28/07/2014 - The Best Director Award goes to Dietrich Brüggemann for Stations of the Cross; The Tribe and Free Range split the Parallels and Encounters prize

The 21st European Film Festival in Palić (19-25 July) ended with Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan [+see also:
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The winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes triumphed in a particularly strong competition, which included Kornel Mundruczo's White God [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
film profile], Levan Koguashvili's Blind Dates [+see also:
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interview: Levan Koguashvili
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interview: Alice Rohrwacher
interview: Tiziana Soudani
film profile], Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep [+see also:
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interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
film profile] and Ruben Ostlund's Force Majeure [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
film profile], which won a Special Mention for Fredrik Wenzel's cinematography. The Palić Tower for Best Director went to Dietrich Brüggemann for Stations of the Cross [+see also:
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Q&A: Dietrich Brüggemann
film profile].

In the Parallels and Encounters programme dedicated to Eastern European cinema, the Best Film Award was split ex aequo between Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu's Free Range [+see also:
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The Seyfi Teoman Award for the most daring debut film was given by the festival's Artistic Board to Ivan Ikić for his Barbarians [+see also:
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interview: Ivan Ikic
film profile].