The House (2011)

Zuzana Liova;s The House (Czech, 2011) - 2012CLION. Small in scale but perfectly proportioned, contempo drama "The House" marks talented Slovak helmer-writer Zuzana Liova as the equal of regional contemporaries such as Bohdan Slama and Alice Nellis when it comes to making universal the small, poignant moments of everyday life. Remarkable for its depth of characterization, this sensitively observed, intelligently made realist tale of generational conflict, set in a remote Slovak village where old grudges die hard, will find a welcome mat at fests worldwide. (VARIETY). 2011BERf, 2011KVvcc, 2012CLION, 2012PALM, 2012SEA. RATING: 7.

Flower Buds

Zdenek Jirasky's Flower Buds (Czech, 2012) - 2012CLION 10 nomination and 4 win including Best Film, Director, Actor and Cinematography.  A bleakly gloomy - though at times also mischievous and darkly funny - slice of tough life in a snowy and cold remote Czech border town, Flower Buds (Poupata) is packed with a gloriously disparate bunch of dysfunctional folk as they struggle to get by, dream their own modest dreams, but are gradually worn down by the small-town environment (SCREEN). 2012CLION, 2012KVeotw. RATING: 7.

Innocence (2011)

Jan Hrebejk's Innocence (Czech, 2011) - 2012CLION 8 Nominations with 2 win including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. When a respected physician is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage patient, his professional and personal lives are plunged into chaos in this unsettling and propulsive thriller. 2012CLION, 2012PALM, 2012SEA. RATING: 7

Northwest

Michael Noer's Northwest (Denmark, 2013) - The northwest of Copenhagen can't compete in the danger sweepstakes with northeast Detroit, but its influence as a breeding ground for criminality forms a significant element in Michael Noer's accomplished if unoriginal sophomore feature, "Northwest." In the end though, it's less about environment than personality, as a teen's growing attraction to a life of crime conflicts with his attempts to block his younger brother from the same path. As a theme, it's older than Warner Bros.' 1930s gangster pics, though Noer has a satisfyingly neorealist feel for milieu and character. The Euro arthouse scene is this film's true direction. (VARIETY). 2013ROTbf. RATING: 7

Beautiful Creatures

Richard LaGravanese's Beautiful Creatures (US, 2013) - Now that the Harry Potter and Twilight film franchises have run their course, Hollywood is undoubtedly searching for the next supernatural-romance series to lure young audiences. Beautiful Creatures may temporarily fill that commercial void, but this Southern tale of witchcraft and adolescent hormones doesn’t cast much of a spell. An adaptation of the 2009 novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is occasionally sexy and sassy, but mostly it’s just silly. (SCREEN). RATING: 4

2013 GOYA AWARDS

Blancanieves and The Impossible dominate Goya Awards

Film
Blancanieves
Director
Juan Antonio Bayona for The Impossible
Actor
Jose Sacristan for The Dead Man and Being Happy
Actress
Maribel Verdu for Blancanieves
Original Screenplay
Pablo Berger for Blancanieves
Adapted Screenplay
Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallon, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Supporting Actor
Julian Villagran for Grupo 7
Supporting Actress
Candela Pena for Una Pistola en Cada Mano
Honorary Goya
Concha Velasco
Production Design
Sandra Hermida Muniz for The Impossible
Artistic Director
Alain Bainee For Blancanieves
Photography
Kiko de la Rica for Blancanieves
Special Effects
Pau Costa and Felix Berges for The Impossible
Wardrobe
Paco Delgado for Blancanieves
Editing
Bernat Vilaplano and Elena Ruiz for The Impossible
Sound
Peter Glossop, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago for The Impossible
Original Score
Alfonso Villalonga for Blancanieves
Original Song
No Te Puedo Encontrar from Blancanieves
New Actor
Joaquin Nunez for Grupo 7
Makeup and Hair
Sylvie Imbert and Fermin Galan for Blancanieves
New Actress
Macarena Garcia for Blancanieves
New Director
Enrique Gato for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Animated Feature Film
The Adventures of Tadeo Jones
Documentary Film
Sons of the Clouds, The Last Colony
European Film
Untouchable (France)
Ibero-American Film
Juan de los Muertos (Cuba)
Animated Short
Jaime Maestro for El Vendedor de Humo
Fiction Short
Esteban Crespo Garcia for Aquel no Era Yo
Documentary Short

A Good Day to Die Hard

John Moore's A Good Day to Die Hard (US, 2013) - Twenty-five years after the original Die Hard, New York policeman John McClane may not have lost a step, but the franchise that features him sure has. A Good Day To Die Hard, the fifth in this series, lacks much of the charm and spirit of the original, hoping to compensate with strained comic repartee and ludicrously overblown action carnage. Bruce Willis remains a relaxed, lively presence in these films, but the new location (Moscow) and new side character (McClane’s son) in some ways merely underline just how impersonal director John Moore’s first crack at the Die Hard franchise is. RATING: 5

The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser

Alberto Gracia's The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser (Spain, 2013) - 2013ROTbf FIPRESCI Prize Winner. The story of Kaspar Hauser, who grew up in dark isolation from humanity, it is provided by a Gallician artist with a radical experimental adaptation that aims to be nothing less than a religious message. Black & white 16mm, without the language of reason, eye to eye with the primaeval puzzle. The story of Kaspar Hauser, the German 'wild child' who grew up for 16 years in silence and virtually in the dark in a stable with only a wooden horse as company, remains fascinating, also for filmmakers. 2013ROTbf. RATING: 3

The Wall (2012)

Julian Roman Polsler's The Wall (Austria, 2012) - You don’t see many films that so overtly address the Human Condition – with capital letters – as intense, contemplative Alpine drama The Wall (Die Wand), essentially a one-woman turn by German star Martina Gedeck. But, if you can buy the bizarre metaphorical premise that gets the film going, then Julian Roman Pölsler’s spectacularly-shot, highly intelligent adaptation of Marlen Haushofer’s early 1960s bestseller is riveting and emotionally involving from start to finish, though offering few conventional narrative pleasures. 2012BERp, 2013PALM. RATING: 7

War Witch

MUST SEE: Kim Nguyen's War Witch (Congo, 2012) - 2012BERic Best Actress for Rachem Mwanza. An account of a girl soldier struggling to survive in a conflict-torn central African state, "War Witch" offers the sort of harrowing experience one would expect given its abominable subject matter. The refreshing surprise is how impressively Canadian-based writer-helmer Kim Nguyen, little known beyond fantasy fest circles, handles the material, displaying a maturity, panache and emotional marksmanship that will elevate his reputation several notches. Pic will bewitch fest programmers but the premise will prove a hard sell to auds, despite the restrained approach to onscreen violence that, given the horrors of the region's conflicts, could have been so much worse. 2012BERic, 2012TOR, 2012TRI, 2013OE, 2013PALM. RATING: 8

Caesar Must Die

MUST SEE: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die (Italy, 2012) - 2012BERic Golden Bear Winner. Now into their eighties, the Taviani brothers show with this remarkable, fresh and moving drama-documentary they have lost none of that mix of observational rigour and sympathy for the underdog that marked early films like Padre Padrone, their 1977 Palme d’Or winner. Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire) is a powerful prison drama about drama in prison: specifically, about a staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with a cast of prisoners from the high-security wing of Rome’s Rebibbia jail. 2012BERic, 2012NYFF, 2012SANSzp, 2013OE, 2013PALM. RATING: 8

Stand Up Guys

Fisher Stevens' Stand Up Guys (US, 2013) - Veering between buddy movie and action-thriller, "Stand Up Guys" is a mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin as retired gangsters who reunite for one last night on the town. Relying too heavily on jokes of the old-habits-die-hard and they-don't-make-'em-like-they-used-to sort while incorporating conventions from and sendups of countless other pics, director Fisher Stevens' talky, tongue-in-cheek feature is most likable when the main characters are simply playing off each other. Lionsgate's January release will skew toward older auds and likely post its best numbers in ancillary. 2013PALM. RATING: 6

