The prestigious honor comes with a €15,000 cash prize. Announcing the award, the five-member jury noted, “This film has characters who breathe life and take us on a journey, opening us up to the worlds of culture and art, of business and politics, of the mechanics of a success story. It is infused with love.”
Glob has been following Soko’s career for well over a decade. According to the Villa Medici website, the figurative painter is “known for her political stance on the art of portraiture, claiming the need to use it as a tool of empowerment and deconstruction of marginalization or domination. That is why she addresses multiple issues such as feminisms, queerness, women’s representation throughout art history and body politics in general.
In an interview with Deadline earlier at IDFA, Chambers recalled his late uncle’s cheerful attitude about life even as old age was taking its toll on him. “He’d say things like — say something really bad happened — he’d say, ‘When life’s good, it’s very, very good. But when it’s bad, it’s horrid. So you get through the bad bits, but then there’s always another good bit.’”In the separate Envision Competition category at IDFA, Angie Vinchito won the award for Best Film, a film composed entirely of found footage of “often-shocking videos that Russian teenagers have posted on social media.
Roberta Torre earned Best Directing honors and a €5,000 prize in the Envision Competition category forIDFA, the largest documentary film festival in the world, opened on November 9 and runs through Sunday, November 20. These are the awards winners announced at the ceremony tonight: Best Directing – International Competition: