1997 - XXXIX EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM OF BILBAO
 
FICTION

SILVER MIKELDI
To the film "Little Mano", by Amyn Kaderali (Estados Unidos).

GOLD MIKELDI
To the film "Song of the Siren", by Fiona Samuel (Nueva Zelanda).

 

DOCUMENTARY

SILVER MIKELDI
To the film "Recife de dentro pra fora", by Katia Mesel (Brasil).

GOLD MIKELDI
To the film "Liushjulet", by Lars Nilssen (Noruega).
 
ANIMATION

SILVER MIKELDI
To the film "Une bien brave béte", by Antoine Guex and Berardo González (Suiza).

GOLD MIKELDI
To the film "The Lacemaker", by Lizzie Oxby (Gran Bretaña).

 

GRAND PRIZE FOR SPANISH CINEMA
To the film "Solo en la buhardilla", by Miguel Angel Rodríguez de Cía (España).

GRAND PRIZE FOR BASQUE CINEMA
To the film "Txotx", by Telmo Esnal and Asier Altuna (Euskadi).

BILBAO FESTIVAL GRAND PRIZE
To the film "Campeones", by Antonio Conesa (España).

SPECIAL MENTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
To the films "Destiempo", by Laura Belloso Luqui (España), Fiction.
"The man who couldn't open the doors", by Paul Arden (Gran Bretaña), Fiction.
"The broken jaw" by Chris Shepherd (Gran Bretaña), Animation.
"Primer amor", by Gaizka Arostegui (Euskadi), Spanish cinema.
"Isolina do Caurel", by Cherna Gagino (España), Spanish cinema.
"El ataque del hombre mochila", by Santiago Guibert (Euskadi), basque Cinema.

SILVER CARAVEL FROM INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA.
To the film "Líneas de teléfono", by Marcelo Emilio Brigante (Argentina).

The International Jury of the Thirty-Ninth Edition of Bilbao International Film Festival, aware of the pedagogical role of their decisions, would like to make reference to the concerns expressed in the films:
"Itsembatsemba, Rwanda un genocide plus tard", by Eyal Sivan and Alexis Cordesse (Francia);
"Cuori spezzati", by Federico Bruno (Italia);
"In vía", by Trond G. Lockersen (Noruega).