The list of award winners from the 2023 #FIFDH includes 11 outstanding films that, in the Creative Documentary Competition, explore the question of #decolonisation of narratives; and, in the Fiction Competition, depict the tyranny of an arbitrary Iranian regime. The emancipation of women and the fight against #femicides, as well as press freedom in #Afghanistan are at the heart of the other award-winning films.
FIFDH 2023 awards
- Grand Geneva Award: Aurora’s Sunrise (dir. Inna Sahakyan)
- Prix Gilda Vieria de Mello Award: Colette et Justin (dir. Alain Kassanda)
- Special Mention: Seven Winters in Tehran (dir. Steffi Niederzoll)
- Youth Jury – Documentary: My Name is Happy (dir. Ayşe Toprak and Nick Read)
- Fiction Grand Award: Beyond the Wall (dir. Vahid Jalilvand)
- Youth Jury Prize – Fiction: A Room of My Own (dir. Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze)
- Word Organisation Against Toptrture Prize: The Etilaat Roz (dir. Abbas Rezaie)
- Storyboard Impact Award: My Name is Happy (dir. Ayşe Toprak and Nick Read)
- Docs Up Fund Award: Scarlet Girls (dir. Paula Cury)
- Sublimages Impact Award: Land of Women (dir. Aymar El Amir et Nada Riyadh)
- Artopie Award: Je suis Noires (dir. Juliana Fanjul and Rachel M’Bon)
