Tell Spring Not to Come This Year victorious at DocumentaMadrid 2015
- The British documentary has gone home with the top prize from the 12th edition of the international doc festival, which was held last week in the Spanish capital
On 8 May, a jury comprising Paulo Roberto de Carvalho (Brazil), Tomás Cimadevilla (Spain) and Marlene Dermer (Peru/USA) awarded the first prize of the 12th Madrid International Documentary Festival – DocumentaMadrid 2015 to Tell Spring Not to Come This Year [+see also:
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The second prize went to Hanna Polak (Denmark) for Something Better to Come [+see also:
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The audience voted for The Look of Silence [+see also:
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In the shorts sidebar, the official jury – Argentina’s Manuel Abramovich, Italy’s Massimiliano Nardulli and Spain’s Silvia Venegas – opted for the Cuban title El enemigo by Aldemar Matías, whereas the second prize went to 10 by Marta Jurkiewicz (the Netherlands), and the Special Jury Prize was granted to The Conversation by Anastasia Novikova (Russia). The Special Mention went to the Polish production Starting Point, directed by Michal Szczesniak.
(Translated from Spanish)
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