Best Short Film:
SALAD DAYS (Spain/Gustavo Salmeron)
A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row- the cold storage of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love. Goya Award Winner for Best Short Film.

Best Documentary & New Director Award:
SPELLBOUND (United States/Jeff Blitz)
Few films on the film festival circuit this year have charmed audiences as much as Jeff Blitz's debut documentary, which gives a knuckle-whitening, nerve-addling, thoroughly entertaining and slightly unsettling account of eight U.S. teenagers from disparate ethnic, class and regional backgrounds who travel to Washington, D.C. to compete in the nationally televised Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. One of this year’s finalist for the Best Documentary Oscar.

Best Feature Film:
KAMCHATKA (Argentina/Marcelo Pineyro)
Argentina’s selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Kamchatka, is a heartfelt,
intelligent film with historical depth and universal themes of family, childhood, love, and
loss. Proving the adage that all politics is personal, director Pineyro uses a single family to paint an intimate portrayal of the menacing early days of Argentina’s 1976 military coup.

AUDIENCE TOP 25 FILMS:

1. SPELLBOUND (United States/Jeff Blitz)
2. TO BE AND TO HAVE (France/Nicholas Philibert)
3. KAMCHATKA (Argentina/Marcelo Pineyro)
4. AMEN (France/Constantin Costa-Gravas)
MONDAYS IN THE SUN (Spain/Fernado Leon de Aranoa)
5. BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (Great Britain/Gurinder Chadha)
6. OUR TOWN (United States/Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
7. THE MAGDALENE SISTERS (Great Britain/Peter Mullen)
8. MAN ON THE TRAIN (France/Patrice Leconte)
9. GEBURTIG (Austria/Robert Schindel & Lukas Stepanik)
10. MINOES (Netherlands/Vincent Bal)
11. HEJAR (Turkey/Handan Ipekci)
12. RAISING VICTOR VARGAS (United States/Peter Sollett)
13. GO (Japan/Isao Yukisada)
ALL THE REAL GIRLS (United States/David Gordon Green)
14. NINE GOOD TEETH (United States/Alex Halpern)
15. HOUSE OF FOOLS (Russia/Andrei Konchalovsky)
16. SWEET SIXTEEN (Great Britain/Ken Loach)
17. PONIENTE (Spain/Chus Gutierrez)
18. THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST (Finland/Aki Kaurismaki)
19. EDI (Poland/Piotr Trzaskalski)
20. THE WAR (Russia/Alexei Balabanov)
21. HUKKLE (Hungary/Gyorgy Palfi)
22. STEVIE (United States/Steve James)
23. I’M THE FATHER (Germany/Dani Levy)
24. LILJA 4-EVER (Sweden/Lukas Moodysson)
25. OPEN HEARTS (Denmark/Suzanne Bier)

AUDIENCE TOP 5 SHORTS:
1. SALAD DAYS (Spain/Gustavi Salmeron)
2. CASE STUDIES FROM THE GROAT CENTER FOR SLEEP DISORDERS (United States/Mitchell Rose)
3. CHERCHEZ LA FEMME (Germany/Daniel Hopfner)
4. LIVING WITH HAPPINESS (Australia/Sarah Watt)
5. THE COLLECTOR OF BEDFORD STREET (United States/Alice Elliot)