Awards - Miami Film Festival - 2005-2014

Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize

• A Wolf at the Door (Fernando Coimbra)
• All About the Feathers (Neto Villalobos)
• Natural Sciences (Matías Lucchesi)
• Romance policial (Jorge Durán)
• Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke)
• Asteroide (Marcelo Tobar)
• The 7th Floor (Patxi Amézcua)
• The Man of the Crowd (Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães)
• To Kill a Man (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
• We All Want What's Best for Her (Mar Coll)

Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Director

• Fernando Coimbra (A Wolf at the Door)

Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance

• Nora Navas (We All Want What's Best for Her)

Knight Documentary Achievement Award

• Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof, Charlie Siskel)
• The Overnighters (Jesse Moss)
• Ivory Tower (Andrew Rossi)
• Europe in 8 Bits (Javier Polo Gandía)
• Locaciones: Buscando a Rusty James (Alberto Fuguet)
• The Art Rush (Marianne Lamour)
• Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (Mike Myers)
• The Dog (Allison Berg, François Keraudren)
• The Notorious Mr. Bout (Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin)
• Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (Joe Berlinger)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• A Big Deal (Yoyo Yao)
• Blue (Justin Malone)
• Chub (Samuel Albis)
• Flamingo (Carl Zitelmann)
• Graça (Clara Peltier)
• Shirt Out, Game Over! (Eric Paternot)
• Skin (Cédric Prévost)
• Xenos (Mahdi Fleifel)
• The Phone Call (Mat Kirkby)
• Rodrigo Bellott

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition) - Special Mention

• Skin (Cédric Prévost)

Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award

• Adriana Arjona, Maria Gamboa (Mateo)

Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition Award

• Mateo (Maria Gamboa)
• Somos gente honrada (Alejandro Marzoa)
• We Are Mari Pepa (Samuel Kishi)
• Stockholm (Borja Soler, Rodrigo Sorogoyen)

Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition - Special Mention

• We Are Mari Pepa (Samuel Kishi)

SIGNIS Award

• Belle (Amma Asante)

Miami Encuentros Award

• Aurora (Rodrigo Sepúlveda)
• Voice Over (Cristián Jiménez)
• Dos aguas (Patricia Velásquez)
• Venice (Kiki Álvarez)
• Lulu (Luis Ortega)

Miami Future Cinema Critics Award

• To Kill a Man (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)

Audience Award - Best Feature Film

• Fading Gigolo (John Turturro)

Audience Award - Best Documentary

• La montaña (Tabaré Blanchard)

Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Director

• Ana Piterbarg (Everybody Has a Plan)

Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance

• Javier Cámara, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Jordi Mollà, Eduardo Noriega, Candela Peña, Alberto San Juan, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Luis Tosar (A Gun in Each Hand)

Knight Documentary Achievement Award

• Gideon's Army (Dawn Porter)
• Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
• Cubamerican (José Enrique Pardo)
• Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (Brad Bernstein)
• The Crash Reel (Lucy Walker)
• Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation (Stefan Haupt)
• Valentine Road (Marta Cunningham)
• Viva Cuba Libre: Rap is War (Jesse Acevedo)
• Who is Dayani Cristal? (Marc Silver)
• Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (Sebastian Junger)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• So Much Water (Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge)
• A Gun in Each Hand (Cesc Gay)
• Cinco de Mayo: The Battle (Rafael Lara)
• Gone Fishing (Carlos Sorin)
• Everybody Has a Plan (Ana Piterbarg)
• Dust (Julio Hernández Cordón)
• The Moving Creatures (Caetano Gotardo)
• Vinyl Days (Gabriel Nesci)
• Thesis on a Homicide (Hernán Goldfrid)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• Anna and Jérôme (Mélanie Delloye)
• Ebb and Flow (Gabriel Mascaro)
• 9 Meter (Anders Walter)
• Eleven: Twelve (J.C. Barros)
• Edmond Was a Donkey (Franck Dion)
• Lost Country (Heather Burky)
• Palmipédarium (Jérémy Clapin)
• Yasuni (Nicolas Entel)
• Skunk (Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens)
• Of Other Carnivals (Paulo Miranda)

Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award

• Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge (So Much Water)

Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition Award

• The Swimming Pool (Carlos Quintela)
• Solo (Guillermo Rocamora)
• Boa Sorte, Meu Amor (Daniel Aragão)
• Edificio royal (Iván Wild)
• Miguel San Miguel (Matias Cruz)
• Melaza (Carlos Lechuga)
• No Autumn, No Spring (Iván Mora Manzano)
• The Boy Who Smells Like Fish (Analeine Cal y Mayor)
• Villegas (Gonzalo Tobal)

Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition - Special Mention

• Villegas (Gonzalo Tobal)

Miami Encuentros Award

• All About the Feathers (Neto Villalobos)
• Liz in September (Fina Torres)
• En la caliente: The Cuban Music Revolution (Fabien Pisani)
• Rincón de Darwin (Diego Fernández)
• Rio Cigano (Julia Zakia)

Miami Future Cinema Critics Award

• Beijing Flickers (Yuan Zhang)

Audience Award - Best Feature Film

• 7 Boxes (Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori)

Audience Award - Best Documentary

• Gideon's Army (Dawn Porter)

Knight Documentary Achievement Award

• The Imposter (Bart Layton)
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman)
• Ben Lee: Catch My Disease (Amiel Courtin-Wilson)
• Calvet (Dominic Allan)
• First Position (Bess Kargman)
• Lemon (Laura Brownson, Beth Levison)
• Unfinished Spaces (Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias)
• Under African Skies (Joe Berlinger)
• You've Been Trumped (Anthony Baxter)
• The Strawberry Tree (Simone Rapisarda Casanova)

Knight Documentary Achievement - Special Mention

• Unfinished Spaces (Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias)
• The Strawberry Tree (Simone Rapisarda Casanova)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• Bonsái (Cristián Jiménez)
• Blood of My Blood (João Canijo)
• Madrid (David Trueba)
• Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios (Beto Brant, Renato Ciasca)
• Fisherman (Sebastián Cordero)
• The Cat Vanishes (Carlos Sorin)
• Mejor no hablar de ciertas cosas (Javier Andrade)
• The Sex of the Angels (Xavier Villaverde)
• The Sleeping Voice (Benito Zambrano)
• Violeta (Andrés Wood)
• Zoológico (Rodrigo Marín)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• Blood of My Blood (João Canijo)
• Violeta (Andrés Wood)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• Catharsis (Cédric Prévost)
• A Viagem (Simão Cayatte)
• Abuelas (Afarin Eghbal)
• Immune (Andrew Lathrop)
• Cell Phone Zombies (Jorge Luis Miranda)
• The Dancer (Seth Stark)
• Shift (Juan Carlos Zaldívar)
• The Beach Chronicles AGX (Kevin Sharpley)

Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award

• Cristián Jiménez (Bonsái)

Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition Award

• Expiration Date (Kenya Marquez)
• 180 Segundos (Alexander Giraldo)
• Vaquero (Juan Minujín)
• Distancia (Sergio Ramírez)
• Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli)
• The Student (Santiago Mitre)
• Sin Palabras (Diego Fernando Bustamante, Ana Sofía Osorio)

Audience Award - Best Feature Film

• Juan of the Dead (Alejandro Brugués)

World Competition Award

• The Piano in a Factory (Meng Zhang)
• Amador (Fernando León de Aranoa)
• A Quiet Life (Claudio Cupellini)
• Bad Actress (Robert Lee King)
• Intimate Grammar (Nir Bergman)
• Jo for Jonathan (Maxime Giroux)
• The Hammer (Oren Kaplan)
• Microphone (Ahmad Abdalla)
• Mandoo (Ebrahim Saeedi)
• Tilva Rosh (Nikola Ležaić)

World Competition - Special Mention

• Intimate Grammar (Nir Bergman)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• Frontline - The Interrupters (Steve James)
• Camp Armadillo (Janus Metz)
• How to Start Your Own Country (Jody Shapiro)
• Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus)
• If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry)
• Little Voices (Oscar Andrade, Eduardo Carrillo)
• Magic Trip (Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney)
• Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
• Pearl Jam Twenty (Cameron Crowe)
• Page One: Inside The New York Times (Andrew Rossi)
• Project Nim (James Marsh)
• The Black Power Mixtape (Göran Olsson)
• The Redemption of General Butt Naked (Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss)
• The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Morgan Spurlock)
• We Were Here (Bill Weber, David Weissman)
• Vuelve a la vida (Carlos Hagerman)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Mention

• If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• Marimbas from Hell (Julio Hernández Cordón)
• A tiro de piedra (Sebastián Hiriart)
• A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj)
• All Your Dead Ones (Carlos Moreno)
• No Return (Miguel Cohan)
• Half of Oscar (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
• The Invisible Eye (Diego Lerman)
• Jean Gentil (Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán)
• Water and Salt (Alejo Hernán Taube)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• Half of Oscar (Manuel Martín Cuenca)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• Block (Marialy Rivas)
• Yuri Lennon's Landing on Alpha 46 (Anthony Vouardoux)
• En la Privacidad de mi Hogar (Angel Manuel Soto)
• Good Luck (Max Olivier)
• Azad (Bandar Albuliwi)
• Sunny (Ricardo Targino)
• Los 4 McNifikos (Tucker Davila Wood)
• Love patate (Gilles Cuvelier)
• Historias breves VI: Rosa (Mónica Lairana)
• Spider Fang! (Justin Perkinson)
• Roxy (Shirley Petchprapa)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition) - Special Mention

