BIMINI awards announced

The 2006 BIMINI International Festival of Animated Films in Latvia has awarded the following short films:

• Grand Prize of the Festival
  I Turn My Face to the Forest Floor
  Director: Thomas Hicks (UK)
• Best Film for Adults
  The Last Knit
  Director: Laura Neuvonen (Finland)
• Best Non-narrative Animation
  Motorola Grand Classics
  Director: Smith & Foulkes (UK)
• Best Debut Film
  Eat Dog Cat Mouse
  Director: Kwok Fung Lam (UK)
• Best Film for Children
  Keys to a Time
  Director: Sergey Seregin (Russia)
• Best Latvian Film
  The Witche's Button
  Director: Nils Skapans (Latvia)
• Diploma for its sharp observations of life
  The Old Crocodile
  Director: Koji Yamamura (Japan)
• Diploma for a hypnotic film
  While Darwin Sleeps
  Director: Paul Bush (UK)
• Diploma for the visual style of the film is both rough and sensitive
  After the Cat
  Director: Marina Rosset (Switzerland)
• Diploma for emotionality
  Emelia
  Director: Derek Flood (USA)
• Diploma for originality and comicality
  Ruzz and Ben
  Director: Philippe Jullien (France)