DOCU/SHORT is the international competition of short documentaries which are up to 30 minutes long.
The best films in the DOCU/SHORT international competition of short films and the DOCU/UKRAINE national competition have been chosen by the writer and critic Michael Sicinski, the programmer Myrocia Watamaniuk, and Olha Birzul, a culture manager and film programmer.
MAIN PRIZE
AN OCEAN / Paul Scheufler / Germany / 2021 / 19’
A visceral and yet thoroughly sensitive portrait of one man’s ongoing trauma. AN OCEAN makes real the unabating struggle between triggers, memory and calm in one man’s determination to survive childhood sexual abuse rather than remain its victim.
SPECIAL MENTION
The White Death of the Black Wizard / Rodrigo Ribeiro / Brazil / 2020 / 10’
The White Death of the Black Wizard forces the ghosts of slavery into the light. The filmmaker’s use of archival material and first-person testimony reassert the need to name the injustices of colonisation that history seeks to forget.
The international short competition includes:
AN OCEAN / Paul Scheufler / Germany / 2021 / 19’
