64nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film

Germany, October 25 - October 31 2021

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The jury

Petra Meterc (Slovenia), Jérôme Michaud (Canada, Montreal), Maximilian Schäffer (Germany)

Awarded films

Words of Negroes by Sylvaine Dampierre
(France, 2020, 78 min)

Reports

Where Sugar is Gold by Maximilian Schäffer
Enduration and Reflection by Petra Meterc
Fighting Injustice, Again and Again by Jérôme Michaud

The jury motivated its choice:
“For questioning the means of production in the context of hard physical labour and the perception of freedom and dignity in a globalized world. For giving her protagonists autonomous voices. For finding a microcosm where words of the past echo into the future.”

Maximilian Schäffer reviews the winning film, Words of Negroes.
Photo: DOK Leipzig 2021, Hyejeong Yoo