Outrage Beyond

Takeshi Kitano's Outrage Beyond (Japan, 2012) - If a successful yakuza-movie formula ain’t broke, why fix it? Outrage, which previewed at Cannes in 2010, was a welcome return to box-office kudos as well as artistic form for maverick Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. The actor-director with the lived-in face stays on safe ground with this sequel – to the extent of resurrecting characters who had apparently been killed in Outrage. / As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has no become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond. 2012NYFF, 2012TOR, 2012VENic. RATING: 7

Livid

Julien Maury's Livid (France, 2011) - Livid brings us vampires in a Brittany backwater. The blood-fest directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo is a sign that the French are catching up in a genre that’s never been too Gallic, drawing richly on the work of others. 2011TOR. RATING: 7

2013 FILMFARE AWARDS

Best Indian Film of 2012

Nominations for the 58th Idea Filmfare Awards 2012
BEST FILM
Barfi!
English Vinglish
Gangs Of Wasseypur
Kahaani
Vicky Donor

BEST DIRECTOR
Anurag Basu - Barfi!
Anurag Kashyap - Gangs Of Wasseypur
Gauri Shinde - English Vinglish
Shoojit Sircar - Vicky Donor
Sujoy Ghosh - Kahaani

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE)
Hrithik Roshan - Agneepath
Irrfan Khan - Paan Singh Tomar
Manoj Bajpayee - Gangs Of Wasseypur
Ranbir Kapoor - Barfi!
Salman Khan - Dabangg - 2
Shah Rukh Khan - Jab Tak Hai Jaan

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE)
Deepika Padukone - Cocktail
Kareena Kapoor - Heroine
Parineeti Chopra - Ishqazaade
Priyanka Chopra - Barfi!
Sridevi - English Vinglish
Vidya Balan - Kahaani

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE )
Akshay Kumar - Oh My God!
Annu Kapoor - Vicky Donor
Emraan Hashmi - Shanghai
Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Talaash
Rishi Kapoor - Agneepath

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE )
Anushka Sharma - Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Huma Qureshi - Gangs Of Wasseypur
Ileana D'Cruz - Barfi!
Rani Mukerji - Talaash
Richa Chadda - Gangs Of Wasseypur

BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR
Amit Trivedi - Ishqazaade
Pritam - Barfi!
Pritam - Cocktail
Sneha Khanwalkar - Gangs Of Wasseypur
Vishal - Shekhar - Student Of The Year

BEST LYRICS
Amitabh Bhattacharya - Abhi mujh mein kahin - Agneepath
Gulzar - Challa - Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Gulzar - Saans - Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Javed Akthar - Jee le zara - Talaash
Swanand Kirkire - Aashiyan - Barfi!

BEST PLAYBACK (MALE)
Ayushmann Khurrana - Pani da rang - Vicky Donor
Mohit Chauhan - Ala barfi - Barfi!
Nikhil Paul George - Main kya karoon - Barfi!
Rabbi - Challa - Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Sonu Niigaam - Abhi mujh mein kahin - Agneepath

BEST PLAYBACK (FEMALE)
Kavita Seth - Tumhi ho bandhu - Cocktail
Neeti Mohan - Jiya re - Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Shalmali Kholgade - Pareshaan - Ishaqzaade
Shreya Ghoshal - Saans - Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Shreya Ghoshal - Chikni chameli - Agneepath

Sightseers

MUST SEE: Ben Wheatley's Sightseers (UK, 2012) - Hot on the heels of "Kill List," British director Ben Wheatley applies his unique blend of run-and-gun naturalism and scabrous black humor to "Sightseers," a wicked little pic in which a tacky couple discovers that cross-country road-tripping makes it surprisingly easy -- and fun! -- to knock off the more obnoxious characters they encounter en route. After their pilot proposal was deemed too dark for the telly, sketch comedians Alice Lowe and Steve Oram refashioned the idea into a feature whose built-in cult appeal should make a modest killing for IFC, which acquired the twisted Directors' Fortnight title while touring Cannes. 2012CANdfss, 2012LOCpg, 2012SITGES, 2012TOR, 2013ROTsp, 2013SUN. RATING: 8.

