Since 2019, this award has celebrated the legendary avant-gardist, Chantal Akerman.
Features in this section, deploy unconventional means to convey an actual event or story. Nevet Yitzhak is this year’s jury-artist.
The Chantal Akerman Prize for Experimental Documentary
Return to a Strange Land
| 72 minutes
In this nostalgic and yet dramatic documentary, choreographer Jiří Kylián creates a final work for his lifelong partner Sabine, a deeply personal performance that celebrates love, creation, and the ephemeral nature of life.
Silent Flood
| 90 minutes
Set along a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by regular floods and an unexpected war.