Both Berlinale documentary entries made in Austria – Notes from the Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel and Running on Empty by Lisa Weber – are among the 21 documentaries selected across all sections for the prestigious Berlinale distinction. The two Austrian Panorama contributions will be vying for the € 40,000 prize money along with new works from Rithy Panh or
Jia Zhang-Ke.
The following 21 films are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award, sponsored by public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb):
COMPETITION (1)
Irradiés (Irradiated)
France / Cambodia
by Rithy Panh
BERLINALE SPECIAL (3)
The American Sector
USA
by Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez
Speer Goes to Hollywood
Israel
by Vanessa Lapa
Yi Zhi You Dao Hai Shui Bian Lan (Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue)
People’s Republic of China
by Jia Zhang-Ke
ENCOUNTERS (2)
A metamorfose dos pássaros (The Metamorphosis of Birds)
Portugal
by Catarina Vasconcelos
Gunda
Norway / USA
by Victor Kossakovsky
PANORAMA (6)
Always Amber
Sweden
by Lia Hietala, Hannah Reinikainen
Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt (Notes from the Underworld)
Austria
by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Days of Cannibalism
France / South Africa / Netherlands
by Teboho Edkins
Jetzt oder morgen (Running on Empty)
Austria
by Lisa Weber
O Reflexo do Lago (Amazon Mirror)
Brazil
by Fernando Segtowick
Petite fille (Little Girl)
France
by Sébastien Lifshitz
FORUM (6)
Anunciaron tormenta (A Storm Was Coming)
Spain
by Javier Fernández Vázquez
Grève ou crève (Strike or Die)
France
by Jonathan Rescigno
La casa dell’amore (The House of Love)
Italy
by Luca Ferri
Medium
Argentina
by Edgardo Cozarinsky
Responsabilidad empresarial (Corporate Accountability)
Argentina
by Jonathan Perel
Victoria
Belgium
by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere
GENERATION (1)
Perro
Germany
by Lin Sternal
PERSPEKTIVE DEUTSCHES KINO (2)
Automotive
Germany
by Jonas Heldt
Walchensee Forever
Germany
by Janna Ji Wonders