• Yuri Lennon's Landing on Alpha 46 (Anthony Vouardoux)

Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award

• Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán (Jean Gentil)

Audience Award - Best Feature Film

• The Hammer (Oren Kaplan)

Audience Award - Best Short Film

• Yuri Lennon's Landing on Alpha 46 (Anthony Vouardoux)

Miami Beach Visitor & Convention Authority Innovation in Industry Award

• The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Morgan Spurlock)

Pursuit of Perfection Award

• Magic City Memoirs (Aaron J. Salgado)

World Competition Award

• Grandmother (Brillante Mendoza)
• The Ape (Jesper Ganslandt)
• Buben, baraban (Aleksei Mizgiryov)
• Medal of Honor (Călin Peter Netzer)
• No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi)
• Nymph (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
• Nothing Personal (Urszula Antoniak)
• Obični ljudi (Vladimir Perišić)
• Judge (Jie Liu)
• Face (Ming-liang Tsai)
• Southern District (Juan Carlos Valdivia)
• I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You (Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes)

World Competition - Special Mention

• No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi)
• Medal of Honor (Călin Peter Netzer)

World Competition - Audience Award

• No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• Sins of My Father (Nicolas Entel)
• Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (Brigitte Berman)
• The Thorn in the Heart (Michel Gondry)
• Kawase-san (Cristián Leighton)
• High-Rise (Gabriel Mascaro)
• Son & Moon: diario de un astronauta (Manuel Huerga)
• Uno, la historia de un gol (Carlos Moreno, Gerardo Muyshondt)
• Villalobos (Romuald Karmakar)
• Once Upon a Time Proletarian: 12 Tales of a Country (Xiaolu Guo)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Mention

• Kawase-san (Cristián Leighton)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Audience Award

• Sins of My Father (Nicolas Entel)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• To the Sea (Pedro González-Rubio)
• Undertow (Javier Fuentes-León)
• Crab Trap (Oscar Ruiz Navia)
• Leo's Room (Enrique Buchichio)
• The Last Summer of La Boyita (Julia Solomonoff)
• Excursiones (Ezequiel Acuña)
• Optical Illusions (Cristián Jiménez)
• La Yuma (Florence Jaugey)
• La sangre y la lluvia (Jorge Navas)
• Paraiso (Héctor Gálvez)
• Perpetuum Mobile (Nicolás Pereda)
• Three Days with the Family (Mar Coll)

Ibero-American Competition - Audience Award

• Undertow (Javier Fuentes-León)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• Believe (Paul Wright)
• 40°c in the Shade (Flavio González Mello)
• Alma (Rodrigo Blaas)
• Still Birds (Sara Eliassen)
• Black Water (Stephen Marino)
• Blue Sofa (Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono, Lara Fremder)
• Gloria & Eric (Nicolas Calzada)
• Corredores de verano (Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge)
• Hipster Job (Thomas De Napoli, Jack Tomas)
• Nem Marcha Nem Chouta (Helvécio Marins Jr.)
• Premier anniversaire (Pascal Rambert)
• To je zemlja, brat moj (Jan Cvitkovič)
• Variations (Krisztina Esztergályos)

Online Shorts Competition Award

• Telegastrovision (Antanas Janauskas)

Online Shorts Competition - Audience Award

• Zombies vs. Vampires (Franz Palomares)

Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award

• Julia Solomonoff (The Last Summer of La Boyita)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Judge (Jie Liu)

Cineuropa Prize

• Obični ljudi (Vladimir Perišić)

Cineuropa Prize - Special Mention

• Medal of Honor (Călin Peter Netzer)

Cutting the Edge Award

• Pepperminta (Pipilotti Rist)

Cutting the Edge Award - Special Mention

• Nora (David Hinton, Alla Kovgan)

World Competition Award

• The Past Is a Foreign Land (Daniele Vicari)

World Competition - Special Mention

• The Past Is a Foreign Land (Michele Riondino)
• Parque vía (Enrique Rivero)
• Katia's Sister (Olga Louzgina)

World Competition - Audience Award

• Kisses (Lance Daly)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies (Yulene Olaizola)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Mention

