Prague Independent Film Festival

Prague Independent Film Festival was held for the first time on 15–18 August 2016 in the cinemas Kino Evald, Kino Atlas and Kino Lucerna. The festival program consisted of 33 films. Opening film of the festival was Rocco has Your Name by Angelo Orlando. Angelo Orlando won the Best Screenplay award and the leading actor Michele Venitucci received the Best Actor award.

Grand Prix of the festival – The Golden Eagle – was awarded to the Bulgarian drama film Sinking of Sozopol by Kostadin Bonev.[1][2][3][4]

Shamim Sarif received the Best Feature Film award for her espionage drama Despite the Falling Snow based on the best selling eponymous novel written by herself.[5][6] Rebecca Ferguson was awarded Best Actress and Anthony Head received the Best Supporting Actor award.[7][8][9]

Best Animated Film was awarded to The Snow Queen 2 from the Russian animation company Wizart Animation.[10][11][12][13] The film was written and directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.

Best Short Film was awarded to the short film Cora made by Kevin Maxwell, a student of Santa Monica College who was supervised by Salvador Carrasco.[14]

The opening film of the festival was Collector by Alexei Krasovsky. Alexei Krasovsky received the Best Director, Gustav Meyrink Prize and Konstantin Khabensky received the Best Actor award.[15][16][17]

The film Maya Dardel, written and directed by Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Cotler received the Best Screenplay award and Lena Olin received the Best Actress award.[16][18]

Train Driver's Diary directed by Milos Radovic received the Grand Prix, Best Feature Film and Lazar Ristovski received the Best Actor prize.[19][20][21]

Grand Prix

• Lost Transmissions — Directed by Katharine O'Brien

Best Feature Film

• Man from Beirut — Directed Christoph Gampl
• Best Director
  • Raimundas Banionis — Purple Mist

Best Screenplay

• Purple Mist — Raimundas Banionis

Best Actor

• Simon Pegg — Lost Transmissions

Best Actress

• Juno Temple — Lost Transmissions
• Lucie Vondráčková — Beyond her Lens

Best Short Film

• Unknown Mother — Wai Yin Wong

Best Music Video

• Nice Shoes — Directed by Jonathan Lawrence

Best Student Film

• Out of Touch — Directed by Bobby Murphy

Best Art Direction

• Eerie Fairy Tales — Directed by Meet Sander

Best Documentary

• Living in the Age of Miracles' — Directed by Mia Tomikawa

Best Cinematography

• Man from Beirut — Cinematography by Eeva Fleig

Best Animated Film

• Spectre's Bride — Directed by Francesca Borgatta

Best Experimental Film

• Last Film — Directed by Martiros Vartanov

Grand Prix

• M — Directed by Anna Eriksson[22]

Gustav Meyrink Prize (Jury Prize)

• The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands — Directed by Robert Lence, Alexey Tsitsilin

Best Feature Film

• M — Directed by Anna Eriksson

Best Director

• Kostadin Bonev — Away from the Shore

Best Screenplay

• Night Walk — Aziz Tazi

Best Actor

• Mickey Rourke — Night Walk

Best Short Film

• Aji — Anastasia Berezovsky

Best Music Video

• Dark like the night. Karenina-2019 — Directed by Radda Novikova

Best Student Film

• Hinge — Directed by Lisa Ann Mayo

Best Art Direction

• Land of Winter — Directed by Tommy Creagh

Best Documentary

• To tell a Ghost — Directed by Chris Piotrowicz, Stefan Ehrhardt

Best Cinematography

• Away from the Shore — Cinematography by Konstantin Zankov

Best Animated Film

• Burning Bright — Directed by Aaron Bierman

Best Experimental Film

• We are in a Dream — Directed by Henna Välkky, Eesu Lehtola

Grand Prix

• Octav — Directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi[23]

Honorary Award

• Konstantin Khabensky[24]

Best Feature Film

• Ivanov — Directed by Dimitri Falkovich

Best Director

• Graham Streeter — I May Regret

Best Screenplay

• I May Regret — Graham Streeter

Best Actor

• Marcel Iures — Octav

Best Short Film

• Mr. Goody — Jason MacDonald

Best Music Video

• #INSTAGRAM — Directed by Valeriya Gai Germanika[25]

Best Art Direction

• Dance to the Party — Directed by Wayne Isham

Best Documentary

• Ballad of the Righteous Merchant — Directed by Herbert Golder

Best Cinematography

• Ivanov — Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois

Best Animated Film

• Moon's Milk — Directed by Ri Crawford

Best Experimental Film

• It Grows Dark — Directed by Benjamin Capps

Grand Prix

• Train Driver's Diary – Directed by Milos Radovic

Best Feature Film

• Train Driver's Diary – Directed by Milos Radovic

Best Director

• Alexei Krasovsky – Collector

Best Screenplay

• Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak – Maya Dardel

Best Cinematography

• Rana Kamran – Mah e Mir

Best Actor

• Lazar Ristovski – Train Driver's Diary
• Konstantin Khabensky – Collector

Best Actress

• Lena Olin – Maya Dardel

Best Short Film

• The Light Thief – Eva Daoud

Best Experimental Film

• Time – Retrograde — Directed by David Ellis

Best Art Direction

• Ghosts on the Road to Camalt – Directed by Jason Tovey

Best Music Video

• God Came 'Round – Directed by Derek Frey

Best Student Film

• Muñecas – Directed by Ozzy Ozuna

Gustav Meyrink Prize (Jury Prize)

• Collector – Directed by Alexei Krasovsky

Grand Prix

• Sinking of Sozopol — Directed by Kostadin Bonev

Best Feature Film

• Despite the Falling Snow — Directed by Shamim Sarif

Best Director

• Kostadin Bonev — Sinking of Sozopol

Best Screenplay

• Angelo Orlando — Rocco Has Your Name

Best Cinematography

• Konstantin Zankov — Sinking of Sozopol

Best Actor

• Michele Venitucci — Rocco Has Your Name

Best Actress

• Rebecca Ferguson — Despite the Falling Snow

Best Supporting Actor

• Anthony Head — Despite the Falling Snow

Best Short Film

• Cora — Directed by Kevin Maxwell

Best Experimental Film

• NO SIGNAL — Directed by David Ellis

Best Animated Film

• The Snow Queen 2 — Directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin

Best Comedy Film

• Seth — Directed by Zach Lasry

Best Horror Film

• Woods — Directed by Sean van Leijenhorst

Best Art Direction

• Forgiveness — Directed by Rima Irani

Best Special Effects

• Forgiveness — Directed by Rima Irani

Best Music Score

• Green Lake — Directed by Derek Frey

Best Music Video

• FIRE by The Winery Dogs — Directed by Steven Lyon