For the 10th time the Institute of Documentary Film will give Silver Eye Award to the best documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe at Ji.hlava IDFF. Find all about the nominated films and international juries.
Within the 15th edition of East Silver Market, which will take place from October 25 to 30 during the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, the best films from Central and Eastern Europe will be awarded. The winners will be selected in two categories: Short and Feature length documentaries. 10 films are nominated in the Short category, 11 films are nominated in the Feature length category. Two international juries will decide about the winners of the Silver Eye Award.
The winners will be announced during the closing ceremony of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF on October 29. The winner in each category receives not only a unique award trophy, but also a prize money of 2 250 € and a year-long festival service of the East Silver Caravan worth of additional 2 250 €.
The winners of the previous edition of Silver Eye Award are: the Polish documentary Dust (dir. Jakub Radej) in feature length category, Russian director Inna Omelchenko's Paper Stars in mid-length category and Austrian documentary Sand and Blood by Matthias Krepp.
Silver Eye Award 2018 nominees and juries:
Feature length documentaries:
Rodeo (dir. Raimo Jõerand, Kiur Aarma, Estonia, Finland, 2018)
Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob? (dir. Stefan Bohun, Austria, 2018)
Bruce Lee & the Outlaw (dir. Joost Vandebrug, Great Britain, Netherlands, Czech Republic, 2018)
Home Games (dir. Alisa Kovalenko, Ukraine, France, Poland, 2018)
A Woman Captured (dir. Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, Hungary, Germany, 2017)
The Distant Barking of Dogs (dir. Simon Lereng Wilmont, Denmark, 2017)
Chris the Swiss (dir. Anja Kofmel, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, Finland, 2018)
Solving My Mother (dir. Ieva Ozolina, Latvia, 2017)
Genesis 2.0 (dir. Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev, Switzerland, 2018)
No Obvious Signs (dir. Alina Gorlova, Ukraine, 2018)
When the War Comes (dir. Jan Gebert, Czech Republic, Croatia, 2018)
Short documentaries:
Sisters (dir. Michał Hytroś, Poland, 2018)
Hello, Horse! (dir. Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, 2017)
Talking Soil (dir. Jan Baumgartner, Švýcarsko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)
The Lion Tamers (dir. Marta Pulk, Estonia, 2017)
Eight Images from the Life of Nastya Sokolova (dir. Alina Kotova, Vladlena Sandu, Russia, 2017)
Film for Carlos (dir. Renato Borrayo Serrano, Guatemala, Russia, 2017)
Unconditional Love (dir. Rafał Łysak, Poland, 2018)
No! No! No! (dir. Mykola Ridnyi, Ukraine, 2017)
Lembri Uudu (dir. Eeva Mägi, Estonia, 2017)
Monologue (dir. Otto Lakoba, Russia, 2017)
Feature length documentaries jury:
Christophe Postic (Lussas Doc, France)
Alex Shiriaieff (B2B Doc, Sweden)
Martin Horyna (KVIFF, Czech Republic)
Csilla Kató (Astra Film Festival, Romania)
Nevena Milašinović (Sweet Spot Docs, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Short documentaries jury:
Philip Ilson (London Short Film Festival, Great Britain)
Stefan Ivančić (Locarno IFF, Croatia)
Silvia Angrisani (Aquatic Films, Great Britain)
Adele Kohout (DOKfest Munich, Germany)
Kumjana Novakova (Pravo Ljudski, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
