Harry Wootliff landed “one of the biggest financial prizes in the UK independent film industry” at the BFI London Film Festival. The “True Things” helmer won the £50,000 (about $68,600 USD) IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary award in association with the British Film Institute (BFI), per Screen Daily. Her follow-up to 2018’s “Only You” sees Ruth Wilson playing a woman whose life is upended after she becomes fixated on a hookup.

“Costa Brava,” Mounia Akl’s dark comedy about a family who escapes the pollution of Beirut by fleeing to their mountain home, claimed the Audience Award at the fest.

“For me ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ is a story that talks about the big conflict Lebanese people are in today and have been in too often: Do you remain in the place that has broken your heart and try to change it from within? Or do you run for your life and build your joy outside of it? Fight, or flight? It is also about the realization that if there’s a wound that you have — in my case, Lebanon — that you feel nothing can heal, the only chance you have at healing, and maybe moving on, is by looking at it in the eye,” Akl told us. “To me, it feels like the source of this pain cannot be excluded from the healing process. If not, it will follow you everywhere and you can’t escape from it.”

Liz Garbus’ portrait of undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, “Becoming Cousteau,” won Best Documentary. Laura Wandel’s “Playground” landed the honor for Best First Feature and Laura Samani received a Special Commendation for “Small Body.” The former centers on a seven-year-old girl on her experiences on the playground at her new school, and the latter is a period drama that follows a woman’s journey to give her stillborn baby a name.

Head over to Screen Daily to check out all of BFI London Film Festival’s winners.