Festival News

22 October 2007

Closing Ceremony

The prizes of the 20^th Panorama of European Cinema where awarded yesterday, Sunday, October 21^st at Ideal Theatre.

This year’s programme included a wide selection of films in 9 different sections which were presented from October 11^thto October 21^stin three different cinemas: Ideal theatre, Trianon Filmcenter and Mikrocosmos Filmcenter. 120 films where screened for the Greek audience while a number of these are still showing in Thessaloniki where the Panorama has transferred a part of its programme with the support of Aggelioforos Daily newspaper, at Radio City theatre, till October 24^th.

11 films were included in this year’s competition section, which the FIPRESCI Jury, comprised of Salome Kikaleishvili (Georgia), Dragan Jovicevic (Serbia) and Dimitris Kalandidis (Greece) described as of “such high quality that it was difficult to choose from”. Their prize however finally went to Mohamad Saleh Harroun’s “Daratt” (Dry Season).

The prize of “Eleftherotipia” was awarded to Col Spector’s “SomeoneElse”, award given by the director of Eleftherotipia, Mr Vaggelis Panagopoulos.

Finally the audience’s award was given to Francesca Comencini’s “A Casa Nostra”, and received by Valeria Golino who is starring in it.

The Panorama special awards for their contribution to the art of cinema where given to: Valeria Golino (award presented by President of the Greek Film Center, Mr. George Papalios) Aris Stavrou (award presented by the Director of the Institute of Audiovisual Media, Mr. Rodolfos Moronis) and recently deceased greek Director, Nikos Nikolaidis (award presented by the director of the Cinema Departement of the Ministry of Culture, Ms Dimitra Argirou.