Jury's statement:

The Grand Jury Prize goes to the film Silver. The work is a powerful cinematographic experience of the direst circumstances of life in the silver mines of Bolivia’s Cerro Rico. The film gives strong insights into the limits of human resistance, foregrounding the perspective of children. Its stunning and impeccable aesthetic draws the viewer into this far-off world that has an unmistakable impact on our own.

Jury's statement:

The Best Feature Film is awarded to The End Date for documenting the complex and nuanced experience of living facing the imminent prospect of death. The filmmaker’s approach to his friend’s illness and mortality goes beyond direct cinema, bolstered by a creative use of animation, experimental images and music. This ensemble results in a tender and realistic treatment of this delicate subject.

Jury's statement:

The Best Short Film award goes to Who was Here? for the manner in which it illuminates how artificial intelligence can be incisively and humorously interrogated to develop a relevant and sensitive treatment of difficult memories and fragmentary family archives.

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Letters from Wolf Street receives an honourable mention for raising important themes, such as immigration and racism, interwoven with the rare story of an emerging Indian filmmaker pursuing his film practice in Poland.

Jury's statement:

Dreams for a Better Past receives an honourable mention for the unexpected way it reveals the failure of the available archival material to deliver the answer to the filmmaker’s haunting questions about his family’s unspeakable past.

Jury's statement:

An honourable mention is given to Orbits for its poetical, experimental and immersive take on blindness, highlighting touch and sound as means to access the spatial experience of the world, that is normally reserved to sight.

Jury's statement:

Snippets receives honourable mention for its unconventional, first-person, diaristic account of the filmmaker’s difficult entrance into the world of cinema as an outsider to that cinematic culture and milieu. The film offers a bold combination of found footage, the filmmaker’s own movies and storyboards to compensate for the lack of images representing his family.