The Syracuse International Film Festival nnounced this year's award winners last night at The MOST downtown.

All-festival annual awards went first to:
Lifetime Achievement - Gina Vittorio Baldi
Special tribute and four-film retrospective - Rob Nilsson
Friend of the Festival: Tom Bower, 2009 Jury Chair and new Honorary Festival Board Chair

Best Feature Fiction:
TABLEAU (Hungary)
EXHAUSTED (Korea)
LE RING (Quebec, Canada)
MATAR a TODOS (Uruguay)

Winner: EXHAUSTED
Special Judges Citation: GYMPL (Czech Republic)

Artistic Director’s Citations (Selected by Owen Shapiro:
For innovation in story telling: E.M.E.T (Israel) by Yaron Allouche
For epic and historic breadth: UNITED RED ARMY (Japan) by Koji Wakamatsu

Best Directing:
EXHAUSTED (Korea) Gok Kim
TABLEAU (Hungary) Gabor Dettre
LE RING (Quebec, Canada) Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
MATAR a TODOS (Uruguay) Esteban Schroeder

Winner: Gok Kim for EXHAUSTED

Best Actress:
THE PRIESTESS (Armenia) Rouzan Vit Mesropyan
MATAR a TODOS (Uruguay) Roxana Blanco
THE PUPPETER OF HAVANA (Germany/Cuba) Olga Lidia Alfonso
EXHAUSTED (Korea) Liu Jang
SHADOWS (Macedonia) Vesna Stanojevska

Winner: Liu Jang for EXHAUSTED
Special Judges Citation: Roxana Blanco for MATAR a TODOS

Best Actor
LE RING (Canada) Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay
GYMPL (Czech Republic) Tomas Vorel Jr.
EXHAUSTED (Korea) Guen-young Oh
SHADOWS (Macedonia) Borce Nacev
THE HIDE (England) Alex Mac Queen

Split Winners: Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay for LE RING and Alex Mac Queen for THE HIDE

Best Screenplay:
EXHAUSTED (Korea) Gok Kim
TABLEAU (Hungary) Gabor Dettre and Akos Kertesz
LE RING (Quebec, Canada) Renee Beaulieu
MATAR a TODOS (Uruguay) Daniel Henriques, Alejandra Marino, Pablo Vierci

Winner: Gabor Dettre and Akos Kertesz for TABLEAU

Best Cinematography:
GYMPL (Czech Republic) Marek Jicha
THE HIDE (England) George Richmond
HOW TO LIVE ON EARTH (Korea) Tak-jun Choi
FASHION (India) Mahesh Limaye
SHADOWS (Macedonia) Fabio Cianchetti

Winner: George Richmond for THE HIDE
Special Judges Citation: Sang-joon Kwon for EXHAUSTED

Best Editing:
THE HIDE (England) Colin Sumsion
FASHION (India) Devendra Murdeshwar
GYMPL (Czech Republic) Marek Jicha and Tomas Vorel
EMPTIES (Czech Republic) Alois Fisarek

Winner: Alois Fisarek for EMPTIES

Best Music:
HOW TO LIVE ON EARTH (Korea) Young-rock Choi
THE HIDE (England) Debbie Wiseman
FASHION (India) Salim Merchant, Suleman Merchant

Winner: Salim Merchant and Suleman Merchant for FASHION

Best Feature Documentary:
OUR DISAPPEARED (Argentina) Juan Mandelbaum
BORDER (Armenia) Harutyun Khachatryan

Winner: Harutyun Khachatryan for BORDER

Best Short Documentary:
Historias del Viento (Venezuela) Javier Beltran
Torgheh (Iran) Mohammad Hassan Damanz
Passage (France) Pauline Higgens
Maria’s Grotto (Iran) Buthina Canaan Khouty
Truth and Consequence (USA) Carol Jennings

Split Winners: Maria’s Grotto and Historias del Viento

Best Short Fiction:
K (UK) Piers Thompson
Porque hay cosas nunca se olvidan (Argentina) Lucas Figueroa
Desert Trains (Israel) Boaz Armoni
Pelo Ouvido (Brazil) Joaquim Haickel
Caught Between Colors (India/USA) by Munjal Yagnik

Winner: K

Best Animation:
About the First Domestic Cat (Czech Republic) Stanislava Mikusova
Nightmare (Korea) Sejong University
Pretty Ugly (USA) Abbey Paccia
Fish Fosh (Korea) Sejong University
Animated American (USA)James Baker
Stop (Korea) Jae-Oh Park

Winner: Stop

Best Experimental:
Annie Lloyd (USA) Cecile Condit
E.M.E.T (Israel) Yaron Allouche
Once a Wall or Ripple Remains (USA/Israel) Tirtza Even
Heart Is A Hidden Camera (USA) Gabriel Judet- Weinshel
Liminal (USA) Stephen Keep Mills

Winner: Once a Wall or Ripple Remains

Director's Citations
For Innovation in Story Telling
E.M.E.T (Israel) by Yaron Allouche
For its Epic and Historic Breadth
UNITED RED ARMY (Japan) by Koji Wakamatsu

Special Judges Citation for Ensemble Acting: TABLEAU