Lemonade [+lire aussi :
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The Golden Lynx jury, comprised of Ángel Santos (artistic director of the Novos Cinemas, Pontevedra International Film Festival, Spain), Portuguese director Luís Galvão Teles, and casting director Nancy Bishop, also awarded Honorary Mentions to Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch [+lire aussi :
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The Golden Lynx for Best Documentary went to Sand and Blood [+lire aussi :
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The Grand National Prize, which crowns the best Portuguese short-film, was awarded to Água mole by Laura Gonçalves and Alexandra Ramires, while Honorary Mentions were given to Fidalga by Flávio Ferreira and Uma formiga by João Veloso.

FEST officially came to an end yesterday, after 7 days spent screening 240 films, as well as hosting a number of sidebar events, including the ever-popular Training Ground programme, which this year boasted a masterclass with Asghar Farhadi, alongside an unscheduled screening of his latest European production, Everybody Knows [+lire aussi :
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The full list of awards:

Golden Lynx

Best Feature
Lemonade [+lire aussi :
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Honorary Mentions
I Am Not a Witch [+lire aussi :
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Winter Brothers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Elliott Crosset Hove
interview : Hlynur Pálmason
fiche film] - Hlynur Palmason (Denmark/Iceland)

Best Documentary Feature
Sand and Blood [+lire aussi :
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Honorary Mention
Lupo [+lire aussi :
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Silver Lynx

Best Fiction Short Film
Excuse Me, I'm Looking for the Ping Pong Room and my Girlfriend - Bernhard Wenger (Austria)
Honorary Mention
The Treehouse - Juan Sebastián Quebrada (Colombia)

Best Documentary Short Film
Dust - Jabuk Radej (Poland)
Honorary Mention
Connection - Horizoe Garcia Miranda (Cuba)

Best Experimental Short Film
Home Exercises - Sarah Friedland (USA)

Best Animated Short Film
Oh Mother! - Paulina Ziolkowska (Poland)
Honorary Mention
A Cat's Consciousness - Andrea Guizar (Mexico/Poland)

Grand National Prize

Best Portuguese Short Film
Água mole - Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires
Honorary Mentions
Fidalga - Flávio Ferreira
Uma formiga - João Veloso

Cineuropa Audience Award

Best Feature Film
Lupo - Pedro Lino

Best Short Film
Snake - Titas Laucius (Lithuania)

Nexxt

Best Short Film
Parallaxe - Aline Magrez (Belgium)
Honorary Mentions
212 - Boaz Frankel (Israel)