"The Gold Hugo goes to Litigante directed by Franco Lolli. This second feature from the Colombian director is a searing portrait of family ties and multi-generational motherhood. The jury was moved by the film's emotional complexity, nuance, and authenticity, as the movie pulled us all through the turbulent and tender push and pull of the family life, work life, and love life of the film's central character. We award this film the top prize of the New Directors category also for its mastery of craft in writing, acting, camera, and editing, but ultimately for its eloquent balance of hope and loss, and for its unmistakable bravery."

"The Silver Hugo for Best Actor goes to Bartosz Bielenia in Corpus Christi. The jury found impressive force and unanticipated choices in his performance; he charmingly builds Daniel, a character whose embrace of dishonesty becomes a kind of integrity."

"The Silver Hugo for Best Actress Award goes to Debbie Honeywood in Sorry We Missed You. The jury was struck by the courage and splendid tone of her performance. The style in which she portrays mother, wife, and home-care nurse shows immaculate taste and dedication."

"The Silver Hugo for Best Director goes to Maya Da-Rin for her debut fiction feature The Fever. The film drifts between dream and reality, portraying with both tenderness and precision the world of an indigenous father and daughter in the north of Brazil. It takes us into the family and their hearts, but never forgets the importance of the political context."

"The Silver Hugo, ex aequo, goes to Our Mothers. The film's quasi-documentary style maps a young man's intense confrontation with Guatemala's post-civil war national reckoning and its implications for his life, his livelihood, his family, and his very identity. The jury was moved by the stakes of the storytelling and the film's sense of urgency, as well as by director Cesar Diaz's delicate and empathetic engagement with the meanings and boundaries of personal agency, trauma, and family."

"The Silver Hugo, ex aequo, goes to Bombay Rose, the directorial debut of Gitanjali Rao. A dreamy, lush animated film with a rich aesthetic palette, it captivated the jury with its multigenerational story of longing, hope, love, belief, and family. The film's striking hand-painted visuals alternately juxtapose Bollywood spectacle with Hindu symbolism and Islamic heroic iconography; we found its haunting soundtrack of traditional and contemporary Hindi, Persian and Urdu songs equally complex and affecting. The result is a formally and narratively ambitious tapestry that centers on star-crossed loves, yet lingers poignantly amidst multiple intersecting stories and perspectives with finely textured details that are as exquisite as the whole."

"The Roger Ebert award goes to Adam (Morocco/France/Belgium), directed by first-time Moroccan director Maryam Touzani. This beautifully constructed film, set in modern day Casablanca, celebrates sisterhood and motherhood, grief and redemption through the story of a homeless pregnant woman taken in by a stoically grieving widow, herself the mother of an 8-year-old girl. The film is well-crafted and sensitively paced. The director gives space for both leads to have equally strong performances, and they don't disappoint. We select this film for The Roger Ebert Award and commend the director's ability to create an exceptionally intimate film with palpable empathy and brilliant uses of space, lighting, casting and writing."