BIFF Awards - Past Winners
1997
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Boston Kickout (Paul Hills / UK / 1996)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Anna In The Sky (Mark Edginton / USA / 1997)
Audience Choice Award
Boston Kickout (Paul Hills / UK / 1996)
1998
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Kini and Adams (Idrissa Ouedraogo / Burkino Faso / 1998)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Phil Touches Flo (David Birdsell / Canada / 1997)
Audience Choice Award:
Mixing Nia (Alison Swan / Bermuda / USA / 1997
2000
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
Genghis Blues (Adrian + Roko Belic / USA / 1999)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Human Traffic (Justin Kerrigan / UK / 1999)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Omar the Short and Devil Doll (Jarl Olsen / USA / 2000)
Audience Choice Award:
Genghis Blues (Adrian + Roko Belic / USA / 1999)
2001
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
Hybrid (Monteith McCollum/ USA / 2000)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Jalla! Jalla! (Josef Fares / Sweden / Denmark / 2001)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Close Up on Bintou (Fanta Regina Nacro / Burkino Faso / 2001)
Audience Choice Award:
Sandstorm (Jagmohan / India / 2001)
Prospero Award:
John Madden
2002
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
Blue Vinyl (Judith Helfland + Daniel Gold / USA / 2002)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Last Wedding (Bruce Sweeney / Canada / 2002)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
My Other Wheelchair is a Porsche (Ravi Kumar / UK / 2002)
Audience Choice Award:
When Voices Rise… (Errol Williams / Bermuda / 2002)
2003
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
Discovering Dominga (Patricia Flynn / USA / 2003)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Kops (Josef Fares / Sweden / Denmark / 2002)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Sophie (Helen Lee / USA / 2002)
Audience Choice Award:
The Pianist (Roman Polanski / France / UK 2002)
Prospero Award:
Jim Sheridan
2004
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski + Ross Kauffman / USA / 2004)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Ljeto U Zlantnoj Dolini (Summer in the Golden Valley) (Srdjan Vuletic / Croatia / 2004)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Wasp (Andrea Arnold / UK / 2004)
Audience Choice Award:
Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski + Ross Kauffman / USA / 2004)
2005
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin + Dana Adam Shapiro / USA / 2004)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
Hari Om (Ganapathy Bharatbala / India / 2004)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Goodbye Cruel World (Vito Rocco / UK / 2004)
Audience Choice Award:
Les Choristes (The Chorus) (Christophe Barratier / France - Switzerland / 2004)
2006
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
King Leopold’s Ghost (Pippa Scott) / USA / 2006)
Competition Feature Award Winner:
The Proposition (John Hillcoat / Australia / 2005)
Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Avatar (Lluis Quilez / Spain / 2005)
Audience Choice Award:
Kinky Boots (Julian Jarrold / USA / UK 2005)
Prospero Award:
Michael Douglas
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2007
Competition Documentary Award Winner:
The Cats of Mirikitani (Linda Hattendorf) / USA / 2006
Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature:
Sweet Mud (Dror Shaul) / Israel / 2006
and
Cashback (Sean Ellis) / United Kingdom / 2006
M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
I Want to be a Pilot (Diego Quemada-Diez / Kenya-Spain / 2006
Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award:
A Sunday in Kigali (Robert Favreau) / Canada / 2006
Prospero Award:
Earl Cameron
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2008
Competition Documentary Award Winner (tie):
Saving Luna (Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm / Canada / 2007
and
Souvenirs (Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat) / Israel / 2006
Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature:
Caramel (Nadine Labaki) / Lebanon-France / 2007
M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award Winner:
Toyland (Jochen Alexander Freydank) / Germany / 2007
Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award:
Red Dust (Tom Hooper) / South Africa / 2004 (screened in sidebar of Modern South African Cinema)
2009
Best Narrative Feature:
Moscow, Belgium, d. Christophe Van Rompaey
Best Documentary:
Garbage Dreams, d. Mai Iskander
Bermuda Shorts Award:
In the Dark, d. Alex Fazeli
Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award:
The Lion and the Mouse, d. Lucinda Spurling
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