For its delicate and impactful approach to the human rights violations faced by indigenous and riverside communities in the Amazon. The film draws a powerful parallel between mercury contamination in Brazil and the environmental disaster that occurred in Minamata, Japan, connecting these two tragedies in a compelling way. Bodanzky masterfully uses cinema as a tool for denunciation and social intervention and creates a narrative in which past, present and future intertwine, exposing the ongoing and silent contamination in the communities of the Amazon.
BEST DIRECTOR
JORGE BODANZKY
for Amazônia The New Minamata
BEST EDITING
PRISCILLA BRASIL
for No More History without Us
For the inventive way with which it articulates different historical periods in the narrative and for the creative and judicious use of a vast archive material.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BETO MARTINS
for Aurora street: refuge of all worlds
For the use of visual elements as a narrative aspect, highlighting the social and physical decay of that space. The use of yellow, amber, brown and black creating dark and somber areas, and the 4×3 format contributing to the quality and identity of the film..
SPECIAL AWARD
LISTEN, THE LAND WAS TORN
Due to the great socio-environmental and political relevance of the ideas that the film presents through the words of important indigenous leaders.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
THE EDGE OF NATURE
by Josh Fox
For the director's solitary, deep and subjective dive into a Pennsylvania forest and for the poetic and affectionate way in which he deals with all the beings around him, reminding us that the healing of each individual and of our planet will always come from Nature and how we relate to it.
BEST DIRECTOR
JOSH FOX
for The Edge of Nature
BEST EDITING
SAM SOKO
for The Battle for Laikipia
For the delicate and precise way complex and multifaceted themes are laid together.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
JALENA KEANE-LEE
for Standing Above the Clouds
For the acute sensible way it draws attention to the invisible, bringing to light – never renouncing beauty - an arid and thorny subject.
SPECIAL AWARD
THE BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA
For a rare experience it brings to audiences, and which required the filmmakers to risk their lives. It is a visually captivating and extremely instructive film. More than anything, it is a film that shows and warns, from a context where this phenomenon has already come to light, what happens when existing inequalities are mixed with climate change. The film shows the brutal impact of colonialism, a playful and artistic history lesson.
BEST SHORT FILM
THE SHADOW OF THE PALM TREES
By Yesenia Novoa Rodriguez Magali Rocha Donnadieu
The memory of a country and its population is shown and constructed with photos, archive images and sounds in a creative and cinematic way. Nature, the city and its population living and coexisting together through time and its social and political transformations. Cinema and its tools serve as a record of the transformations caused by man in its environment.
BEST DIRECTOR
AKHIL LOTLIKAR
por Puxar
“Pull”, directed by Akhil Lotlikar, reinforces the emotional consequences caused by the implementation of economic activities in territories of traditional communities that go beyond material issues.
BEST EDITING
CAROLINA MAGALHÃES
for The Background of the air is Grey
For its purposeful edition, in which, through archives, it builds the entire trajectory of the rural modernization process, from the times of the military regime to the present day in Brazil. It is possible to see the environmental and social consequences of this model, which continues to be encouraged by the Brazilian state.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
PATRIZIA BRUNO
for O Great Ice
With beautiful and striking images, we are taken to this magical and distant place that suffers the consequences of climate change and denounces the problems caused by man over time. Images that bring visual and political strength and that can contribute to awareness and provoke a possible change in the political and ecological behaviour of governments and of each individual.
SPECIAL AWARD
FEELING THE APOCALYPSE
A simple, introspective animation that effectively captures our anguish over the uncertainties surrounding the future of life as we know it amidst a climate change denial scenario. It is impossible not to identify with this psychoanalyst in existential crisis.
Melhor Longa-metragem Brasileiro Júri Popular
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O LIMITE DA NATUREZA
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