In a Whisper wins IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary

Today, IDFA announced the winners of the competition programs during the IDFA 2019 Awards Ceremony at Eye Film Museum. The winner of the VPRO IDFA Audience Award will be announced on Friday, November 29th. The International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) continues until Sunday, December 1st.

IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

Directors Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández are the winners of the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary (€ 20.000) with In a Whisper (Spain, France, Switzerland, Cuba). The film centers on two emigrated Cuban filmmakers whose passion for film, friendship, and freedom reunites them after years apart.

“A refreshing expression of womanhood; an ode to loss; a celebration of friendship, will, and vulnerability; a reclaiming of hope and passion; and a piercingly honest cinematic dialogue are all embodied in this magical, original, and risk-taking cinematic endeavor,” the jury reported.

This year, for the first time at IDFA, three new awards were presented in the Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. The IDFA Award for Best Directing (€ 5.000) went to Mehrdad Oskouei for his film Sunless Shadows (Iran).

The IDFA Award for Best Editing (€ 2.500) went to Sander Vos for Punks, directed by Maasja Ooms, and the IDFA Award for Best Cinematography (€ 2.500) went to Maasja Ooms for Punks (the Netherlands), directed by Ooms.

The jury members for IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary were Claire Simon, Mila Turajlić, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Gaston Kaboré, and Rima Mismar.

See full jury report for Feature-Lenght Competition

Source： IDFA