The Institute of Documentary Film will give Silver Eye Awards to the best docs from Central and Eastern Europe in the East Silver Market during the online edition of the 24th Ji.hlava IDFF (Oct 27 – Nov 8, 2020). Eleven feature-length nominees include the recent A New Shift and The Jump, and there are eight short doc nominees.
The Silver Eye Award for the best short film will be presented during Festival HUB on Thursday, October 29, at 7 pm (CET), and the Silver Eye Award for the best feature length film will be given during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday October 31 at 8 pm (CET).
Silver Eye Award 2020 nominees – feature length documentaries
A Loss of Something Ever Felt (Carlos Eduardo Lesmes López, Estonia, 2020)
Salt from Bonneville (Simon Mozgovyi, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, 2020)
A New Shift (Jindřich Andrš, Czech Republic, 2020)
Her Mothers (Asia Dér, Sári Haragonics, Hungary, 2020)
Wolves at the Borders (Martin Páv, Czech Republic, 2020)
Inner Wars (Masha Kondakova, Russia, France, 2020)
Town of Glory (Dmitry Bogolyubov, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, 2020)
Say Yes / No (Pawel Hejbudzki, Poland, 2020)
The Jump (Giedrė Žickytė, Lithuania, Latvia, France, 2020)
Running on Empty (Lisa Weber, Austria, 2020)
Merry Christmas, Yiwu (Mladen Kovačević, Sweden, Serbia, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar, 2020)
Feature length documentaries jury
Tomáš Poštulka (One World IHRDFF, Programmer and outreach coordinator, Czech Republic)
Michaela Čajková (Filmotor, Sales, Czech Republic)
Ondřej Kazík (AFO, Head of Program, Czech Republic)
Silver Eye Award 2020 nominees – short documentaries
The First Bridge (Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, 2020)
All Our Nights (Nicolle Reale, Viv Li, Zsófia Paczolay. Hungary, 2020)
Hitting my Head on the World (Anna Vasof, Austria, 2019)
Son of the Streets (Mohammed Almughanni, Poland, Lebanon, 2020)
Outsiders (Almantas Petkunas, Lithuania, 2019)
We Have One Heart (Katarzyna Warzecha, Poland, 2020)
To Feather, to Wither (Hanna Hovitie, Hungary, 2020)
I am Wounded (Orkan Bayram, Germany, Latvia, 2020)
Short documentaries jury
Christine Camdessus (FIPADOC, festival director, France)
Veronika Janatková (DokuBaku, Co-founder, Programmer, Czech Republic)
Diana Tabakov (DAFilms, distributor, film website representative, VoD representative, Czech Republic).
The 17th edition of the East Silver Market is available for industry professionals. More than 130 preselected documentary titles from Central and Eastern Europe are available for world, international or local premieres. The films in the East Silver Market Videolibrary are available for the whole year.
