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Awards 2017

Grand Prix

Mystery Monkeys of Shangri La

Duration: 51 min.
Year completed: 2015

A film by: Mark Fletcher
Produced by: IVO FILATSCH et SABINE HOLZER

Hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and threatened with extinction, the Shangri-La monkeys live at 4000 meters above sea level in Yunnan province of China. Their nose turned up, their big red lips and their deep look inspire mystery and sweetness. A touching family story in these amazingly beautiful animals.

Amateur Award

Entre terre et ciel

Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2016

A film by: Michel Blanpain
Produced by: Michel Blanpain

Seasonal murmurs beyond the hedge, where the most beautiful poetic declarations open.

Award of knowledge and discovery of the animal world

Les métamorphoses de l'ours polaire

Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2016

A film by: Rémy Marion & Charlène Gravel
Produced by: Rémy Marion

Threatened by global warming, the polar bear will have to adapt in order not to disappear. By following him step by step through the seasons, this film gives reason to hope. Shot for five years in the four corners of the Arctic, he takes stock of the reality of the way of life of this extraordinary animal.

Award of knowledge of the relationship between man and animal

Bruxelles sauvage

Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2015

A film by: Bernard CRUTZEN
Produced by: Zistoires sprl

This hybrid documentary, between animal film and documentary society, questions the place of wild animals in the capital of Europe. Foxes, hawks, martens, snakes, bats, lucans, roe deers, wild boars, parrots, toads ... Discover this amazing urban bestiary and the humans who approach it.

Special Jury Award

Soul of the elephant

Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2016

A film by: Annette Scheurich
Produced by: Ivo Filatsch et Sabine Holzer

In Africa, in the exceptional reserve of Okavango, where more than 9000 elephants live in the wild, Beverly and Dereck Joubert tell us the story of an elephant's life from birth to death. The protection of the young, the solidarity, the transmission of knowledge, the great voyages in search of water, the struggles against predators, and above all, the most astonishing and disconcerting: the mourning ritual ...

Award for protection of animal species

Vivre avec les loups

Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2016

A film by: Guillaume Maidatchevsky
Produced by: Caroline Broussaud & Philippe Molins

In the Carpathian Mountains, in Romania, there are nearly 3,000 wolves. It is the largest population in Europe. In this wilderness, some shepherds still raise their herds to the old with the only defense, dogs of the Carpathians. How do these shepherds accept the presence of wolves?

Audience Award

Annabelle, le grand paon de nuit

Duration: 12 min.
Year completed: 2016

A film by: Philippe Parolini
Produced by: Philippe Parolini

On an ash tree, Annabelle, a tiny caterpillar of a great peacock by night, pulls out of the egg that gave birth to her and sets out to conquer the vast world ... an opportunity to discover some aspects of the astonishing development of the largest butterfly Of Europe.

Special Award for best picture

Making an ancient forest

Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2015

A film by: Rita Schlamberger
Produced by: Michael Schlamberger

The Kalkalpen National Park in Austria is the largest wilderness of the Alps. Abandoned and delivered to itself for nearly 25 years, its natural life cycle now governs the landscape. Devastation and destruction are in reality only the founding and regenerating process of the forest that returns to its primitive state.