Awards and Juries at MakeDox

CHILDREN OF THE MIST

Mev nyuam npaj huab / Những đứa trẻtrong sương

HÀ LỆDIỄM

Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of “bride-kidnapping”. When Di enters puberty, her personality has changed drastically. The carefree little girl has turned into an impetuous, hypersensitive teenager. On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, when Di’s parents come back home after celebrating, the house is silent: Di has disappeared.

Script: HÀ LệDiễm Photography: HÀ LệDiễm Editing: Swann Dubus Production: TRẦN Phương Thảo Swann DUBUS

Festivals & Awards: Ljubljana Doc Film Festival - Amnesty International Award, Slovenia (2022), Cinéma du Réel - Clarens Prize for Humanist Documentary Filmmaking, Switzerland (2022), One World - Special Jury Award, Poland (2022), ZagrebDox - Little Stamp Award, Croatia (2022), DokFest Münich - SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, Germany (2022), DOXA - Best Feature Documentary, Canada (2022), Millenium Festival - Silver Goal, Belgium (2022), Taiwan IDF - Next Generation Award, Taiwan (2022), IDFA - Best Directing Award, Netherlands (2021), Budapest IDF - Best Directing Award, Hungary (2021)

DISTURBED EARTH

Disturbed Earth

KUMJANA NOVAKOVA GUILLERMO CARRERAS-CANDI

A space in silence, where past has captured present. Taking over, layer by layer, the collective pain enters the landscape, the space, the city. Eventually, it enters us. Srebrenica becomes a reality of today, and our own reality.

Script: Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi Photography: Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi Editing: Jelena Maksimović Sound: Oriol Gallart Production: Guillermo Carreras-Candi (Atzucac Films), Kumjana Novakova (Pravo Ljudski International Film Festival) Co-production: Daniel Barea

Selected Filmography: Kumjana Novakova Homes (2017) It Could Be a Film (2016) When Clouds Burst... (2014) SK2014 (2014)

Guillermo Carreras-Candi SK 2014 (2014) Tragovi (2010)

Festivals & Awards: La Inesperada Film Festival, Spain (2022), BHFFNYC, USA (2022), Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2021), Play-Doc -Tui International Documentary Festival, Spain (2021), Gijón International Film Festival, Spain (2021)

NEAR AND DEAR

MARÍA ALVAREZ

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, crammed with memories and invaded by a huge grand piano, the 91-year-old Cavallini twin sisters pass the days between the love and hate of their peculiar symbiotic bond. They reminisce over their days as a professional piano duo and something seems to light up in their eyes. The music returns with all the strength of the past.

Script: María Alvarez Photography: Tirso Diaz, Jares Rueda, María Alvarez Editing: María Alvarez Sound: Martín Grignaschi Music: Several Authors - Piano by Amelia & Isabel Cavallini Production: María Alvarez, Tirso Diaz Jares Rueda

Selected Filmography: The Lost Time/ El tiempo perdido (2020) The Cinephiles/ Las cinéphilas (2017)

Festivals & Awards: Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2022), FEMCINE, Chile (2022), Gijón International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Best Director Award, Spain (2021), Mar del Plata Film Festival - Best Argentinean Film Award, Argentina (2021), IDFA, Netherlands, (2021)

NELLY AND NADINE

Nelly and Nadine

MAGNUS GERTTEN

An unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly’s grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.

Script: Magnus Gertten Photography: Caroline Troedsson Editing: Jesper Osmund, Phil Jandaly Sound: Are Åberg, Krister Johnson, Jørgen Meyer, Audun Røstad, Katarzyna Maria Wieczorek Music: Marthe Belsvik Stavrum Production: Ove Rishøj Jensen - Auto Images Co-production: Associate Directors / Belgium, Up North Film / Norway

Selected Filmography: Only The Devil Lives Without Hope (2020) Becoming Zlatan (2016) Every Face Has A Name (2015) A Thousand Pieces/ Tusen Bitar (2014) Long Distance Love (2008) Rolling Like A Stone (2005)

Festivals & Awards: Berlinale, Germany (2022), Tempo Stockholm, Sweden (2022), CPH:DOX, Denmark (2022), Hot Docs, Canada (2022), Movies That Matter, Netherlands (2022), Lover FF Turin, Italy (2022), Docs Barcelona, Spain (2022), DocEdge, New Zealand (2022), Festival du Film de Cabourg, France (2022), Frameline, USA (2022)

SUMMER NIGHTS

OHAD MILSTEIN

How does the world look through the eyes of a 6-year-old child? A journey into the subconscious of an innocent and ingenuous child, as he falls asleep and drifts into the depths of his own mind.

