In this year’s Berlinale Shorts, cinema is distilled to its most essential features. Conventional narratives are very much eschewed in favour of complex ideas, bold left turns and bravura filmmaking gestures. This is my fifth time covering the programme for Directors Notes, and once again I am pleased by the aesthetic unity of the offerings as well as their unorthodox filmmaking techniques. You’d be hard-pressed to find another section at the festival with so much diversity. As usual, there may be some films that I found confounding, odd or interminable, but I can’t accuse them of peddling cliché or well-worn narratives. Most notably, while the feature competition at Berlinale contains no animated movies this year, the Shorts has plenty, putting them on an equal footing with their live-action and documentary counterparts. From the unclassifiable to classical filmmaking, strange 3D models to lo-fi romance, here are ten excellent...
- 2/23/2024
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
The UK documentary festival will run June 12-17 2024.
The UK’s Sheffield DocFest will next place from June 12-17, 2024.
The industry strand of the festival MeetMarket will take place June 13- 14. Submissions for the programme will open in the autumn.
DocFest celebrated its 30th edition this year and recorded a 17% increase in delegate attendance, year on year. The festival screened 37 world premieres including Chris Smith’s Wham!, and 20 international premieres.
The top jury prize went to Maciek Hamela’s Ukrainian documentary In The Rearview while a special mention was given to Stone Town from Chinese directors Jing Guo and Dingding Ke.
The UK’s Sheffield DocFest will next place from June 12-17, 2024.
The industry strand of the festival MeetMarket will take place June 13- 14. Submissions for the programme will open in the autumn.
DocFest celebrated its 30th edition this year and recorded a 17% increase in delegate attendance, year on year. The festival screened 37 world premieres including Chris Smith’s Wham!, and 20 international premieres.
The top jury prize went to Maciek Hamela’s Ukrainian documentary In The Rearview while a special mention was given to Stone Town from Chinese directors Jing Guo and Dingding Ke.
- 7/20/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
A 17% increase in the number of delegates compared to 2022.
Maciek Hamela’s Ukrainian documentary In The Rearview won the main grand jury award in the international competition at Sheffield DocFest, which recorded a 17% increase in its delegate attendance for 2023.
In The Rearview, a Poland-France-Ukraine co-production, follows Ukrainian people fleeing their country in the days following last year’s invasion by Russia.
Scroll down for the feature film winners
A debut feature film for Polish director Hamela, it debuted at Poland’s Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in May, before screening in the Cannes Acid sidebar. Israel-based sales company Cinephil handles world sales.
Maciek Hamela’s Ukrainian documentary In The Rearview won the main grand jury award in the international competition at Sheffield DocFest, which recorded a 17% increase in its delegate attendance for 2023.
In The Rearview, a Poland-France-Ukraine co-production, follows Ukrainian people fleeing their country in the days following last year’s invasion by Russia.
Scroll down for the feature film winners
A debut feature film for Polish director Hamela, it debuted at Poland’s Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in May, before screening in the Cannes Acid sidebar. Israel-based sales company Cinephil handles world sales.
- 6/18/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In The Rearview Photo: Courtesy of DocFest In The Rearview took home the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition at this year's Sheffield DocFest as the winners were announced tonight.
Maciek Hamela's film documents Ukrainians fleeing their country on a minibus and the jury said they were "stunned by the brilliant simplicity" of it.
Jing Guo's Stone Town, which charts seismic change in a Chinese fishing village, received a special mention.
The Grand Jury Award in the International First Feature Competition went to Q by Jude Chenab, which charts her family's connection to a Syrian religious order.
The Tim Hetherington Award - which recognises a film and filmmaker that best reflects the legacy of photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who died will covering the Libyan civil war - went to 20 Days In Mariupol, directed by Мstyslav Chernov.
The Grand Jury Award for the International Short Film Competition...
Maciek Hamela's film documents Ukrainians fleeing their country on a minibus and the jury said they were "stunned by the brilliant simplicity" of it.
Jing Guo's Stone Town, which charts seismic change in a Chinese fishing village, received a special mention.
The Grand Jury Award in the International First Feature Competition went to Q by Jude Chenab, which charts her family's connection to a Syrian religious order.
The Tim Hetherington Award - which recognises a film and filmmaker that best reflects the legacy of photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who died will covering the Libyan civil war - went to 20 Days In Mariupol, directed by Мstyslav Chernov.
The Grand Jury Award for the International Short Film Competition...
- 6/18/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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