For the 9th time, the Institute of Documentary Film will award the best East and Central European documentaries with Silver Eye Awards.
Within the 14th edition of East Silver Market, which will take place from October 24 to 29 during the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the winners will be selected out of 30 nominees in three categories: Short, Mid-Length and Feature docs. Apart from the designer hand-made award, each winner will obtain a financial prize of 1500€ and a year-long East Silver Caravan festival assistance. The results will be announced during the Festival Hub presentation on October 27 (short and mid-length category) and during the closing ceremony of the Jihlava IDFF on October 28 (feature category).
The jurors who will decide about the winners of Silver Eye Award were picked up mainly from the representatives of international documentary film festivals.
The Nominees and juries of Silver Eye Award 2017
Short
Jury:
Holly Butcher (Sideways Films, UK)
Maëlle Guenegues (CAT & Docs, France)
Niklas Engstrøm (CPH:DOX, Denmark)
Films:
About My Sister (Barbora Sliepková, Slovakia, 2016)
Between Us (Maciej Miller, Poland, 2017)
Blueberry Spirits (Astra Zoldnere, Latvia, 2016)
Collection (Marcin Polar, Poland, 2017)
Dust (Jakub Radej, Poland, 2017)
Grandfather's Father (Karlis Lesins, Latvia, 2016)
The Happiest Barrack (Noemi Varga, Hungary, United Kingdom, 2016)
Ionas Dreams of Rain (Dragos Hanciu, Romania, 2017)
Polonaise (Agnieszka Elbanowska, Poland, 2016)
Volte (Monika Kotecka, Poland, 2017)
The Winter Garden's Tale (Symon Mozgovyi, Ukraine, 2017)
Mid-length
Jury:
Kenan Aliyev (Current Time TV, Russia)
Gennady Kofman (Docu Days UA, Ukraine)
Gaby Babić (Go East, Germany)
Films:
Avec l'amour (Ilija Cvetkovski, Atanas Georgiev, Macedonia, 2017)
Cabbage, Potatoes and Other Demons (Serban Georgescu, Romania, Germany, 2016)
I am Hercules (Marius Iacob, Romania, Germany, 2017)
Opera about Poland (Piotr Stasik, Poland, 2017)
Paper Stars (Inna Omelchenko, Russia, 2016)
Rabbits in the Headlights (Alisa Erokhina, Russia, 2016)
The Road Movie (Dmitrii Kalashnikov, Belarus, Russia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2016)
The Wall (Dmitry Bogolubov, Russia, 2017)
Feature
Jury:
Mladen Vušurović (Beldocs, Serbia)
Elena Subirà i Roca (Docs Barcelona, Spain)
Christine Dollhofer (Crossing Europe, Austria)
Films:
The Beksinskis. A Sound and Picture Album (Marcin Borchardt, Poland, 2017)
Girls Don't Fly (Monika Grassl, Germany, Austria, 2016)
The Good Postman (Tonislav Hristov, Finland, Bulgaria, 2016)
Gwendolyn (Ruth Kaaserer, Austria, 2017)
Sand and Blood (Matthias Krepp, Austria, 2017)
The Third Option (Thomas Furhapter, Austria, 2017)
The Trial - The State Of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov (Askold Kurov, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, 2017)
Ultra (Balazs Simonyi, Hungary, Greece, 2017)
Untitled (Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi, Austria, Germany, 2017)
