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