Script: Ohad Milstein Photography: Ohad Milstein Editing: Ohad Milstein Sound: Ohad Milstein Music: Ishai Adar Production: Ohad Milstein Co-production: Rahel Streiff

Selected Filmography: Flood (2018) Week 23 (2016) Planets - Four Variations of Detachment (2014) Systema (2010) Obsession (2008)

Festivals & Awards: JFBB Film Festival - First Prize for Best Documentary, Germany (2022), DocAviv Film Festival - First Prize, Israel (2021), Israeli Academy Award - Ophir Award for Best Documentary, Israel (2021)

THE ECLIPSE

Formørkelsen / Pomračenje

NATAŠA URBAN

On August 11, 1999, while the world celebrated, most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers in fear of the lunar shadow. Using this event as a metaphor for the nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices, the director confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past and the evil that is still on the loose today.

Director: Nataša Urban Script: Nataša Urban Photography: Ivan Marković Editing: Jelena Maksimović Sound: Svenn Jakobsen Music: Jared Blum, Bill Gould Production: Ingvil Gisk, Medieoperatørene

Selected Filmography: Mbambu and the Mountains of the Moon (2010) Big Sister Punam (2009) Journey of a Red Fridge (2007)

Festivals & Awards: CPH:DOX: Award for Best Film, Denmark (2022)

VEDETTE

CLAUDINE BORIES PATRICE CHAGNARD

Vedette is a cow. Vedette is a queen. In fact, she was once the queen of queens of the Alpine pastures. But Vedette is old now, and in order to spare her the humiliation of being dethroned by younger rivals, our neighbors asked us to look after her for a whole summer. It was at this time that we discovered that every cow is unique. The story takes place in a high valley in the heart of the Swiss Alps.

Script: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard Photography: Patrice Chagnard Editing: Emeline Gendrot Sound: Pierre Carrasco Music: François Macherey Production: Les Films du Parotier, New Story

Selected Filmography: Patrice Chagnard We the People (2019) Rules of the Game (2014) The Arrivants (2009) In a Red Truck (2005) The Convoy (1995)

Claudine Bories We the People (2019) Rules of the Game (2014) The Arrivants (2009) Mr Versus Mme (1999) Imaginary Portrait of Gabriel Bories (1984)

Festivals & Awards: Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Australia (2022), Ulju Mountain Film Festival, South Korea (2021), Cannes Film Festival, France (2021), IDFA, Netherlands (2021), Cinemania Festival, Canada (2021)

NEWCOMERS

5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE

5 ԵՐԱԶՈՂՆԵՐԸ ԵՒ ՁԻՆ

VAHAGN KHACHATRYAN AREN MALAKYAN

Three Armenias are sketched out here, brilliantly and with delicacy, through four protagonists aspiring to fulfill their dream. There is the lift operator in a hospital who wants to travel into space, the farmer in search of a perfect wife, and the young feminist and queer girls who simply want to live their lives… while awaiting the demonstrations and hopes of the revolution.

Script: Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan, Photography: Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan, Andranik Sahakyan Editing: Federico Delpero Bejar Sound: Jonathan Darch Music: Avet Terteryan Production: OOlik production Co-production: Color of May

Selected Filmography: Vahagn Khachatryan The Moon, The Sun, And The Musketeers (2017) Phone Booth (2014) First Step (2013) Lao Hang (2012)

Aren Malakyan Voldemar (2021) Snow (2016) Girl on the Moon (2014)

Festivals & Awards: Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2022), Hot Docs IFF, Canada (2022), Goeast Wisbaden, Germany (2022), Golden Apricot IFF, Armenia (2022), FidMarselle IFF, France (2022), Dok Leipzig, Germany (2022)

ALL THAT BREATHES

All That Breathes

SHAUNAK SEN

In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird—the black kite. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.

