This year, the programme DOCU/SHORT includes 14 films from 8 countries.
The jury members for the national feature films and the international short documentary competition are
Isabelle Arrate Fernandez, head of the IDFA Bertha Fund;
Kyrylo Marikutsa, co-founder and director of the Kyiv International Short Film Festival (KISFF);
Paula Astorga Riestra, artistic director of the Doclisboa Film Festival.
MAIN PRIZE
Under the Sign of Anchor / Taras Spivak / Ukraine / 2024 / 28'
We were captured into a time capsule that goes from propaganda, to journals, to observational and personal testimonies which integrate all the possible perspectives of an emblematic institution.
We give the main award to a film that is a contemporary portrait of the world and its contradictions depicting the deconstruction and construction of historical memory.
SPECIAL MENTION
The Kiosk / Daniel Stopa / Poland / 2023 / 40'
The filmmaker’s sensitivity captures the feelings and a situation. He succeeds in portraying a female bond in a limited space.
We give the special mention to a film that through its framing and intimacy takes us into a closed space, a space that gives protection while at the same time enclosing the characters.
The international short competition includes:
- 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, Hungar
