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Occident Reaps Awards in the East

Winners have been announced at the 8th Planete Doc Film Festival (May 6 - 15, 2011). The Millennium Award and €8000 in prize money went to Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Occident (Abendland). In addition, Occident was also awarded an Honorable Mention by the Canon Cinematography Award Jury. Barzakh by Mantas Kvedaravicius received an Honorable Mention from the Amnesty International Award Jury.

Planete Doc Film Festival
May 6 - 15, 2011
Warsaw / Poland


The Millennium Award - EUR 8,000 + Honorable Mention: Canon Cinematography Award Jury

Abendland

Production company: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

Austria, 2010, 100 min, 35 mm, HD, Creative, Society

Darkness can help us see things more clearly. In Abendland, Nikolaus Geyrhalter undertakes a long associative journey across nighttime Europe. Pulsating service economy and affluent society, the wall of security and exclusion, urban civilization, hedonist Temple of Pleasure, at once inspired and weighed down by history, tradition and high culture. Night work, self-abandon, noise and silence, confusion of tongues, birth, illness, death and desperate attempts to cross the border. Geyrhalter's camera and the congenial editing by Wolfgang Widerhofer create a compelling film essay about one continent and the principle of the West (Abendland).


Doc Launch 2010



Honorable Mention: Amnesty International Award Jury

Barzakh


Finland, Lithuania, 2011, 59 min, HD, Human Rights, Social Issues

In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes all become commonplace. When the disappeared do return in dreams, they are said to come from Barzakh – a land between the living and the dead.

 

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