Confirming its deserved place within the tightly packed landscape of film events unspooling in France in the autumn months, and having paid tribute to Bertrand Tavernier and Mike Leigh in their presence during its 7th edition, which closed on 6 October in Châlons-en-Champagne to the tune of over 19,000 viewers, the War on Screen Festival has crowned the British documentary For Sama [+lee también:
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Unveiled (and triumphant) in Austin’s SXSW before being shown in a Special Screening as part of Cannes’ official selection, battling it out for the Best Documentary Golden Eye Award as presented on the Croisette, For Sama, which plunges the viewer into the very heart of the Syrian conflict from a very personal perspective, is raking in the accolades (notably winning awards in Sheffield and at Toronto’s Hot Docs, as well as in Munich, Telluride, Galway, Odessa, Dinard, Leipzig, Bologne, Durban, Guanajuato, Minneapolis, Newport and Nantucket). The film will be released in French cinemas on 9 October courtesy of KMBO.

This year’s War on Screen Festival has likewise paid tribute to three fiction films discovered in Cannes, at the Sundance Festival and in Locarno, respectively: Papicha [+lee también:
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The full list of awardees is as follows:

International Feature Film Competition

Grand International Jury Prize
For Sama [+lee también:
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International Jury Award for Best Direction
Papicha [+lee también:
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International Jury Special Mention
Monos [+lee también:
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Audience Award
For Sama - Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

Press Jury Prize
Camille [+lee también:
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Student Jury Prize
Papicha - Mounia Meddour

International Short Films Competition

Lycée Jury’s Best Short Film Award
Silence - Mahdi Borjian (Iran)

Audience Award
Excess Will Save Us - Morgane Dziurla-Petit (Sweden)