WatchDocs Awards 2025/ 3

The judges of this year’s edition of the Green Competition were: Michalina Czervoonska, Urszula Jabło 🏆ska, Robert Jurszo.

🌿The jury awarded the Green Docs Award to Dmytro Hreshka for the movie “Divia”.

“Who will clean up after the war?” Who will disarm hundreds of thousands of landmines and missiles? Who will purify the water and recycle the tons of scrap that war machines turn into? Who will feed abandoned cats and who will restore a place to live for traumatized animals?

All these questions are provoked by the Divia movie. War is an unimaginable tragedy for everyone: people and other animals, plants, land. Dmytro Hreshko consciously refuses words and allows paintings to speak: hectares of burned forests, the fear of animals deafened by bomb explosions. War equates human and animal deaths, the earth treats every body the same way. However, we cannot hope that nature will always be revived. The movie Hreshko does not allow to take your eyes away from the ecocidal, which is part of the war in Ukraine. “

🌿 The distinction in the Green Competition was given to the film “Close to the Earth” directed by. Thomas Elshik.

“How to act when the case seems like a defeat?” Why renovate a dead endangered peat field or look for the perpetrators of poisoning wildlife if the sentences always seem too low? Where to get perseverance and hope from?

In the movie “Close to the Earth” the meaning seems to come from the action itself, the opportunity to participate in the richness of the tangles of earthly life, which in an age of flash and often irreversible change, seems more valuable than ever. Tomas Elsik allows us to look at plants or birds from a distance usually inaccessible to us, building intimacy between the viewer and many film characters. Human and inhuman threads intertwine, jumping between the scales of time and space. “

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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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