Maciej J. Drygas’ “Trains” received Greatest Movie within the Worldwide Competitors at this 12 months’s Worldwide Documentary Movie Competition Amsterdam, with Miguel Coyula’s “Chronicles of the Absurd” taking the Greatest Movie within the Envision Competitors.
“Trains” is a journey by the twentieth century instructed completely by archival footage. The jury of the Worldwide Competitors, comprising Juliana Fanjul, Sophie Fiennes, Grace Lee, Asmae El Moudir and Kazuhiro Soda, stated they had been unanimous of their resolution, highlighting Drygas’ “daring and ingenious use of archive.”
“The movie exhibits us routes to the optimistic and destructive penalties of contemporary industrial innovation. It harnesses the magic of cinema and as an viewers, we’re haunted by our current historic time, even whereas we bear witness to the previous,” the jury added of the profitable movie, which can take residence a €15,000 money prize.
“Chronicles of the Absurd”
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The Worldwide Competitors jury awarded the Greatest Directing prize value €5,000 to Auberi Edler for “An American Pastoral,” which trails an election for seats on the public faculty board in a small conservative city in Pennsylvania amid an intense cultural and ideological battle.
“By merely wanting and listening, this director reveals the present complexity on the coronary heart of america,” stated the jury assertion. “Her deep dedication to commentary permits the viewer to return nose to nose with the communities within the movie and supplies vital perception into the outcomes of the final U.S presidential election.”
In Coyula’s documentary, he and his artist accomplice Lynn Cruz deploy a string of secret audio studies to show the management and intimidation suffered by unbiased artists of their residence nation of Cuba. The Envision Competitors Jury, shaped by Sam Inexperienced, Nduka Mntambo, Kumjana Novakova, B. Ruby Wealthy and Wael Shawky, stated “Chronicles of the Absurd” is “formally advanced with a movie language that arises organically and immediately from its limitations.”
The jury additionally highlighted the movie’s “radical kind that matches and embodies the unconventional spirit of artists refusing to be silenced.” Cuba was the topic of a Highlight part at this 12 months’s IDFA, with creative director Orwa Nyrabia telling Selection that Cuba is “a rustic in misery but in addition completely out of any media consideration” and that documentary movie “operates otherwise from the information and the media, the place [things] solely occur when it’s taking place.”
The Envision Competitors Award for Greatest Directing value €5,000 went to Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti for “Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries” and the award for Excellent Inventive Contribution went ex aequo to Omar Mismar for “A Frown Gone Mad” and Yo-Hen So for “Park.”
Elsewhere, the award for Greatest First Characteristic went to “CycleMahesh” by Suhel Banerjee, Greatest Dutch Movie to Luuk Bouwman for “The Propagandist” and the FIPRESCI award to Najiba Noori’s “Writing Hawa.” The Greatest Quick Documentary Award went to “The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing” by Theo Panagopoulos.
Earlier this week, the competition handed out the awards for its market arm, the Discussion board. Ibrahim Omar’s “Dry Sky” received the IDFA Discussion board Award for Greatest Pitch, Lana Y. Daher’s “Do You Love Me” took the Discussion board Award for Greatest Tough Lower, and the DocLab Discussion board Award went to “Amorphous” by Could Abdalla. The inaugural Producers Connection Award went to “Searching for the Mermaid” by Yara Costa.
Discover the complete record of winners under:
Worldwide Competitors
IDFA Award for Greatest Movie (€15,000) – “Trains” by Maciej J. Drygas
IDFA Award for Greatest Directing (€5,000) – Auberi Edler for “An American Pastoral”
IDFA Award for Greatest Enhancing – Maciej J. Drygas for “Trains”
IDFA Award for Greatest Cinematography – Zvika Gregory Portnoy and Zuzanna Solakiewicz for “The Visitor”
Envision Competitors
IDFA Award for Greatest Movie (€15,000) – “Chronicles of the Absurd” by Miguel Coyula
IDFA Award for Greatest Directing (€5,000) – Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti for “Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries”
Award for Excellent Inventive Contribution – ex aequo to Omar Mismar for “A Frown
Gone Mad” and Yo-Hen So for “Park”
DocLab
Award for Immersive Non-Fiction (€5,000) – Lisa Schamlé for “Me, a Depiction”
Particular Point out for Immersive Non-Fiction – “The Liminal” by Alaa Al Minawi
Award for Digital Storytelling (€5,000) – Pegah Tabassinejad for “Entropic Fields of Displacement”
Particular Point out for Digital Storytelling – “Burn from Absence” by Emeline Courcier
Quick Documentaries
IDFA Award for Greatest Quick Documentary (€5,000) – “The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing” by Theo Panagopoulos
Particular point out – “Mama Micra” by Rebecca Blöcher
Competitors for Youth Documentary
IDFA Award for Greatest Youth Documentary (13+) (€2,500) – Eefje Blankevoort and Lara Aerts for “All the things Will Be Alright”
Particular point out (13+) – “Merely Divine” by Mélody Boulissière
IDFA Award for Greatest Youth Documentary (9-12) (€2,500) – Poorva Bhat for “What’s the Movie
About?”
Particular point out (9-12) – “The Invisible Ones” by Martijn Blekendaal
Extra awards
IDFA Award for Greatest First Characteristic (€5,000) – “CycleMahesh” by Suhel Banerjee
IDFA Award for Greatest Dutch Movie (€5,000) – Luuk Bouwman for “The Propagandist”
Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award (€5,000) – Farahnaz Sharifi for “My Stolen Planet”
Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award particular point out – Radu Jude and
Christian Ferencz-Flatz for “Eight Postcards from Utopia”
FIPRESCI Award – “Writing Hawa” by Najiba Noori
