More than 10,000 viewers in Budapest and 10 other Hungarian cities watched 250 screenings of the world’s most prestigious films.
The official award ceremony of the 10th BIDF, closing on Sunday evening, took place on Saturday evening. At the award ceremony, the winners of the competition program and special prizes were announced. The organisers were delighted to inform the public that, immediately after the festival, the BIDF NET online distribution platform would be continuously expanding its selection of films from this year’s competition program and previous festivals.
This year, 45 films competed at the 10th Budapest International Documentary Film Festival.
Awards were announced in 8 categories
In the category: Your fight:
Main award: Seven Winters in Tehran/ Steffi Niederzoll
Special mention: Manifesto/ Angie Vinchito
In the category: Your desire
Main award: Home Game/ Smari Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson
Special mention: Aurora’s Sunrise/ Inna Sahakjan
In the category: Your secret
Main award: Knit’s Island / Ekien Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
Special mention: Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death / Siyi Chen
In the category: Your country
Main award: Lost Souls of Syria / Stéphane Malterre és Garance Le Caisne
Special mention: Paradise / Alexander Abaturov
In the category: Your faith
Main award: Four daughters / Kaouther Ben Hania
Special mention: Pure Unknowns / Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo
Short films:
Main award: The Dream of a Horse / Marjan Khosravi
Special mention: Ode to Happiness / Jake Bellew
The award of the Senior Jury:
Vika! / Agnieszka Zwiefka
The award of the Students Jury:
Name Me Lawand / Edward Lovelace
BIDF 2024 audience award
After the last screening on Sunday evening, it was revealed that the 2024 audience award went to Lazaro and the Shark by William Sabourin O’Reilly, USA.
What is the film about?
“There has been no other film, produced either in or outside Cuba, that goes as deep into the fascinating underground of the most African Cuban cities, Santiago de Cuba.”
Lazaro and The Shark: Cuba Under the Surface is a feature documentary that brings us to the world of Conga Competitions in the Carnival of Santiago de Cuba – one of the poorest Carnival in the world. Lázaro, the leader of the Conga de Los Hoyos, is determined to win the coveted award bestowed to the neighborhood that presents the most spectacular Conga. Like leaders of rival congas, Lazaro must join with his neighbors and scour the strictly rationed marketplace to find the necessary materials to create a show-stopping performance. Director William Sabourin O’Reilly, an Afrocuban native to Havana, offers a rare window into communist Cuba, a country that is often romanticized, and almost always portrayed through the eyes of an outsider.
The BIDF team will make every effort to show the film again throughout the year for those who have not seen it during the festival!
For more information, kindly, visit the festival’s continuously updated webpage, Facebook and Instagram.
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