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Awards for Great Britain, the USA, Germany and Austria

The four juries of the 8th Zurich Film Festival competition categories have presented their awards to Great Britain (International Feature Film), the USA (International Documentary Film), Germany (German-Language Feature Film) and Austria (German-Language Documentary Film).

The awards go to BROKEN by Rufus Norris (Great Britain), THE IMPOSTER by Bart Layton (USA), AM HIMMEL DER TAG by Pola Beck (Germany) and DER PROZESS by Gerald Igor Hauzenberger (Austria). Each of the awards is endowed with a CHF 20'000 cash prize, and a CHF 60'000 non-cash prize for promotion of the respective film in Swiss cinemas.

The Critics’ Award goes to EL ULTIMO ELVIS by Armando Bo from Argentina. The Swiss documentary film APPASSIONATA by Christian Labhart receives the Audience Award. Four of the six winning films are debut works.

Awards of the 8^th Zurich Film Festival

International Feature Film Competition

• BROKEN by Rufus Norris (Great Britain)

Special Mention to:

• END OF WATCH (USA) for cast ensemble
• EAT SLEEP DIE (Sweden) for actress Nermina Lukac 

International Documentary Film Competition

• THE IMPOSTER by Bart Layton (USA)

Special Mention to:

• EL BELLA VISTA by Alicia Cano (Uruguay)
• SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE by Ilian Metev (Bulgaria)

German-Language Feature Film Competition

• AM HIMMEL DER TAG by Pola Beck (Germany)

Special Mention to:

• ANFANG 80 (Austria) for actors Christine Ostermayer and Karl Merkatz
• OH BOY (Germany) for director Jan-Ole Gerster

German-Language Documentary Film Competition

• DER PROZESS by Gerald Igor Hauzenberger (Austria)

Special Mention to:

• OUTING by Sebastian Meise and Thomas Reider (Austria)

Critics’ Award

The three critics from the Schweizerischen Verband der Filmjournalistinnen und Filmjournalisten (SVFJ) gave their award to the Best Debut Film from either of the two feature film competition categories.

The SVFJ Critics’ Award goes to:

• EL ULTIMO ELVIS by Armando Bo (Argentina)

Audience Award

 The Audience Award is presented to a film from any of the four competition categories.

The Audience Award goes to:

• APPASSIONATA by Christian Labhart (Switzerland)