OFFICIAL AWARDS

• JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to GRACIA QUEREJETA and DAVID PLANELL for “Siete mesas de billar francés” (Spain) Ex-aequo with JOHN SAYLES for “Honeydripper” (USA)
• JURY PRIZE FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY to CHARLIE LAM for “Ceot oi kap gei / Exodus” (Hong Kong)
• SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR to HENRY O. for “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” (USA)
• SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS to BLANCA PORTILLO for “Siete mesas de billar francés” (Spain)
• SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR to NICK BROOMFIELD for “Battle for Haditha” (UK)
• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to “Buda az sharm foru rikht / Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame” by HANA MAKHMALBAF (Iran-Frantzia), on a first feature by a extremely young director that impressed the jury with its exquisite cinematography and the remarkable performance by the child actress Nikbakht Noruz. A promising debut by a filmmaker whom we hope will go on to create important works in the future.
• GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM to “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” by WAYNE WANG (USA)

NON OFFICIAL AWARDS

• Altadis-New Directors Award “Soul Carriage” by the director Conrad Clark
   
• TCM-Audience Award
  • "Caramel" by Nadine Labaki
  • European film "Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)" by Julian Schnabel

• Youth Award "Caramel" by director Nadine Labaki.
   
• Horizontes Award "El baño del Papa", directed by Enrique Fernández and César Charlone (Uruguay)
   
• TVE-Another Look Award "Buda az sharm foru rikht / Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame", by the Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf
   
• Films in Progress Awards
  • FILMS IN PROGRESS INDUSTRY AWARD
    Estudios Exa, Kodak (Division de Cine Profesional, Mediapro, Molinare Madrid, No Problem Sonido Technicolor Entertainment Services Spain), Titra Film
    GASOLINA, Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
  • TVE AWARD
    ACNÉ, Federico Veiroj (Uruguay, Argentina, España, México)
    SOL NA NEBLINA, Werner Schumann (Brasil / Brazil)
  • CASA DE AMÉRICA AWARD
    GASOLINA, Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
  • SIGNIS AWARD
    LA EXTRANJERA, Fernando Díaz (Argentina)
  • CICAE AWARD
    GASOLINA, Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
     
• Cinema in motion awards
  • SALT OF THIS SEA, by Anne-Marie Jacir (Palestine)
    This film will receive:
    aid toward post-production from CCM (Moroccan Cinematographic Center), to be determined in agreement with production.
    aid toward post-production for the amount of 15,000 euros, provided by the MACTARI mixing auditorium (www.mactari.fr) in Paris
    one 35 mm copy provided by the Amiens Festival
  • RECYCLE, by Mahmoud Al Massad (Jordan)
    This film will receive:
    aid toward post-production from CNC (Centre National de la Cinématographie), for the amount of 15,000 euros
    digital calibration provided by Mikros Image
    conversion from digital to 35 mm provided by Swiss Effects and Kodak Suisse - subtitles in French and English provided by Titra Film
    one 35 mm copy provided by the Fribourg Festival
     
• VI International Film School Meeting Awards
  • “VITA DE GIACOMO” by Luca Governatori. La Femis. France.
    The Jury also grants three special mentions with an invitation to participate in the SHORT FILM CORNER at the next Cannes Festival:
  • “IDIOMA”, by Ian Menoyot (IAD, Belgium)
  • “DE LAS RELACIONES”, by Jorge Acebo (CECC, Barcelona)
  • “LA INVENCIÓN”, by Andrés García Franco (UNAM, Mexico)

OTHER AWARDS

• FIPRESCI AWARD Encarnación, Anahí Berneri (Argentina)
   
• SIGNIS AWARD
  • A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Wayne Wang (USA)
  • SPECIAL MENTION Battle for Haditha, Nick Broomfield (UK)
     
• CICAE AWARD Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron (UK)
   
• 2007 CEC AWARD FOR BEST FILM A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Wayne Wang ( USA)
   
• GUIPUZCOAN BLOOD-DONORS’ ASSOCIATION CORRESPONDING TO THE SOLIDARITY AWARD  JAKOB BRONSKI, leading character played by Max von Sydow, in Emotional Arithmetic, directed by Paolo Barzman (Canada)
   
• SEBASTIANE 2007 AWARD Caramel, Nadine Labaki (Lebanon-France)
   

DONOSTIA AWARD

• RICHARD GERE
• LIV ULLMANN