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Macdonald 'The House'"The Home,Inch from Slovak director Zuzana Liova, won the brand new Voices/New Visions Award together with a Chihuly glass sculpture along with a Panavision camera rental package worth $60,000 in the Palm Springs fest on Sunday.In a brunch held at Spencer's Restaurant, the fest also passed out the John Schlesinger Award to documentary "The Littlest Place" (Mexico), directed by Tatiana Huezo Sanchez, as the critics' Fipresci kudos visited Bela Tarr's "The Turin Equine," actor Matthias Schoenaerts for his role in "Bullhead" (Belgium), and also to three stars in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation": Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi.The Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for narrative visited "Starbuck" (Canada), directed by Ken Scott, as the audience doc kudo visited two U.S. films inside a tie: "Wish Me Away," directed by Bobbie Birleffii and Beverly Kopf, and "The Women within the Band," directed by Judy Chaikin."Terra Firma" (Italia) helmer Emanuele Crialese recognized the Bridging the Edges Award, presented by Cinema Without Edges and H . P ., with a statue and Hewlett packard 8560w Elitebook Mobile Workstation having a built-in Hewlett packard Dream Color display, worth $4,000.The 2012 edition from the Palm Springs fest, which opened up Jan. 5 using the screening of "Fish Fishing within the Yemen," wrapped Sunday with comedy "Almanya, Thanks for visiting Germany."In most, 187 films from 73 nations, including 60 premieres (2 world, 22 United States and 36 U.S.) unspooled throughout the 23rd edition.Fest director Darryl Macdonald did not have amounts available but stated "ticket sales increased, especially in the evening and matinee tests." The 2011 selection composed "an especially satisfying mixture of challenging but highly compelling work," he added. Contact Shalini Dore at shali.dore@variety.com