Aktan Abdykalykov "This is a film which completely fulfils the CICAE award criterions. The beautiful rural landscape has a history behind and dangers in front. The hero who proudly believes in this values acts single-handedly and makes a legend. The community responds to this action and the drama takes form. Those who help him and those who oppose him are all parts of same origin. We think that the film is very important to be seen by a huge audience, because our knowledge of ancient stories and values - who we are and where we come from - is an antidote against conflict."
Doris Dörrie Fukushima, mon amour is an absolute work of art, it is poetic and reminds us impressively that life is as unique as a dream. Light-hearted, delicate, elegant, with highly skilled black and white photography, telling the story of two women from divers cultural backgrounds and how this helps them unite and chase away the ghosts that haunt them from the past. It teaches us how to cope with mistakes you make in life, by accepting them in order to look optimistically into the future.
Anna Maylaert "The jury is happy to announce its unanimous decision to award CICAE Panorama Prize of the Berlin Film Festival to Brazilian filmmaker Anna Muylaert for her film Que Horas Ela Volta? With loving view, the director accompanies her main characters' life with gentle tones and subtle humour covering heavy conflicts and social issues of modern Brazil. It's a story about two women, of two different generations shown by an outstanding performance of two actresses: Regina Casé and Camila Márdila. Muylaert easily overcomes the distance between audience and screen simply throughout their huge empathy for the struggle between work and worries about their family."
Faouzi Bensaïdi for its respectful and original reflection of the genre film noir; for its tragic and emotional power; for its force as a document of the impasse of a certain youth at the moment of the breakout of the Arab spring; for his aesthetic ambition and his attitude as cineast.
