The 24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has announced its 2020 winners. This year, the festival continues through 8 November where viewers (including from outside of the Czech Republic) can watch the films at DAFilms.com.

The complete list of winners is below:

OPUS BONUM

Best World Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: White on White (dir. Viera Čákanyová / Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2020)
• Special mention: A Man Leaning (dir. Olivier Dury, Marie-Violaine Brincard / France, 2020)

BETWEEN THE SEAS

Best Central and East European Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: Latvian Coyote (Ivars Zviedris / Latvia, 2020)
• Special mention: THE LAST IMAGE (dir. Judith Zdesar / Austria, 2020)

BETWEEN THE SEAS STUDENT FILM COMPETITION

Best Central and East European Student Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: Time Is (Zaur Kourazov / Belgium, Russia, 2020)

CZECH JOY

Best Czech Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: A New Shift (Jindřich Andrš / Czech Republic, 2020)
• Special mention: Wolves at the Borders (dir. Martin Páv / Czech Republic, 2020)
• Student Jury Award: Traces of a Landscape (dir. Petr Záruba, Czech Republic, Italy, 2020)

FIRST LIGHTS

Best Feature-Length Documentary Debut Film 2020

• Winner: Ghosts: A Long Way Home (Tiago Siopa / Portugal, 2019 )
• Special mention: A House (dir. Judith Auffray / France, Switzerland, 2020)
• Student Jury Award: A House (dir. Judith Auffray / France, Switzerland, 2020)

FASCINATIONS

Best Experimental Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: We Are Without (SJ. Ramir / Australia, New Zealand, 2020)
• Special mention: Baroque Femina (Nr. 7-11) (dir. Péter Lichter/ Hungary, 2020)

FASCINATIONS: EXPRMNTL.CZ

Best Czech Experimental Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: Catastrophe (dir. Zbyněk Baladrán / Czech Republic, 2019)
• Special mention: Sparkly shiny brightly see, kaleidoscope grows from ears (dir. Tereza Chudáčková, Klára Ondračková / Czech Republic, 2020)
• Special mention: Nobody needs to know about this, he said (dir. Ester Grohová / Czech Republic, 2020)

SHORT JOY

Best Short Documentary Film 2020

• Winner: First Birthday After the Apocalypse (dir. Farah Hasanbegović / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, 2020)

TESTIMONIES

Best Film Testimony 2020

• Winner: Oeconomia (dir. Carmen Losmann / Germany, 2020)
• Special mention: Vivos (dir. Ai Weiwei / Germany, Mexico, 2020)

CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA AWARD 2020

• Ai Weiwei

SILVER EYE AWARDS 2020

Silver Eye Award feature-length category 2020

• Winner: A New Shift (Jindřich Andrš / Czech Republic, 2020)

Silver Eye Award for the best short documentary 2020

• Winner: Son of the Streets (dir. Mohammed Almughanni / Poland, Lebanon, 2020)
• Special Mention: To Feather, to Wither (Hanna Hovitie / Hungary, 2020)