Amber Fares’ “Coexistence, My Ass!,” which facilities on Israeli comic Noam Shuster-Eliassi, received the Golden Alexander within the Worldwide Competitors part of the twenty seventh Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Competition Sunday.

The Worldwide Competitors jury, which consists of director and photographer Dimitris Athiridis, filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and producer Signe Byrge Sørensen, mentioned: “With a compellingly constructed narrative and a fearless problem to each taboo within the [Middle East] area, Noam’s disarming voice and humor invite the viewers to a deeper understanding as we chuckle and cry along with her, and rethink our biases with open minds and hearts.”

The movie, which was described by Selection‘s reviewer as “pressing, eye-opening and enormously compassionate,” received the World Cinema Documentary Particular Jury Award for Freedom of Expression on the Sundance Movie Competition.

The Thessaloniki win makes the movie eligible for the documentary class of the subsequent Academy Awards.

The Silver Alexander within the Worldwide Competitors went to “Free Leonard Peltier,” directed by Jesse Quick Bull and David France. The movie, which focuses on Native American activist Leonard Peltier, “speaks to the historical past of human rights abuses towards the Native Individuals, and their multi-generational resistance, whereas highlighting the continued wrestle over their sovereign nation land rights and assets,” the jury mentioned.

A Particular Point out went to Weronika Mliczewska’s “Youngster of Mud,” which follows a Vietnamese man looking for his father, a former U.S. soldier. The jury mentioned the movie “is a fantastically shot cinèma vèritè portrait that tells a common story concerning the generational penalties of battle and the eager for paternal love.”

The Golden Alexander for the Newcomers Competitors went to “ Construct a Library,” directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King, which follows two Kenyan ladies’s mission to revive a public library in Nairobi. The movie had its world premiere at Sundance.

The jury, composed of filmmakers Inka Achté and Tünde Skovrán, and journalist Tina Mandilara, mentioned: “With ardour, the filmmakers expose the lasting imprints of colonialism whereas celebrating activism and the struggle of two feminine mates for actually accessible public areas; locations the place folks can interact with their very own narratives and histories.”

The Newcomers Competitors Silver Alexander went to Byron Kritzas’ “They Speak About Worship Right here,” about Kore. Ydro., a band from Corfu. The jury mentioned it was “moved by the nice and cozy coronary heart and rebellious spirit of this movie, which reminds the viewers concerning the therapeutic and connecting qualities that artwork, on this case music, can have for folks throughout generations and borders.”

A Particular Point out was given to “Pet Farm,” directed by Finn Walther and Martin A. Walther. The jury mentioned the movie, a few Norwegian man who needs to create a farm, the place he would increase foxes for domestication and later promote them as pets, was “about loneliness, the necessity to discover a misplaced self via the reference to probably the most primitive model of nature.” The jury added it “raises ethical dilemmas and makes us see with its stunning cinematography the issues of the civilized and supposedly progressive world we stay in.”

The Golden Alexander for the Movie Ahead part, for movies that “experiment with the shape and technique of documentary filmmaking,” went to “Infinite Cookie,” directed by Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver. The Canadian animated movie explores “the advanced bond between two half brothers — one Indigenous, one white — touring from the current in remoted Shamattawa to bustling Nineteen Eighties Toronto.”

The jury, composed of artwork curator Nadja Argyropoulou, producer Grant Keir and movie marketing consultant Anne Marie Kürstein, mentioned it was a “sharp and humorous meditation on ‘a movie inside a movie,’ on household neighborhood and shared tradition. It’s a celebration of the soundtrack of the on a regular basis life that takes us inside a world that’s hardly ever accessed with out condescension.”

The Movie Ahead Competitors Silver Alexander went to Catherine Gund’s “In the meantime,” described as a “cinematic meditation about id, race, racism and resistance.” The jury mentioned the movie efficiently deployed “a type of poetics with out dropping precision, social and historic markers and a way of collective art-making that takes us contained in the profound resilience of Black tradition.”

A Particular Point out went to Fermín Eloy Acosta’s “Museum of the Night time,” about Argentine artist Leandro Katz and the Theater of the Ridiculous in New York, actors who carried out in drag, reciting “texts that mix excessive literature with queer slang.” The jury lauded its “intensive analysis right into a largely unknown archive and the try and create a visible language that corresponds to the subject material.”

The Immersive: All Round Cinema Award went to Stefano Conca Bonizzoni’s “Candy Finish of the World!”