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 [+lire aussi :
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"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 [+lire aussi :
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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 [+lire aussi :
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The NEXT:WAVE Award went to Lea Najjar's Kash Kash [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], 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 [+lire aussi :
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The full list of awards:

DOX:AWARD
The Eclipse [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nataša Urban
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NEW:VISION
What About China - Trinh Minh-ha (USA/China)
Special Mention
Congress of Idling Persons - Bassem Saad (Lebanon)

FACT:AWARD
Black Mambas [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Lena Karbe (Germany/France)
Special Mention
The Territory [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Alex Pritz (Brazil/Denmark/USA)

NORDIC:DOX
The Last Human - Ivalo Frank (Denmark/Greenland)
Special Mention
Tsumu – Where Do You Go With Your Dreams [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Kasper Kiertzner (Denmark/Sweden)

NEXT:WAVE
Kash Kash [+lire aussi :
interview : Lea Najjar
fiche film] - Lea Najjar (Germany/Lebanon/Qatar)
Special Mention
Moosa Lane - Anita Hopland (Pakistan/Denmark/Norway)

POLITIKEN:DOX
A House Made of Splinters [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] - Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark)
Special Mention
Mr. Graversen - Michael Graversen (Denmark)