The festival team invites young people with an active civic position who are interested in documentary films to join the student jury. This year's jury consists of future cinema professionals. They will choose their favorite work from among the films in the competition programs.
JURY:
- Eva Zurian
- Ann Mikheienko
- Polina Piddubna
MAIN PRIZE
Fragments of Ice / dir. Maria Stoianova / Ukraine, Norway / 2024 / 95'
For reflecting the collective past through the prism of the personal and its impact on the present. For professional work with family archives that reveals political processes at the turn of history.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
The Kiosk / dir. Daniel Stopa / Poland / 2023 / 40'
For paying attention to the stories of people that go unnoticed and gradually disappear, along with the space in which they take place. For a wonderful documentary debut and for getting as close as possible to the characters, revealing all their deep feelings.
Here is the list of films nominated for the Student Jury Award:
- A Golden Life, dir. Boubacar Sangaré (Burkina Faso, Benin, Franc)
- Grasshopper Republic, dir. Daniel McCabe (USA, Uganda)
- Bigger Than Trauma, dir. Vedrana Pribačić (Croatia)
- Knit's Island, dir. Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h (France)
- Body, dir. Petra Seliškar (Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia)
- Rowdy Girl, dir. Jason Goldman (USA)
- Machtat, dir. Sonia Ben Slama (Lebanon)
- The World According to My Dad, dir. Marta Kovářová (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- Magic Mountain, dir. Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt (Georgia, Poland)
- Fragments of Ice, dir. Maria Stoianova (Ukraine, Norway)
- A bit of a Stranger, dir. Svitlana Lishchynska (Ukraine, Germany, Sweden)
- Fragments of Ice, dir. Maria Stoianova (Ukraine, Norway)
- Elevation, dir. Max Rudenko (Ukraine, France)
- Nice ladies, dir. Mariia Ponomarova (Netherlands, Ukraine)
- Everything needs to live, dir. Tetiana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko (Poland, Ukraine)
- Tale of the three flames, dir: Juliette Menthonnex (Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland)
- On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin, dir: Ania Na (Ukraine)
- Position, dir: Yurii Pupirin (Ukraine)
- Walk, dir: Daria Zhuravel (Ukraine, Georgia)
- Our home, dir: Anna Yutchenko (Ukraine)
- Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil, dir:Karolina Uskakovych (Ukraine, Netherlands, United Kingdom)
- Under the Sign of Anchor, dir: Taras Spivak (Ukraine)
- The Most Beautiful Corner in the World, dir: Robo Mihály (Slovakia)
- Kathmandu Monsoon, dir: Ngima Gelu Sherpa (Nepal)
- The Kiosk, dir: Daniel Stopa (Poland)
- Incident, dir: Bill Morrison (USA)
- Testudo Hermanni, dir: G. Anthony Svatek (Austria, USA)
- Near Light, dir: Niccolò Salvato (Italy)
- New Facades, dir: Kay Hannahan (USA, Hungary
