Prize winners of the Mostra Internacional de Cinema were announced last night. This is only the second time in the history of the Mostra that a Brazilian film (Drained) has taken the top award, the Bandeira Paulista. In its 30th year, the Mostra had an audience of 220,000 spectators (up from 200,000 last year) in 19 locations and 14 days of programming (+7 more days this coming week). A grand total of 420 films from 44 countries were shown: 292 features, 99 shorts, and 29 medium-lengths.

Jury Award -- Best Film:
Drained, by Heitor Dhalia (Brazil)

Special Jury Award:
El Violino, by Francisco Vargas (Mexico)
with special mention of actor Don Angel Tavira

Jury Award -- Best Actor:
Adel Imam, in The Yacoubian Building (Egypt)

Jury Award -- Best Actress:
Maria Lundqvist, in Mother of Mine (Finland)

Jury Award -- Honorable Mention:
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, by Cao Hamburguer (Brazil)
"For its visual realization and for its capacity not just to create a period atmosphere, but also to translate the collective sentiment of that period“

Prêmio Petrobras Cultural de Difusão – Best Brazilian Fiction Feature
(audience vote) – R$ 400,000 for distribution:
Antonia, by Tata Amaral (R$ 200,000)
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, by Cao Hamburguer (R$ 200,000)

Prêmio Petrobras Cultural de Difusão – Best Brazilian Documentary
(audience vote) – R$ 200,000 for distribution:
Fabricando Tom Zé, by Décio Matos Jr.

Audience Award -- Best Brazilian Short:
Primeira Vez, by Fabrício Bittar

Audience Award -- Best Brazilian Medium-Length:
Deus e o diabo em cima da muralha, by Tocha Alves and Daniel Lieff

Audience Award -- Best Foreign Fiction Feature:
Rosso Come il Cielo, by Cristiano Bortone (Italy)

Audience Award -- Best Foreign Documentary:
An Inconvenient Truth, by Davis Guggenheim (USA)

Audience Award -- Best Foreign Short:
I Want to Be a Pilot, by Diego Quemada-Diez (Kenya/Mexico/Spain)

Audience Award -- Best Foreign Mid-Length:
Jana Sanskriti, a Theater on the Field, by Jeanne Dosse (France)

Critics Award -- International Category:
Hamaca Paraguaya, by Paz Encina (Paraguay/France/Argentina/Holland)
"For its daring in approaching the passage of time, human relations, and reflections on life and death in a unique and simple way"

Critics Award -- National Category:
Drained, by Heitor Dhalia
"For joining a delicate black humor with psychological and social reflections, among others"

Youth Award (votes from high school students in the Festival da Juventude section):
Mother of Mine, by Klaus Harö (Finland)

Humanity Award:
Vittorio de Seta, Italian director of Banditi A Orgosolo (1961) and Lettere dal Sahara (2006), honored guest of the 30th Mostra