Eight feature documentaries and eight short docs have been selected as finalists for the 16th Doc Alliance Awards, presented by the Doc Alliance – the association of European documentary festivals.
The announcement of nominees was made today during Doc Day at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Each member festival chooses one feature and one short as its nominees, selected from among the program of their most recent events. The winners will be revealed at DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo in August, where all the nominated films will screen. A three-person jury will choose the winners: Anna Berthollet, journalist and programmer Arnaud Hée (La Cinémathèque du Documentaire) and festival programmer Jonathan Ali.
The winning feature will earn a €5,000 prize, while the winning short will receive €3,000. Members of the Doc Alliance include Cph:Dox; Docslisboa; Dok Leipzig; FIDMarseille; Ji.hlava Idff; Millennium Docs Against Gravity Ff, Visions du Réel, and this year’s guest festival, DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo.
Full list of Best Feature nominees:
a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-jonestown, Czech Republic, director: Jan Bušta, nominated
by Ji.hlava Idff
Christina (Kristina), Serbia, director: Nikola Spasic, nominated by FIDMarseille
Death of a City (A Morte de uma Cidade), Portugal, director: João Rosas, nominated
by Doclisboa
Disturbed Earth, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ North Macedonia/ Spain, directors:
Kumjana Novakova and Guillermo Carreras-Candi, nominated by DokuFest
Nights Gone By (Antier noche), Switzerland/ Spain, director: Alberto Martín
Menacho, nominated by Visions du Réel
Polish Prayers, Poland/ Switzerland, director: Hanka Nobis, nominated by Millenium
Docs Against Gravity
Silent Sun of Russia (Vi er Rusland), Denmark, director: Sybilla Tuxen, nominated
by Cph:dox
Three Women (Drei Frauen), Germany, director: Maksym Melnyk, nominated by
Dok Leipzig
Full list of Best Short nominees:
07:15 – Blackbird, France, director: Judith Auffray, nominated by Ji.hlava Idff
Adjusting (Prilagodjeni), Serbia, director: Dejan Petrović, nominated by DokuFest
Darkroom, Turkey, director: Asli Baykal, nominated by Visions du Réel
May the Earth Become the Sky (Face-s-ar pământul cer), Belgium/ Hungary/
Portugal/ Romania, director: Ana Vîjdea, nominated by Doclisboa
Nothing Runs Like a Deere, Sweden, director: Max Göran, nominated by Cph:dox
The cervix pass (Le passage du col), France, director: Marie Bottois, nominated by
FIDMarseille
waking up in silence, Germany/ Ukraine, directors: Mila Zhluktenko and
Daniel Asadi Faezi, nominated by Millenium Docs Against Gravity
Why my mum loves Russel Crowe, Netherlands, director: Emma van den Berg,
nominated by Dok Leipzig...
The announcement of nominees was made today during Doc Day at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Each member festival chooses one feature and one short as its nominees, selected from among the program of their most recent events. The winners will be revealed at DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo in August, where all the nominated films will screen. A three-person jury will choose the winners: Anna Berthollet, journalist and programmer Arnaud Hée (La Cinémathèque du Documentaire) and festival programmer Jonathan Ali.
The winning feature will earn a €5,000 prize, while the winning short will receive €3,000. Members of the Doc Alliance include Cph:Dox; Docslisboa; Dok Leipzig; FIDMarseille; Ji.hlava Idff; Millennium Docs Against Gravity Ff, Visions du Réel, and this year’s guest festival, DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo.
Full list of Best Feature nominees:
a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-jonestown, Czech Republic, director: Jan Bušta, nominated
by Ji.hlava Idff
Christina (Kristina), Serbia, director: Nikola Spasic, nominated by FIDMarseille
Death of a City (A Morte de uma Cidade), Portugal, director: João Rosas, nominated
by Doclisboa
Disturbed Earth, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ North Macedonia/ Spain, directors:
Kumjana Novakova and Guillermo Carreras-Candi, nominated by DokuFest
Nights Gone By (Antier noche), Switzerland/ Spain, director: Alberto Martín
Menacho, nominated by Visions du Réel
Polish Prayers, Poland/ Switzerland, director: Hanka Nobis, nominated by Millenium
Docs Against Gravity
Silent Sun of Russia (Vi er Rusland), Denmark, director: Sybilla Tuxen, nominated
by Cph:dox
Three Women (Drei Frauen), Germany, director: Maksym Melnyk, nominated by
Dok Leipzig
Full list of Best Short nominees:
07:15 – Blackbird, France, director: Judith Auffray, nominated by Ji.hlava Idff
Adjusting (Prilagodjeni), Serbia, director: Dejan Petrović, nominated by DokuFest
Darkroom, Turkey, director: Asli Baykal, nominated by Visions du Réel
May the Earth Become the Sky (Face-s-ar pământul cer), Belgium/ Hungary/
Portugal/ Romania, director: Ana Vîjdea, nominated by Doclisboa
Nothing Runs Like a Deere, Sweden, director: Max Göran, nominated by Cph:dox
The cervix pass (Le passage du col), France, director: Marie Bottois, nominated by
FIDMarseille
waking up in silence, Germany/ Ukraine, directors: Mila Zhluktenko and
Daniel Asadi Faezi, nominated by Millenium Docs Against Gravity
Why my mum loves Russel Crowe, Netherlands, director: Emma van den Berg,
nominated by Dok Leipzig...
