OFFICIAL COMPETITION

DOCÚPOLIS AWARD: 6.000€

Los hermanos Oligor. Joan López Lloret, 85’, Spain, 16:9.
The brothers Oligor are two young men, who lock themselves into a cellar to create a world of mechanical gadgets and puppets made of recycled objects. The reality and the fiction of life and art take us to the permanent funambolism of the puppets.

BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD - SPECIAL JURY MENTION

The curse of the Hedgehog. Dimitru Budrala, 93’, Romania, DV-Cam.
Turica and her relatives wander from village to village, carrying on their backs handmade brooms and baskets, which they try to trade for food. By the use of the Cine Verité style, the filmmaker goes beyond stereotypes, following an extremely poor Gypsy family their winter trips of survival.

TV3 PRIZE FOR NEW DOCUMENTARY AUTHORS

Nablus, la ciudad fantasma. Alberto Arce/María Moreno, Palestine/Spain, 30’, Mini-DV.
The Israeli army has invaded the Palestinian city Nablus in August of 2004. A group of International activist of the ISM (International Solidarity Movement) occupies the space of impunity and the lack of witnesses who testimony how the military habitually acts.

3 SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS: 1.100€

La Pachamama es Nuestra. Anna Soldevila, 35’, Spain/Bolivia, DV-Cam.
Analyses the consequences of privatisation of natural resources in Bolivia, especially of gas and petrol, as well as the social effects that this process has provoked.

TV o la morada de mis imágenes. Diana Giraldo, Colombia, 26’, DV.
Autobiographic documentary in which the author meets herself to explore her memories and to talk about those experiences that she shares with her generation: to grow up in front of the T.V.

Puerto Punk. Ricardo Salazar, Chile, 30’, DV NTSC.
Chronicle of tracking about the punk culture in Valparaíso, Chile , made by a member of the movement between ’99 and 2000.

BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY AWARD (OPERA PRIMA)/ DISTRIBUTION

Milagros concedidos. Andrea Álvarez i Luciana Kaplan, 54’, Mexico, DVD.
Stories of life, faith and popular religiosity are shown through the work of altarpiece painter Alfredo Vilchis, who is one of the last artists making votive offerings (traditional craftwork paintings on metal that are requested by order to thank for miracles). We learn about traditional México and all the histories that are hidden in these altarpieces.

OPERA PRIMA AWARD - SPECIAL JURY MENTION

La tierra prometida. Susana Collantes/Antonio Palomares, Spain/Brazil, 64’, DV.
In Brazil, the peasents disinherited of land, organise themselves to fight against unproductive real estates causing hunger, unemployment and under-development. With Lula, the hopes of those who try to democratize the land have grown. Employment increases but also the violence.

The twisted dream of a fixed rider. Rafael Benito Haertl, United Kingdom, 53’, DV.
Jean Marie has been a cycle courier for the past ten years. Already notorious for organizing vicious alleycats (courier-races) in London he and his sidekick Mike set out to bring the first ever alleycat to the traffic stricken boulevards of Paris... The film describes the intention of Jean Marie to make his life sensefull. In essence, they are part of an urban subculture that celebrates independence, risk and freedom in contemporary city life.

 

HONORIFIC AWARDS

“L’HOME DE LA CÀMERA” (The man of the camera) AWARD: Eduardo Coutinho

AUDIENCE AWARD: Los hermanos Oligor. Joan López Lloret, 85’, Spain, 16:9.

TERCER OJO AWARD - BEST EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY FILM

París-Marseille. Sebastián Martínez Pinero, 70’, France, Digibeta 4/3.
May 1982, the Argentinian writer Julio Cortàzar wrote “Los autonautas de la cosmopista”, a log-book of a trip from Paris to Marseille. The documentalist makes the same trip, using the original concept to create a new, free, independent experience. This very personal film looks at our society from a different point of view.

HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

Final Solution. 149’, India.
Study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 - July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 carnage in Gujarat in Western India. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscent of the Nazi Germany of early 1930s.

BEST LATIN-AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY

No tan nuestras. Ramiro Longo, 73’, Argentina.
Discribes the human odysse of the war of the Falkland Islands, from the point of view of the dure reality that a veteran of the argentinian war faces. A history full of uncertanties, that co-exist with the scars of the cold, hunger and death.

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