1995 Claire Lynch Award for Best First Film
for an Irish Director
The Pan Loaf
Director: Sean Hinds
Producer: Stephanie Faugier
England

1995 Gus Healy Award for Best Irish Short
Bent Out Of Shape
Director: Orla Walsh
Producer: Paul Donovan
Ireland

1995 Best European Short Film (Shared)
Fridge
Director: Peter Mullan
Producer: Frances Higson
Scotland

Mrs. Foucault's Pendulum
Director: Jean-Marc Vervoort
Producer: Serge Kestemont
Belgium

1995 Best Black And White Short (Shared)
The End
Director: Stanley Mangenot
Producer: Liebelei Productions
France

National Achievement Day
Director: Ben Hopkins
Producer: Tony Emsley
England

1995 Best Black and White Feature
Hunger Artist
Director: Bernard Rudden
Producer: Jim Hickey, Mark O'Dowd
Scotland

1995 Best Black and White Cinematography
Hello Photo
Director: Nina Davenport
Producer: Nina Davenport
USA

1995 Highlights

• Opening Gala: (USA) To Die For, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nicole Kidman as a small town New Hampshire women utterly obsessed with attaining celebrity glory
• Closing Gala: (UK) "The Young Poisoners Handbook" staring Irish actor Hugh O'Connor
• World Premiere of first Irish Film to be shot in Cinema Scope -"Fishing the Sloe Black River "is based on the short story by Colm McCann and was filmed in Kerry
• Irish Premier Screening of "Il Postino" a tale of friendship between a Nobel Prize winning Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda and a postman. The screening of the film is attended by its director Michael Radford
• Recreating the atmosphere of the very first public screening of the Lumiere Brothers in the Grand Café in Paris on 28th December 1895, a programme of early silent films are screened in the Farmgate Café in the English Market