NEWS Winner of the Awards Docúpolis 07 Beyond the media coverage, which repeatedly connects the immigrants with poverty and insecurity, Bruno Ulmer made a portray of the odyssey of eight men searching the European dream to maintain their families. Three journeys crisscrossing from East to West, from South to North, always walking the tightrope, trying to answer the ultimate question: What does it mean to be a man? The Jury of the Docúpolis Award was faced to a difficult selection by means of the high quality of works, the diversity of topics and narrative forms. Due to this they decided to gain a special mention to the south African documentary The Mother’s House. The Best First Documentary Award 2007 is allocated ex aequo, due to the difficulty of choose the very best work from over 300 competitors within this category. The winners are Encounter Point by Julia Bacha and Ronit Avni (USA) and A verdade do gato (The truth of the cat) by Jeremy Hammers. Both documentaries deal with latent social conflicts, one between Israel and Palestine, and the other tells about the labour exploitation on the fields of cane sugar in Brazil. The aesthetic ShantyGARDENtown is the winner of the Best Short Documentary Gran Angular Award. The work of Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti (France) explains the search of the Turkish landscape designer Belemir Dalokay, who is, in reason of the problems of industrialisation in Ankara, exploring the placidness of the “Schrebergarten” in Berlin. The new award within the official category of the international concurs, the OFF Docúpolis Award is gained to Roaming Around, a story about homeless children in Guinea, made by Brigitte Maria Bertele (Germany). Honorific Awards Within the huge official selection, the honorific prices coincide due to their reference to the South, about various topics and with different narrative techniques. The Human Right Award is given to A walk to beautiful by Mary Olive Smith (USA) about five women from Ethiopia, who were repudiated because of a childbirth accident. Descaminos by Marilia Roche, Luis Felipe Hernández, Alexandre Baxter, Joao Flores, Maria de Fátima Augusto, Leandro BHL, Armando Mendz and Cristiano Abud (Brazil) was selected as best Latin-American documentary. And finally the Award for Best Experimental Documentary (Tercer Ojo) was gained to the short A ilha da boa vida (The island of good life) by Merces Tomaz Gomes (Portugal) about the streets of Bombay. As every year, the Audience Award of course chosen by the public, honours the most popular documentary of 2007: Djiarama. Oficial Competition Awards:
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