A group of Ukrainian filmmakers have won the top industry award at Swiss international documentary film festival Visions du Réel with their project “The Days I Would Like to Forget,” divided into three chapters, each of which will explore a different phenomenon of war., Maksym Nakonechnyi , Simon Mozgovyi and Yelizaveta Smith of independent Ukrainian production company Tabor were awarded the Vision du Sud Est prize, handed out to the best project from the South or Eastern Europe.
Hugging the jury members, Gorlova thanked the entire VdR team for their support, saying: “We are happy to be here and feel this free spirit of documentary filmmaking.” Produced by Alessandro Greco , Roberto De Paolis, Carla Altieri and Rachel Greenwood , the film will take viewers on an unprecedented journey inside Rebibbia Femminile, the female ward of Rome’s prison, the largest women’s detention center in Europe.
In the VdR-Work in Progress category dedicated to films in post-production, the top award went to “Piropolis,” in which Chilean filmmaker Nicolás Molina follows the firefighters of Valparaíso and questions their role in Chilean society against a backdrop of violent social change.