Shopping

Mark Labiston's Shopping (New Zealand, 2013) -New Zealand, 1981: Seduced by a charismatic career criminal, teenager Willie must choose where his loyalty lies – with a family of shoplifters or his own blood. Cast: Kevin Paulo, Julian Dennison, Jacek Koman, Alistair Browning. 2013SUN. RATING: 5

S-VHS

Simon Barrett, Eduardo Sanchez's S-VHS (US, 2013) - Less turns out to be much more for "S-VHS," a sequel to last year's uneven indie horror omnibus "V/H/S"; this one is shorter and has fewer segments, but also earns a much higher batting average. In fact, there's nary a dud among the four main tales (not including the titled bookends), which each whip elements of terror, macabre humor and the fantastical into a giddy frenzy. This rip-roaring good time for genre fans should easily build on the first edition's modest success in all formats (and more territories), with further franchise extension a no-brainer. 2013SUN. RATING: 4

Running From Crazy

Barbara Kopple's Running From Crazy (US, 2013) - Fluctuating at random between standard-issue celebrity docu and principled bid to de-stigmatize mental illness, "Running From Crazy" is afflicted with a sort of multiple personality disorder. The pic follows actor-turned-activist Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest, as she reckons with a family legacy of depression and alcoholism, with seven of her relatives having committed suicide. Hemingway, whose acclaimed turn in "Lipstick" at age 13 inspired the lifelong jealousy of her late sister Margaux, opens herself courageously to director Barbara Kopple's camera. But the narratively jumbled film, airing later this year on OWN, features too many scenes that amount to mere stargazing. 2013SUN. RATING: 7

A River Changes Course

MUST SEE: Kalyanee Mam's A River Changes Course (Cambodia, 2012) - "A River Changes Course" offers an impressionistic portrait of life among three rural Cambodian families over a two-year timespan. Pollution, clear-cutting and other typical developing-nation woes are making their livelihoods more difficult, though those causes aren't spelled out here, and that lack of contextualizing makes this verite feature best viewed by those already familiar with the country's recent history and politics. Still, Kalyanee Mam's graceful docu should get plenty of fest travel and lure select broadcast sales. 2013SUN. RATING: 8

The Rambler

Calvin Lee Reeder's The Rambler (US, 2013) - Practically parodying a slumming B-lister's phone-it-in, cash-the-check indie perf, Dermot Mulroney is good for a giggle -- just one -- in "The Rambler," writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder's randomly splattering take on the back-country-road movie. Sporting highway cop shades and a 10-gallon hat, Mulroney's guitar-slinging, chain-smoking good ol' boy beholds a steady stream of white-trash miscreants en route, circuitously, to his brother's Oregon farm. Shot none too crisply in New Mexico, this increasingly frenzied and blood-soaked B-movie time-waster is best consumed late in the evening at home, and thus best suited to Anchor Bay's VOD arm. 2013SUN. RATING: 3

Prince Avalanche

David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche (US, 2013) - Two highway road workers from the city spend the summer of 1988 working together in isolation against an isolated backdrop. With Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. Insinuatingly low-key, minimalist Icelandic seriocomedy "Either Way" gets a slightly broader yet perhaps even more satisfying U.S. translation in "Prince Avalanche." Despite the presence of A-listers Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as ill-matched road workers toiling in a recently burned Central Texas forest area, David Gordon Green's latest is closer to his poetical indie dramas than to his Hollywood efforts ("Pineapple Express," let alone "Your Highness"). But both paths actually harmonize in a warmly enjoyable dual-character study whose mix of comedic and serious elements should get the good reviews needed to bolster middling commercial prospects. 2013BERic, 2013SUN. RATING: 7

