Winter Brothers, Under the Tree, Atelier, Up in the Sky and Hunting Flies came home with awards last weekend.

Copenhagen’s major feature film event CPH:PIX announced on Saturday the winner of its main New Talent Grand PIX handed out to the Danish/Icelandic drama Winter Brothers by Hlynur Pálmason. Eleven international feature debuts were competing for the €6,000 prize. The Buster Award-Best Children Film selected among 8 nominees went to the Norwegian film Hunting Flies by Izer Aliu, also candidate for the Nordic Council Film Prize. Over 150 films screened at the Danish film festival that closes tonight with the gala premiere of Birgitte Stæmose’s Darling.

At the same time the Zurich Film Festival unveiled its main awards for its 13th edition, and the Icelandic film Under the Three by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson received a Special Mention from the International Feature Competition jury, shared with the French film Custody by Xavier Legrand. The main award or Golden Eye went to Singapore’s Pop Aye by Kirsten Tan. The Best International Documentary award went to Machines by Rahul Jain (India/Germany/Finland), and the Best Children’s film award was handed out to the Swedish film Up in the Sky by Petter Lennstrand. More than 160 films screened in Zurich.

Meanwhile in the Icelandic capital, the Reykjavik International Film Festival closed on Saturday after 11 days of screenings of around 100 films. The US film The Rider by Chloé Zhao received the Golden Puffin from the New Visions programme, the film Grab and Run by Roser Corella (Kyrgyzstan/Spain) the Different Tomorrow top prize with Special Mentions handed out to Norway’s Sealers: One Last Hunt and the UK’s Brexitania. Elsa Maria Jakobsdóttir won Best Icelandic Short with Atelier, and Tinna Hrafnsdóttir a Special Mention for Munda.