Robin Petré: Only on Earth/ Winner

… and the winner is, no objections from my side, from this year’s strong selection… Over to the jury:

Motivation
“We are living in a world on fire that keeps burning in front of our eyes.

We use cinema for reflection of our reality and we would like to highlight the film that captures not only the ongoing environmental grief and also finds the resistant and compelling characters that keep fighting in this deeply immersive, cinematic journey. A film that took us beyond the fire. 

The Award goes to Only on Earth by Robin Petré”

Synopsis
An immersive, visually striking journey deep into southern Galicia, one of Europe’s most vulnerable forest fire zones, where wild horses have curbed flammable undergrowth for centuries under the watch of local cowboys. During the hottest summer ever measured, humans and animals alike struggle to cope as inextinguishable fires draw closer.

About the Director
Robin Petré (1985, Denmark) is a Danish film director and artist. In her work she explores human-animal relations and our co-existence with nature. Her feature-length debut From the Wild Sea (2021) premiered at the Berlinale and received the Grand Prix at Global Science Film Festival among other awards. The film was nominated for the Danish Film Critics Award and has screened at festivals such as Zürich Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, CPH:DOX, and True/False. Her short film Pulse (2016) was awarded the Silver Dove for An Outstanding Artistic Contribution at DOK Leipzig. She holds an MA in Documentary Film Directing from Doc Nomads. She’s an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Sundance Institute, Nordic Film Lab, and IDFAcademy. Only on Earth (2025) celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale. The film previously received the Cannes Marché du Film Docs-in-Progress Award 2024.

About the Award
The Best Nordic Documentary Award is presented to one of the 12 films selected for the competition. The award goes to the director(-s) of the winning film.

Prize
The cash award of 11.000€  is sponsored by the Nordic public broadcasters DR, NRK, RUV, SVT and YLE. 

Del din kærlighed
Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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