Prize for the best Czech documentary film acquired in Jihlava New shift director Jindřich Andrš – the story of a miner who tries to retrain as a programmer at the age of fifty after being released from the mine. According to the jurors, the film is shot without prejudice or belittling. “We are getting so close to the character and its environment that it will change not only us, but also the author himself,” the jury stated.
For the best document from Central and Eastern Europe the jurors consider the slide Latvian coyotes directed by Ivars Zvedris. The best world document then a Czech-Slovak co-production became at the Jihlava festival White on white Slovak director Viera Čákanyová. This is a video diary from a Polish Antarctic station. “This is a very honest, bold and inspiring film. The film shows us how difficult and almost impossible it is to make a film on its own, “said the jurors.
The best debut The festival was described by the Portuguese documentary Tiaga Siopy called Ghosts: A long way home. For the best experimental document then the jury considers the Australian-New Zealand film We are without from SJ Ramira. The prize for the best short documentary film then he got the picture First birthday after the apocalypse od Faraha Hasanbegovice. Ve student competition the film attracted the most attention to the jury It’s time by Zaura Kourazova.
Since the spring, the organizers have been preparing several variants of how the Jihlava festival could take place this year, in the end they had to hold it online. The announcement was made in the Jihlava House of Culture, but without the spectators present. Despite the changed form, according to the festival director Marek Hovorka, the community spirit of the festival was maintained.
The Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek (ČSSD) appreciated how the festival took on its virtual form. “I noticed that you are doing a hybrid festival and that you have moved into the virtual world with the ease with which few have succeeded this year,” he told the organizers at the awards ceremony.
The festival did not end with the announcement of awards, it will last another week, during which accredited spectators can see films from this year.
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