18/03/2019 - Other winners include Cold Case Hammarskjold, Reconstructing Utoya and Everything Must Fall, while The Good Death and Another Chance have been awarded in the Czech Competition

Director Mads Brügger clutching his Best Director Award for Cold Case Hammarskjöld (© One World)

The 21st One World International Documentary Film Festival in Prague (6-17 March) ended with a closing ceremony that saw the French film Heart of Stone [+see also:
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Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger received the Best Director Award for the Sundance title Cold Case Hammarskjöld [+see also:
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interview: Mads Brügger
interview: Mads Brügger
film profile], while the Special Jury Award went to Carl Javér's Reconstructing Utøya [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], which world-premiered in the Berlinale's Panorama. The film also won the newly established Regional Jury Prize.

In the Right to Know section, South African director Rehad Desai's IDFA entry Everything Must Fall [+see also:
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The Best Film Award in the Czech Competition was given to Tomáš Krupa's The Good Death [+see also:
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interview: Tomáš Krupa
film profile], while Eva Tomanová's Another Chance [+see also:
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Here is the full list of award winners:

International Competition

Best Film
Heart of Stone [+see also:
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Best Director 
Mads Brügger - Cold Case Hammarskjöld [+see also:
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interview: Mads Brügger
interview: Mads Brügger
film profile] (Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium)

Special Jury Award
Reconstructing Utøya [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Carl Javér (Sweden/Norway/Denmark)

Right to Know Competition

Best Film
Everything Must Fall [+see also:
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Special Jury Prize 
To the Four Winds [+see also:
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Czech Competition 

Best Film 
The Good Death [+see also:
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interview: Tomáš Krupa
film profile] - Tomáš Krupa (Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/France)

Special Jury Prize
Another Chance [+see also:
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Student Jury Award
#FollowMe - Nicolaas Veul, Duco Coops (Netherlands)

Regional Jury Award
Reconstructing Utøya - Carl Javér 

Avast Foundation Audience Award
FAR. The Story of a Journey Around the World - Gwendolin Weisser, Patrick Allagaier (Germany)