AWARD WINNERS 2022

Jury: Nelson Araújo, Peter Freund, Susana Nascimento Duarte

Grand Jury Prize

Subtotals
by Mohammadreza Farzad

 

Jury Declaration:

A film that dives into the human complexity extrapolating a filmic poetry that finds its only anchor in the unusual accounting of remarkable moments of a life. The cinema fertilizes spirituality inhabiting a bold imagetic structure that creates its own landscapes in a journey through the depths of the human.

Memory and Archive Award

Nobody Meets Your Eyes
by Jesse Jalonen

 

Jury Declaration:

Because it is an inventive and sensitive film about our contemporary moment that
confronts us with the digital archive of the present, and of technologically mediated connectivity, and forces us to question the meaning of the permanent records we make of ourselves and of the world, aimed less at memory and archiving than at communication and interaction with others. We exist as a function of these traces, which depersonalize and alienate us from ourselves and make us invisible to others: I only exist if a camera records me. If no one sees me, do I exist?

Honorable Mention

I Am Not
by Tomer Heymann

 

Jury Declaration:

This poignant film about a youth fractured between two families speaks to the times in which we live, where everyone has in some sense become a movie maker. The film shows us that movie making as a means of communicative representation doesn’t itself give a reprieve to the damaged soul until it is met by the beautiful and profound failure of communicative representation in life itself that gives way to something transformative both within and beyond the symbolic.

Honorable Mention

Dawn
by Leonor Noivo

Jury Declaration:

Because it is a family fiction crossed by several narrative shades, from the most realistic and raw to the most fantastic and symbolic, about a process of uprooting followed by a literal regaining of roots, which is also a meditation on family relationships and on the enigma associated with any life, even if it is that of someone to whom we are united by ties of blood and filiation.