The jury
Nadia Meflah (France), Elena Rubashevska (Ukraine), Samira Dami (Tunisia)
Awarded films
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This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection by
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
(Lesotho, South Africa, Italy, 2019, 120 min)
The winning film set a precedent FIPRESCI hardly has ever had before: it received critics’ award for the third time. For third year in a row, it keeps uniting film critics from all over the world, making them unanimously vote for it to be awarded yet again.
According to the jurors, “A hypnotic feature, the film unfolds a narrative of great poetic and political power that questions our place of responsibility in the world. It brings up a magnificent variations on the conflict between tradition and modernity through a fascinating heroine. A unique work of a fragile country, this film opens a path that we are particularly proud to honour”.
