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
“First, I will ask you to take 10 big, deep breaths.” Elegant Kristina attends a regressive hypnosis session. Lying on the floor, blindfolded, a woman’s voice guides her through the process. Time seems to be suspended. The spectator is immediately drawn into the scene, bewitched by the suave voice and the perfection of the image. The therapist then asks, “Now look down and tell me what you see?” “I see male feet,” Kristina says. “Take a deep breath and fully occupy that body.”
These first breaths open the film “Kristina,” selected in international competition at the Torino Film Festival. The care given to the composition in the opening scene never leaves this first feature film by Serbian director Nikola Spasić, starring Kristina Milosavljević as herself.
Kristina is transgender and left her hometown to live her truth in Belgrade. She collects antiques and lives alone with her cat in a refined...
These first breaths open the film “Kristina,” selected in international competition at the Torino Film Festival. The care given to the composition in the opening scene never leaves this first feature film by Serbian director Nikola Spasić, starring Kristina Milosavljević as herself.
Kristina is transgender and left her hometown to live her truth in Belgrade. She collects antiques and lives alone with her cat in a refined...
- 11/25/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
French festival wrapped on July 11.
Daniel Eisenberg’s observational documentary The Unstable Object II has won the international competition prize at French festival FIDMarseille, which wrapped on July 11.
The Unstable Object II is a study of the changing nature of work, portraying three factories with different methods of production: a prosthetics factory in the mountains of Germany; an haute-couture glove manufacturer in France, where each glove is made by hand; and a jeans factory in Turkey, where about 2000 pairs of jeans are produced daily.
A French, German, Turkish and US co-production, The Unstable Object II world premiered at Fid Marseille.
Daniel Eisenberg’s observational documentary The Unstable Object II has won the international competition prize at French festival FIDMarseille, which wrapped on July 11.
The Unstable Object II is a study of the changing nature of work, portraying three factories with different methods of production: a prosthetics factory in the mountains of Germany; an haute-couture glove manufacturer in France, where each glove is made by hand; and a jeans factory in Turkey, where about 2000 pairs of jeans are produced daily.
A French, German, Turkish and US co-production, The Unstable Object II world premiered at Fid Marseille.
- 7/12/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The film festival is taking place July 5-11.
Lav Diaz’s A Tale Of Filipino Violence will make its world premiere as part of the international competition line-up of the FIDMarseille international film festival taking place in France from July 5-11.
Further world premieres in the selection include Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik and Blake Williams’ A Woman Escapes and Spanish film Aftersun by Lluís Galter.
Scroll down for the full selection
Atlantics director Mati Diop is the president of this year’s international jury which includes João Pedro Rodrigues.
FIDMarseille’s 33rd edition will screen 123 films, including 49 world premieres, of which 40 are by female filmmakers.
Lav Diaz’s A Tale Of Filipino Violence will make its world premiere as part of the international competition line-up of the FIDMarseille international film festival taking place in France from July 5-11.
Further world premieres in the selection include Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik and Blake Williams’ A Woman Escapes and Spanish film Aftersun by Lluís Galter.
Scroll down for the full selection
Atlantics director Mati Diop is the president of this year’s international jury which includes João Pedro Rodrigues.
FIDMarseille’s 33rd edition will screen 123 films, including 49 world premieres, of which 40 are by female filmmakers.
- 6/7/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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