Managed by SCAM and serving to recognise the best documentaries screened in the various selections of the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Eye Award, handed out this year by a jury chaired by Ezra Edelman (who was flanked by Julie Bertuccelli, Déborah François, Iris Brey and Orwa Nyrabia), was conferred upon A Night of Knowing Nothing [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Payal Kapadia
scheda film] by India’s Payal Kapadia, a production by French outfit Petit Chaos that was first unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight. The film revolves around an Indian university student who writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

A Special Jury Prize was bestowed upon Babi Yar. Context [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sergei Loznitsa
scheda film] by Ukraine’s Sergei Loznitsa, premiered as a Special Screening in the Official Selection. It was produced by the Netherlands’ Atoms & Void together with the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.