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Best Film Award
Love
& Diane / Love and Diane
Jennifer Dworkin / France, USA / 2002 / 155
min.
Jury statement: The jury would like to present the Best Film Award
to a compelling story of a troubled family in New York City and their
attempts to remain together despite the legacy of substance abuse,
neglect, economic disadvantage and the collapse of social support
structures. Turning both cinematic and cultural stereotypes on their
heads, this is a film with a deep commitment to process. With dramatic
cinematography, this feature-length documentary film allows audiences
the time to understand, with depth and complexity, the lives of two
dynamic women. It is testimony to the transcendent power of struggle
and hope, and a testimony to engaged filmmaking.
Announced by: Olga
Sommerová and Peter
Wintonick
Award presented by: Petr
Klimeš, Czech TV director ad interim, and Olga Sommerová
Award assumed by: Xevier Carneayx, film producer (AMIP, France)
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Special Jury Prize:
The Last Just Man / The Last Just Man
Steven Silver / Canada / 2001 / 70 min.
Jury statement: The jury would like to award a Special Jury Prize
to a film which is a compelling reconstruction of the catastrophe
which unfolded in Rwanda in 1994 in which 800,000 people were massacred
within the space of 100 days. A fine example of a film packaged in
a popular, accessible and tele-visual form, it is both an emotional,
personal and ethical journey of Lieutenant General Romero Dallaire
and, at the same time, a strong condemnation of international complicity,
bureaucratic inaction and institutional dysfunction within the United
Nation’s peace-keeping and Security Council systems. In the current
situation, and in many points on the planet, this is an issue of prime
and urgent importance which must be addressed.
Announced by: Peter
Wintonick
Award presented by: Peter Wintonick
Award assumed by: Olivier Nicoloff, Counsellor for Political
and Economic Affaires, Embassy of Canada
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Best Director Award
Purity: Breaking the Codes of Silence / Tehora
Zuria Anat / Israel / 2002 / 63 min.
Jury statement: The One World jury would like to present the Best
Director Award to a film which, in a pure, elegant and disciplined
manner is an exploration of Orthodox Judaism in modern Israel and
the religious dictates of Tehora, the once-taboo rituals of purity
which married women are obliged to follow during menstruation. It
is a film consciously, courageously and discretely directed and is
artfully visualized.
Announced by:Olga Sommerová
Award presented by: Olga Sommerová
Award assumed by: Aron Ivo Hříbek
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The Main Jury consisted of Jane
Balfour (an international distributor from the United Kingdom),
Christian Frei
(the renowned filmmaker from Switzerland), Olga
Sommerová (the prolific director from the Czech Republic), Diane
Weyermann (from the Sundance Institute in the United States),
and Peter Wintonick
(director, producer and critic from Canada) awards the Best Film
Award, Special Jury Prize, and Best Director Award.
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The Václav Havel Special Award
for the film with the most significant contribution to human rights
awareness
Daughter
from Yan`an / Enan no musume
Kaoru Ikeya / Japan / 2001 / 120 min.
Award announced and presented by: Václav
Havel
Award assumed by: Keichiro Kondo, producer NHK (Japan Broadcasting
Corporation)
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The Rudolf Vrba Award
is given to the best film in the You Have the Right to Know category
Choropampa,
The Price of Gold / Choropampa, El precio de oro
Stephanie Boyd, Ernesto Cabellos / Peru / 2002
/ 78 min.
Jury statement: Choropampa, The Price of Gold
is a powerful depiction of the struggle of a small community in a
remote part of Peru, for justice against a multinational mining company.
A company accident has caused irreversible health damage to the local
residence, but the company and the authorities refuse to accept responsibility
and to provide compensation and health care for those affected. The
film shows how a small community through organization and solidarity
can acquire a voice to articulate demands for justice and a better
life. The jury felt that the power of the film lay in its ability
to involve the viewer in the struggle and determination of a community
to seek justice and accountability.
Announced by: Sevdie Ahmetí
and Jarmila Šenková
Award presented by: Božena Přikrylová, the blind girl who has
created the sculptures for awarded films
Award assumed by: Stephanie Boyd, the film director
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This year’s Rudolf Vrba jury members
are women who have demonstrated their deep commitment to human rights
work. They are Sevdie Ahmetí
(Kosovo), Eliza Musajeva
(Chechnya), Jarmila Šenková
(Czech Republic) and Ziba
Mir-Hosseini (Iran).
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The Mayor of Prague Award
is awarded to the Best Short Documentary
Captive
Waiting / Asir - Enteza
Muhammad Ahmadi / Iran / 2002 / 23 min.
Jury statement: The film shows us a reality beyond the daily news.
It reveals some of the consequences any war has, even many years after
it officially ends. The film allows us to see what is often overlooked
and forgotten – the impact of war on families. The filmmaker managed
to use his access to a POW camp to creatively convey the reality of
the prisoners_ lives. The poetic narrative unveils the deep pain and
loneliness of being forcefully separated from your family for so many
years, not knowing if and when you will ever see them again.
Announced by: Sirkka
Moeller
Award presented by: Igor Němec, Counsellor of Culture for the
City of Prague.
Award assumed by: Mohammad Hassaní, Second Secretary of the
Embassy of Iran Islamic Republic
The Mayor of Prague Award, given under the
auspices of Pavel Bém, is awarded
to the Best Short Documentary. Jury members are Arto
Halonen (Finland), Ulla
Jacobsen (Denmark), Sirkka
Moeller (Germany, UK), Debra
Zimmerman (USA) and Marek
Hovorka (Czech Republic).
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The Czech Radio Award
is presented for the best use of sound or music in a festival documentary
Closer
/ Closer
Tina Gharavi / UK, France / 2000 / 24 min.
Jury statement: The jury agreed that within the collection of
documentaries, the film Closer is a work of great creativity. The
director uses with amazing sensitivity a large scale of real sounds
and music of different types and genres (electronic, techno, modern
artificial music) to underline the distinct and meaningful changes
in the atmosphere. The manipulation of authentic sound almost to the
extent that there is total silence is particularly compelling in the
central scene of the film in which there is an intimate discussion
between mother and daughter. The use of sound exponentiates the message
of the film, which is a testimony about an uneasy way to find one_s
identity, and the ability to overcome prejudices set by generational
differences and other barriers.
Announced by: Jiří Hubička
Award presented by: Václav Kasík, general director of the Czech
Radio
Award assumed by: Elizabeth White, second secretary of Embassy
of United Kingdom, British Council Deputy Director
For the third year, the jury of the Czech Radio
Award is comprised of Vlastimil
Hankus, Ladislav Reich, and Jiří Hubička.
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Plzeňský Prazdroj Award
for the best film chosen directly by the votes of festival-goers
The
Last Just Man / The Last Just Man
Steven Silver / Canada / 2001 / 70 min.
The audience choice announced and award presented: Michal
Kačena, zástupce generálního partnera
Award assumed by: Olivier Nicoloff, Counsellor for Political
and Economic Affaires, Embassy of Canada |
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