra Leone
The film mirrors for us how easily judgmental and self righteous we can become when we are only fed a sensational bias of mainstream news reportage. It has unprecedented access, is a portrait of a process, and acknowledges all the ambiguities of a war criminal trial. And it’s a film which, in a fair, objective and well structured way allows audiences to make up our own minds.
Jury’s Special Mention
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Vadim JENDRYKO｜Germany, Switzerland
This is a film which translates the life of a dynamic woman, a very active eighty–seven year old translator, into a very beautiful film.
International Short Film Competition
Grand Prize
Countryside 35x45
Evgeny SOLOMIN｜Russia
The film appears simple, a quality found in many master pieces, yet as the film unfolded, we realized its continual depth. The photographs, habitants and countryside become unforgettable, not only because they are captured in beautiful black and white, but also because the stories we hear are as touching as the images we see.
Merit Prize
Divine Pig
Hans DORTMANS｜Netherlands
The director gives you a very smart approach in talking about the irony of life which every human society faces. He exposes this irony through his intimate observation of the relationship between the butcher and his pig. This film leads you to learn that you always have your own perspectives on life and the world we live in.
In Case of Loss of Pressure
Sarah Moon HOWE｜Belgium
A new born showed signs of “symptomatic epilepsy”. The mother was driven to the edge by the non-stop 24-hour intensive care. She picked up the camera to save herself and she started shooting. The film is honest, gutty and very expressive. The hardship of life and the mother’s courage with love touch everyone’s heart.
Asia Vision Award
Grand Prize
Passion
Byamba SAKHYA｜Mongolia
A beautiful film infused with nostalgia, sadness and a strange, hopeful optimism. Sakhya gives us his vision of the present state of Mongolian cinema and its inheritance from the past. It is truly a charming and touching piece of Asian cinema.
Merit Prize
Amin
Shahin PARHAMI｜Canada, Iran, South Korea
Honest, touching and open. This film is about lost origins, skillfully combining individual loneliness with the whole nation’s love of music, as it follows the fate of a dying music.
Jury’s Special Mention
Iron Crows
Bong-nam PARK｜South Korea
A lens of powerful impact displays a silhouette of Asia in the globalizing world. One we can not neglect. With close up observation of workers in a Bangladeshi ship destruction yard, it reveals the fateful relationship between industrialization and poor rural Asia, as well as the absurdity and ruthlessness of human civilization.
Taiwan Award
Grand Prize
Hand in Hand
YEN Lan-chuan, JUANG Yi-tzeng｜Taiwan
We saw a lot of hand-holding through out this film. Mother and Father Tian holding hands; director and audience holding hands; different generations holding hands and the linking of our own hands through this moving story.
Special Jury Prize
Nimbus
A-yao HUANG｜Taiwan
This poetic film-essay slowly reveals the history of a landscape in transition. A beautiful land-, sea- and sky-scape hides the story of a place where land disappears and reappears creating dramatic changes in the life of its residents. The beautiful and observant cinematography gives a moving portrait and quiet commentary on the impact of a changing environment on our lives.
Jury’s Special Mention
Avoiding Vision
CHEN Yuan-chen｜Taiwan
The self-filming method adopted by the filmmaker, explores how to completely heal body and soul.
Audience Award
I Shot My Love
Tomer HEYMANN｜Germany, Israel
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Frank van den ENGEL｜Netherlands
Let the Wind Carry Me
CHIANG Hsiu-chiung, KWAN Pun-leung｜Taiwan