CPH:DOXhas crowned winners at the latest edition of the renowned nonfiction film festival in Copenhagen.
The DOX:Award, the festivals top prize, went toAlways, the directorial debut of Deming Chen.
Theres a huge difference between nothing and small things.
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But life is in fact made up of many, often unnoticed, small things.
This exquisitely shot chronicle of a rural farming family is alive with compassion and poetry.
Both films held their world premieres in January at the Sundance Film Festival.
The ‘Always’ filmmaking team celebrates their DOX:Award win at CPH:DOXCPH:DOX
The meaninglessness of war, and also its unsettling poetry are all on full display here.
[Director Mstyslav Chernov will appear on the next edition ofDeadlines Doc Talk podcast, releasing on Tuesday].
This shows enormous filmmaking skill.
The triangle between the perpetrator, the police and the neighbors is woven together with great sensitivity.
In its own way,The Perfect Neighboris a restrained film, and thats what proves so shattering.
The jury consisted of Butheina Kazim, Dario Oliveira, and Roja Pakari.
A reminder of putting cameras in the rightful hands, demonstrating the difference between observational documentary and representational storytelling.
The jury consisted of Sissel Morell Dargis, Sona Karapoghosyan, and Maria Palacios Cruz.
The jury consisted of Mason Leaver-Yap, Jeppe Lange, and Marina Kozul.
The shakey camera pans as if scaling a ziggurat from afar.
Wavering hesitantly between the everyday and the unknowable, this is a short film delivered with uncompromising conceptual rigor.
It demands questions about what we as viewers, as filmmakers are witnessing.
The jury consisted of Irene Campolmi, David Adler, and Carl Emil Carlsen.
Costantinopoliad is not just a work of storytelling; it is an invitation to discovery.
Yet, just as we settle into this deeply personal experience, an uncanny sensation creeps in.
This work is not just anartworkit is an experience, a portal, a living archive.
