2023-05-15 18:50:47
Strasbourg (ots) – At this year’s Munich International Documentary Film Festival, the ZDF/ARTE co-production THEATER OF VIOLENCE was awarded the main prize VIKTOR Main Competition DOK.international excellent. The DOK.edit Award went to the ZDF/ARTE/RTS co-production NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS and the ARTE France co-production CHRISTOS THE LAST CHILD was delighted to receive the DOK.fest prize from the SOS Children’s Villages worldwide.
Lukasz Konopa and Emil Langballe were awarded the VIKTOR Main Competition DOK.international, the main prize of the DOK.fest Munich, for their film THEATER OF VIOLENCE (ZDF/ARTE, Corso Film Köln, Denmark 2023).
Dominic Ongwen was kidnapped by Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army at the age of nine and trained as a child soldier. Later, as commander, he commits unspeakable atrocities. Now he is responsible for himself before the International Court of Justice. Is he fully responsible for his actions, is he a victim or a perpetrator?
The jury statement states: “In their carefully constructed film, Emil Langballe and Lukasz Konopa create a more complex space with each new scene, in which we as viewers keep asking ourselves new questions: regarding international law in a post-colonial structure, regarding the challenges of administering justice and at the same time the Danger of reopening old wounds for guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation.”
Mila Turajlic receives the DOK.edit Award for NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS (ZDF/ARTE, RTS, Poppy Pictures/Survivance/Filmske Novosti/Restart & Kino, Serbia, France, Germany, Croatia, Montenegro, 2022).
In her documentary, Mila Turajlic deals with the work of cameraman Stevan Labudovic, who documented the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement with his 35mm camera. In conversations and through the archive material, a fascinating account emerges of an almost forgotten era of hope.
The jury statement states: “NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS is montage art at its best. The unpretentious elegance with which the editors Sylvie Gadmer and Mila Turajlic weave the various levels of the film together makes the complexity and multi-layered nature of this cinematic cosmos seem light. “
Giulia Amati was awarded the SOS Children’s Villages Worldwide DOK.fest Prize for KRISTOS, THE LAST CHILD (ARTE France, Blink Blink Prod, Les Films de L’oeil Sauvage, Bad Crowd, France, Greece, Italy, 2022).
1,000 goats and around 30 people live on the Greek Aegean island of Arki, including only one child: ten-year-old Kristos. So far no one has left the island to attend secondary school. Kristos’ teacher Maria is determined to make this possible for her only student and fights for his further education.
The jury statement states: “KRISTOS, THE LAST CHILD accompanies the school and childhood development of the boy Kristos. (…) The classroom becomes a chamber play between the student and his teacher, who sees great potential in Kristos. (…) With very poetic, slow ones Director Giulia Amati captures the burden of the boy who seems to have all the happiness of the island on his shoulders.”
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