“Los hermanos Oligor” receive the prize for Best Documentary in Docupolis '05

The Brothers Oligor are two youngsters that, for three years, lock themselves into a cellar to create a world of mechanical instruments and puppets using recycled objects. In the documentary, reality and fiction, life and art mix and take us to the permanent funambulism of the puppets.
This is the history of the "Hermanos Oligor" of Joan López Lloret (Spain), winner of the 6.000€ of the Award Best Documentary in Docúpolis ´05 “Ior the capacity to recover the classical documentary handwriting and to present a story of fascinating characters with a human and intimate look", commented of the jury.

This year the jury was composed of Julián Álvarez, Josetxo Cerdán and Joaquín Romaguera, wanted to give a special mentioning to the "The Curse of the Hedgehog" of Dimitru Budrala (Rumania) “for high anthropological value and the its capacity to show a community with an enorme vital strength in a disappearing world," said Josetxo Cerdán. With a style inspired by the cine-vérité, Dimitri Budrala, goes behind stereotypes, following an extremely poor gypsy family through their winterly survival voyages.

The TV3 Award Best Directors for the Best Short-Documentary was a very difficult selection, this year. The jury, formed by Oriol Porta, Jacobo Sucari and Antoni Tortajada, has decided to award the price endowed with 3.000€ to "Nablus, la ciudad fantasma" made by Alberto Arce and María Moreno (Palestina/Spain), "for the way to show a critical reality with an attitude of risk in an extreme moment and for the revelation of aspects, that have never been seen in a conflict that has been treated so much by the medias of communication”.

"Nablus, la ciudad fantasma", tells the story of the Palestinian city Nablus, invaded by the Israeli army in August 2004. Furthermore three awards, each endowed with 1.100€ have been given to:"La Pachamama es Nuestra" by Anna Soldevila (Spain/Bolivia), "TV o la morada de mis imágenes" (Colombia) and "Puerto Punk" by Ricardo Salazar (Chile).

The Winner of the First Opus Award, was selected by Chema Alvargonzález, Joan Fontcuberta and Ricardo Íscar. Ermedia grants the distribution of the documentary for the winner. "Milagros concedidos" by Andrea Álvarez and Luciana Kaplan received the prize. The film tells the stories of life, faith and popular religiosity through the work of the Mexican altarpiece painter Alfredo Vilchis, one of the few altarpiece artist that is left. Besides its close link to politics, economy and the social problems of the country, the documentary is also a restaurateur of the memory, of myth and the history in small-letters. The documentary allows us to look at a more traditional Mexico and all the experiences, that are hidden in these altarpieces.

The jury has spoken out honouring mentions in the category Best First Opus to: "La tierra prometida" by Susana Collantes and Antonio Palomares (Spain/Brasil) “for those moments, that achieve to transport the restricted situation those without land” and to "The twisted dream of a fixed rider" by Rafael Benito Haertl (England) “for its narrative capacity, the agility of the visual treatment, the intensity of the story and the brake out of conventional documentaries, converting that, what could be an anecdote in a universal story about self-realisation”, records the jury.

Besides the endowed prizes, Docúpolis has awarded different honouring mentions. "París-Marseille" by Sebastián Martínez Pinero (France), received the Tercer Ojo Award for the Best Experimental Documentary, “for its risky put-in-scene and for its achievement to transcribe a forgain experience in pictures and convert it into an own.” "Paris-Marseille" takes the story of the Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar “Los argonautas de la cosmopista” and converts it into a diary of a literarily-cinematographic journey from Paris to Marseille.

The Award to the Best Documentary Human Rights takes care, that the social commitment of the documentary is widely recognized and that often unjust or cruel practices are made obvious by documentaries. This year the prize for the Best Documentary of Human Rights has been awarded to “Final Solution” (India), for its commitment to the historical memory and the reflection of a rigorous tragedy with irony and sense of humour. “Final Solution” is a study about the politics of hate, recorded in Gujarat from February and March 2002 until July 2003. The film documents the changing face of the politics of the political right in India, making a study of the massacre of 2002 in occidental India.

Due to the great amount of documentaries that have arrived from the Latin-American continent and due to the continuing war and socio-economic conflict that the people there live in, Docupolis created the Honouring Award for the Best Latin-American Documentary. This year the winner was "No tan nuestras" by Ramiro Longo (Argentina), that describes the human odyssey of the war in the Falkland Islands, shown through the reality, that a veteran of the Argentinean war faces.

Furthermore, the prize “Man of the Camera” is awarded to the protagonist of the retroperspective of the author, who this year was the Brazilian Cineaste Eduardo Coutinho. Cineaste, dramaturge and journalist. His work is characterized by depth and sensitivity with which he approaches the problems and aspirations a lot of the people, that are marginalised, with an attentative and reflective view. Eduardo Coutinho could not attend the Festival to receive his prize, but has send his acceptance speech to the organisation of Docupolis`05 with the following words: "First of all, I want to thank you for the honouring. I accept the prize for the Men Of The Camera with great satisfaction, and I am sorry, that I can not to be there personally. Work forbids be to go. However, it is important, that the films are seen and heard and not the authors, especially concerning those films, that I make. I thank all of you, for your presence.”

The last of those prizes was the one of the audience. Out of 40 documentaries that have been screened in the different categories of the International Competition "Los Hermanos Oligor" was selected.

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