Winners
2024
Grand Prix – “Oyu” (dir. Atsushi Hirai, France, 2023, Fiction, 22 min.)
Best Short Film of the International Competition – “Waking up in Silence” (dir. Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi, Ukraine, 2023, Documentary, 18 min.)
Best Short Film of the National Competition – “Number One” (Milda Augustytė, Lithuania, 2023, Documentary, 15 min.)
Jury Special Mention of the International Competition – “Crack of Dawn” (dir. Anna Llargués, Spain, 2023, Fiction, 28 min.)
Jury Special Mention of the national competition – “Dear Dad” (Austė Urbanavičiūtė, Lithuania, 2023, Experimental, 17 min.)
“Shorts Critics” Special Mention – “Way Better” (dir. Skirmanta Jakaitė)
Jury
Inja Korać (Croatia) – Works as a programmer for Motovun FF and IDFF Beldocs and as a head of Industry program for Zagreb FF. In 2022 she launched a production company and has produced an author documentary series in 9 episodes for National Tv – HRT. Worked as a producer and programmer for cinema specialized for documentaries for seven years. Member of Croatian producers association.
Alessandro Del Re (Italy) – Senior Programming Manager for MUBI Italy and co-artistic director for Lago Film Fest and has worked as programming and acquisitions manager for Reading Bloom, Italian distribution company, and as programming advisor for Pordenone Docs Fest, IsReal – Festival di Cinema del Reale and Short Waves Festival. He founded and directs, with Viviana Carlet and Carlo Migotto, 30___70 DOC FEST and Lago Film Residency.
Laurynas Bareiša (Lithuania) – A Lithuanian film director, DoP and editor. His most noticeable shrt films -“The Camel” (San Sebastian FF 2016), “By the Pool” (Venice IFF, Orizzonti 2017), “Caucasus” (Locarno FF, Leopards of Tomorrow 2018), “Dummy” (Berlinale Shorts 2020). L. Bareiša worked as a cinematographer on the feature films of Marija Kavtaradze – “Summer Survivors” (Toronto IFF, Discovery 2018) and “Slow” (Sundance 2023), and Titas Laucius’s debut feature “Parade” (Tallinn Black Nights FF 2022).
2023
Grand Prix – “How Do You Measure a Year?” (dir. Jay Rosenblatt, United States, 2021, Documentary, 29 min.)
Best International Short Film – “Blanket” (dir. Teppo Airaksinen, Finland, 2021, Fiction, 16 min.)
Jury Special Mention in the International Competition – “Goodbye Jerome!” (dir. Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, Chloé Farr, France, 2021, Animation, 8 min.)
Best National Short Film – “Mothers” (dir. Birutė Kapustinskaitė, Lithuania, 2021, Fiction, 15 min.)
Jury Special Mention of the national competition – “Through Gloom” (dir. Arnas Balčiūnas, Lithuania, 2022, Fiction, 17 min.)
Jury
Sanghoon Lee (South Korea) – Saanghoon has worked as curator of the Busan International Short Film Festival since 2011 and was appointed its Senior Programmer in 2018. In 2006–2008 he worked as Chief Programmer at the Korean Film Festival in Paris (FFCF). He also lectures at Chonnam National University, South Korea, specialising in film and French culture.
Laura Aliukonytė (Lithuania) – Currently works in film and advertising, both locally and abroad. As a cinematographer, her first feature film was Vyras už pinigus (dir. Justinas Krisiūnas). In the summer of 2022, Laura finished shooting her second feature film with director Justinas Krisiūnas. She has been a member of the Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers since 2021.
Olga Lucovnicova (Moldova) – An awarded documentary film director based in Belgium. She is a winner of Golden Bear at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the European Film Academy Award, Best Short Film at the 62nd Festival dei Popoli, Best Director at Astra Film Festival, Big Stamp at ZagrebDox, Grand Prix at Vilnius International Short Film Festival and many others. Her latest film, My Uncle Tudor (2020), was screened at over 50 festivals worldwide and won 35 awards.
2022
Grand Prix – My Uncle Tudor (dir. Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Hungary, Moldova, Portugal, 2021, Documentary, 20 min. )
Best International Short Film – Naya (dir. Sebastian Mulder, Netherlands, 2021, Documentary, 24 min.)
