Tribeca Film Festival Awards: Complete Winners List

Ross A. Lincoln

Fri, April 24, 2015 at 12:15 AM UTC

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Danish films dominated the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, with Virgin Mountain winning Best Narrative Feature, Democrats winning Best Documentary Feature, and Listen claiming Best Narrative Short.
Winners were chosen from 101 feature films, 60 shorts, and five immersive storytelling projects submitted from 38 countries, with $175,000 in prize money distributed among them.
The festival's winning films will be screened on the final day, April 26, at venues throughout New York City, with the results of the AT&T-sponsored Audience Awards to be announced on April 25.

As the festival nears its end, Tribeca today announced winners of the 2015 festival , and it looks like Denmark has emerged as the big winner — and how. Films from the Scandinavian county dominated the World Narrative and World Documentary competitions, with Dagur Kári's Virgin Mountain (A joint Danish/Icelandic production) taking Best Narrative Feature, and Camilla Nielsson's Democrats taking Best Documentary Feature. Meanwhile, a Danish film, Hamy Ramezan and Rungano Nyoni's Listen , also claimed Best Narrative Short.

Winners were chosen from 101 feature films, 60 shorts and five "immersive storytelling projects" submitted from 38 countries, with $175,000 in prize money distributed among them. The festival's winning films will be screened during the final day, April 26, at venues throughout New York City. Screening times and ticket information are available on the official festival website .

Still unknown, the results of the AT&T-sponsored Audience Awards; winners will be announced April 25, when audience votes are tallied.

The winners are:

WORLD NARRATIVE COMPETITION

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature

Virgin Mountain

Director: Dagur Kári (Iceland, Denmark)

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film
Gunnar Jónsson as Fúsi in Virgin Mountain

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film
Hannah Murray as Sara in Bridgend (Denmark)

Best Cinematography
Magnus Jønck for Bridgend (Denmark).

Best Screenplay
Dagur Kári for Virgin Mountain (Iceland, Denmark)

Best Narrative Editing
Oliver Bugge Coutté for Bridgend (Denmark)

WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Best Documentary Feature
Democrats

Director: Camilla Nielsson (Denmark)

Special Jury Mention In Transit

Director: Albert Maysles, Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui, and Ben Wu. (U.S.A)

Best Documentary Editing
Valerio Bonelli, for Palio (U.K., Italy)

BEST NEW FEATURE DIRECTOR

Best New Narrative Director
Zachary Treitz, for Men Go To Battle (U.S.A)

Special Jury Mention
Stephen Fingleton for The Survivalist (Northern Ireland, U.K.).

BEST NEW DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR

Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award

Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands for Uncertain (U.S.A)

Special Jury Mention
Erik Shirai for The Birth of Saké (U.S.A).

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Best Narrative Short Listen

Directors: Hamy Ramezan and Rungano Nyoni (Finland, Denmark)

Special Jury Mention Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship

Director: Miles Jay (U.S.A, Canada).

2015 BEST DOCUMENTARY AND STUDENT VISIONARY AWARD

Best Documentary Short Body Team 12

Director: David Darg (Liberia)

Special Jury Mention We Live This

Director: James Burns (U.S.A).

Student Visionary Award Catwalk

Director: Ninja Thyberg (Sweden)

Special Jury Mention Kingdom of Garbage

Director: Yasir Kareem (Iraq, U.K.).

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® STORYSCAPES AWARD

Door Into the Dark , created by Amy Rose and May Abdalla at Anagram (U.K.)

THE NORA EPHRON PRIZE

Sworn Virgin

Director: Laura Bispuri

Writers: Francesca Manieri and Bispuri (Albania, Germany, Italy, Kosovo, Switzerland)

Special Jury Mention Being 14

Director, writer: Hélène Zimmer (France)

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