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Palmarès 2005

The international jury, composed of Nino Kirtadze, filmmaker, Françoise Collin, chief editor, Werner Dütsch, program editor and writer, Jia Zhangke, filmmaker and Ross McElwee, filmmaker, awarded the following prizes:

Cinéma du Réel Grand Prix, with the support of the Procirep:
El Cielo gira (The Sky Turns), Mercedes Alvarez

SCAM International Award:
Yanmo (Before the Flood), Li Yifan and Yan Yü

Short Film Award:
To Kouti (The Box), Eva Stefani

Joris Ivens Award:
Tropico de Cancer, Eugenio Polgovsky


The Librarian and Heritage jury, composed of librarians Renaud Lagrave (Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois) and Anne Le Foll (Médiathèque de Boulogne-Billancourt), of François Chilowicz, filmmaker and chief cameraman and of Virginie Véricourt, filmmaker, editor and ethnologist, awarded the following prizes:

Libraries Award:
Weisse Raben – Alptraum Tschetschenien (White Ravens, Nightmare in Chechnya), Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt
Mention to:
Les Femmes du Mont Ararat, Erwann Briand

Heritage Award:
Les Deux vies d’Eva Esther Hoffenberg


The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded the following prize:

Louis Marcorelles Award:
Odessa… Odessa ! Michale Boganim


The selection committee of the festival awarded:

The Pierre and Yolande Perrault Grant:
Urgences, les nuits des villes, Pierre Maïllis-Laval