The KNF Award is given to the best feature film in the official section that does not yet have distribution within the Netherlands. The winner is selected by a jury of the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists (Kring van Nederlandse Filmjournalisten - KNF).
For its 2012 edition, the International Film Festival Rotterdam welcomes the following KNF Jury members:
Henk Maurits (“Psynema”, Netherlands)
Ronald Rovers (“de Filmkrant”, Netherlands)
Arjan Welles (“Film1”, "Filmtotaal", 'Filmtab", Netherlands)
Winners History
2012
Clip by Maja Miloš (Serbia)
2011
Winter Vacation by Li Hongqi (China)
2010
Norteado by Rigoberto Perézcano (Mexico/Spain)
2009
Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín (Chile)
2008
Cargo 200 by Alexei Balabanov (Russia)
2007
Operation Filmmaker by Nina Davinport (USA)
2006
Look Both Ways by Sarah Watt (Australia)
2005
Illumination, Pascale Breton (France)
2004
The Missing (Bu jian), Lee Kang-sheng
(Taiwan)
Special mention:
Save the Green Planet!, Jang Jun-Hwan (South Korea)
2003
Blissfully Yours, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
2002
Bolivia , Adrián Caetano (Argentina)
Special mention:
Sabado, Juan Villagas (Argentina)
LA libertad, Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)
Take Care Of My Cat, Jeong Jae-Eun (South Korea)
2001
Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go), Oskar Röhler (Germany)
Special mention:
Beay travail, Claire Denis (France)
2000
Audition, Miike Takashi (Japan)
1999
La vida es silbar, Fernando Pérez (Cuba)
1998
Gummo, Harmony Korine (USA)
1997
Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas (France)
Special Mention:
A Petal. Jung Sun-Woo (SouthKorea)
1996
The Journals of Jean Seberg, Mark Rapaport (USA)
1995
La buttane, Aurelio Grimaldi (Italy)
Special mention:
Moeder Dao, de schildpadvergelijkende, Vincent van Monnikendam (The Netherlands)
1994
Living with an idiot, Alexandr Rogozhkin (Russia)
1993
Observations, Ruud Monster (The Netherlands)
1992
Thank You and Good Night, Jan Oxenberg (USA)
1991
Elegiya & Prostaya elegiya, short films by Aleksandr Sokoerov (Russia)
1990
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive, Wayne Chang (Hong Kong/USA)
1989
The Prisoner of St. Petersburg, Ian Pringle (Australia)
1988
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, Kazuo Hara (Japan)
1987
Alexei Guerman (Russia), for his three films.
1986
Zina, Ken McMullen (UK)
1985
Manuel op het Wondereiland, Raúl Ruiz (Chili)
1984
Peter Hutton (USA): six short films
1983
Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (USA)