Norway came up trumps at Sundance 2024 where A New Kind of Wilderness won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, while Ibelin received The Directing Award and The Audience Award in the same section. The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Doc went to Porcelain War, while Daughters won the Festival Favourite Award and US Doc Audience Award. The Belgian doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat won the World Cinema Doc Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation.
“It’s completely wild, we are so grateful and proud! That a close and personal film receives this recognition means everything,” commented A New Kind of Wilderness director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen of her Grand Jury Prize award.
Says Benjamin Ree, director of Ibelin. “This was absolutely fantastic! We would like to dedicate this award to Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen. It will stand together with his picture at his parents Robert and Trude’s home. We hope the film will reach as many people as possible, and create discussions and inspiration all over the world. Such an award helps the future life of the film and increases the likelihood that it will be seen by more people. We are incredibly grateful and happy for this.”
Sundance Film Festival 2024 documentary winners
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Porcelain War by Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev,
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: A New Kind of Wilderness by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
- Festival Favorite Award: Daughters by Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary: Daughters by Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
- Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary: Ibelin by Benjamin Ree
Special Jury Awards (documentary)
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft: Nocturnes by Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez
- Special Jury Award for NEXT presented by Adobe: Desire Lines by Jules Rosskam
Directing awards (documentary)
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary: Ibelin by Benjamin Ree
- Directing Award: U.S. Documentary: Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary: Frida by Carla Gutiérrez
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change: Union bu Stephen Maing, Brett Story
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Sound: Gaucho Gaucho by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Short Films
Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: Bob’s Funeral (U.S.) by Jack Dunphy