Best National Short Film – Interrogation (dir. Urtė Sabulytė, Lithuania, 2021, Fiction, 14 min.)
Special Mention – Lou’s Neighbour (dir. Victoria Lafaurie, Hector Albouker, France, 2021, Fiction, 18 min.)
Jury
Lucile Bourliaud (France) – For the past nine years Lucile has been programming films, collaborating with festivals in France (Lille International Short Film Festival), Quebec (Regard Festival), Sweden and the UK. In 2015 she joined the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham, where she is now in charge of the short film competition. Since 2020, she is also a short film programmer for Nordisk Panorama (Malmö).
Karol Lindholm (Poland) – Curently he is working as a camera operator, Director of Photography in Documentaries, TV-Series, Fiction Films in Poland and Germany. His short films “In a Lion” and “The Last Whistle” have been screened and awarded at numerous international film festivals.
Mantė Valiūnaitė (Lithuania) – Mante was an Artistic Director at Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris.” She has worked as a programmer at International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival “Inconvenient Films”. Mante curated various projects in NGO “Meno avilys”. In addition, she regularly writes to magazine “Kinas” and weekly cultural paper “7 Days of Art”.
2021
Best Fiction Award – “Between you and Milagros” (dir. Mariana Saffon, Columbia, United States, 2020, Fiction, 20 min.)
Best Documentary Award – “Correspondence” (dir. Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor, Chilie, Spain, Documentary, 20 min. )
Best Animation Award – “Genius Loci” (dir. Adrien Mérigeau, France, 2019, Animation, 16 min.)
Best Lithuanian Short Film – “Dummy” (dir. Laurynas Bareiša, Lithuania, 2020, Fiction, 13 min.)
Jury special mentions – “Golden Buttons” (dir. Alex Evstigneev, Rusia, 2020, Documentary, 20 min.) and “Community Gardens” (dir. Vytautas Katkus, Lithuania, 2019, Fiction, 15 min.)
Jury
Sanne Jehoul (United Kingdom) – The Co-Director of Glasgow Short Film Festival, the leading event for short film in Scotland. She has worked as a programmer and producer for Document Human Rights Film Festival, also in Glasgow, and regularly freelances as a curator, writer, and conversation host. She has held various jobs in broadcast production, script development, journalism and event coordination, in Scotland as well as Belgium, China, and the Basque Country
Zofia Jaroszuk (Poland) – Collaborates with Animoon since 2015 where she’s been performing her duties as a producer and production manager working on short, feature and series animated projects. She creatively overlooks the projects from development to promotion stage. In 2019 she was appointed as a Polish Film Institute expert.
Jurgis Matulevičius (Lithuania) – A director, screenwriter and editor from Vilnius, who has worked with well-known Lithuanian film directors Šarūnas Bartas, Algimantas Puipa and others. He has made 4 short films: “Absurd people” (2011), “Anima Animus” (2012), “Victim” (2013), “Interrogator” (2015) that were seen and evaluated well by critics, festivals and audiences in Lithuania and abroad. “Isaac” is his first feature, which premiered in Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
2020
Best International Competition Fiction Award – “Slanted Girl” (dir.Mathilde Delaunay, France, 2019, Fiction, 28 min.)
Best Documentary Award – “In a Lion” (dir.Karol Lindholm, Poland, 2018, Documentary, 12 min.)
Best Animation Award – “Cat Days” (dir.Jon Frickey, Germany, Japan, 2018, Animation, 11 min.)
Best Lithuanian Short Film – “The Juggler” (dir.Skirmanta Jakaitė, France, Lithuania, Animation, 11 min.)
Jury special mention of the International competition – “Are you Hungry?” (dir. Teemu Niukkanen, Finland, 2019, Fiction, 12 min.)
Jury special mention of the National competition – “One Life” (dir. Marija Stonytė, Lithuania, 2019, Documentary, 19 min.)
Jury
Aistė Žegulytė (Lithuania) – During her study years she created a few fictional and documentary short films, they were screened in national and international film festivals. Film Animus Animalis (2018) is her first feature length documentary. It premiered at the prestigious Dok Leipzig festival, in the Next Masters competition.
