Festivals/Awards:
CPH:DOX 2012 – DOX:AWARD
Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Panorama Audience Award
Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
!F Istanbul 2013- Prize of the SIYAD jury (Turkish Film Critics’ Association)
Danish Film Academy 2013 – Best Feature Documentary
FICUNAM, Mexico 2013 – Audience Award
ZagrebDox, 2013 – Movies that Matter Award
One World, Prague 2013 – Best Film
Geneva International Human Rights Film Festival 2013 – Gilda Vieira de Mello Prize
Danish Film Critics Association – Special Prize 2013 (Sær-Bodil)
Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2013 – Grand Prize
Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2013 – Special Mention, Critic’s Jury
IndieLisboa 2013 – Amnesty International Award
BelDocs 2013 – Grand Prix for Best Film
DocumentaMadrid 2013 – First Prize of the Jury
DocumentaMadrid 2013 – Audience Award
Planete + Doc Warsaw 2013 – Audience Award –
Planete + Doc 2013 – Grand Prix of Lower Silesia
DocsBarcelona 2013 – Best Film Award (Grand Prize)
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 – Grand Prize
Biografilm Festival Italy 2013 – Grand Prize
Grimstad Short and Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Grand Prize
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival 2013 – Basil Wright Prize
Human Rights, Human Dignity Int. Film Festival Myanmar – Aung San Suu Kyi Award for Best Documentary
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 – Audience Award
Director's Bio-Filmography:
Joshua Oppenheimer a lucrat mai ales cu miliţii, echipe ale morţii şi victimele lor explorând relaţia dintre violenţa politică şi imaginarul public. Joshua a studiat la Harvard şi Central St Martins, Londra. E cercetător principal în proiectul Genocide and Genre derulat de Consiliul de Cercetare în Arte şi Ştiinţe Umaniste din Regatul Unit. A publicat amplu pe aceste teme.
Filmografie selectivă:
2003 The Globalization Tapes
1998 The Entire History Of The Louisiana Purchase
1996 These Places We’ve Learned To Call Home
Christine Cynn regizează file documentare şi experimentale de 14 ani. În ultima decadă a dezvoltat metode noi pentru documentarea imaginaţiei umane. A studiat la Harvard, a obţinut o bursă Fulbright în Uganda, e membru fondator al Vision Machine Film Project din Londra şi cercetător în proiectul Genocide and Genre derulat de Consiliul de Cercetare în Arte şi Ştiinţe Umaniste din Regatul Unit.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
Anwar Congo and his friends have been dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster scenes, and galloping across prairies as yodelling cowboys. Their foray into filmmaking is being celebrated in the media and debated on television, even though Anwar Congo and his friends are mass murderers.