Awards 2016

Award Competitions and Winning Films 2016

IDA – International Documentary Award

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

Jury:
Jakob Brossmann (Filmmaker, awarded with best Austrian Documentary Film Award 2015)
Andrew Irving (Director Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology University of Manchester)
Barbara Pichler (Curator, Author; 2009 to 2015 Intendant of Diagonale. Festival des österreichischen Films)

Prize money: € 1.000.-


Award presented by: Weltmuseum Wien

Winner

FEST OF DUTY
Firouzeh Khosrovani | Iran 2014 | 60 Min. | OmeU

Nominees

ATL TLACHINOLLI / SCORCHED WATER

ATL TLACHINOLLI / SCORCHED WATER

Alexander Hick | Mexico, Germany 2015 | 76 Min. | OmdU
BIROBIDJAN

BIROBIDJAN

Guy-Marc Hinant | Russia, Belgium 2015 | 124 Min. | OmeU
EL LEGADO

EL LEGADO

Roberto Anjari-Rossi | Chile, Germany 2015 | 83 Min. | OmeU
FEST OF DUTY

FEST OF DUTY

Firouzeh Khosrovani | Iran 2014 | 60 Min. | OmeU
GÄSTE – GUESTS

GÄSTE – GUESTS

Alexey Sukhovey | Russia, Germany, France 2015 | 64 Min. | OmeU
MAGNA GRAECIA / EUROPA IMPARI

MAGNA GRAECIA / EUROPA IMPARI

Anita Lamanna, Erwan Kerzanet | Italy 2015 | 77 Min. | OmeU
REVEKA

REVEKA

Benjamin Colaux, Christopher Yates | Bolivia, Belgium 2015 | 75 Min. | OmeU
WEDDING: A FILM

WEDDING: A FILM

Mohammadreza Farzad | Iran 2015 | 57 Min. | OmeU

EVA – Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award

Curators: Marie-Christine Hartig, Martin Lintner, Sophie Wagner

Jury:
Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski (University of Vienna)
Grit Lemke (Director of DOK Leipzig)
Christopher Wright (Goldsmiths University of London)

Prize money: € 1.000.-

Award sponsored by: Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Winner

BINTOU
Simone Catharina Gaul | Burkina Faso, Germany 2015 | 64 Min. | OmeU

Nominees

BINTOU

BINTOU

Simone Catharina Gaul | Burkina Faso, Germany 2015 | 64 Min. | OmeU
COMING AND GOING

COMING AND GOING

Tianlin Xu | China, Germany 2015 | 89 Min. | OmeU
COMING OF AGE

COMING OF AGE

Teboho Edkins | South Africa, Germany 2015 | 63 Min. | OmeU
I’M NOT LEAVING ELDON

I’M NOT LEAVING ELDON

Jessica Bollag | USA, Switzerland 2015 | 49 Min. | OmeU
SOCOTRA, THE ISLAND OF DJINNS

SOCOTRA, THE ISLAND OF DJINNS

Jordi Esteva | Yemen, Spain 2015 | 64 Min. | OmeU
TRACES OF WAR: SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN A NON-EXISTING COUNTRY

TRACES OF WAR: SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN A NON-EXISTING COUNTRY

Jana Richter | Armenia, Germany 2015 | 55 Min. | OmeU

ADA – Austrian Documentary Award

Curators: Marie-Christine Hartig, Martin Lintner, Elena Staroste

Jury:
Susi Anderle (Filmladen Filmverleih, free Journalist)
Doris Bauer (Curator of VIS, 2008-2013 Director of Espresso Kurzfilmfest)
Fritz Ofner (Filmmaker)

Prize money: € 1.000.-

Award sponsored by:Fachverband der Film- und Musikwirtschaft

Winner

MINOR BORDER
Lisbeth Kovacic | Austria 2015 | 25 Min. | OmeU

Nominees

FREE SPACES

FREE SPACES

Ina Ivanceanu | Luxemburg, Austria 2015 | 60 Min. | OmeU
MINOR BORDER

MINOR BORDER

Lisbeth Kovacic | Austria 2015 | 25 Min. | OmeU
RIDING MY TIGER

RIDING MY TIGER

Ascan Breuer | Indonesia, Austria 2014 | 42 Min. | OmeU
TRACEROUTE

TRACEROUTE

Johannes Grenzfurthner | USA, Austria 2016 | 120 Min. | OmeU
VARANASI – CITY OF LIGHT

VARANASI – CITY OF LIGHT

Harald Aue | India, Austria 2015 | 94 Min. | no Dialogue

ESSA – Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award

Curators: Nóra Soponyai, Elena Staroste, Simone Traunmüller

Jury:
Audience

Prize money: € 500.-

Award sponsored by:Okto TV


Winner

GEZOINDELACH
Efrat Berger | Israel 2015 | 28 Min. | OmeU

Nominees

BALAZHER. KORREKTUREN DER WIRKLICHKEIT

BALAZHER. KORREKTUREN DER WIRKLICHKEIT

Lesia Kordonets | Ukraine, Switzerland 2013 | 29 Min. | OmeU
DISTANT MEMORY

DISTANT MEMORY

Valérie Wolf Gang | Croatia, Slovenia 2014 | 3 Min. | OmeU
EXCHANGING EXPERIMENT

EXCHANGING EXPERIMENT

Sofie Husum Johannesen, Amalie Vilslev Juelsgaard, Anne Scherrebeck Hansen | Germany, Denmark 2015 | 7 Min. | OmeU
FELLOW TRAVELERS

FELLOW TRAVELERS

Linas Mikuta | Lithuania 2015 | 17 Min. | OmeU
GEZOINDELACH

GEZOINDELACH

Efrat Berger | Israel 2015 | 28 Min. | OmeU
GLEICHGEWICHT

GLEICHGEWICHT

Bernhard Wenger | Austria 2015 | 5 Min. | OmeU
KRAINA

KRAINA

Christina Tynkevych | Ukraine, Great Britain 2015 | 27 Min. | OmeU
LA BESTIA

LA BESTIA

Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez, Konstantin Steinbichler | Mexico, Germany 2015 | 29 Min. | OmeU
MAKING OF SLENDRO LIMO

MAKING OF SLENDRO LIMO

Tea Škrinjarić | Indonesia, Croatia 2014 | 13 Min. | no Dialogue
RATTLE THEM BARS

RATTLE THEM BARS

Nena Hedrick | USA 2015 | 27 Min. | OmeU
SOLARIS

SOLARIS

Pavel Borecký | Estonia 2014 | 25 Min. | no Dialogue