‘The Days I Would Like to Forget,’ ‘Rebbibia 310,’ ‘Piropolis’ Pick Up Visions du Réel Industry Awards

A gaggle of Ukrainian filmmakers have received the highest trade award at Swiss worldwide documentary movie pageant Visions du Réel with their mission “The Days I Would Wish to Overlook,” divided into three chapters, every of which is able to discover a special phenomenon of warfare.

Filmmakers Alina Gorlova (“No Apparent Indicators,” “This Rain Will By no means Cease”), Maksym Nakonechnyi (“Butterfly Imaginative and prescient,” “This Rain Will By no means Cease”), Simon Mozgovyi (“Salt from Bonneville,” “The Winter Backyard’s Story”) and Yelizaveta Smith (“Solitude,” “Butterfly Imaginative and prescient”) of unbiased Ukrainian manufacturing firm Tabor had been awarded the Imaginative and prescient du Sud Est prize, handed out to the most effective mission from the South (Africa, Latin America and Asia) or Japanese Europe.

Operating alongside Visions du Réel, the pageant’s trade occasion introduced collectively some 1,600 professionals from almost 80 international locations, consistent with final yr’s file numbers.

A complete of 31 tasks had been introduced in the important thing boards – VdR–Pitching, VdR–Work in Progress (WIP) and VdR–Tough Reduce Lab, alongside the VdR–Growth Lab – that run April 24 by April 27 in Nyon, Switzerland.

Representing her colleague filmmakers who’re capturing in Ukraine, Gorlova and producer Eugene Rachkovsky picked up the award, which comes with a ten,000 CHF ($10,700) money prize.

Hugging the jury members, Gorlova thanked your complete VdR crew for his or her assist, saying: “We’re joyful to be right here and really feel this free spirit of documentary filmmaking.”

Rachkovsky added: “These final three days have been intense however so heat and productive, for us it was essential because it was the primary place the place we confirmed our loopy, formidable issues, and we’re very glad it was right here in Nyon.”

“The Days I Would Wish to Overlook” is produced by Rachkovsky, Maksym Nakonechnyi and Karina Kostyna of Tabor, Nabil Bellahsene of Paris-based manufacturing and distribution outfit Les Valseurs, and Ralph Wieser of Austria’s Mischief Movies.

Within the VdR-Pitching class, Francesca Mazzoleni’s “Rebibbia 310” picked up the award for many promising mission.

Produced by Alessandro Greco (Morel Movie), Roberto De Paolis, Carla Altieri and Rachel Greenwood (Younger Movies), the movie will take viewers on an unprecedented journey inside Rebibbia Femminile, the feminine ward of Rome’s jail, the most important girls’s detention heart in Europe.

Thanking the pageant crew for his or her assist and assist, Mazzoleni and Greco mentioned: “Our journey with VdR began three years in the past. It seems like residence to us, and we’re actually proud to be a part of this household.”

The VdR–Trade Jury Particular Point out went to WIP mission “Florence from Ohio” by U.S. filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal, about her makes an attempt to stroll in her immigrant Chinese language mom’s footwear to problem the psychodynamics of the mother-daughter relationship. It’s produced by Mynette Louie (“The Inhabitants”) and Carrie Weprin (“As soon as in a Blue”).

Paris-based worldwide gross sales firm The Celebration Movie Gross sales, which historically arms out a prize for a mission with sturdy worldwide potential, rewarded “Simon the Absurd” by Felipe Monroy, a documentary dream about Simon Bolivar, Latin America’s “El Libertador,” who comes again to life two centuries after his dying and meets his political heirs.

Within the VdR-Work in Progress class devoted to movies in post-production, the highest award went to “Piropolis,” through which Chilean filmmaker Nicolás Molina follows the firefighters of Valparaíso and questions their position in Chilean society in opposition to a backdrop of violent social change.

Finnish mission “The Arctic Circle of Lust” by Markku Heikkinen, a warm-hearted movie, which explores the hidden bisexuality of northern Finnish household males, picked up the coveted RTS Award, which comes with a pre-buy of TV rights by Switzerland’s French-language public broadcaster.

There have been cheers from the trade crowd as first-time filmmaker Sein Lyan Tun from Myanmar picked up each the Cannes Docs and the DOK Leipzig awards for his VdR-Pitching mission “The Bamboo Household,” a household tragicomedy seen by the eyes of an exiled filmmaker.

The awards present him and his Indonesian producer, Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni, with accreditations to attend the Cannes Movie Market and Cannes Docs, and DOK Leipzig and the DOK Co-Professional Market as an observer.

Congolese director Nelson Makengo received a hat-trick of awards together with his pitching mission “Rising Up at Evening,” a delicate and fragmented portrait of the inhabitants of Kinshasa of their combat in opposition to darkness and insecurity as town is disadvantaged of sunshine, together with the TËNK Put up-production Award, the Raggioverde Subtitling Award and the Freestudios Award, which comes with the creation of a DCP bundle.

