The jury for the Docu Abilities From the East Award, introduced Sunday as a part of CineLink Trade Days on the Sarajevo Movie Pageant, cut up the award between two tasks: “A Image to Keep in mind” by Ukrainian director Olga Chernykh and producer Regina Maryanovska-Davidzon, and the Czech-Slovak co-production “Chronicle” by Martin Kollar. The award comes with a money prize of $5,000.
Eight documentaries from Central and Jap Europe, deliberate for theatrical launch in the course of the subsequent 12 months, have been introduced in this system, which is curated by the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Movie Pageant.
The DAFilms.com Distribution Award went to “An Virtually Good Household” by Romanian director Tudor Platon, produced by Carla Fotea and Ada Solomon. The award consists of a world VOD launch on DAFilms.com for 2 years.
The jury mentioned: “The non-public and intimate ‘A Image to Keep in mind’ presents a singular imaginative and prescient of life in the course of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. By way of the experiences of three generations of ladies: the director, her mom and her grandmother, the movie presents the human expertise of warfare powerfully and with tenderness. We additionally discovered the writing within the trailer fairly evocative.”
“We discovered ‘Chronicle’ to be a movie with out phrases that speaks loudly. The cinematic expertise communicates a sure urgency. The artistic collage of pictures evokes hanging stress, suggests attention-grabbing metaphors, and conjures microcosms of absurdity in our world.”
The jury mentioned of “An Virtually Good Household,” “With emotional and shifting generational echoes, we discovered the pitch intimate, clear, exact — and courageous.”
Marek Hovorka, director of Ji.hlava, mentioned: “The awarded movies inform the story of as we speak’s world in a subjective and simple manner. Every in its personal manner, they discover a cinematic language to speak about moments that flip life the other way up. But, these movies in regards to the begin of a warfare in a single’s personal nation, the suicide of a associate or the break-up of a household are usually not emotionally primal however layered. They’ve their very own poetics and a ensuing authenticity that manages to find humor and perception even in these moments, in addition to to create an area for dialogue with the viewers.”
On the occasion, representatives of Ji.hlava additionally introduced the outcomes of this 12 months’s East West Index – a survey of key European documentary movie festivals, which appears to be like on the illustration of movies from Central and Jap Europe.
At festivals in Western Europe, on common just one in seven movies are from Jap Europe. Conversely, for Jap European festivals, on common one in two movies is from a Western European nation. Nothing has modified on this ratio within the final 5 years.
Ji.hlava additionally revealed the names of the individuals of the Rising Producers program, which goals at selling proficient European documentary movie producers, and supplies them with a variety of networking, instructional and promotional help all year long. Seventeen European producers will probably be accompanied by a producer from the Philippines, which is the visitor nation of the 2024 program. It consists of two workshops – going down at Ji.hlava in October 2023 and in the course of the Berlinale in February 2024.
