Prague Independent Film Festival

History

2016

2017

Winners

2025

• I Never Said Goodbye — Yev K'banchik

• Artur Smolyaninov — I Never Said Goodbye

• Kristin Griffith — The Reckoning

• The Reckoning — Alex Breux

• Night of Resolutions — Dylan Gouze

• Russell De Rozario — This Damnation

• Kazbegi — Yakiv Antypenko

• Come Monday — Graham Streeter

• The Split — Lindsay Kent, Lauren Kent

• The Mimefia — Julia Pitch

• Providence: Electric Gods II — Joshua Benson

• Baby — Nora Rosenthal

• Tiny Teaching Tales — Julie Anne Burch

2024

• Stampila — David Larson

• Giant's Kettle — Markku Hakala, Mari Käki

• Lobster Trial — Catherine Dyer

• Clark Freeman — All That Remains

• Arachne — Tommy Creagh

• Love Intense — Raja Hanna

• Zeke — Darrell Bridgers

• David Valdez — This is Not My Beautiful House

• The Only Way Out is Through — Nicole Catania

• I'm Hip — John Musker

• John Musker — I'm Hip

• Giant's Kettle — Markku Hakala, Mari Käki

• Villa Mink — Darron Carswell

• Erik's Midwestern Boyhood - Erik Jakobsen

• Won't Be Around — Terry Blade

• THE PRODIGAL — Thomas O'Malley

2023

• Anna Eriksson — W

• Anna Eriksson — W

• Yusuke Ishide — The Master of Sento

• Anna Eriksson — W

• Damon Mckinnis — Unfix
• Natalie Brown — Slut Chain
• Margaux Tiltman — Oh Claire!
• Christopher Willis — ''The Book of Disquiet''

2022

• The Road to Galena — Directed by Joe Hall

• Joe Hall — The Road to Galena

• Troubled Minds — Directed by Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele

• The Turn of the Screw — Directed by Chris Fretwell

• Luke Mably - The Ghost Writer

• Sally Leapt Out Of A Window Last Night — Directed by Tracy Spottiswoode

• The Ghost Writer — Art direction by Belle Mundi

• Troubled Minds — Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele

• Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters — Directed by Kevin Konrad Hanna & Jim Demonakos

• A Minute To Midnight: A Musical — Directed by Caue Barcelos & Patrick Flanagan

2021

• The Final Stand — Directed by Vadim Shmelyov

• The Final Stand — Directed by Vadim Shmelyov

• The Stairs — Directed by Peter "Drago" Tiemann

• Sashka. A Soldier's Diary — Directed by Kirill Zaytsev. Cinematography by Vladimir Klimov

• Sashka. A Soldier's Diary — Directed by Kirill Zaytsev. Screenplay by Ivan Klochko & Igor Konyaev.

• OLEG — Directed by Nadia Tass

• The Great Suppression: How Covid-19 Reignited the Fight for Life & Liberty — Directed by Deborah Wright

• Sergey Bezrukov — The Final Stand

• John Schneider — The Stairs

• The Final Stand — Score by Yuri Poteenko

• The Stench — Directed by Won Jang

• Radda Novikova — Moscow Slide

• Geneva Jacuzzi's Casket — Directed by Chris Friend

• Old Cliff Rising — Curtis Roland

• The Swamp — Directed by Erkki Perkiömäki

• Feeling Lonely — Directed by Julian Nazario Vargas

• Mari Kraimbrery by Hiding in the Bathroom — Directed by Serghey Grey

2020

• Lost Transmissions — Directed by Katharine O'Brien

• Man from Beirut — Directed Christoph Gampl
• Best Director
• *Raimundas Banionis — Purple Mist

• Purple Mist — Raimundas Banionis

• Simon Pegg — Lost Transmissions

• Juno Temple — Lost Transmissions
• Lucie Vondráčková — Beyond her Lens

• Unknown Mother — Wai Yin Wong

• Nice Shoes — Directed by Jonathan Lawrence

• Out of Touch — Directed by Bobby Murphy

• Eerie Fairy Tales — Directed by Meet Sander

• Living in the Age of Miracles — Directed by Mia Tomikawa

• Man from Beirut — Cinematography by Eeva Fleig

• Spectre's Bride — Directed by Francesca Borgatta

• Last Film — Directed by Martiros Vartanov

2019

• M — Directed by Anna Eriksson

• The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands — Directed by Robert Lence, Alexey Tsitsilin

• M — Directed by Anna Eriksson

• Kostadin Bonev — Away from the Shore

• Night Walk — Aziz Tazi

• Mickey Rourke — Night Walk

• Aji — Anastasia Berezovsky

• Dark like the night. Karenina-2019 — Directed by Radda Novikova

• Hinge — Directed by Lisa Ann Mayo

• Land of Winter — Directed by Tommy Creagh

• To tell a Ghost — Directed by Chris Piotrowicz, Stefan Ehrhardt

• Away from the Shore — Cinematography by Konstantin Zankov

• Burning Bright — Directed by Aaron Bierman

• We are in a Dream — Directed by Henna Välkky, Eesu Lehtola

2018

• Octav — Directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi

• Konstantin Khabensky

• Ivanov — Directed by Dimitri Falkovich

• Graham Streeter — I May Regret

• I May Regret — Graham Streeter

• Marcel Iures — Octav

• Mr. Goody — Jason MacDonald

• #INSTAGRAM — Directed by Valeriya Gai Germanika

• Dance to the Party — Directed by Wayne Isham

• Ballad of the Righteous Merchant — Directed by Herbert Golder

• Ivanov — Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois

• Moon's Milk — Directed by Ri Crawford

• It Grows Dark — Directed by Benjamin Capps

2017

• Alexei Krasovsky — Collector

• Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak — Maya Dardel

• Rana Kamran — Mah e Mir

• Lazar Ristovski — Train Driver’s Diary
• Konstantin Khabensky — Collector

• Lena Olin — Maya Dardel

2016

• Kostadin Bonev — Sinking of Sozopol

• Angelo Orlando — Rocco Has Your Name

• Konstantin Zankov — Sinking of Sozopol

• Michele Venitucci — Rocco Has Your Name

• Rebecca Ferguson — Despite the Falling Snow

• Anthony Head — Despite the Falling Snow