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Official Announcement! GZDOC Announces Finalists and Opening Date

2022-04-13

Great accomplishments require ambition and tireless effort.

GZDOC has come to its nineteenth year, from the constant fumbling in the childhood era to the breakthrough growth in the youth era, achieving a magnificent transformation from documentary academic symposium, documentary conference to documentary festival.

The 19th GZDOC is presented online from April 15-17. The opening ceremony will be released on the Audio-Visual China and Youku . Youku, as the exclusive strategic video partner platform of the festival, will exclusively present the industry forum, master classes and film screening content of the festival.

The data of the 19th GZDOC is quite eye-catching. A total of 3670 documentaries were collected to participate in the exhibition, creating a record high. Their sources cover 125 countries and regions around the world, and foreign films account for as high as 82.3%.

During the initial evaluation session, which lasted for more than 4 months, 92 filmmakers watched thousands of participating documentaries through the Golden Kapok online selection system, and wrote a total of more than 200,000 words of comments, expressing their judging attitude of "never letting go of a good film" during the audition stage. In the re-evaluation session after that, an expert jury composed of 12 national and provincial film and television media professionals, senior documentary directors, producers and university scholars selected 46 documentaries as finalists after a rigorous review and voting.

Below is the list of the 19th GZDOC's Golden Kapok Award Competition Finalists

（The following rankings are in no particular order）：

#the 19th GZDOC's Golden Kapok Award Competition Finalists#

/Documentary Feature/

以火书写

Writing With Fire

Director：Rintu Thomas / Sushmit Ghosh

Category：Documentary Feature

Country / Region：India

94th Academy Awards

Best Documentary Feature - Nominated；

2021 Sundance International Film Festival

Special Jury Prize, Audience Award

潮汐之寂

Silence of the Tides

Director：Pieter-Rim de Kroon

Category：Documentary Feature

Country / Region：Netherlands

2020 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Special mention for the best Dutch language film；
2021 Docville International Documentary Film Festival, Belgium
Jury Prize - Nomination

重逢

Reunited

Director：Mira Jargil

Category：Documentary Feature

Country / Region：Denmark

2020 International Documentary Association Award for Best Feature Film - Nominated

如何杀死一朵云

How to Kill a Cloud

Director：Tuija Halttunen
Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Finland/Denmark
2021 Copenhagen Documentary Festival, Denmark
Nordic Documentary Award - nomination；
2021 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
Premio Zonta Club Award

娘子谷之殇

Babi Yar. Context

Director：Sergei Loznitsa
Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Netherlands/Ukraine
2021 Cannes International Documentary Film Festival
Golden Eye Award Special Mention；
2021 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
The Peter Gruder Prize for Reconstruction

希望学校

School of Hope

Director：Mohamed El Aboudi
Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Finland/France/Morocco
2021 Hot Docs Festival Special Jury Prize-International Feature Documentary

逐水移樗

Taming the Garden

Director：Salomé Jashi
Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Switzerland/Germany/Georgia
2021 Hong Kong International Film Festival
Firebird Award in the Documentary Category - Nominated

阿里卡呼声

Arica

Director：Lars Edman/William Johansson
Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Belgium/Norway/Chile/UK/Sweden
2020 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival Pre-Light Section - Screening

哦，赫兹！

Oh, it Hertz!

Director：Gunnar Hall Jensen
Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Norway

2021 Nordic International Documentary Festival, Norway
FNF Documentary Award for Best Cinematography

絮

Unsettled

Director：Mohamad Sadeq Esmaeeli

Category：Documentary Feature

Country / Region：Iran

停止拍摄我们

Stop Filming Us

Director：Joris Postema

Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：Netherlands

无去来处

I'm So Sorry

Director：Liang Zhao

Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：HKSAR,China/France/Netherlands

2021 Cannes International Film Festival Special Screening Section - Finalist；
2021 Busan International Film Festival, Korea Busan Fan Award

半世缘

Crossing Kasaya

Director：Shi-wei Kang

Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：China's Mainland/Taiwan,China/Japan

2020 Washington Chinese Language Film Festival
Most Socially Valuable Film Award

指尖的小星星！

Twinkle Dammit!

Director：Chuang Xu

Category：Documentary Feature
Country / Region：China/US

2020 Real Film Festival of Nyon, Switzerland - Media Library Collection.
2019 Student Academy Awards Documentary Category - Finalist

两个星球

After the Rain