Hao Zhou’s All Mounted Up, Kiva Liu’s 4 Comrades, One Echo and Nolwenn Hervé’s The Wire had been among the many prize winners at this yr’s IDFA Discussion board, IDFA’s worldwide co-production and co-financing marketplace for documentaries.
Chinese language documentary All Mounted Up by Hao Zhou received one of the best pitch challenge prize on the IDFA Discussion board Awards. The challenge is a couple of household struggling to “straighten out” their inheritor, pushing the boundaries of care, id, and cross-generational understanding.
“The challenge has robust visible language and in addition real intimacy which push the boundary of documentary cinema,” stated jury members Sona Jo and Thorvald Nilsen about All Mounted Up. The challenge acquired IDFA Bertha Fund Basic: manufacturing & postproduction help in 2025.
In the meantime, 4 Comrades, One Echo by Kiva Liu received the IDFA Discussion board Award for Greatest Producers Connection Mission. It’s about 4 sisters who reunite by the daughter they raised collectively to rewrite one another’s lives, telling tales about sisterhood, motherhood and feminist resistance in China.
“This challenge satisfied us with its distinctive perception, lovely cinematography and extraordinary bravery. The filmmaker’s auteurship, coupled with a pointy and great humorousness, additionally challenges Eurocentric feminist narratives by its very definition, whereas crafting a narrative that embodies each resilience and vulnerability,” stated jury members Lena Nitsch and Ilyas Yourish about 4 Comrades, One Echo.
The Wire by Nolwenn Hervé took residence the IDFA Discussion board Award for Greatest Tough Reduce Mission. The Venezuela-set documentary is a couple of “maternity warrior” who preserves the very important twine between pregnant ladies and their infants. The jury—consisting of Riham Ezzaldeen and Asako Fujioka —stated: “It’s uncooked, deeply partaking, and anchored by a foremost character who’s as delicate as she is fierce. The filmmaker captures her with such multidimensional tenderness that you just really feel invited into her world slightly than proven it from afar.”
The IDFA DocLab Discussion board Award for finest challenge went to Physique Rely by Cris Bringas. The documentary centres on Paul, a Filipino nurse in Berlin, on his Grindr hookup with a former soldier.
Every award features a money prize of €1,500. The Wire will even obtain closed captioning and subtitles from inVision Subtitling.
Desires of the Wild Oaks by Marjan Khosravibaledi was additionally recognised with a Particular Point out for the IDFA Discussion board Award for Greatest Tough Reduce Mission.
The winners had been introduced at present (November 19) on the Internationaal Theatre in Amsterdam.
