From hulks of collective ruins to immigrant household struggles, marginalized communities and local weather crises, the twenty seventh Ji.hlava Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant wrapped Saturday with honors for work from various views on a myriad of urgent topics.
The Opus Bonum predominant prize went to Elvis Lenic’s Croatian doc “Ship,” an exploration of an unintentional monument to socialist employee collectives within the type of the Uljanik shipyard, as soon as the nation’s largest. Now an industrial graveyard, the huge port facility is closing down after 160 years, a second Lenic filmed with highly effective imagery in a narrative that reminds viewers of the fates of those that constructed the now ghostly cargo vessels and their docks.
The Ji.hlava viewers prize went to Czech doc “Is There Any Place for Me, Please?” Jarmila Stukova’s highly effective portrait of a girl who survived an acid assault by an ex-boyfriend, which linked with viewers in a manner that set it other than the greater than 350 different movies on the fest this 12 months.
The fest’s activist repute shone by on the ceremony, with a high Czech chef cooking regionally sourced soup for all friends whereas prizes, honorees and cameras shuffled round him. In the meantime, the closing gala took on humanity’s rising nervousness about AI, utilizing the platform to generate weird photographs to venture behind honorees and taking part in artificially generated music over clips of competition sections.
Amongst different main filmmaker figures visiting Ji.hlava this 12 months, Hungarian artwork movie icon Bela Tarr was honored for his contribution to world cinema.
After joking that filmmakers are individuals who shoot on freezing mornings with hungover actors and “you by no means imagine anyone’s watching this shit,” the Berlinale-winning director of “Turin Horse” provided up a extra honest rationalization for why administrators do what they do: “You’re reworked your self and you’ve got a sense it’s important to share with others.”
The part’s Central and Japanese European doc prize went to Polish entry “Distances” by Matej Bobrik, an intimate portrait of an immigrant Nepalese household who’ve found life in Europe isn’t any assure of safety and success. Slovak entry “The Third Finish of the Stick” by Jaro Vojtek likewise explores with stark footage a group going through financial hardship and a type of double social isolation, homosexual Roma, and gained the Visegrad area prize.
The Czech/Slovak tribute to the exceptional artist Jan Mancuska, “You Will By no means See It All” by Stepan Pech, gained the most effective debut prize for its depiction of the sensational and modern artist who died at 39 in 2011.
Argentine doc “East Wind” by Maia Gattas Vargas gained honors for unique strategy with its lyrical imagery and one other type of memorial in a quest by a girl to the West Financial institution in quest of understanding about her lengthy gone father.
One other visually expressive Czech doc, “La Reine” by Nikola Klinger, gained the Opus Bonum scholar jury prize with its chronicle of a 73-year-old nonconformist now going through his destiny together with his regular unconventional strategy.
Within the fest’s Czech Pleasure part, Slovak/Czech/Ukrainian co-production “Photophobia” by Ivan Ostrochovsky and Pavol Pekarcik moved jurors to award the highest prize for its exploration of scholars pressured by Russia’s struggle on Ukraine to attend colleges held in underground metro stations in Kharkiv. Jurors credited the movie for “establishing the unbreakable will of the Ukrainian folks.”
Particular point out went to Czech doc “My Paradise Is Darker Than Your Hell,” an account of the day by day lives of these near an artist who ended his life, by Katerina Dudova, whereas the enhancing and sound design prizes went to “Devil Amongst Us,” a meta-film by Martin Jezek that deconstructs the Czech biographical movie “Arved.”
The Czech Pleasure cinematography prize went to “Bedwetter,” an exploration of a “disaster of masculinity,” filmed by Patrik Balonek with fluid and recent imagery and directed by Jan Husek.
The sci-fi philosophical essay ”Notes from Eremocene,” a Czech/Slovak doc by Viera Cakanyova gained honors for unique strategy, whereas the scholar Czech Pleasure jury awarded “The World In response to My Dad,” an affectionate portrait of a scientist by his daughter, Marta Kovarova, as he tries in useless to curiosity leaders in a plan to fight international greenhouse gases.
The Ji.hlava Testimonies part, centered on movies exploring international points and crises, was gained by French/Greek doc “Mighty Afrin: Within the Time of Floods” by Angelos Rallis, an exceptionally lush and poetic account of a younger lady’s quest as she faces lethal rising tides on the Brahmaputra River.
The experimental movie part Fascinations honored Japanese doc “Silhouette,” a movie tailored from LIDAR laptop scans by Yoshiki Nishimura, whereas the Exprmntl.cz prize went to “The Commodity Catalogue,” an essay on the valuing of photographs by Zbynek Baladran.
seventeenth Ji.hlava Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant winners
Opus BonumShipCroatiaDirector: Elvis Lenic
Central and Japanese European documentaryDistancesPolandDirector: Matej Bobrik
Movie from the Visegrad regionThe Third Finish of the StickSlovakiaDirector: Jaro Vojtek
DebutYou Will By no means See It AllCzech Republic/SlovakiaDirector: Stepan Pech
Unique approachEast WindArgentinaDirector: Maia Gattas Vargas
Scholar juryLa ReineCzech RepublicDirector: Nikola Klinger
Czech JoyPhotophobiaSlovakia/Czech Republic/UkraineDirectors: Ivan Ostrochovsky, Pavol Pekarcik
Particular mentionMy Paradise Is Darker Than Your HellCzech RepublicDirector: Katerina Dudova
EditingSatan Amongst UsCzech RepublicDirector: Martin Jezek
Sound designSatan Amongst Us
CinematographyBedwetterCzech RepublicDirector: Jan HusekCinematographer: Patrik Balonek
Unique approachNotes from EremoceneSlovakia/Czech RepublicViera Cakanyova
Scholar jury awardThe World In response to My DadCzech Republic/SlovakiaMarta Kovarova
Viewers PrizeIs There Any Place for Me, Please?Czech RepubilcDirector: Jarmila Stukova
Contribution to World CinemaBela Tarr
TestimoniesMIGHTY AFRIN: Within the Time of FloodsFrance/GreeceDirector: Angelos Rallis
Particular mentionsOne Of The Thousand HillsBelgiumDirector: Bernard Bellefroid
Not That Type of GuyNorwayDirector: Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid
FascinationsSilhouetteJapanDirector: Yoshiki Nishimura
Particular mentionsBLUECuba/BelgiumDirector: Violena Ampudia
Dinosauria, WeCanadaDirector: Maxime-Claude L’Ecuyer
Exprmntl.czThe Commodity CatalogueCzech RepublicDirector: Zbynek Baladran
Particular mentions
However Not for EverCzech Republic/Portugal/Sao Tome and PrincipeDirectors: Anezka Horova, Klara Trskova
One Sol within the Lifetime of CuriosityCzech RepublicDirector: Vit Ruzicka
