‘La Bonga,’ ‘Anatomy of the Night,’ ‘Other Profile’ Win at Visions du Reel Industry Awards
Top industry awards at the 53rd edition of the international documentary film festival Visions du Réel have gone to “La Bonga,” “Anatomy of the Night,” “The Other Profile,” “Noor” and “Becoming Roosi.”
A total of 27 projects were invited to participate in three key forums – VdR-Pitching, VdR-Work in Progress and VdR-Rough Cut Lab – that ran as part of the festival’s industry activities in Nyon from April 10-14.
Seventeen awards were handed out to 16 docs-in-the-making, two of which won a double award: “La Bonga,” by Sebastián Pinzón Silva and Canela Reyes, took the Visions Sud Est and Raggioverde Subtitling trophies, and “Mailin” by Maria Silvia Esteve won both the TËNK Post-Production and Party Film Sales awards.
Considered to be the festival’s top industry prize, the Vision Sud Est award comes with a 10,000 CHF ($10,700) cash prize handed out to the best project from the Southern or Eastern Europe, and is the only award that takes in titles in both of the festival’s main industry sections: the VdR-Pitching and the VdR-Work in Progress segment.
Handing out the prize, jury member Delphine Jeanneret, programmer and curator at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterhur in Switzerland, said: “We decided to award a highly promising collective work that will have a broad impact on a community that took an active part in a portrait empowering them to reclaim their community through filmmaking.”
Pinzón Silva and Reyes’ debut feature, “La Bonga” is about a displaced Afro-Colombian community that embarks on a symbolic journey through the jungles of the Caribbean to resurrect a home that exists only in their memories. “Mailin” is the story of Mailin, who for 15 years suffered the abuses of a priest, and embarks on a quest to recover the memory of her past, told through a collage of archive and childhood drawings.
The VdR-Pitching trophy for the most promising project went to “Anatomy of the Night” by Swiss director Lionel Baier (“La Vanité”), about a filmmaker suffering from sleep loss who sets off in search of the perfect night, and, as he leaves the city in his VW Combi, becomes aware of the violence of artificial lighting.
Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, a member of the jury, said: “We were mesmerized by the performance of the pitch – all we had to do was close our eyes.”
Receiving his award, Baier joked: “Really? You mean now I’m going to have to go out in the cold and the night and make this film?!”
“The Monsters” by Manuel Abramovich (“Blue Boy,” “Pornomelancholia”) picked up another top industry prize, the HEAD-Geneva Post-Production Award, for his project aimed at challenging gender norms and rethinking the institution of the family, where trans and non-binary protagonists will be invited to create a film together through performance and debate.
The coveted RTS Award, which consists of a pre-buy of TV rights by Switzerland’s French-language public broadcaster, went to two projects: “Noor” by Jérôme le Maire (“Burning Out,” “Le Thé ou l’électricité”) and “Becoming Roosi” by Margit Lillak (“The Circle”), a coming-of-age film about a feisty young girl who grows up as the child of an environmental activist.
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