Photography: Ben Bernhard, Riju Das, Saumyananda Sahi Editing: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen Music: Roger Goula Production: Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer

Selected Filmography: Cities of Sleep (2015)

Festivals & Awards: Sundance - World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, USA (2022), Cannes Film Festival - L’oeil D’or Prize For Best Documentary, France (2022), Krakow IFF - Silver Horn For High Artistic Value, Poland (2022)

BROTHERHOOD

FRANCESCO MONTAGNER

Jabir, Usama, and Useir are three young Bosnian brothers who grew up in the shadow of their father, a strict Islamist preacher. When he gets sentenced to two years in prison for terrorism, the three brothers are suddenly left alone. The newly acquired freedom leads them on the difficult journey to becoming men. What follows is an exploration of youth, manhood, and the search for identity.

Script: Francesco Montagner, Alessandro Padovani Photography: Prokop Souček Editing: Valentina Cicogna, Klára Tasovská, Jorge Sánchez Calderón Sound: Daniela Bassani, Marzia Cordò, Adam Levý Production: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková (nutprodukce) Co-production: Nadia Trevisan, Alberto Fasulo (Nefertiti Film, Italy)

Selected Filmography: Taurofilia (2019) The Importance of Everybody/ Důležitost Každého (2018) Animated Resistance/ Animata Resistenza (2014)

Festivals & Awards: CPH:DOX, Denmark (2022), Rotterdam IFF, The Netherlands (2022), Locarno IFF - Golden Leopard Award, Switzerland (2021), Ji.hlava IDFF – Best Czech Documentary Award & Best Cinematography Award, Czech Republic (2021), Verzio HRFF - Special Mention, Hungary (2021), AJB DOC Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2021)

INVISIBLE DEMONS

Invisible Demons

RAHUL JAIN

In a sprawling mega city where the dangers of climate change are present not future, we see a world on the brink. Through striking images and eye-opening accounts from everyday citizens, we witness a visceral and immersive journey through the stories of just a few of Delhi’s million inhabitants fighting to survive. This story engages the senses by directly stimulating our desire to live in a world with equitable access to clean air and water. Is it possible to imagine this future in Delhi, in India, or anywhere in the modern world?

Script: Rahul Jain, Yael Bitton, Iikka Vehkalahti Photography: Saumyananda ”Somo” Sahi, Tuomo Hutri, Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva Editing: Yael Bitton Sound: Susmit Bob Nath Music: Kimmo Pohjonen Production: Participant Co-production: Toinen Katse,

Selected Filmography: Machines (2016)

Festivals & Awards: FIFDH - Youth Jury Prize, Switzerland (2022), Millenium Docs, Poland (2022)

PARADISE

SÉRGIO TRÉFAUT

Elderly people used to gather every day in the romantic gardens of the Catete Palace, formerly Brazil’s Presidential Palace and currently the Museum of the Republic in Rio de Janeiro. After sunset, to the accompaniment of musical instruments, old men and women would tell each other the meaning of life through love songs. This film is a portrait of their lust for life, suddenly interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Script: Sérgio Tréfaut Photography: Léo Bittencourt, Luís Abramo, Camila Freitas, Carlos Baptista Editing: Sérgio Tréfaut, Bianca Oliveira, Mário Espada Sound: João Henrique Costa Production: Faux, Les Films d’Ici

Selected Filmography: Rage/ Raiva (2018) Treblinka (2016) Alentejo, Alentejo (2014) Journey to Portugal (2011) The City of the Dead (2009)

Festivals & Awards: FIPADOC - Grand Prix for Musical Documentary, France (2022), Uruguay International Film Festival, Uruguay, (2022), BELDOCS, Serbia (2022), DocsBarcelona, Spain, (2022), Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2022)

POLARIS

Polaris

AINARA VERA

Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in France. But when her little sister Leila gives birth to a baby girl Inaya, their worlds are turned upside down; we witness their journey, guided by the polar star, to overcome the family’s fate.

