AWARD SECTIONS 2022
IDA – International Documentary Award
Curators: Marie-Christine Hartig, Martin Lintner, Marieluise Röttger
Jury:
Karin Schiefer (Austrian Film Commission)
Arthur Summereder (Filmmaker, AT)
Anabel Rodríguez Ríos (Filmmaker; Winner Austrian Documentary Award 2021)
Prize money: € 1.000.-
Award donated by: Central European University (CEU)
Winner
OSTROV – LOST ISLAND
Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop | Switzerland, Russia 2021 | 93 Min.
Jury statement: Svetlana Rodina and Laurent Stoop capture with their affectionate and yet respectful gaze the web of relationships of a family, a village, an island that can stand in as a universal cosmos of a post-Soviet reality. Subtle and nuanced, OSTROV – LOST ISLAND tells us something about the paradoxical nature of populist mechanisms and foreshadows developments not yet explicitly visible at the time of its making. Under the precise use of its cinematic means, the encounter with the lost island in the Caspian Sea turns into a reflection that only cinema can provoke. The IDA award for the 2022 ethnocineca goes OSTROV – LOST ISLAND by Svetlana Rodina und Laurent Stoop
Honorable Mention
LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE
Abdallah Al-Khatib | Lebanon, France, Qatar 2021 | 89 Min.
Jury statement: An Honorable Mention goes to LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE, by Abdallah Al-Khatib, which shakes us to the core with its testimony from the ruins of annihilation and despair, skillfully employing the essential tools of documentary filmmaking.
Nominees
LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE
EVA – Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award
Curators: Hannah Hauptmann, Katja Seidel
Jury:
Lara Bellon ( Producer, AT)
Hannes Bürkel (Freiburger Filmforum, DE)
Saada Elabed (Regard Bleu Festival, CH)
Prize money: € 1.000.-
Award donated by: Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Winner
PERPETUAL PERSON – PERSONA PERPETUA
Javier Bellido Valdivia | Peru 2021 | 104 Min.
Jury statement: In a sensitive way, this film manages to literally illuminate a complex inner state. With a carefully chosen visual language, it transports the viewer into a state of mental decay. The interweaving of form and content is wonderfully accomplished. In black and white images rich in contrast, the filmmaker directs our gaze to his grandmother, who suffers from dementia. While her memories fragment, the routines of her everyday life condense into a hypnotic visual experience. Javier Bellido Valdivia approaches his grandmother’s mental decline in a way that is both observational and sensory. He interweaves these with artistic means to create a poetic film about decay, care and family.It is with pleasure that we present the EVA Award to PERPETUAL PERSONby Javier Bellido Valdivia. Congratulations!
Nominees
ADA – Austrian Documentary Award
Curators: Marie-Christine Hartig, Martin Lintner, Katja Seidel
Jury:
Konstantinos Aivaliotis (Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, GR)
Jan-Hendrik Müller (Film Scholar, University of Vienna)
Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski (Social Anthropologist, University of Vienna)
Prize money: € 1.000.-
Award donated by: Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden
Winner
UNCOMFORTABLY COMFORTABLE
Maria Petschnig | Austria, USA 2021 | 72 Min.
Jury statement: Using an open form, the film reveals a thoughtful portrait torn between closeness and distance, understanding and misconception of a filmmaker and its protagonist. The slow encounter of the two tells us furthermore – apart from the individual biography – an allegory of contemporary America and its situatedness. Questions of power and hierarchy appear as well as kinship and complicity and through an erratic montage of images and sound we as the viewers are confronted with the entanglement of their different realities. The ADA award for the 2022 ethnocineca goes to UNCOMFORTABLY COMFORTABLEby Maria Petschnig.
Nominees
ISA – International Shorts Award
Curators: Rocío Burchard, Saskya Tschebann
AUDIENCE AWARD
The Audience votes for the winner at the screenings of the short film programmes ISA I & ISA II. The winning film will be screened at the Award Ceremony on May 17.
Prize money: € 500.-
Award donated by: Verwertungsgesellschaft für audio-visuelle Medien
Winner
IN FLOW OF WORDS
Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands 2021 | 23 Min. | OmeU
Nominees
ESSA – Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award
Curators: Nóra Soponyai, Simone Traunmüller
AUDIENCE AWARD
The Audience votes for the winner at the screenings of the short film programmes ESSA I & ESSA II. The winning film will be screened at the Award Ceremony on May 17.
Prize money: € 500.-
Award donated by: BAGRU/STV Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Wien
Winner
SEALAND
Paul Scholten, Conrad Winkler, Matthäus Wörle | Germany 2020 | 30 Min.
