AWARDS 2024

AWARDS 2024

IDA – International Documentary Award

Curation: Marie-Christine Hartig, Martin Lintner, Marieluise Röttger

Jury:
Karina Griffith (Film Programmer, Artist)
Lydia Nsiah (Filmmaker, Artist, Curator))
Gerald Weber (Curator)

Prize Money: € 1.000.-

Prize donated by: Central European University (CEU)

WINNING FILM 2024

MON PIRE ENNEMI by Mehran Tamadon

Jury statement: We are awarding a film that left us speechless at first. The director subjects himself and his protagonists to an experiment with an uncertain outcome. A staged interrogation situation gender attributions are questioned, and traumas are painfully brought back to the surface. In this self-imposed setting, the filmmaker is challenged to reveal and thus question the tools and motivations of documentary filmmaking. The film creates a fundamental debate, reflection and ethical critique on the question of what documentary cinema can achieve. The place of inquiry goes beyond the interrogation room and includes the outside space and by extension the festivals that invite it. In this way, the director entangles not only his protagonists, but also the audience, the economic system of film festivals and us, the jury, making us all complicit. And we have fallen into the trap and are therefore awarding this year’s IDA Prize to Mon Pire Ennemi (My worst enemy) by Mehran Tamadon.

Nominated Films

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EVA – Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award

Curation: Katja Seidel, Sophie Wagner

Jury:
Nadja Haumberger (Curator)
Kristian Petersen (Visual Anthropologist, Film Programmer)
Enar de Dios Rodriguez (Artist, Filmmaker)

Prize Money: € 1.000.-

Prize donated by: Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

WINNING FILM 2024

ADIEU SAUVAGE by Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento

Jury statement: With our choice, we were especially touched by the beautifully crafted images that accompanied the process of the filmmaker. They showed an incredible openness to situations and encounters with humour and sponaneity while reflecting on exchange, the universality of human relationships and trust. Additionally, the self-reflection and positionality of the film stands out. For this jury, the winning film captures in a sensitive and convincing manner what current anthropology ideally strives to achieve. We are pleased to award this prize to the poetic film Adieu Sauvage by Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento and look forward to his upcoming artistic works.

Nominated Films

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ADA – Austrian Documentary Award

Curation: Marie-Christine Hartig, Martin Lintner

Jury:
Catrin Seefranz (Cultural Scientist)
Frederike Sperling (Curator)
Georg Vogt (Curator, Film Scientist)

Prize Money: € 1.000.-

Prize donated by: Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden

WINNING FILM 2024

ANQA by Helin Çelik

Jury statement: In the end, we decided with the greatest consensus to award the film “Anqa” (2023) by Helin Çelik with the Austrian Documentary Award. “Anqa” is a haunting contribution to the genre of documentary film as an art form, in which an idea of multi-perspectivity is cleverly and skilfully developed. On many levels, the cinematography establishes a space in which trauma finds representation without succumbing to voyeurism or exploitation. Fragmentation as the central mechanism of trauma becomes the defining principle of the filmic work. We see seemingly banal routines of everyday life that harbour order and reassurance, and therefore closeness and tenderness, but which can tip over into the abysmal and violent at any time. The potential for catastrophe (which flares up in the flames of the gas cooker or the rotation of the fan) is omnipresent in connection with the particles of trauma that we experience. From our point of view, we cannot speak of a safe space, but of a cinematographic space that enables certain forms of encounter. The agency clearly lies with the protagonists, who are not reduced to their role as victims and who themselves are sometimes responsible for complex, ambivalent actions. And so the film’s concluding sequence puts this year’s festival theme, “Re-rendering Perspectives”, into perspective: “I’m not the remains, I exist”, one of the women states clearly.

Nominated Films

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ISA – International Shorts Award

Curation: Rocío Burchard, Lisa Heuschober

AUDIENCE AWARD
The audience will vote for the winning film during the screening of the ISA short film programme I & ISA short film programme II. The winning film will be screened again at the Award Ceremony on May 22.

Prize Money: € 500.-

Prize donated by: Verwertungsgesellschaft für audio-visuelle Medien

WINNING FILM 2024

BUDAPEST SILO by Zsófia Paczolay und Nora Ananyan

Nominated Films

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ESSA – Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award

Curation: Nóra Soponyai, Simone Traunmüller

AUDIENCE AWARD
The audience will vote for the winning film during the screening of the ESSA short film programme. The winning film will be screened again at the Award Ceremony on May 22.

Prize Money: € 500.-

Prize donated by: Basisgruppe Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft

WINNING FILM 2024

ENTRE LES AUTRES by Marie Alice Falys

Nominated Films