21-01-2013

Films Awarded at Jihlava IDFF 2012

    Films Awarded at Jihlava IDFF 2012

    Which films won the awards for the best international, East European, experimental and Czech documentary film?

    Kuichisan Kuichisan (dir. Maiko Endo) which offers a portrait of Okinawa, a Japanese island, formerly home to an American military base and which is conceived as young boy’s daydream-like wanderings, won the award for the Best World Documentary Film in the section Opus Bonum. The award winning film in the section Between the Seas – the Best Central and East European Documentary Film, Mirage (dir. Srdjan Keča) captures Dubai after the economic crisis which has interrupted an era of feverish construction, and creates a delicate impression where long rides through town alternate with close-ups of women lying on the beach and images of sandstorms burying construction workers. Conceived as a trip to a museum of twentieth century communist totalitarianism, the Best Czech Documentary Film entitled the Fortress (dir. Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská) takes us to the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, officially a non-existent state in Eastern Europe. The Best Experimental Documentary Film in the Fascination section is entitled(dir. Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská) takes us to the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, officially a non-existent state in Eastern Europe. The Best Experimental Documentary Film in the Fascination section is entitled underGROWTH (dir. Robert Todd). The movement of an owl’s head has inspired the camera’s movement in nature as it shows the home of the Barred Owl, a nocturnal bird with distinctive colouring that is explored in many different close-ups.