Jury Statement:

Against the background of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it middle-aged men, STAINS portrays the difficult and silence filled relationship of a daughter with her alcoholic father, looking at it as a succession of mismatches on the scale of a both political and personal time. The jury intends with this prize to value the way the director articulates the intimate dimension with the public sphere.

Jury Statement:

Connecting new media technologies to the loss of memory, the film evokes the possibilities of poetry, found deep within incantations, to the erasures of personality.

Jury Statement:

Through dense archival research into iconic images and sounds, THE HOUSES WE WERE builds a well-grounded exposé of the effects of neoliberal capitalism's management of real estate on the domestic lives of citizens.