19/02/2015 - Peter Flinckenberg has been honoured by the American Society of Cinematographers, while Berlin has given awards to films by Joshua Oppenheimer and Vladimir Tomic

Pirjo Honkasalo (left) and Peter Flinckenberg at work on the set of Concrete Night (© Ville Tanttu)

At the 29^th American Society of Cinematographers’ annual ceremony on Sunday 15 February in Los Angeles, Finnish cinematographer Peter Flinckenberg was the first Finn to receive the society’s Spotlight Award for his work on Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo's award-winning Concrete Night [+see also:
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Flinckenberg, who snagged another Jussi for Finnish director Amir Escandari’s documentary Pixadores [+see also:
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At the Berlin International Film Festival, two Danish documentaries were given awards by the independent juries: Joshua Oppenheimer's second film about the Indonesian genocide, The Look of Silence [+see also:
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Oppenheimer’s “companion piece” to his Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing [+see also:
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In 1992, Tomic – when he was 12 – fled Sarajevo with his mother and elder brother; now, after being educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he describes how they spent two years in limbo on the Flotel Europa, a giant ship that the Red Cross pulled into the canals of Copenhagen, since the refugee camps were full.