Script: Ainara Vera Photography: Ainara Vera, Inuk Silis Høegh Editing: Gladys joujou, Ainara Vera Sound: Jérémie Halbert Music: Amine Bouhafa Production: Clara Vuillermoz Co-production: Emile Hertling Peronard

Selected Filmography: See You Tomorrow, God Willing! (2017)

Festivals & Awards: Cannes Film Festival, France (2022)

SPLINTERS

NATALIA GARAYALDE

On November 3rd, 1995, the emblematic industry of my hometown, Rio Tercero Military Munitions Factory exploded. Thousands of shells were fired against the city that had produced them. I was 12 years old, and while I was trying to escape from the explosions, I recorded the devastation of my hometown with a video camera. Twenty years later I found those tapes. The threat of the industrial and military sector is still persistent at the present time.

Script: Natalia Garayalde Editing: Julieta Seco / Martín Sappia Sound: Federico Disandro Production: Eva Cáceres

Festivals & Awards: Visions du Réel - Special Jury Award, Switzerland (2021), Jeonju Film Festival - Grand Prize, South Korea (2021), Documenta Madrid - Fugas Award, Spain (2021), Sheffield DocFest, UK (2021), Mar del Plata Film Festival - Best Argentinian Director Award, Argentina (2020)

THE PAWN SHOP

Lombard

LUKASZ KOWALSKI

Jola and Wiesiek are a pair of eccentric businessmen from Bytom. Together they run probably the biggest pawnshop in Europe. However, the time of its glory has passed with the closure of nearby mines and growing unemployment in the city. Neither Wiesiek’s crazy marketing ideas nor Jola’s tender heart can help the failing business. Although the pawnshop brings losses, it becomes an important center of life for the local community. With disaster looming, the owners make one last attempt to save their business and their love.

Script: Lukasz Kowalski Photography: Stanislaw Cuske Editing: Adriana Fernandez Castellanos, Filip Kowalski, Jakub Darewski, Kosma Kowalczyk Sound: Katarzyna Szczerba Music: Krzysztof Janczak Production: 4.30 Studio

Festivals & Awards: CPH:DOX, Denmark (2022), Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2022), Docs Against Gravity, Poland (2022), Docaviv, Israel (2022), Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2022)

THE TERRITORY

ALEX PRITZ

In the Brazilian rainforest, a battle is being waged between the last of the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe and the farmers who - supported by President Bolsonaro - are slowly eating into their otherwise protected territory. But young activist and leader Bitate has no intention of giving up without a fight. Together with his mentor, Neidinha, he is mobilizing an army of self-taught journalists to patrol the jungle and catch the land grabbers in action. With a video camera as their only weapon against the chainsaws, Bitate and his men risk their lives to stop the clearing of the forest before it’s too late.

Camera: Alex Pritz, Tangãi Uru-eu-wau-wau Editing: Carlos Rojas Felice Sound: Rune Klausen, Peter Albrechtsen, MPSE Music: Katya Mihailova Production: Darren Aronofsky, Will N. Miller, Gabriel Uchida, Lizzie Gillett, Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, Will Miller Co-production: Color of May

Festivals & Awards: Sundance - Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft, USA (2022), CPH:DOX - F:ACT Award, Denmark (2022), Movies that Matter - Activist Documentary Award, Netherlands (2022), True False Film Festival, USA (2022), Full Frame Film Festival, USA (2022)

TOLYATTI ADRIFT

Tolyatti Adrift

LAURA SISTERO

Tolyatti, once the symbol of socialist pride, is today the Russian Detroit, a limbo city where there is no future for the youth. In this hopeless environment, Boyevaya Klassika arises, a movement that rescues iconic old Lada cars from the local factory to turn them into a means of rebelliousness and expression that explores the conflicts and dreams of the youth in one of the poorest cities in Russia. We follow Slava, Misha and Lera in the year that they have to face for the first time their adulthood in a place where the future seems to be a dystopia.

Script: Laura Sistero Photography: Artur-Pol Camprubí Editing: Alissa Doubrovitskaia, Ariadna Ribas, Laura Sisteró Sound: Gerard Tàrrega Amorós, Jordi Ribas Music: Josep Comas Production: Boogaloo Films Co-production: Les Films d’Ici

Selected Filmography: Waste (2016)

Festivals & Awards: Krakow FF - Silver Horn Award, Poland (2022), Docs Valencia - Best Spanish Film, Spain (2022), Malaga IFF, Spain (2022), Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2022), Hot Docs Toronto, Canada (2022)