The Dublin Film Critics Circle have announced the winners of this year’s awards which celebrates the best films of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Gerard Barrett’s second feature ‘Glassland’ – which jointly took home Best Irish Feature at last year’s Galway Film Fleadh and received rave reviews at Sundance – picked up Best Irish Film while ‘Wheel Of Fortune: The Story And Legacy Of The Fairview Lion Tamer’ won Best Irish Documentary. There was also an award for ‘Glassland’ DoP Piers McGrail who won the Michael Dwyer Discovery Prize for his work on ‘Glassland’, ‘Let Us Prey’ and ‘The Canal’.
Best Film overall at this year’s awards went to Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s ‘The Tribe’, the Ukrainian film about a deaf mute teenager struggling to fit in at a boarding school.
The Best Director prize was awarded to Ruben Östlund for the film ‘Force Majeure’ while Best Screenplay was given to Yuri Bykov for ‘The Fool’. The highly acclaimed Kurt Cobain documentary ‘Cobain: Montage of Heck’ won for Best Documentary.
The full list of winners can be seen below:
Best Film– The Tribe
Best Director - Ruben Östlund – Force Majeure
Best Screenplay - Yuri Bykov – The Fool
Best Cinematography - Lyle Vincent – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Best Documentary – Cobain: Montage of Heck
Best Actor – Cliff Curtis – The Dark Horse
Best Actress – Nina Hoss – Phoenix
Best Irish Film – Glassland
Best Irish Film - Wheel Of Fortune: The Story And Legacy Of The Fairview Lion Tamer
Best Debut - Chaitanya Tamhane – Court
Michael Dwyer Discovery – Piers McGrail – cinematographer for Let Us Prey, Glassland, The Canal
There were also four Special Jury Prizes for A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Contemplating Existence, Eden, Tu Dors Nicole and 10,000km.