Pandora's Promise

GREAT MOVIES: Robert Stone's Pandora's Promise (US, 2013) - Chronicles the many environmentalists who have come to believe that nuclear technology is perhaps mankind's greatest hope. Not quite an H-bomb dropped on the environmentalist zeitgeist, "Pandora's Promise" does provoke those who have long opposed nuclear power to at least reconsider it, presenting its arguments in a green light, and asking the question: Can one be committed to the environment, and still be against nuclear power? Most issue docs are propaganda, and Robert Stone's latest is a formidable sales pitch for nukes, yet the film's points are well reasoned and urgent, and should attract viewers who have been drawn to the director's earlier work(such as "Earth Days," a history of the environmentalist movement). Auds, particularly on the smallscreen, may come away bewildered, but possibly persuaded. 2013SUN. RATING: 9

MUST SEE: Pablo Larrain's No (Chile, 2012) - After "Tony Manero" and "Post Mortem," his devastating portraits of how the Pinochet regime psychologically brutalized the people of Chile from 1973-90, Chilean helmer Pablo Larrain satisfyingly completes the trilogy with an affirmative victory for democracy in "No." Tense throughout, even for history-savvy auds, but still rich in the sort of Andean-soil-black humor that made Larrain's previous work so distinctive, the pic stars Gael Garcia Bernal as an adman who helps the opposition fashion a campaign to get people to vote against keeping Pinochet in power in a 1988 referendum. Result will get plenty of yes votes from arthouse distribs worldwide. 2012CANdf, 2012LOCpg, 2012NYFF, 2012SANSzp, 2012TEL, 2012TOR, 2013OE, 2013ROTsp, 2013SUN. RATING: 8.

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman

Fredrik Bond's The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (US, 2013) - While traveling abroad titular character falls for a Romanian beauty whose dark past begins to envelop him. Stars Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint, James Buckley and Til Schweiger. A profoundly unnecessary movie, "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" stars Shia LaBeouf as a Ratso Rizzo-impersonating American tourist bumbling through the Romanian netherworld in search of Evan Rachel Wood, whose accent and demeanor suggest that someone dumped a truckload of Ambien into the Bucharest water supply. Strained attempts at magic realism will leave viewers more irritated than enchanted; a name cast, which includes the usually wonderful Mads Mikkelsen, could well lead to theatrical play, but Fredrik Bond's direction and Matt Drake's screenplay deliver a charisma-free trip into a world of gratuitous violence, contrivances and tedium. 2013BERic, 2013SUN. RATING: 6

Mud

MUST SEE: Jeff Nichols' Mud (US, 2012) - A conventional narrative may be a rarity in Cannes competition this year, but Jeff Nichols’ Mud makes no apologies for its classic storytelling. A confident, nuanced, richly satisfying coming-of-age story which is part Huckleberry Finn, part Badlands, the film is another illustration that Nichols is becoming one of the most assured US auteurs at work today. / If "Take Shelter" embodied man's crushing inability to cope with forces beyond his control, and "Shotgun Stories" examined a blood feud from the side of those in the wrong, then ascending writer-director Jeff Nichols blends the turbulent waters of the former with the dirty dealings of the latter to make "Mud." Confidently expanding his inquiry into the essence of American masculinity, Nichols' latest pressure-cooker pastoral conjures a wily figure of endangered Southern chivalry whose name is … you guessed it. Sturdy turns from Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon should support a wide release, curbed somewhat by pic's unhurried pace and heavy regional temperament. 2012CANic, 2013SUN. RATING: 8.

Metro Manila

Sean Ellis' Mero Manila (Philippines, 2013) - Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty-stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival. Cast: Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega. World Premiere. A naive farming couple from the picturesque but impoverished rice-growing region of Banaue, northern Philippines, come to grief in the crime-ridden capital in Brit helmer Sean Ellis's polished Tagalog-language soap opera-cum-heist pic "Metro Manila." Overlong, sometimes inventive, and with a self-indulgent tendency to exploit cliche as if it didn't exist, the pic might be able to parlay its Sundance World Cinema audience award into wider international exposure. French distributor Haut et Court signed on just before the festival screenings. 2013SUN. RATING: 7

The Meteor

Francois Delisle's The Meteor (Canada, 2013) - A tale of crime, guilt and loneliness involving a fortysomething man, his mother and his wife. Features Noemie Godin Vigneau, Delisle, Laurent Lucas, Brigitte Pogonat, Francois Papineau and Andree Lachapelle. 2013BERf, 2013SUN. RATING: 2.

