Format
The festival normally gives out both an Audience Award and the jury-chosen Golden Owl award for a film in the Official Selection, the Silver Méliès award in the Fanomenon category, a Cinema Versa Audience Award, and the "Augustin Awards" for short films in the categories of Animation, International, British and Yorkshire Shorts. The festival traditionally features 5 sections:
- Official selection - feature length fiction films
- Cinema Versa - documentaries
- Fanomenon - cult cinema (including horror, anime, sci-fi and other genre films)
- Short Film City - international short films (less than 45 minutes in length)
- Cherry Kino - experimental cinema / Retrospectives - archive films from acclaimed directors and classic cinema
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