Friday, the Best DOX Award at the Copenhagen Documentary Festival CPH: DOX went to “Always”, the first feature of Chinese director Deming Chen. The eight -year -old Youbin is followed by his father and grandparents in a remote mountainous village in Hunan Province, who discovers poetry as a way to understand it and the world around him.
The film is mixed with amazing black and white, and mixes lyric beauty with raw realism, and followed Duben at the age of adulthood, struggling with life, loss and time passing.
When moving to the theater, Chen the emotional thanked his entire team. Producer Hansen Lane said: “Through the journey of making this movie, we hope to share this happiness and achievement with everyone who still believes in their dreams. If you believe in it, you will make it – even if life may disappoint you sometimes.
The jury, which is composed of the Danish director Max Keastner (“Life and Other Problems”), producer Rick Tambo Andersen, New York Times Nicholas Rabold, Italian director and researcher Adele Tullet, and Roll Nino Zambrano, head of film programs at Sheffield Docfst, extends to the movie. No one notice it, the little things.
The Danish photographer, who turned to Monica Stromdal, received a special male for the first time in “Flophouse Americana”, who follows the 12-year-old Michaal, who grew up with his alcoholic parents in a cheap-one hotel from many Floven who calls tens of thousands of Americans who live on the margins of society to the homeland. DOC was photographed with simplicity and mercy, providing a blatant picture of America’s economic crisis and housing.
The DOX winners was the first offer to reach the world, out of No. 94-highest number in the festival’s history.
Under the sponsorship of the Danish daily newspaper Politiken, the prize comes with a cash prize of 10,000 euros (10,800 dollars).
The F: ACT Award went to the Ukrainian director MSTYLAV CHERNOV (which won the Academy Award for “20 days in Mariupol”) for the movie “2000 meters to Andriivka”, about a group of soldiers who are fighting on their way over two kilometers of the war torn to the liberation of a destroyed Ukrinian village. The film reunited with “20 days in Mariopol”, Michel Mizner, Michel Mizner of the leading surveys series in the field of investigative journalism, along with the editor -in -chief of the series Rani Aronson Rath. CPH: Dox represents the first screening of the European movie in the wake of its appearance in Sundance in January.
“The Bibi Files” were shown in CPH: dox-Mikala Kroog and Stefi Niederzoll, the film was “a masterpiece in filmmaking: a haunting and multi-layer image of the comparative war with” all calm on the Western Front “. But this is not the First World War, it is today.”
When accepting the award, Cernov, who works in his next project, sent a recorded video message saying: “This is the time when we are in the sake of truth and survival, and this award helps us find our land. (…) Many people around the world are looking for how to search for the world, and we will look largely in the world, and they will hear all the important words.
The director of the Emmy Gita Gander Awards received a special male of the winner of the “Perfect Neighbor”, who dissects the deadly consequences of “standing” laws through Bodycam and firefighting shots on the deadly neighborhood. Netflix acquired the winning Sundance, with plans for release later this year.
In The Nordic: Dox Competition, “Walls-AkinNi Inuk” was written by Sofie Rärdam and Nina Paninnguq Skydsbjerg first prize.
Producer Emile Herling Peronard, who received the award on behalf of the team, won the announcement on Friday for what the Greenland Alliance Agreement called, adding that it was also a day of “fear and frustration as a non -hereditary guest in Greenland.”
In Nordic: Dox, a special male went to Josefine Exner and Sebastian Gerdes “The most beautiful men on Earth”, a picture of Danish masculinity in a society of strong women.
The winner of the following competition: Wave Company, which is first -time talent, was awarded a Best Award for “Dawn of Dawn” by Christina Stebirt, who spent a decade in the life index inside a Christian wilderness in the Siberian wilderness. A special male went to “who witnessed the temples of fall”, written by Lucia Silva, and Roma was discovered by the legendary king Corrojomo.
In the new vision competition, which highlights the films of artists, visual artist and director, director Juliet Le Moner, on “Ramallah, Palestine, December 2018”, which is one of the clashes between the Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. A special mention of “scrap” was mentioned by a graduate of Fémis Noémie Lobry, a conceptual document that is weaved in the past and the present in a dream -like narration.
F: Act, Nordic, Next: Wave, New: Vison and Human: Rights Awards Rights come with a cash prize of 5000 euros ($ 5,400) each.
The Human Award: Rights, now in its second year, went to a “9 -month -old contract” by Ketevan Vashagashvili, a graduate of the CPH: Dox manufacturing program dedicated to amplifying non -represented voices from Eastern Europe. A special male was granted to “The Sexamments” by the San Francisco film director in San Francisco, Michael T. The worker, about the occupation of the University of Colombia by Palestinian students.
The Israeli -Palestinian conflict remained a pivotal point in the festival with pro -Palestinian groups calling for the festival to take a position on the war in Gaza, and a Danish film director who comes out of a panel panel with a Lebanese director working with an Israeli comedian.
When I opened the awards ceremony with coach Niklas Ingestrom, administrative director Catherine Kielgard said: “We believe in the dialogue as a key to exploring different views, and we believe in challenges, and we aim to communicate with these differences, so that the dialogue is difficult, and it is not emptied of any appearance.
He continued, “This also means that we will continue to invite voices from Ukraine and from Russia, even if the Russian regime had invaded Ukraine, and broke the basic rules of international law, and was responsible for many human rights violations. From Palestine and Halais, so that Halais was occupying the illegal Palestinian territories to penetrate from the conquest. The attack on October 7, 2023.”
Running under the topic “Here, Now”, this edition of CPH: Dox hosted multiple discussions on human rights and freedom of expression, and witnessed an increase of 20 % in attendance.
CPH: Dox concludes on March 30.