Magic Magic

Sebastian Silva's Magic, Magic (US, 2013) - Discovering in Michael Cera an impish ally he can use to drive other characters crazy, Chilean director Sebastian Silva ("The Maid") made two bilingual features with the star back-to-back, bringing both to the Sundance Film Festival. Although "Crystal Fairy" earned an opening-night berth, once the dust settles, the sublimely unclassifiable midnight offering "Magic Magic" is destined to be remembered as "the good one." Meticulously acted, gorgeously shot and hilariously insightful about the strange, inarticulable ways people can get on one another's nerves, this psychological thriller takes its premise to surprising, darkly comic extremes, though its non-genre approach keeps things niche. 2013SUN. RATING: 4.

Lovelace

Rob Epstein's Lovelace (US, 2013) - The late star of "Deep Throat," Linda Lovelace, titled her 1980 autobiography "Ordeal," but, for the most part, "Lovelace" goes down smooth. Reducing an immensely disturbing, politically byzantine tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes, this celeb-studded biopic squanders a gutsy performance by Amanda Seyfried while making '70s porn look scarcely more sleazy than a movie-of-the-week melodrama from the period. Co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman forsake the truth-telling spirit of their past work in documentary, relying on jumbled chronology and long ellipses to smooth over the Lovelace saga's many rough edges. Commercial rewards appear doubtful nonetheless for the Radius-TWC pickup. 2013BERp, 2013SUN. RATING: 7.

Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart

Mika Ronkainen's Finnish Blood, Sweedish Heart (Finland, 2013) - 2013GOTE Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary. A son and a father go on a road trip that turns into a musical journey into the emotional memory and the history of Finnish immigration in Sweden; of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism, and family secrets. 2013GOTE. RATING: 6.

Identity Thief

Seth Gordon's Identity Thief (US, 2013) - With "Identity Thief," Melissa McCarthy proves she's got what it takes to carry a feature, however meager the underlying material. Sustaining the same brand of unpredictable energy that made her such an effective scene-stealer in "Bridesmaids" and "This Is 40," McCarthy plays the tornado to Jason Bateman's uptight nebbish, an accountant who drives halfway across the country to confront the zealous con artist who stole his personal information, maxed out his credit cards and tarnished his good name. Though this adult-skewing comedy looks like a midrange performer at best, McCarthy's credit rating should skyrocket. RATING: 6.

Side Effects

Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects (US, 2013) - What begins as a barbed satire of our pill-popping, self-medicating society morphs into something intriguingly different in "Side Effects." Steven Soderbergh's elegantly coiled puzzler spins a tale of clinical depression and psychiatric malpractice into an absorbing, cunningly unpredictable entertainment that, like much of his recent work, closely observes how a particular subset of American society operates in a needy, greedy, paranoid and duplicitous age. Discriminating arthouse audiences not turned off by the antidepressant-heavy subject matter should be held shrink-rapt by what Soderbergh, after years of flirting with retirement, has said will be his last picture "for a long time.". 2013BERic. RATING: 7

2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Fruitvale won both Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Blood Brothers also won Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

99% The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film      Audrey Ewell    US             2013

ACOD             Stuart Zicherman             US             2013

After Tiller             Martha Shane, Lana Wilson US             2013

Afternoon Delight Jill Soloway             US             2013

Ain't Them Bodies Saints             David Lowery             US             2013

American Promise             Joe Brewster             US             2013

Anita    Freida Mock   US             2013

Ass Backwards             Chris Nelson             US             2013

Austenland             Jerusha Hess     US             2013

Before Midnight             Richard Linklater             US             2013

Big Sur             Michael Polish   US             2013

Blackfish             Gabriela Cowperthwaite             US             2013

Blood Brother             Steve Hoover             US             2013

Blue Caprice             Alexandre Moors             US             2013

Breathe In             Drake Doremus             US             2013

C.O.G Kyle Patrick Alvarez             US             2013

Charlie Victor Romeo             Robert Berger, Karlyn Michelson             US             2013

