Juries and Awards

Jihlava IDFF presents the following awards:

• Best World Documentary - Opus Bonum
• Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film - Between the Seas
• Best Czech Documentary Film - Czech Joy
• Best Experimental Documentary - Fascinations
• Doc Alliance Award
• Audience Award
• Contribution to World Cinema Award
• Respekt Award

OPUS BONUM section

selects an outstanding documentary film of the year from a diverse collection representing tendencies in world documentary; since all of the films are significant, the festival suggest the following game; a single juror picks a single film, a “brilliant” work.

BEST WORLD DOCUMENTARY 2012
Kuichisan / Japan, USA 2012 / Director Maiko Endo

Jury: Xavier Christiaens

BETWEEN THE SEAS section

is a competition section for the countries and nations of Central and Eastern Europe, including their historical, political, and cultural interrelationships.

BEST CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM 2012
Mirage / United Kingdom, Serbia 2011 / Director Srđan Keča

SPECIAL MENTION
The Blockade / Croatia 2012 / Director  Igor Bezinović

Jurors: Jeremy Orlebar, Mohammadreza Farzad, Tomáš Hrubý, Teddy Grouya

CZECH JOY section

is a prestigious selection of Czech documentaries; rather than a mere competition for the best Czech documentary, it represents a celebration of the diverse range of new topics and the adventurous spirit of cinematic expression. The composition of the jury, too, is diverse; besides various personalities of Czech cultural and social life, it also includes the last year’s winner of the Czech Joy section as well as a citizen of Jihlava.

BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM 2012
Fortress / Czech republic 2012 / Directors Klára Tasovská, Lukáš Kokeš

SPECIAL MENTION
Two Nil / Czech republic 2012 / Director Pavel Abrahám
Stone Games / Czech republic 2012 / Director Jan Gebert

Jurors: Ivan Havel, Martin Mareček, Tamara Moyzes, Vítězslav Schrek, Jiří Šmíd

FASCINATIONS section

is a large factory for experimental filmmaking; stripping reality-based films of all that weighs them down, it significantly expands the possibilities of cinematic expression. The jury of the competition part of the Fascinations section is traditionally composed of members of a single film family.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY FILM 2012
underGROWTH / USA 2012 / Director Robert Todd

Jurors: Petr Skala, Hana Skalová, Bohdana Kerbachová

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DOC ALLIANCE AWARD 2012 (presented at DOK Leipzig)
The Will / Denmark 2011 / Director Christian Sønderby Jepsen

AUDIENCE AWARD 2012
New Life of Family Album / Czech repulic, Slovakia 2012 / Director Adam Oľha

CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA AWARD 2012
Vojtěch Jasný

RESPEKT AWARD 2012 for the best television or on-line reportage
Kauza Casa / reportage from TV series Reporters of Czech Television / Reporters Aneta Snopová, Markéta Dobiášová

• Learn more about their history through a database of juries and presented awards of the past years.