An animated short film, Brother, directed by Australian Adam Elliot, has won the award for best international short film at the Murphy's Cork Film Festival.
The prize for best black and white short film was shared by Love Is All, directed by Oliver Harrison, from England, and Pieces of My Wife, by French director Frederic Pelle.
No, directed by Dragos-Bogdan Luga, from Romania, took the award for best black and white cinematography in a short film.
The award for best Irish short film, with a value of £25,500, went to Ian Power for Buskers.
The national jury described Buskers as "an unsentimental and funny portrayal of an increasingly cross-cultural problem", with an outstanding performance by child-actor Steven Moran.
The Claire Lynch award for best first short film by an Irish director, worth £8,500, went to What are You Looking At?, directed by Tony Kelly, and described by the jury as a pacey cinematic essay into the theatre of the absurd.
The Cork audience award for best international short film was won by Adrian J. McDowell for his Who's My Favourite Girl?, while the audience award for best Irish short film went to Buskers.
The "made in Cork" award, which has a prize value of £2,000, was shared by A Short Break, directed by Frank Beechinor, and The Denim Queen's Wet Dream, by Stephen O'Connell.
The jury commended Small Change, by Michael Cosgrave, as "a disturbing examination of both the context and the ethics of social documentary filmmaking".
It described In Loving Memory, by Audrey O'Reilly, as "a measured and compassionate treatment of a sensitive subject".
The festival ended last night.
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