GERMAN film director Valeska Grisebach’s Western carried off the Golden Tulip top prize at this year’s Istanbul Film Festival.

Focusing on a group of German workers tackling a demanding job in the Bulgarian countryside, it's the story of how working in a foreign country awakens the men's sense of adventure and it also explores how they confront their own prejudice and mistrust in a film merging landscape and character with unforgettable power.

The jury prize went to Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s Cocote, about a gardener who returns to his home town for his father’s funeral after he was brutally murdered. A profound film about religion, class conflict, violence and revenge, it introduces a powerful voice in new Latin America cinema.