Iranian, Polish short movies among this year's winners at Kinofest digital film festival in Romania

Iranian, Polish, Spanish, French, and Taiwanese productions won the five prizes awarded at the ninth edition of the Kinofest Film Festival in Bucharest, which ended on Sunday, September 27. This year’s edition of the event brought more than 220 short films to Bucharest, from which the juries and the public selected the winners. Iran’s Cloudy Children, directed by Reza Fahimi, was the best short film in the offline Fiction section. The film follows the life on two children in a country with many restrictions. In the Animation section, the grand prize went to Polish movie Hipopotamy, directed by Piotr Dumala. This short film won more than 20 international prizes so far. In the online competitions, where the public selected the winners via online votes, Spanish film El Despido was the big winner of the Fiction section, and French movie Menagerie, directed by Julian Gallese, won the grand prize in the Animation section. Also, Taiwanese production Hunting, directed by Chun-Hao Chen, was the best short film of the Online Micromovie section. Some 1,500 people went to see the movies screened during the event while the online competitions gathered nearly 10,000 views. Kinofest is the first digital film festival in Romania, founded in 2007. The Kinofest Association organises the event without any support from state institutions. Kinofest brings 225 short films to Bucharest this September Get ready for some serious laughing: 200 films at Comedy Cluj Film Festival in Romania

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com (Photo source: Kinofest International Digital Film Festival on Facebook)