Gaspar Noe's Irreversible won the Bronze Horse for best film 2002 at the 13th Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday in Sweden. The jury, composed of Kristoffer Leandoer, Alexandra Rapaport, Ilkka Matila, Lucy Walker and Dogge Doggelito, cited the film as "groundbreaking cinema that manages to revitalise film narration in almost all its aspects and at the same time tells a deeply moving parable of the thin ice that keeps us all from the abyss."

"No matter what mixed feelings the jurors might have about the degree of visual violence that Gaspar Noe imposes on his audience, there can be no doubt whatsoever that Irreversible is in a class of its own from an artistic point of view."

Erland Josephson won the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award, while other juried winners included Ramon Salazar's Piedras (best first film), Delphine Geize's Carnages (best screenplay), Victoria Pena in Piedras (best actress), James Nesbitt in Bloody Sunday (best actor), Alwin Kuchler for Morvern Callar (best cinematography) and Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund's Golden Gate (best short film).

Adam Valkare won the Made In Stockholm prize for Return Of The Monster, Carlos Reygadas won the E! Audience Award for Japon, Joe Berger won the World Wide Winner award for Covert and Oksana Akinshina won the Canal Plus award for best actor or actress in the Northern Lights section for Lilya 4-Ever.

The FIPRESCI jury, composed of Malena Jansson, Harri Römpötti and Làszlo Kriston named Andrew & Alex Smith's Slaughter Rule best film with a special mention going to Lilya 4-Ever.