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Silver Eye Award 2022 nominees – feature length documentaries:
5 Dreamers and a Horse (dir. Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan, prod. Vahagn Khachatryan, co-prod. Eva Blondiau, Armenia, Germany, Switzerland, 82', 2022)
Belarus 23.34 (dir. & prod. Tatsiana Svirepa, Belarus, Ukraine, Belgium, Poland, 65', 2022)
Burial (dir. Emilija Skarnulyte, prod. Dagne Vildziunaite, co-prod. Elisa Fernanda, Pirir Ruiz, Lithuania, Norway, 60', 2022)
Love is Not an Orange (dir. Otilia Babara, prod. Hanne Phlypo, Jet Koomen, co-prod. Christine Camdessus, Moldova, France, Netherlands, Belgium, 75', 2022)
Magic Mountain (dir. Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt, prod. Mariam Chachia, Georgia, 85', 2022)
Plai. A Mountain Path (dir. Eva Dzhyshyashvili, prod. Natalia Libet, Oksana Ivanyuk, Ukraine, 75', 2021)
The Cathedral (dir. Denis Dobrovoda, prod. Matthew Bremner, Slovakia, 87', 2022)
The Hamlet Syndrome (dir. Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, prod. Magda Kaminska, Matthias Miegel, Poland, Germany, 85', 2022)
Whose Dog Am I? (dir. Robert Lakatos, prod. Rita Balogh, Ada Solomon, Hungary, Romania, 80', 2022)
Yoyogi (dir. Max Golomidov, prod. Volia Chajkouskaya, Ivo Felt, Yu Nakajima, Estonia, Belarus, Japan, 73', 2022)
Feature length documentaries jury:
Kathleen McInnis (Film Marketing Strategist, Programmer, See-Through Films)
Christopher Small (Curator, Dafilms)
Radu Sticlea (Festival Director, Beast Film Festival)
Silver Eye Award 2020 nominees – short documentaries:
After Betelgeuse (dir. Len Murusalu, prod. Tauno Novek, co-prod. Len Murusalu, Estonia, Latvia, 19', 2022)
Aralkum (dir. Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko, prod. Mila Zhluktenko, Fozil Yunusov, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Uzbekistan, Germany, 14', 2022)
Avitaminosis (dir. & prod. Kateryna Ruzhyna, Ukraine, Czech Republic, 28', 2022)
Babajanja (dir. Ante Zlatko Stolica, Croatia, 14', 2022)
CALLS (dir. Ming-Wei Chiang, prod. Krzysztof Brzezowski, Poland, 18', 2022)
May the Earth Become the Sky (dir. & prod. Ana Vijdea, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Romania, 15', 2022)
Moody (dir. Karolina Karwan, Tomasz Ratter, prod. Ewa Jastrzebska, Poland, 30', 2022)
Mother's Milk (dir. Isaac Knights-Washbourn, prod. Dejan Petrović, Nađa Lapčević, Serbia, 18', 2022)
Papagalo, What's the Time? (dir. & prod. Ingel Vaikla, Estonia, Belgium, 7', 2022)
Strigov (dir. & prod. Barbora Berezňáková, Slovakia, 7', 2022)
Short documentaries jury:
Mathieu Janssen (Head of Competitions, Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen)
Anna Feistel (Programmer, Kurz Film Festival)
María Vera (Festival Distributor and Sales Agent, Kino Rebelde)
The Silver Eye Award has been granted annually since 2009 to the best East and Central European documentary films. Since 2018 the award goes to the best short (up to 40 min) and feature documentary film (over 60 mins), selected from the nominated films, approx. 11 in each category. The aim of the award is to support directors with innovative approach, authors of films that create social impact, filmmakers, who has the courage to open discussion on serious topics, and creators offering unique point of view.
The final decisions are in the hands international juries of film industry professionals, who are picked up for their experience in documentary filmmaking.
Evaluation by the juries consisting of sales agents, distributors, alternative distribution channels, VoD and festival representatives brings a strategic advantage to all nominated films, gaining them an excellent opportunity to increase their chances of being distributed across various platforms. The winner in each category receives not only a unique award trophy, but also a prize money of 2 500 €, a year-long festival service of the East Silver Caravan worth of additional 3 500 €.
The nominated films are selected by the IDF committee based on the submissions to the East Silver.
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