Marrakech International Film Festival Awards

During its closing ceremony, the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM) issues awards among the following to the best films, filmmakers and actors in the competition. These awards may or may not be issued every year.

Golden Star (Étoile d’or)/Grand prix

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2001	Inch'Allah Dimanche [1]	Yamina Benguigui	France
2002	Go [2]	Isao Yukisada	Japan
2003	Gori vatra [3]	Pjer Zalica	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2004	Sideways [4]	Alexander Payne	United States
2005	Saratan [5]	Ernest Abdyshaparov	Kyrgyzstan
2006	The Red Cockatoo [6]	Dominik Graf	Germany
2007	Autumn Ball [7]	Veiko Õunpuu	Estonia
2008	Wild Field (Dikoe Pole) [8]	Mikheil Kalatozishvili (1959–2009)	Russia
2009	Norteado [9]	Rigoberto Pérezcano	Mexico
2010	The Journals of Musan [10]	Park Jung-bum	South Korea
2011	Out of Bounds [11]	Frederikke Aspöck	Denmark
2012	The Attack [12]	Ziad Doueiri	Lebanon
2013	Han Gong-ju	Lee Su-jin	South Korea
2014	Corrections Class [13]	Ivan I. Tverdovsky	Russia  Germany

The Jury Prize

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2001	The Unsaid	Tom McLoughlin	United States
2002	Bend it like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha	United Kingdom
2003	The Station Agent	Thomas McCarthy	United States
2004	Electric Shadows (Meng ying tong nian)	Xiao Jiang	China
	Moolaadé	Ousmane Sembène	Senegal
2005	C.R.A.Z.Y.	Jean-Marc Vallée	Canada
	Bab al-Makam	Mohamed Malas	Tunisia
2006	The Paper Will Be Blue	Radu Muntean	Romania
2007	The Hard-Hearted	Alexey Mizgirev	Russia
	Slingshot (Tirador)	Brillante Mendoza	Philippines
2008	The Shaft (Dixia de tiankong)	Chi Zhang	China
2009	Les barons	Nabil Ben Yadir	Belgium
	My daughter	Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen	Malaysia
2010	Becloud	Alejandro Gerber Bicecci	Mexico
	Beyond the Steppes	Vanja d’Alcantara	Belgium
2011	Snowtown	Justin Kurzel	Australia
2012	A Hijacking	Tobias Lindholm	Denmark
	Taboor	Vahid Vakilifar	Iran
2013	"La Piscina"	Carlos M. Quintela	Cuba
2014	Chrieg	Simon Jaquemet	Switzerland
2015	Thithi	Raam Reddy	India

Best Actress

Year	Actress	Film
2001	Chaïbia Adraoui	Mona Saber
2002	Clara Khoury	Rana's Wedding
2003	Najat Benssallem	Raja
2004	Vera Farmiga	Down to the Bone
2005	Shirley Henderson	Frozen
2006	Fatou N'Diaye	A Sunday in Kigali
2007	Yoo Yeon-mi	With the Girl of Black Soil (Geomen tangyi sonyeo oi)
2008	Melissa Leo	Frozen River
2009	Lotte Verbeek	Nothing Personal
2010	none awarded
2011	Joslyn Jensen	Without
2012	Elina Reinold	Mushrooming
2013	Alicia Vikander	Hotell
2014	Clotilde Hesme	The Last Blow Hammer

Best Actor

Year	Actor	Film
2001	Jacques Dutronc	C'est la vie
2002	Yusikhe Kebozuka	Go
2003	Bogdan Diklić	Fuse (Gori Vatra)
2004	Bogdan Stupka	Our Own (Svoi)
2005	Daniel Day-Lewis	The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2006	Max Riemelt	The Red Cockatoo
2007	Tommi Korpela	Man's Job
2008	Eero Aho	Tears of April
2009	Cyron Melville	Love and Rage (Vanvittig forelsket)
2010	none awarded
2011	Daniel Henshall	Snowtown
2012	Søren Malling	A Hijacking
2013	Didier Michon & Slimane Dazi	Fevers (Fièvres)
2014	Benjamin Lutzke	Chrieg

Jury Prize for Best Director

Year	Director(s)	Film
2011	Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio	Seven Acts of Mercy (Italian: Sette Opere di misericordia)		2011	Raam Reddy	Tithi (Kannada: ತಿಥಿ)

Prize for the best interpretation

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2010	Animal Kingdom	David Michôd	Australia
	When We Leave (german: Die Fremde)	Feo Aladag	Germany

The Best Director Award

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2002	City of God	Fernando Meirelles	Brazil
2003	Takeshi Kitano	Zatoichi	Japan
2011	Seven Acts of Mercy (Italian: Sette Opere di misericordia)	Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio	Italy
2013	Medeas	Andrea Pallaoro	United States

Best Screenplay Award

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2002	Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)	Tareque Masud	Bangladesh
2003	Cry No More	Narjiss Nejjar	France

Golden Star Grand Prize Short Film

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2002	Chiffons (Batang trapo)	Ramon Mez de Guzman	Philippines
2003	Hymne à la gazelle	Stéphanie Duvivier	France

Special Jury Prize Short Film

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2002	Malcolm	Baker Karim	Sweden
2003	Haçla	Tariq Teguia	France

The Cinécoles Short Film Prize

The Cinécoles Short Film Prize was created in 2010 and focuses on new cinematographic talent and is open to students from Morocco’s cinema schools and institutes.

Through the competition, the FIFM Foundation offers opportunity for film creation and career advancement for new filmmakers and during the festival creates a platform for discussion between seasoned professionals and less-experienced filmmakers.

The competition provides an occasion to present the student cinema for the first time in Morocco and within the framework of a prestigious event.

The Cinécoles Prize comes with a grant worth 300,000 dirhams, donated by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, President of the FIFM Foundation, for the film student to make his or her second short film. It is managed by the FIFM Foundation and must be used to make a new film, which must be completed during the three years following the award. In this way, the FIFM Foundation supports the creation of this second work through careful monitoring and participation in the different stages of writing, directing and editing.^[14]

The Short Film Jury for the 13th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (2013) was presided over by Moroccan filmmaker Nour Eddine Lakhmari and included Astrid Bergès-Frisbey - Actress (France), Jan Kounen - Director & screenwriter (France), Atiq Rahimi - Novelist, director & screenwriter (Afghanistan) and Sylvie Testud - Actress, director, screenwriter & author (France).^[14]

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