During the CPH:DOX 2022 closing ceremony April 1, all award winners were announced within the Dox:Award, F:act Award, Nordic:Dox Award, New:Vision Award, Next:Wave Award and Politiken:DOX Award competitions. The winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award professional prize was announced March 31. Read on for all awards, plus abridged citations.
Dox:Award: The Eclipse by Nataša Urban (Norway)
Jury statement: The Dox:Award goes to a film that affirms a vocation for the moving image in a time of global crisis. The director dares to look in the mirror of a troubled present and reckon withs the ghosts of a bloody past, arguing that historical amnesia is a burden carried across generations.
F:act Award: Black Mambas by Lena Karbe (Germany/France)
Jury statement: A seemingly simple story that quietly reveals its complex layers, ‘Black Mambas’ touches upon a multitude of themes, acknowledging but also defying stereotypes. In an ideologically charged landscape we get to experience the struggles and empowerment of young women against the persisting power structures, within the frame of race, family dynamics and the tight grip of colonialism that refuses to let go.
Special Mention: The Territory by Alex Pritz (Denmark / United States)
Nordic:Dox Award: The Last Human by Ivalo Frank (Denmark / Greenland)
Jury statement: The Nordic Dox Award goes to a singular film that dares to assemble a multitude of styles into a collage of image and thought. Stories of the earth and of its people, of beginnings and ends. A film that is both a sensitive tribute to a land and opens itself up to the vast questions of life itself. To a director with a clear vision and sense of poetry.
Special Mention: Tsumu – Where Do You Go With Your Dreams by Kasper Kiertzner (Denmark/Sweden)
New:Vision Award: What about China by Trinh Minh-ha (United States/China)
Jury statement: For a film that is so timely – it is shot through with a timelessness fashioned not just through the structure of looking back 30 years, but through a lucidity that assumes a contemporaneity without insistence.
Special Mention: Congress of Idling Persons by Bassem Saad (Lebanon)
Next:Wave Award: Kash Kash – Without Feathers We Can’t Live by Lea Najjar (Germany/Lebanon/Qatar)
Jury statement: From a tiny anecdote this film expands its cinematic universe and unveils the disillusionment of an entire city – an entire country. From the opening scene’s claustrophobic setting, to the final wide eye of an artificial pigeon, witnessing the place it took flight from. We, the jury, wish to give this year’s Next:Wave Award to a piece of delicate yet vigorous cinema.
Special Mention: Moosa Lane by Anita Hopland (Pakistan / Denmark / Norway)
Politiken:DOX Award: A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark)
Jury statement: The winner of this year’s Politiken:Dox is a film that enters into the most present conflict of today’s news, but it was made by a director who traveled to Ukraine long before the rest of the world found it interesting to really bother. While this is not a film about the present war or even the present conflict, it brings testimony about the people who live in Ukraine, dealing with the hardships of life while the war dogs are barking in the distance.
Special Mention: Mr. Graversen by Michael Graversen (Denmark)
All the award-winning films are available for Danish audiences on the CPH:DOX streaming platform (doxonline.dk) until April 10. Also, the films will be screened in cinemas in Copenhagen on April 5, 2022.
As doors closed March 31 on CPH:FORUM, the project The Last Nomads by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazic (produced by Wake Up Films, Serbia) won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award valued at €20,000.
In collaboration with DR (the Danish Broadcasting Corporation) and Film Workshop/Copenhagen, CPH:DOX has also handed out the DR Talent Award (earmarked for a young talent who is in the process of developing a documentary) to The Killjoy Manifest by director Minna Katz. The prize includes a cash boost of DKK 25,000 (€3360 approx).