Circles Srdan Golubovic              Serbia             2013

Citizen Koch             Carl Deal     US             2013

Computer Chess             Andrew Bujalski             US             2013

Concussion             Stacie Passon             US             2013

Crash Reel, The      Lucy Walker             US             2013

Crystal Fairy             Sebastian Silva             Chile             2013

Cutie and The Boxer             Zachary Heinzerling            US             2013

Dirty Wars             Richard Rowley             US             2013

Don Jon's Addiction             Joseph Gordon Levitt             US             2013

East, The             Zal Batmanglij            US             2013

El Mariachi             Robert Rodriguez             US             1992

Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes             Francesca Gregorini             US             2013

Escape From Tomorrow             Randy Moore US             2013

Fallen City             Zhao Qi        China             2013

Fat Shaker             Mohammad Shirvani             Iran             2012

Fill The Void             Rama Burshtein             Israel             2012

Fire In The Blood   Dylan Mohan Gray             US             2013

Fruitvale             Ryan Coogler             US             2013

Future, The             Alicia Scherson             Chile             2013

Gangs of Wasseypur             Anurag Kashyap             India             2012

Gatekeepers, The      Dror Moreh Israel             2012

Gideon's Army             Dwan Porter   US             2013

God Loves Uganda             Roger Ross Williams             US             2013

Good Life, The             Sean Fine      US             2013

Google and The World Brain    Ben Lewis   US             2013

Halley             Sebastian Hofmann             Mexico             2013

Hell Baby             Robert Ben Garant             US             2013

History of The Eagles Allison Ellwood             US             2013

Houston             Bastian Gunther             Germany          2013

I Used To Be Darker            Matthew Potterfield             US             2013

In A World             Lake Bell      US             2013

In Fear             Jeremy Lovering             UK             2013

Inequality For All        Jacob Kornbluth             US             2013

Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Peet, The             George Tiilman Jr.             US             2013

Interior, Leather Bar             Travis Matthews, James Franco             US             2013

It Felt Like Love    Eliza Hittman             US             2013

Jiseul    O Muel             South Korea 2012

Jobs     Joshua Michael Stern             US             2013

Kill Your Darlings             John Krokidas             US             2013

Kink             Christina Voros             US             2013

Lasting             Jacek Borcuch             Poland             2013

Life According To Sam             Sean Fine      US             2013

Lifeguard, The             Liz W. Garcia US             2013

Linsanity             Evan Leong   US             2013

Look of Love, The      Michael Winterbottom             US             2013

Lovelace             Rob Epstein             US             2013

Machine That Make Everything Disappear, The             Tinatin Gurchiani             Georgia             2013

Magic Magic             Sebastian Silva             US             2013

Manhunt             Greg Barker US             2013

May in The Summer             Cherien Dabis   US             2013

Meteor, The             Francois Delisle             Canada             2013

Metro Manila             Sean Ellis             Philippines       2013

Milkshake             David Andalman             US             2013

Moo Man, The             Andy Heathcote             UK             2013

Mother of George             Andrew Dosunmu             US             2013

Mud     Jeff Nichols             US             2012

Muscle Shoals            Greg Carnalier             US             2013

Narco Cultura             Shaul Schwarz             US             2013

Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, The      Fredrik Bond    US             2013

Newlyweeds             Shaka King     US             2013

No       Pablo Larrain             Chile             2012

Pandora's Promise             Robert Stone   US             2013

Pit Stop             Yen Tan      US             2013

Prince Avalanche             David Gordon Green             US             2013

Pussy Riot A Punk Prayer             Mike Lerner Russia             2013

Rambler, The             Calvin Lee Reeder             US             2013

River Changes Course, A             Kalyanee Mam             Cambodia        2013

Running From Crazy             Barbara Kopple             US             2013

S - VHS            Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Eduardo Sanchez,             US             2013