- 5/23/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The Czech documentary festival ran October 25-30
French director Judith Auffray’s 07:15 – Blackbird has won most notable international documentary film at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
The 30-minute documentary follows a young girl and an old man who set off to identify an unknown bird. The film also won best cinematography.
A special mention was given to Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal’s Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson Vs Monsanto Company which follows the lawsuit between an agro-chemical corporation and a former employee who believes the herbicide products gave him cancer.
Croatian director...
French director Judith Auffray’s 07:15 – Blackbird has won most notable international documentary film at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
The 30-minute documentary follows a young girl and an old man who set off to identify an unknown bird. The film also won best cinematography.
A special mention was given to Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal’s Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson Vs Monsanto Company which follows the lawsuit between an agro-chemical corporation and a former employee who believes the herbicide products gave him cancer.
Croatian director...
- 11/1/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The power of sound and the impacts of war dominated the 26th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival awards, with French doc “07:15 – Blackbird” taking home both the main prize and the cinematography award.
The story of a young girl’s quest to identify the call of a mysterious bird, directed by Judith Auffray and filmed by Mario Valero, the 30-minute doc’s “fairy-tale poeticism,” balancing natural wonder and technology, won over the Opus Bonum jury. The jury said the film “draws us back to the mysteries of our existence.”
The closing gala, after the fest’s focus on war films and a strong presence of Ukrainian filmmakers and their work, paused to honor the fallen in Ukraine as a choir took the stage to sing a traditional hymn, “The Duckling Swims.”
Croatian doc “Deserters,” a study of letters from young Balkan war resistors by Damir Markovina, won the Central...
The story of a young girl’s quest to identify the call of a mysterious bird, directed by Judith Auffray and filmed by Mario Valero, the 30-minute doc’s “fairy-tale poeticism,” balancing natural wonder and technology, won over the Opus Bonum jury. The jury said the film “draws us back to the mysteries of our existence.”
The closing gala, after the fest’s focus on war films and a strong presence of Ukrainian filmmakers and their work, paused to honor the fallen in Ukraine as a choir took the stage to sing a traditional hymn, “The Duckling Swims.”
Croatian doc “Deserters,” a study of letters from young Balkan war resistors by Damir Markovina, won the Central...
- 10/29/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, which runs Oct. 25-30, has unveiled Opus Bonum, its international competition section. The 16-strong lineup includes eight world premieres.
Andrea Kleine’s “The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be,” from the U.S., is set during the pandemic. Kleine, the author of novels “Calf” and “Eden,” is seen performing stand-up comedy, monologues and music in a theater without an audience.
Emily Allen’s U.S. film “Cisco Kid” features a young woman living in the middle of a vast desert in the American West, in the ruins of a town where the last of the oddball inhabitants struggle to survive.
Canada’s “Bloom” by Fanie Pelletier follows three groups of adolescent girlfriends from Quebec, who are going through tough changes in their lives as captured through the videos they post online.
Croatia’s “Deserters,” from director Damir Markovina, looks at the...
Andrea Kleine’s “The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be,” from the U.S., is set during the pandemic. Kleine, the author of novels “Calf” and “Eden,” is seen performing stand-up comedy, monologues and music in a theater without an audience.
Emily Allen’s U.S. film “Cisco Kid” features a young woman living in the middle of a vast desert in the American West, in the ruins of a town where the last of the oddball inhabitants struggle to survive.
Canada’s “Bloom” by Fanie Pelletier follows three groups of adolescent girlfriends from Quebec, who are going through tough changes in their lives as captured through the videos they post online.
Croatia’s “Deserters,” from director Damir Markovina, looks at the...
- 10/14/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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