As part of a Western retrospective Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" opened the 12th Internatioal Film Festival Miskolc. Claudia Cardinale, main actress in Leone's classic, was honoured by a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Ecumenical Jury awarded a prize to one of the 19 competition entries of long feature films. It choose "Superwelt" (Superworld) by Austrian director Karl Markovics as winner, whose "Atmen" (Breathing) already won the prize of the church film jury and the international festival jury in 2011. In addition, the Ecumenical Jury awarded a Commendation to the Romanian thriller "De ce eu?" (Why Me?) by Tudor Giurgiu. The Turkish competition entry "Mustang" by Deniz Gamze Ergüven won the Emeric Pressburger Prize, the main award of the festival.
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