Sébastien Sperer (France) – in 1999, CITIA took in Sébastien Sperer to become part of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival “network server”. The adventure has nourished his limitless dreams by enabling him to try his hand at selecting and planning programmes, moderating panels and conferences, being a jury member and much more besides: like presenting a “Best of Annecy” programme at other festivals since 2011, and organizing short film screenings in prisons, health care homes, bistrots and churches since 2013.
Dora Nedeczky (Hungary) – an award-winning Hungarian producer, owner of the Budapest / Tallinn based art film production company, Mindwax. Dora’s latest short film GUO4 (2019) by Peter Strickland premiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival and nominated for the Short Film Award at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival. Her latest feature length film Empty Horses (2019) by experimental film director Péter Lichter premiered at the 23rd Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and is selected to the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam.
2018
National Competition – “Dialogue With Joseph” (dir. Elžbieta Josadė, France, Lithuania, 2017, Documentary, 42 min.)
Audience selected National competition film – “The Last Day” (dir. Klaudija Matvejevaitė, Lithuania, 2017, Fiction, 24 min.)
Jury
Natalija Arlauskaitė (Lithuania)
Tomas Vengris (Lithuania)
Eva Brazdžionytė (Lithuania)
2017
Best National Short Film – „The Camel“ (dir. Laurynas Bareiša, Lithuania, 2016, Fiction, 14 min.)
Best Fiction in the International competition – „Chasse Royale“ (dir. Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, France, 2016, Fiction, 28 min.)
Best Documentary in the international competition – „Green Screen Gringo“ (dir. Douwe Dijkstra, Brazil, Netherlands, 2016, Documentary, Experimental, 16 min.)
Best Animation in the international competition – “Moms On Fire” (dir. Joanna Rytel, Sweden, 2016, Animation, 12 min.)
Jury special mention – „Written/Unwritten” (dir. Adrian Silisteanu, Hungary, 2016, Fiction, 19 min.)
National competition jury
Wouter Jansen (The Netherlands) – Worked as the head of program department of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (NL) in 2009. In his current position he is in charge of all competition programs. In 2013 he started the festival strategy and distribution company Some Shorts which specializes in visually powerful and daring short and feature films and documentaries. The films have received over 800 selections, more than 140 awards and were selected at festivals such as Cannes, SXSW, Berlinale, Locarno, TIFF, San Sebastian and Visions du Réel.
Wim Vanacker (Belgium) – After graduating, he discovered NISI MASA – European Network of Young Cinema where he became the Head of the Script Department and the Project manager of the MEDIA funded project, European Short Pitch. Recently, he founded “Sireal Films”, a Brussels based production company where he produced the VAF funded short film empire.
Audrius Kuprevičius (Lithuania) – In 1991 he produced the first feature film of Šarunas Bartas “Three Days” (European Film Academy – Nomination of Felix’92 for the Best Young European Film of the Year, prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Special Mention of FIPRESCI in Berlin Film Festival, 1992) and the documentary film of Audrius Stonys “Earth of the Blind” (European Film Academy – Felix’92 for Best European Documentary Film of the Year). Since 1989 he has produced more than 15 feature and documentary films. He is one of the co-founders of Lithuanian Independent Producers Association.
International competition jury
Torunn Nyen (Norway) – Currently curator and member of the programme committee at The Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, a festival she has been working with since 1980 (from 1994–2010 as festival director).
Clément Tréhin-Lalanne (France) – Directed “Lucien”, his first short film in 2009. His second short film “Aïssa” was first screened in Cannes Film Festival and was selected to be shown at hundreds of film festivals. He received the Best Fiction Award in Vilnius Short Film Festival in 2015.
Santa Lingevičiūtė (Lithuania) – She works as Artistic Director for the Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris”. She is also an Editor in Chief of cinema magazine “Kinas”. Writes film and book reviews, covers film festivals for various Lithuanian magazines and newspapers. Also she is a Member of the Lithuanian Film Critic Association. S. Lingevičiūtė participated as a Jury member in such festivals as “Tofifest” (Poland), “Listapad” IFF (Belarus), “Titanic” IFF (Hungary), Riga IFF (Latvia), Playa del Carmen IFF (Mexico).
2015
Best fiction – “Aissa” (dir. Clement Trehin-Lalanne, France, 2014, Fiction, 8 min.)
