AWARDS 2022

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

A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING

A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING

Payal Kapadia | India, France 2021 | 96 Min. | OmeU
LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE

LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE

Abdallah Al-Khatib | Lebanon, France, Qatar 2021 | 89 Min. | OmeU
OSTROV – LOST ISLAND

OSTROV – LOST ISLAND

Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop | Switzerland, Russia 2021 | 93 Min. | OmeU
SO FOUL A SKY

SO FOUL A SKY

Álvaro F. Pulpeiro | Colombia, Spain, Great Britain 2021 | 83 Min. | OmeU
SOY LIBRE

SOY LIBRE

Laure Portier | France, Belgium 2021 | 78 Min. | OmeU

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

LETTERS2MAYBE

LETTERS2MAYBE

Yehuda Sharim | USA, Canada 2021 | 92 Min. | OmeU
PERPETUAL PERSON

PERPETUAL PERSON

Javier Bellido Valdivia | Peru 2021 | 104 Min. | OmeU
RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY

RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY

Firouzeh Khosrovani | Norway, Iran, Switzerland 2020 | 81 Min. | OmeU
THE DELTA OF BUCHAREST

THE DELTA OF BUCHAREST

Eva Pervolovici | France, Romania 2020 | 92 Min. | OmeU
THE ONE AMONGST THE SHADOWS

THE ONE AMONGST THE SHADOWS

Sandra Luz López Barroso | Mexico 2021 | 89 Min. | OmeU

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

A PILE OF GHOSTS

A PILE OF GHOSTS

Ella Raidel | Austria, Singapore 2021 | 70 Min.
ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW

ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW

Roser Corella | Germany, Austria 2021 | 73 Min. | OmeU
STORIES FROM THE SEA

STORIES FROM THE SEA

Jola Wieczorek | Austria 2021 | 86 Min. | OmeU
UNCOMFORTABLY COMFORTABLE

UNCOMFORTABLY COMFORTABLE

Maria Petschnig | Austria, USA 2021 | 70 Min. | OmeU

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

AGAIN–ANCORA

AGAIN–ANCORA

Jan Stöckel | Italy 2020 | 13 Min. | OmeU
BRAVE

BRAVE

Wilmarc Val | France, Haiti 2021 | 26 Min | OmeU
IN FLOW OF WORDS

IN FLOW OF WORDS

Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands 2021 | 23 Min. | OmeU
PARIZAD

PARIZAD

Mehdi Imani Shahmiri | Iran 2021 | 24 Min. | OmeU
SHREDDED

SHREDDED

Noam Stolerman | Israel 2020 | 17 Min. | OmeU
TIERRITA

TIERRITA

Leonie Pock | Switzerland 2021 | 27 Min. | OmeU

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.

Nominees

A PIGEON'S SONG – KËNGA E PËLLUMBIT

A PIGEON’S SONG – KËNGA E PËLLUMBIT

Eneos Çarka | Belgium 2021 | 17 Min. | OmeU
AT THE FEET OF MY MOTHER

AT THE FEET OF MY MOTHER

Vincent Sparreboom | Netherlands 2021 | 28 Min. | OmeU
I DON'T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE

I DON’T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE

Viv Li | Belgium, China 2021 | 16 Min. | OmeU
LIVING FOREST – NAKU IKINYU

LIVING FOREST – NAKU IKINYU

Tatiana Lopez | Ecuador 2021 | 21 Min. | OmeU
SEALAND

SEALAND

Paul Scholten, Conrad Winkler, Matthäus Wörle | Germany 2020 | 30 Min. | OmeU
STORGETNYA

STORGETNYA

Hovig Hagopian | France, Armenia 2021 | 20 Min. | OmeU
TURNING MAN – 81RPM – DER DREHER – 81RPM

TURNING MAN – 81RPM – DER DREHER – 81RPM

Robin Trouillet | Germany 2021 | 14 Min. | OmeU