The Golden Egg award for the best film of the 5th International Film and Music Festival Kustendorf was presented Monady evening to young Spanish director Fernando Pomares for short fiction film Alto Sauce.

The second place award, the Silver Egg, was given to the Serbian movie, Boys Where Are You?, by Jelena Gavrilovic, while the third place award of Kustendorf 2012, the Bronze Egg, went to the movie Glasgow by the Polish director Piotr Subbotko.

The films were rated by an international jury comprising Leila Hatami, Iranian actress and winner of the Silver Bear for her role in the film 'A Separation' directed by Asghar Farhadi, French producer Pierre Edelman and Serbian actor and producer Zoran Cvijanovic.

Festival's founder Emir Kusturica stated at the closing ceremony of the Kustendorf 2012 that the quality of the festival will remain his sole priority, and that the number of participants will not rise dramatically in order for the entire sociological, ecological and cultural concept to be preserved.

According to Kusturica, today there is no encouragement for young authors and students film worldwide, and this has to change.

"I believe that this place, its architecture and implicit message, can encourage young authors," Kusturica told journalists.

The award ceremony was preceded by the premiere screening of Emir Kusturica's short movie, Our Life, which is part of a larger project, Words with Gods, in the production of Guillermo Arriaga. The script was written by Kusturica's daughter Dunja.

The closing ceremony continued with the folklore ensemble "Svetozar Markovic" from the Kragujevac Cultural Center, and the awarding of the specially designed diplomas, which were given to all the student contenders in the Competition Programme as a souvenir of their stay at Kustendorf.

The seven-day festival program comprised 41 films.

The Competition Programme had 20 short films directed by students from 16 countries: Belgium, Great Britain, Estonia, Italy, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Russia, the U.S., Serbia, France and Spain.

The most prominent guests at Kustendorf 2012 were: French actress Isabelle Huppert, directors Dardenne brothers from Belgium, American film screenwriter and director Abel Ferrara, directors, Kim Ki-duk from South Korea and Nuri Bilge Ceylan from Turkey, who were displayed within the Retrospective of Greatness programme, and young French actor Tahar Rahim.