• 16memorias (Mario Posada Ochoa)
• The Inheritors (Eugenio Polgovsky)
• Mental (Kazuhiro Sôda)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Audience Award

• 16memorias (Camilo Botero)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• The Maid (Catalina Saavedra)
• Gasoline (Julio Hernández Cordón)
• Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)

Ibero-American Competition - Audience Award

• Nora's Will (Mariana Chenillo)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• Első szerelem (Ildikó Enyedi)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition) - Special Mention

• Land and Bread (Isi Sarfati)
• Cotidiano (Carla Ribas)

Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award

• Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva (The Maid)

Inspiration Award

• The Maid (Sebastián Silva)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Happy Sweden (Ruben Östlund)

Cutting the Edge Award

• On War (Bertrand Bonello)

Cutting the Edge Award - Special Mention

• Beket (Davide Manuli)

World Competition Award

• Tricks (Andrzej Jakimowski)

World Competition - Special Mention

• Foul Gesture (Tzahi Grad)
• It's Hard to Be Nice (Srdjan Vuletic)

World Competition - Audience Award

• Bliss (Abdullah Oğuz)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• Santiago (João Moreira Salles)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Mention

• Un tigre de papel (Luis Ospina)
• Rue Santa Fé (Carmen Castillo)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Audience Award

• Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (Gonzalo Arijon)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• Cochochi (Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán)
• Eat, for This Is My Body (Michelange Quay)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• The Girls (Rodrigo Marín)
• Blue Eyelids (Ernesto Contreras)

Ibero-American Competition - Audience Award

• The Zone (Rodrigo Plá)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)

• Homecoming (Connie Diletti)

Short Film Award (Shorts Competition) - Special Mention

• Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski)
• Overnight a Rose (Viv Koh)
• Traumalogía (Daniel Sánchez Arévalo)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Foul Gesture (Tzahi Grad)

World Competition Award

• Red Road (Andrea Arnold)

World Competition - Special Mention

• Someone to Run With (Bar Belfer)
• Sonja (Kirsi Liimatainen)

World Competition - Audience Award

• Sweet Mud (Dror Shaul)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (Marco Williams)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Mention

• Septembers (Carles Bosch)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Audience Award

• To Play and to Fight (Alberto Arvelo Mendoza)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• The Violin (Francisco Vargas)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• Alice's House (Carla Ribas)
• Paraguayan Hammock (Paz Encina)
• The Night of the Sunflowers (Vasco Pedroso)

Ibero-American Competition - Audience Award

• The Night of the Sunflowers (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo)

FIPRESCI Prize

• Red Road (Andrea Arnold)

Heineken Red Star Award

• Fish Dreams (Kirill Mikhanovsky)

Latin America Caribbean FedEx Audience Award

• Bluff (Felipe Martínez Amador)

World Competition Award

• Sauf le respect que je vous dois (Fabienne Godet)
• Accused (Jacob Thuesen)

World Competition - Audience Award

• Accused (Jacob Thuesen)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• In the Pit (Juan Carlos Rulfo)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Mention

• Gitmo: The New Rules of War (Erik Gandini, Tarik Saleh)
• My Grandmother's House (Adán Aliaga)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Audience Award

• The Refugee All Stars (Zach Niles, Banker White)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• Vida y color (Santiago Tabernero)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• 7 vírgenes (Alberto Rodríguez)
• Lower City (Sérgio Machado)

Ibero-American Competition - Audience Award

• Angels of the Sun (Rudi Lagemann)

FIPRESCI Prize

• The Master (Piotr Trzaskalski)

Miami Encuentros Award

• The Ballroom (Laís Bodanzky)

World Competition Award

• A Way of Life (Amma Asante)

World Competition - Special Jury Award

• Somersault (Abbie Cornish)

World Competition - Special Mention

• Somersault (Cate Shortland)

World Competition - Audience Award

• The Overture (Itthisoontorn Vichailak)
• Red Dust (Tom Hooper)
• The Educators (Hans Weingartner)

Documentary (Dox) Competition Award

• La sierra (Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Special Jury Award

• The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (Keith Beauchamp)
• Estamira (Marcos Prado)

Documentary (Dox) Competition - Audience Award

• The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (Keith Beauchamp)

Ibero-American Competition Award

• Days of Santiago (Josué Méndez)

Ibero-American Competition - Special Mention

• Los nombres de Alicia (Pilar Ruiz-Gutiérrez)

Best Performance by an Actor - Ibero-American Cinema Competition

• Damián Alcázar (Chronicles)

Best Performance by an Actress - Ibero-American Cinema Competition

• Mirella Pascual (Whisky)

FIPRESCI Prize

• A Way of Life (Amma Asante)