Celebrating the file variety of members this yr, VdR-Trade’s new director Sophie Bourdon mentioned: “It’s nice to see documentary cinema being so vibrant and daring, and to see it resonating with trade gamers, equally by the wide selection of tales, the urgency or depth of the topics, or the formal proposals exploring the huge area of potentialities inside filming actuality.”

VdR-Trade runs alongside Visions du Reel from April 24-27.

VdR-Trade Awards:

Visions Sud Est AwardCHF 10,000 in money for the most effective mission from the South (Africa, Latin America and Asia) or from Japanese Europe (excluding EU members)“The Days I Would Wish to Overlook” by Alina Gorlova, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Simon Mozgovyi, Yelizaveta Smith (Ukraine, France, Austria)Manufacturing: Eugene Rachkovsky, Maksym Nakonechnyi and Karina Kostyna (Tabor), Nabil Bellahsene (Les Valseurs), Ralph Wieser (Mischief Movies)

VdR–Pitching Award2,000 CHF in money for probably the most promising mission“Rebibbia 310” by Francesca Mazzoleni (Italy)Manufacturing: Alessandro Greco (Morel Movie), Roberto De Paolis, Carla Altieri, Rachel Greenwood (Younger Movies)

VdR–Trade Jury Particular Point out“Florence from Ohio” by Stephanie Wang-Breal (United States, Taiwan)Manufacturing: Mynette Louie (The Inhabitants), Carrie Weprin (As soon as in a Blue)United States, Taiwan

The Celebration Movie Gross sales AwardA prize valued € 5’000 (together with a money contribution of € 2’500), awarded by The Celebration Movie Gross sales crew for a mission with sturdy worldwide potential“Simon the Absurd” by Felipe Monroy (Switzerland, Colombia, France, Mexico)Manufacturing: Palmyre Badinier (Rita Productions), Diana Bustamente (Burning), Alexandre Perrier (Kidam), Kyzza Terrazas (La Corriente Del Golfo)

RTS AwardPrebuy of 1 movie“The Arctic Circle of Lust” by Markku Heikkinen (Finland)Manufacturing: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen (Zone2 Footage oy)

Unifrance Doc AwardSubtitles creation sponsored by TitraFilm and one Unifrance’s membership for the French producer hooked up to the mission“Gabin, a Youth within the Backland” by Maxence Voiseux (France, Germany)Manufacturing: Elise Hug, Cécile Lestrade (Alter Ego Manufacturing), Ulla Lehmann (AMA Movie)

Cannes Docs AwardTwo accreditations for the filmmaker and producer to attend the Marché du Movie – Competition de Cannes and take part in Cannes Docs“The Bamboo Household” by Sein Lyan Tun (Myanmar, Indonesia)Manufacturing: Sein Lyan Tun (PS Movies), Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni (DS Nugraheni/Jawa Dwipa Movies)

DOK Leipzig AwardAccreditation and lodging at DOK Leipzig & observer entry to the DOK Co-Professional Marketplace for the filmmaker and producer“The Bamboo Household” by Sein Lyan Tun (Myanmar, Indonesia)Manufacturing: Sein Lyan Tun (PS Movies), Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni (DS Nugraheni/Jawa Dwipa Movies)

EFM AwardTwo Market Badges for the EFM and a session session“The Reserve” by Ezequiel YancoProduction: Elena Fortes (No Ficcion), Ezequiel Yanco (Isoi Cine), Juan Martín HsuArgentina, Mexico

DAE Encouragement AwardTwo free consultations with community members tailor-made to the wants of the mission.“Lonan Tché” by Joël Akafou (Ivory Coast, France, Italy)Manufacturing: Laurent Bitty (Les Movies du Continent), Florent Coulon (VraiVrai Movies), Gianluca De Angelis (Tekla Movies)

VdR–Work in ProgressVdR-Work in Progress Award1,000 CHF in money for probably the most promising mission“Piropolis” by Nicolás Molina (Chile)Manufacturing: Joséphine Schroeder (Pequén Producciones), Francisca Barraza (Funky Movies)

Lightdox Award3,000 CHF in money for the mission with highest worldwide potential“Friday on the Window” by Atiye Zare Arandi (Belgium, Iran, Qatar)Manufacturing: Bram Crols, Nina Payrhuber (Affiliate Administrators)

TËNK Put up-production AwardSound post-production services at Tënk studios (France) – Mixing studio (2 weeks) and Auditorium (1 week)“Rising Up at Evening” by Nelson Makengo (Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso)Manufacturing: Rosa Spaliviero (Twenty 9 Studio & Manufacturing), Dada Kahindo (Mutotu)

Raggioverde Subtitling AwardSubtitles creation included translation in a single language“Rising Up at Evening” by Nelson MakengoProduction: Rosa Spaliviero (Twenty 9 Studio & Manufacturing), Dada Kahindo (Mutotu)Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso

Freestudios AwardCreation of a DCP bundle“Rising Up at Evening” by Nelson MakengoProduction: Rosa Spaliviero (Twenty 9 Studio & Manufacturing), Dada Kahindo (Mutotu)

Opening Scenes AwardTËNK AwardPurchase of distribution rights for one movie of the Opening Scenes part“L’Arrestation de C.” by Arthur Jaquier (Switzerland)