Films from the South

Films from the South (Norwegian: Film fra sør) is an international movie festival held annually in Oslo, Norway. Movies from Africa, Asia, and Latin-America are shown. The festival has its origin in the student film club of University of Oslo,^[1] and has become one of Norway's most favourite festivals.^[1] It has approximately 20,000 visitors each year.^[2] The festival functions as a rendezvous to ethnic Norwegians and people with multicultural backgrounds.^[2]

The main award is the Silver Mirror for best feature film. Other awards include the audience award, the FIPRESCI-award and the DOK:SØR award for best documentary.

Awards

Silver Mirror

Until 2003 known as 'The Oslo Films from the South Award'.^[3]

Year	Title	Director	Country of origin
1997[4]	Labyrinth of Dreams	Gakuryū Ishii	Japan
1998[5]	Innocence	Zeki Demirkubuz	Turkey
1999[6]	Life Is to Whistle	Fernando Pérez	Cuba
2000[7]	Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico
2001[8]	Baran	Majid Majidi	Iran
2002[9]	A House with a View of the Sea	Alberto Aruelo	Venezuela
2003[10]	James' Journey to Jerusalem	Ra'anan Alexandrowicz	Israel
2004[11]	Head-On	Fatih Akın	Turkey / Germany
2005[12]	Electric Shadows	Xiao Jiang	China
2006[13]	Water	Deepa Mehta	Canada
2007[14]	Caramel	Nadine Labaki	Lebanon
2008[15]	Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame	Hana Makhmalbaf	Iran
2009[16]	City of Life and Death	Lu Chuan	China
2010[17]	The Housemaid	Im Sang-soo	South Korea
2011[18]	Las Acacias	Pablo Giorgelli	Argentina
2012[19]	Wolf Children	Mamoru Hosoda	Japan
2013[20]	The Dance of Reality	Alejandro Jodorowsky	Chile
2014[21]	Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem	Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz	Israel
2015[22]	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala / France
2016	After the Storm (2016 film)	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan
2017	Araby	João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa	Brazil
2018	Burning	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
2019[23]	—	Park Chan-wook

Other awards

Year	FIPRESCI	DOK:SØR	Audience	Honorary	Oslo Cinema launching price
1997[4]			La nave de los sueños
1998[5]			Martin (Hache)
1999[6]			The Lighthouse
2000[7]	The Day I Became a Woman		El mismo amor, la misma lluvia
2001[24]	La libertad		Nine Queens
2002[9]	Whispering Sands		Son of the Bride
2003[25]	James' Journey to Jerusalem		Valentín
2004[26]	Earth and Ashes		Avellaneda's Moon
2005[12]	Paradise now		Hana & Alice
2006[27]	Climates		Elsa & Fred
2007[28]	Khadak		The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
2008[15]	24 City	War Child	Waltz with Bashir	Raoul Peck	Waltz with Bashir
2009[16]	A moment in June	Rough Aunties	For a Moment, Freedom	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Still Walking
2010[17]	A Brand New Life	Benda Bilili!	Castaway on the Moon	Dag Asbjørnsen	Women Without Men
2011[18]	On the Edge	Tahrir 2011: The good, the Bad & the Politician	Where Do We Go Now?
2012[19]	Neighbouring Sounds	Searching for Sugar Man	Wolf Children
2013[20]		The Last Station	The Past	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2014[21]		Concerning Violence	Wild Tales	Alejandro Jodorowsky
2015[22]		Those Who Feel the Fire Burning	Dheepan	Abderrahmane Sissako
2016		Fire at Sea	My Neighbour Totoro	Mahamat Saleh Haroun