Celebrating excellence in filmmaking and championing new and established voices.
This year, we are delighted to announce our inaugural Best New Irish Feature Award, supported by the Irish Examiner. The award includes a cash prize of €3,000 and the jury is chaired by Oscar®-winning film producer, education luminary and CIFF Patron, Lord David Puttnam.
Three of our Shorts awards – the Grand Prix Irish Short, the Grand Prix International Short and the Grand Prix Documentary Short – are Academy Award®-qualifying, ensuring that the winners in Cork will be automatically longlisted for the Oscars®.
SHORTS AWARDS
Winners announced on Thu 16 November
GRAND PRIX IRISH SHORT
Winner: The Boat directed by Luke Morgan
Academy Award®-Qualifying Category
Jurors: Kelly Campbell, Director & Grand Prix Irish Short winner 2021; Niels Putman, Chief Editor, Talking Shorts, Belgium; Tsanko Vasilev, Artistic Director, In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria
GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL SHORT
Winner: Basri & Salma in a Never-ending Comedy directed by Khozy Rizal
Academy Award®-Qualifying Category
Jurors: Denise O’Keeffe, Assistant Director, Valladolid International Film Festival; Johanna Prack programmer for Folkets Hus och Parker, Sweden; Ken Wardrop, Director, So This is Christmas
GRAND PRIX DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner: Calls directed by Ming-Wei Chiang
Academy Award®-Qualifying Category Jury as per Grand Prix International Short
BEST DIRECTOR: IRISH SHORT
Winner: Yellow Belt directed by Allyn Quigley
BEST CORK SHORT AWARD
Winner: Two for the Road directed by Lochlainn McKenna
Supported by Murphy’s
SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2024
Winner: If The Sun Drowned Into An Ocean Of Clouds directed by Wissam Charaf
Cork International Film Festival is the official Irish representative.
FEATURES AWARDS
BEST NEW IRISH FEATURE
Winner: Prospect House directed by Paul Mercier
Proudly supported by the Irish Examiner
Winner announced on Sun 19 November
Jurors: Lord David Puttnam, film producer and CIFF Patron; Carmel Winters, filmmaker; Zeynep Güzel, filmmaker and Head of Doc Station Berlinale.
GRADAM SPIORAD NA FÉILE (SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD)
Winner: Animal directed by Sofia Exarchou
Winner announced on Sun 26 November
Jurors: Graham Fulton, Conic Distribution UK; Katie Holly, Keeper Pictures, Ireland; Grégoire Graesslin, Kinology, France
Special Mention: The Girls are Alright directed by Itsaso Arana
GRADAM NA FÉILE DO SCANNÁIN FAISNÉISE (AWARD FOR CINEMATIC DOCUMENTARY)
Winner: Knit’s Island directed by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin l’Helgoualc’h
Winner announced on Sun 26 November
Jurors: Babette Dieu, Toolbox programmes – European Film Market (Germany) & Cannes Docs – Marché du Film (France); Victoria Leshchenko, Dok. Leipzig, Germany; Carmen Thompson, Red Sea International Film Festival & Sheffield Doc Festival
CORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL YOUTH JURY AWARD
Winner: Dreaming in Between directed by Ninomiya Ryûtarô
Winner announced on Sun 26 November chosen by our youth jury comprising students from UCC, MTU and St. John’s Central College
Special Mention: The Sweet East directed by Sean Price Williams
AUDIENCE AWARDS (FEATURES AND SHORTS)
Chosen by you, the audience, by voting online. All Festival features and shorts that have their Irish premiere in cinema are eligible for the awards. Winners announced on Mon 27 November. See more information here.
Feature Award Winner: One Night in Millstreet directed by Andrew Gallimore
Short Award Winner: Canine directed by Paul Webster
PARALLAX EMERGING FILM ARTIST BURSARY 2024
Recipient: Asha Murphy
2024 recipient announced on Thu 16 November
Jurors: Valerie Byrne, Director, National Sculpture Factory; Maximilian Le Cain, filmmaker & UCC Film Artist in Residence 2023; Anna Kopecká, Director of Programming, CIFF; Aoibhie McCarthy, Artistic Director, Sample-Studios
