Here are the main SFIFF 51 awards to full length features and documentaries:

NEW DIRECTORS AWARD
Vasermil, Mushon Salmona (Israel, 2007)

NEW DIRECTORS SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat (Thailand, 2007)

FIPRESCI PRIZE
Ballast, Lance Hammer (USA, 2007)

FIPRESCI SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Glasses, Naoko Ogigami (Japan, 2007)

CHRIS HOLTER HUMOR IN FILM AWARD
Time to Die, Dorota Kedzierzawska (Poland, 2007)


GOLDEN GATE AWARDS

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE4
Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang (Canada, 2007)

BAY AREA DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, Dawn Logsdon (USA, 2008)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Forbidden Lie$, Anna Broinowski (Australia, 2007)


AUDIENCE AWARDS

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE (a tie):
Medicine for Melancholy, Barry Jenkins (2007) and La Zona, Rodrigo Pla (2007)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains, Gonzalo Arijon (2007)

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