Salma   Kim Longinotto             India             2013

Shopping             Mark Labiston, Louis Sutherland             New Zealand             2013

Sightseers, The             Ben Wheatley             UK             2012

Soldate Jeannatte / Soldier Jane             Daniel Hoesl   Austria             2013

Sound City             David Grohl    US             2013

Spectacular Now, The             James Ponzoldt             US             2013

Square, The / El Midan             Jehane Noujaim             Egypt             2013

Stoker Park Chan Wook             US             2013

Stories We Tell            Sarah Polley   Canada             2012

Stuart Hall Project, The             John Akomfrah             UK             2013

Summit, The             Nick Ryan    Ireland             2013

Sweetwater             Logan Miller, Noah Miller   US             2013

Teacher, A             Hannah Fidell    US             2013

There Will Come A Day             Giorgio Diritti    Italy             2013

This Is Martin Bonner             Chad Hartigan             US             2013

Top of The Lake    Jane Campion             Australia          2013

Touchy Feely             Lynn Shelton             US             2013

Toy's House             Jordan Vogt Roberts             US             2013

Twenty Feet From Stardom             Morgan Neville US             2013

Two Mothers             Anne Fontaine             Australia          2013

Upstream Color   Shane Carruth             US             2013

Valentine Road: The Murder of Lawrence King             Marta Cunningham             US             2013

Very Good Girls     Naomi Foner   US             2013

Virtually Heroes             G.J. Echternkamp            US             2013

Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)   Barmak Akram             Afghanistan      2013

Way, Way Back, The             Nat Faxon, Jim Rash     US             2013

We Are What We Are            Jim Mickle US             2013

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks            Alex Gibney             US             2013

What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love             Mouly Surya             Indonesia          2013

When I Walk             Jason DaSilva             US             2013

Which Way is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherrington             Sebastian Junger             US             2013

Who Is Dayani Cristal?             Marc Silver    UK             2013

World According to Dick Cheney, The      R.J. Cutler, Greg Finton   US             2013

Wrong Cops             Quentin Dupieux             Belgium             2013

AWARD WINNERS

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
"Fruitvale," directed by Ryan Coogler
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
"Blood Brother," directed by Steve Hoover
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
"Jiseul," directed by Muel O
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
"A River Changes Course," directed Kalyanee Mam
Dramatic Audience Award:
"Fruitvale," directed by Ryan Coogler
Documentary Audience Award:
"Blood Brother," directed by Steve Hoover
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
"Metro Manila," directed by Sean Ellis
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award:
"The Square," directed by Jehane Noujaim
The Best of NEXT Audience Award:
"This Is Martin Bonner," directed by Chad Hartigan
Directing Award, Dramatic:
Jill Solloway, "Afternoon Delight"
Directing Award, Documentary:
Zachary Heinzerling, "Cutie and the Boxer"
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic:
Sebastián Silva, "Crystal Fairy"
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary:
Tinatin Gurchiani, "The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear"
Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award:
Lake Bell, "In a World"
World Cinema Screenwriting Award:
Barmak Akram, "Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)"
Documentary Editing Award:
Matthew Hamachek, "Gideon's Army"
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award:
Ben Stark, "The Summit"
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic:
Bradford Young, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" and "Mother of George"
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary:
Richard Rowley, "Dirty Wars"
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Dramatic:
Michal Englert, "Lasting"
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary:
Marc Silver & Pau Esteve Birba, "Who Is Dayani Cristal?"
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic (Acting):
Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, "The Spectacular Now"
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic (For Sound Design)
Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshal, "Upstream Color"
Special Jury Prizes: Documentary:
"Inequality For All," directed by Jacob Kornbluth
"American Promise" directed by Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary
"Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer," directed by Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
"Circles," directed by Srdan Golubovic
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
"Computer Chess," directed by Andrew Bujalski

2013 GOTEBORG Winners

2013 Goteborg’s Dragon Award goes to Before Snowfall. Other winners include Dog Flesh, Searching for Sugar Man, Northwest, A Hijacking, Wadjda, La Ravadeuse and Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart.