Youth Jury Award

This award is presented by five of the UK's most passionate young documentary lovers to celebrate non-fiction cinema.

Alis

Teenagers in Colombia conjure up a classmate named Alis, who manifests their concerns and desire to break the cultural cycle of violence and hope for a brighter future.

Nicolas van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf
2022
Film Programme

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Eat Your Catfish

This uncompromising portrait of co-director Noah Amir Arjomand’s mother, who has ALS, shows a woman who has chosen to live a challenging life on her terms.

Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen
2021
Film Programme

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Electric Malady

From within a cocoon of layered blankets, William copes with a life consumed by electrosensitivity, in this touching experiential portrait of isolation and survival.

Marie Lidén
2021
Film Programme

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Four Journeys

A second-born child during the height of China’s one-child policy, Louis Hothothot returns home to reconcile decades of guilt and familial discord.

Louis Hothothot
2021
Film Programme

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Goodbye, Captain

The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.

Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Soares de Almeida
2022
Film Programme

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No Simple Way Home

The daughter of Rebecca and John Garang returns to South Sudan to document her mother’s attempts to forge peace on the political stage.

Akuol de Mabior
2022
Film Programme

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Rising Sun Blues

An actress asks a sex worker to help her create a film in which they share secrets of their professions, and they become both filmmakers and characters.

Renata Ferraz, Maria Roxo
2022
Film Programme

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