Film Fest Gent

Film Fest Gent, previously the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (Dutch: Internationaal Film Festival van Vlaanderen – Gent) is an annual international film festival in Ghent. It was created in 1974 and is acknowledged by the FIAPF as a competitive festival specialized in the impact that music has on film. Parallel to the film competition are the World Soundtrack Awards which are being handed out to film composers since 2001.

Awards

Film

Grand Prix for Best Film
Georges Delerue Award for Best Sound Design
National Lottery Award for Best Belgian Student Short
European Film Academy Award for Best European Short
Explore Award
ACE Image Factory Public Choice Award
Port of Ghent Audience Award
Canvas Audience Award

World Soundtrack Awards

Film Composer of the Year
Best Original Soundtrack of the Year
Best Original Song Written Directly for Film
Discovery of the Year
Public Choice Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award
The Sabam Award for Best Young European Composer

Award winners

Grand Prix for Best Film

Year	Winner	Director	Country	Jury
1985	Stop Making Sense	Jonathan Demme	United States	André Delvaux, Michael White, Simon Heyworth, Alain Pierre, Loek Dikker
1986	My First Wife	Paul Cox	Australia	Raoul Servais, Marc Didden, David Mansfield, Gerrard Verhage, Jurre Haanstra
1987	Night Zoo	Jean-Claude Lauzon	Canada	Saul Chaplin, Samuel Fuller, Michael Kidd, Rolan Sergienko, Patrick Conrad
1988	Is-slottet	Per Blom	Norway	Julius Epstein, Henri Colpi, Benoît Lamy, Trevor Jones, Jacques Poitrenaud
1989	Black Rain	Shohei Imamura	Japan	Mary Jane Walsh, Peer Raben, Stanley Myers, Erik van Zuylen, Pierre Drouot
1990	Freeze Die Come to Life	Vitali Kanevsky	Soviet Union	Fons Rademakers, Mike Figgis, Gilles Durieux, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Michel Khleifi
1991	Europa	Lars von Trier	Denmark / Sweden	Thérèse Liotard, Richard Griffiths, Jo Röpcke, Fred Roos, Luis Megino, Auguste Le Breton, Paul Bartel
1992	A Woman's Tale	Paul Cox	Australia	Nikolaus Glowna, Mrinal Sen, Louise Marleau, Milt Felsen, Alejandro Agresti, Allan Moyle, Aleksandr Askoldov, Gérard Corbiau
1993	Passion Fish	John Sayles	United States	Robert Wise, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Philippe Sarde, Rudolph Thome, Hugo Claus
1994	La partie d'échecs	Yves Hanchar	Belgium / France / Switzerland	Robert Ellis Miller, Jan Van Raemdonck, Karl Malden, Renée Soutendijk, David Raskin, Krzysztof Zanussi, Paul Cox
1995	Cyclo	Tran Anh Hung	France / Vietnam	Elliott Gould, Leonard Rosenman, Gabrielle Claes, Derek de Lint, Yves Boisset
1996	Village of Dreams	Yōichi Higashi	Japan	Howard W. Koch, Terence Davies, Norma Heyman, Frédéric Devreese, Nicola Piovani, Frans Weisz
1997	The Witman Boys	János Szász	Hungary	Thom Hoffman, Giancarlo Esposito, Jean-Pierre De Decker, Gina Lollobrigida, Irvin Kershner
1998	Die Siebtelbauern	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria / Germany	Syd Field, Michael Haneke, Stijn Coninx, André Forcier, Christopher Hampton, Julia Ormond, Edward Shearman, Huub Stapel, Lawrence Turman
1999	Himalaya	Éric Valli	Nepal	Jay L. Cooper, Robert Forster, Christopher Lee, Marion Hänsel, Danièle Heymann, Amanda Plummer, Barrington Pheloung
2000	Amores Perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico	Mace Neufeld, Elia Cmíral, Christopher Hampton, Sally Hibbin, Bart Moeyaert, Molly Ringwald, Roland Verhavert, Henny Vrienten
2001	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk	Canada	Pierre-Henri Deleau, Tom Barman, Maria Pia Fusco, Marie Laforêt, Barrington Pheloung, Dirk Roofthooft, Moufida Tlatli
2002	The Man Without a Past	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland	Gerard Mortier, Jocelyn Cammack, Eduardo Antin, Arthur Hamilton, Chris Lomme, Jeff Rona, Adriaan van Dis
2003	In America	Jim Sheridan	Ireland	Jeanne Moreau, Ahmed Imamović, Gaston Kaboré, Daan Stuyven, Stephen Warbeck
2004	Nobody Knows	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	Maurice Jarre, Stefan Arsenijević, Shekhar Kapur, John Matshikiza, Colm Meaney, Alain Platel, David Arnold
2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Tommy Lee Jones	United States / France	Brenda Blethyn, Lissy Bellaiche, José Luis Castiñeira De Dios, Dominique Deruddere, Arthur Lappin, Carine Tardieu
2006	Ten Canoes	Rolf de Heer	Australia	Michel Ciment, Jan Harlan, Jan Leyers, Cyril Morin, Miguel Pereira, Ken Wardrop
2007	Die Fälscher	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria / Germany	Kathleen Turner, Alex Heffes, Bálint Kenyeres, Maria Köpf, Adam Nordén
2008	Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı	Ben Hopkins	Turkey / Germany	Vibeke Windeløv, Andreas Dresen, Simon Ellis, Corky Hale, Philippe Rombi, Arne Sierens
2009	Eyes Wide Open	Haim Tabakman	Israel	Wang Quan'an, László Nemes, Filip Peeters, Niki Reiser
2010	Die Fremde	Feo Aladag	Germany	Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Goran Paskaljević, Jan Verheyen, Jean-Paul Wall, Els Dottermans, Ágnes Kocsis
2011	Elena	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia	Jessica Woodworth, Nathan Larson, Marion Döring, Eran Riklis, Erik Poppe
2012	Tabu	Miguel Gomes	Portugal	Joan Dupont, Bavo Defurne, Bavo Dhooge, Xiaolu Guo, Abel Korzeniowski
2013	The Selfish Giant	Clio Barnard	United Kingdom	István Szabó, Fien Troch, John Parish, Gustavo Santaolalla, Denis Dercourt
2014	Gente de bien	Franco Lolli	Colombia	Bret Easton Ellis, Héloïse Godet, Patrice Toye, Dana Linssen, Sergei Loznitsa
2015	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala / France	Alan Parker, Marjane Satrapi, Caroline Strubbe, Franco Lolli, Boyd van Hoeij
2016	A Quiet Passion	Terence Davies	United Kingdom / Belgium	Jeremy Thomas, Jonathan Coe, Lina El Arabi, India Hair, Tran Anh Hung, Maaike Neuville
2017	Zagros	Sahim Omar Kalifa	Belgium	Aurelio Grimaldi, Greta Scacchi, Eytan Fox, Juliane Lorenz, Arnaud Valois, Gust Van den Berghe
2018	Cold War	Pawel Pawlikowski	Poland / France	Michaël Borremans, Soulwax, Hope Dickson Leach, Mireille Perrier, Alexandre O. Philippe, João Pedro Rodrigues, Nele Wohlatz
2019	Öndög	Wang Quan'an	Mongolia	Joachim Lafosse, Radu Jude, Midge Costin, Guy Lodge, Fiorella Moretti, Dora Bouchoucha