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It was a good night for Spanish film in general - which seems to be thriving rather than failing in the face of recession. Alberto Rodriguez’s Marshland (Isla Minima), a crime thriller which charts a serial killer hunt against the backdrop of the changing face of Spanish society after the fall of Franco, picked up the best actor for Javier Gutiérrez and saw Alex Catalan take home the prize for cinematography.
Vermut's twisty, blackly comic drama skewers the state of modern Spain - and the echoes of its past - as it tells the tale of desperate measures being taken by a father to please his sick daughter, which lead to extreme actions elsewhere.
The special jury prize went to Cedric Kahn for his Wild Life - a drama based on the true story of a man who went on the run with his children in France after losing a custody battle.
Dennis Lehane won the best screenplay award for his adaptation of his own novel - starring Tom Hardy as a Brooklyn barkeeper - The Drop, directed by Bullhead's Michael E Roskam.
Paprika Steen's portrayal of a highly strung ice queen in Bille August's Silent Heart, saw her named best actress.
Mexican director Alonso Ruiz Palacios won the Horizontes prize as well as the youth award for his part road-trip, part coming-of-age comedy Gueros.
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov took home the New Directors' Award for The Lesson (Urok), while the audience prize went to Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s documentary The Salt Of The Earth.
Christian Petzold's German drama about the traumatic aftermath of war, Phoenix, won the Fipresci international critics prize.
The full list of winners is below
GOLDEN SHELL
Magical Girl, Carlos Vermut
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Wild Life, Cedric Kahn, France
SILVER SHELL, DIRECTOR
Carlos Vermut, Magical Girl, Spain
SILVER SHELL, ACTRESS
Paprika Steen (Silent Heart, Denmark)
SILVER SHELL, BEST ACTOR
Javier Gutierrez (Marshland, Spain)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alex Catalan (Marshland, Spain)
SCREENPLAY
Dennis Lehane (The Drop, US)
KUTXA NEW DIRECTORS’ AWARD
The Lesson (Urok), Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Bulgary, Greece
SPECIAL MENTION
Modris, Juris Kursietis, Latvia, Germany, Greece
AUDIENCE AWARD
The Salt of The Earth (Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, France)
AUDIENCE AWARD, EUROPEAN FILM
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, Argentina, Spain)
HORIZONTES AWARD
Gueros, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Mexico
SPECIAL MENTION
Natural Sciences, Matias Lucchesi, Gonzalo Salaya, Argentina, France
Gente de bien, Franco Lolli, France
YOUTH AWARD
Gueros, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Mexico
FILMS IN PROGRESS INDUSTRY AWARD
Magallanes (Peru, Argentina, Colombia)
SPECIAL MENTION
Ixcanul, (Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala, France)
FIPRESCI FILM CRITICS’ PRIZE
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, Germany)
TOKYO GOHAN FILM FESTIVAL AWARD
Finding Gaston (Patricia Perez, Peru, US)
FEROZ ZINEMALDIA AWARD
Marshland (Alberto Rodriguez, Spain)
TVE OTHER LOOK AWARD
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, France)
SPECIAL MENTION
Gett, the trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, Israel, Germany, France)
SIGNIS AWARD
A Second Chance (Susanne Bier, Denmark, Sweden)
SPECIAL MENTION
Loreak (Jon Garano, Jose Mari Goenaga, Spain)
IRIZAR AWARD
Negociador (Borja Cobeaga, Spain)
SEBASTIENE AWARD
The New Girlfriend (Francoios Ozon, France)
