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2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Kala azar
Janis Rafa
2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Too Late to Die Young
Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Zama
Lucrecia Martel
2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
King of the Belgians
Peter Brosens
2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
De waarneming
Frank Scheffer
2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Nøgle hus spejl
Michael Noer
2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
To Kill a Man
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Il futuro
Alicia Scherson
2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Klip
Maja Milos
2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Winter Vacation
Hongqi Li
2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Northless
Rigoberto Pérezcano
2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Tony Manero
Pablo Larraín
2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Cargo 200
Aleksey Balabanov
2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Operation Filmmaker
Nina Davenport
2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Look Both Ways
Sarah Watt
2005 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Illumination
Pascale Breton
2004 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
The Missing
Kang-sheng Lee
2003 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Blissfully Yours
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2002 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Bolivia
Israel Adrián Caetano
2001 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
No Place to Go
Oskar Roehler
2000 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Audition
Takashi Miike
1999 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Life is to Whistle
Fernando Pérez
1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Gummo
Harmony Korine
1997 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas
1996 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Mark Rappaport
1995 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
The Whores
Aurelio Grimaldi
1994 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Living with an Idiot
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
1993 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Observations
Ruud Monster
1992 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Thank You and Good Night
Jan Oxenberg
1991 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Elegiya
Aleksandr Sokurov
1990 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Life Is Cheap… But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Wayne Wang
1989 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
The Prisoner of St. Petersburg
Ian Pringle
1988 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
Kazuo Hara
1986 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
Zina
Ken McMullen
1985 International Film Festival Rotterdam – KNF Award
