The Silver Eye Award 2020 for the best feature length film in the East Silver Market, given by the Institute of Documentary Film, was awarded Jindřich Andrš for his film A New Shift.
The jury, comprised of Tomáš Poštulka (One World IHRDFF Programmer), Michaela Čajková (Sales Agent, Filmotor) and Ondřej Kazík (Head of the Program, AFO), stated: “We have decided to give the Silver Eye Award 2020 to the film that picked our interest because of its very current and burning issue it depicts. We were also charmed by the sensitive approach to the protagonist and the place it captures. The director spent several years of his life with the story he devoted his short and feature film to. Nevertheless, he kept his perspective and humble approach. In our opinion, this documentary perfectly represents the region of Central and Eastern Europe and has a potential to resonate in the wider international context.”
A New Shift, which was developed within the Ex Oriente Film workshop, also won the Czech Joy competition, where another Ex Oriente Film 2018 project received the Special Mention (Wolves at the Border by Martin Páv). The Latvian Coyote by Ivars Zviedris (Ex Oriente Film 2016) won the Between the Seas competition.
The deadline for IDF’s East Doc Platform 2021 (March 6–12 2021), for creative feature-length documentary projects, docu-series and non-fiction transmedia projects from the CEE region, is November 13 2020.
