The 19th edition of CPH:DOX, which took place both online and on-site in Copenhagen from 23 March to 3 April, wrapped with an award ceremony which saw five out of six top awards go to women filmmakers.

Serbian-born, Oslo-based director Nataša Urban's The Eclipse [+lee también:
crítica
entrevista: Nataša Urban
ficha de la película], a personal reckoning with her country's recent history combining 16mm and Super 8 cinematography with archive footage, triumphed in the main DOX:AWARD Competition.

"We were stirred by the film’s rage, moved by its tender beauty, and roused by the ugliness it courageously makes its subject. As our present of war and violence threatens to one day become yesterday’s news, this film tells us in unambiguous terms: do not look away; do not forget," said the jury comprising producer Patricia Drati, writer and editor Devika Girish, filmmakers Marcus Lindeen and Marion Neumann and curator Julian Ross.

German filmmaker Lena Karbe took home the FACT:AWARD for Black Mambas [+lee también:
crítica
ficha de la película], about the titular group of military-trained women who are protecting South Africa's Kruger National Park from poachers. A special mention in the section went to Alex Pritz's Sundance prizewinner The Territory [+lee también:
tráiler
ficha de la película] (Brazil/Denmark/USA), on the war between an indigenous tribe and Bolsonaro-backed farmers in the Brazilian rainforest.

The NORDIC:DOX Competition was dominated by two films about Greenland. Local director Ivalo Frank received the main award for The Last Human, which counterpoints the discovery of first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord with the accelerating ice melting, while Kasper Kiertzner's Tsumu – Where Do You Go With Your Dreams [+lee también:
crítica
ficha de la película] (Denmark/Sweden), following three 19 year-old friends who are trying to decide whether to leave their country, picked up a special mention.

The NEXT:WAVE Award went to Lea Najjar's Kash Kash [+lee también:
entrevista: Lea Najjar
ficha de la película], a vital portrait of Beirut depicted through the story of a game in which men try to lure the other players’ pigeons into their own pigeon lofts. A special mention was handed to Anita Hopland's Moosa Lane, in which the director revisits the material she shot over 14 years in her two home countries, Pakistan and Denmark. 

In the NEW:VISION competition, the main award went to Vietnamese film artist and theorist Trinh Minh-ha's What About China (USA/China), an essayistic reflection on the rich and complex history of the country and of the film medium. Lebanese director Bassem Saad's Congress of Idling Persons received a special mention.

Finally, the POLITIKEN:DOX Award was bestowed upon Sundance Best Director Award-winner Simon Lereng Wilmont for A House Made of Splinters [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película], and a special mention went to Michael Graversen's Mr. Graversen, in which the director reunites with his father.

The full list of awards:

DOX:AWARD
The Eclipse [+lee también:
crítica
entrevista: Nataša Urban
ficha de la película] - Nataša Urban (Norway)

NEW:VISION
What About China - Trinh Minh-ha (USA/China)
Special Mention
Congress of Idling Persons - Bassem Saad (Lebanon)

FACT:AWARD
Black Mambas [+lee también:
crítica
ficha de la película] - Lena Karbe (Germany/France)
Special Mention
The Territory [+lee también:
tráiler
ficha de la película] - Alex Pritz (Brazil/Denmark/USA)

NORDIC:DOX
The Last Human - Ivalo Frank (Denmark/Greenland)
Special Mention
Tsumu – Where Do You Go With Your Dreams [+lee también:
crítica
ficha de la película] - Kasper Kiertzner (Denmark/Sweden)

NEXT:WAVE
Kash Kash [+lee también:
entrevista: Lea Najjar
ficha de la película] - Lea Najjar (Germany/Lebanon/Qatar)
Special Mention
Moosa Lane - Anita Hopland (Pakistan/Denmark/Norway)

POLITIKEN:DOX
A House Made of Splinters [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] - Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark)
Special Mention
Mr. Graversen - Michael Graversen (Denmark)