This year, DOCU/SHORT will present 15 films from 14 countries around the world
The jury members for the national feature films and the international short documentary competition are Tetiana Oharkova, Ukrainian literary scholar, journalist, essayist, and member of the Ukrainian PEN; Christine Camdessus, General Artistic Director of the Fipadoc International Documentary Film Festival; Marc Bauder, German director and producer.
MAIN PRIZE
Dust is a whale, is sunlight / Maria Casas Castillo / Belgium / 2023 / 21'
For its poetic depiction of the time perspective of life on the planet, for its subtle reminder of the fragility of human existence and for its embodiment of the dignity of human finitude, the jury selected the film Dust is a whale, is sunlight as the main winner of the festival in the Docu/Shorts category.
SPECIAL MENTION
For creating an original artistic language in telling a personal story, for the ability to accept traumatic experiences from loved ones without judgment, the jury awarded the film Mama Miсra a special mention.
The DOCU/SHORT short film competition includes:
Inside, The Valley Sings, dir: Nathan Fagan (Ireland);
Dust is a whale, is sunlight, dir: Maria Casas Castillo (Belgium);
They Send Word, dir: Mariano Schoendorf (Spain);
Adidas Owns the Reality, dir: Igor Vamos, Keil Orion Troisi (USA);
Submarine, dir: Oliwia Zakrzewska (Poland);
The Wild Girl of Brushvalley Township, dir: Heather Cassano (USA);
How I Spent My Summer Holidays?, dir: Antonio Lukich (Ukraine);
Lanawaru, dir: Angello Faccini Rueda (Colombia, Mexico, US);
Quebrante, dir: Janaina Wagner (Brazil);
The Flow of Resilience, dir: Pranami Koch (India);
Where is my body armor?, dir: Daria Penkova (Ukraine);
Perfected Grammar, dir: Andrea Suwito (Hungary, Portugal, Belgium);
We are on the map, dir: Santiago Rodríguez Cárdenas (Colombia);
Mama Micra, dir: Director Rebecca Blöcher, Co-director Frédéric Schuld (Germany);
The House by The River, dir: Adrien Charmot (France).