Special mention – “Picnic” (dir. Jure Pavlovic, Croatia, 2015, Fiction, 13 min.)
Best animation – “Symphony no.42” (dir. Reka Busci, Hungary, 2014, Animation, 10 min.)
Best documentary – “If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy” (dir. Mea de Jong, Netherlands, 2014, Documentary, 25 min.)
Special jury mention – “I’m Twenty Something” (dir. M. Kavtaradze, Lithuania, 2014, Fiction, 20 min.)
Best lithuanian short film – “The Noisemaker” (dir. Karolis Kaupinis, Lithuania, Sweden, 2014, Fiction, 15 min.)
Jury
Auksė Kanceravičiūtė (Lithuania) – In 2004 she started to write about films and filmmakers for the Lithuanian daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas and since then regular contributes to a film journal Kinas, cultural magazine 7 meno dienos, internet information sites as Bernardinai and Film New Europe. Kancerevičiūtė reads lectures, as Representations of the Body in German Cinema, at the Annual Film Camp organized by Media and Film Education Center “Meno avilys”, The Nordic Film Map, at the Nordic Council of Ministers Office, instructed the course on Film History and Theory, at Skalvija Film Academy. Since 2010, member of the Lithuanian Union of Journalists, since the 2012, member of the Lithuanian Filmmakers Union.
Denes Nagy (Hungary) – He has made several short features and documentaries that were shown at many significant festivals: “Russian Playground” at Critic’s Week in Cannes, 2009, “Soft Rain” at 45th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, in 2013, “Another Hungary” at 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival, in 2014 and “Harm” at this year’s 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Oliver Chantriaux (France) – Producer for 7 years at FILMO, he began his career in several companies of distribution of feature films such as Pyramid, Pan-European, Polygram and Universal Pictures. Olivier is a member of the short films selection committee at Cannes Intl Film Festival and shorts movies Committee of the Academy of arts and techniques of French Cinema for Cesar prize. He was also elected as a member of the short film commission of Unifrance and at the Office of Independent Producers Union (SPI).
2014
Best Short Fiction – “Soft Rain” (dir. Dénes Nagy, Hungary, 2013, Fiction, 28 min)
Special Mention Short Fiction – Butter Lamp (dir. HU Wei, France, 2013, Fiction, 15 min.)
Best Short Documentary – “Emergency Calls” (dir. Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen, Finland, 2013, Documentary, 15 min.)
Special Mention Short Documentary – “Queen” (dir. Manuel Abramovich, Argentina, 2013, Documentary, 19 min.)
Best Short Animation – “Canis” (dir. Marc Riba, Anna Solanas, Spain, 2013, Animation, 17 min.)
Special Mention Short Animation – “Absent Minded” (dir. Roberto Catani, Italy, 2013, Animation, 8 min.)
2013
Best fiction – “The Cement Mixer” (dir. Liviu Sandulescu, Romania, 2012, Fiction, 16 min.)
Special fiction mention – “Welcome and…our Condolences” (dir. Leonas Prudovskis, Izrael, 2012, Fiction, 27 min.)
Best animation – “Adrift” (dir. Frederik Jan Depickere, Columbia, 2013, Documentary, 9 min.)
Special animation mention – “Aldona” (dir. Emilija Škarnulytė, Lithuania, 2012, Documentary, 13 min. )
Best documentary – “Priests” (dir. Astutillo Smeriglia, Italy, 2012, Animation, 21 min.)
Special documentary mention – “When One Stops” (dir. Jenni Rahkonen, Finland, 2012, Animation, 7 min.) and “Women’s Letters” (dir. Augusto Zanovello, France, 2013, Animation, 11 min.)
Jury
Massimiliano Nardulli (Italy)
Sylwester Jakimow (Poland)
Neringa Kažukauskaitė (Lithuania)
2012
Best fiction – „Amigos Forever” (dir. Sylwester Jakimow, Poland, 2011, Fiction, 30 min.)
Best animation – „The Pub“ (dir. Joseph Pierce, United Kingdom, 2012, Animation, 8 min.)
Best documentary – „Law and Order“ (dir. Jan Soldat, Germany, 2012, Documentary, 9 min.)
Jury
Helena Jonsdottir (Iceland)
Daniel Deak (Hungary)
Mantas Kvederavičius (Lithuania)