The following projects were awarded at the close of DOK.forum of the 39th DOK.fest Munich.
DOK.digital – Award for New Narrative Formats, valued at 2,500 euros.
- Winner: The True Film by Christina Zimmermann (Interactive VR experience). From the jury’s statement: “Christina Zimmermann’s project THE TRUE FILM succeeds in making history and biographies tangible in VR. It poses the question of how a person’s biography can be interpreted and understood on the basis of archives. (…) The award is intended to encourage further development of the storytelling of this prototype in order to convey the emotional aspects of the story as well as the media-theoretical aspects.”
- Special Mention: Salzsammer by Nic Schilling. The jury commented: “We were very impressed by the user experience design. It encourages children to discover the museum in a playful way – an important approach that contemporary knowledge transfer requires!”
DOK.archive Award – The winning project receives archive material worth 15,000 euros or alternatively 2,500 euros in cash. (With the award, British Pathé and DOK.forum look to promote projects that work with licensed material.)
- Winner: Our Sister Angela – Black Power in the GDR by Katharina Warda and Jascha Hannover. From the jury’s statement: “The use of archive material is of crucial importance for this project. (…) The filmmakers provide an intelligent analysis of a historical event: One could dismiss Angela Davis’ visit to the GDR as pure propaganda, but from today’s perspective it is clearly more than that. (…) The filmmakers reclaim the narrative of the material, and reinterprete and use it from the perspective of coming to terms with the history of people of colour in the former GDR.”
DOK.talent Award, endowed with 2,500 euros in research funding
- Winner: Politik ist persönlich by Indira Geisel (HFF München). From the jury’s statement: “In a very close decision, the jury decided for a project in which the filmmaker portrays three generations of her own family – in which, as she says, “campaigning is a family affair“. Let it be known: Politik ist persönlich, a film that engages with ambivalence, allows for critical distance and, on a personal level, seeks its own fresh perspective, is the well-deserved winner.”
Mentoring and Festival Awards
- ICON DOCS Award: The Other Freud by Yair Qedar
- DAE Talent Award: Andere Leute / Other Persons by Elaine del Valle Cala
- Visioni dal Mondo Award: The Other Side of Silence by Dheeraj Akolkar
- FIPADOC Award: The Other Side of Silence by Dheeraj Akolkar
