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‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Wins Top Award At Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival; ‘Free Leonard Peltier’ Earns Three Awards – Winners List
'Coexistence, My Ass!', about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi, won the top prize at the Thessaloniki Int'l Documentary Festival in Greece.
And this is not only due to its obviously charismatic protagonist, stand-up comedienne Noam Sushter-Eliassi, but also to the filmmaker herself, Amber Fares, who located her subject, and, through a persistent, sober observation that went on for years, offered her not only a generous platform for expression, but also had the talent of organising and pacing the filmed material in an excellent manner. Reasoning: For crafting a warm, vibrant, and uplifting portrait of friendship and the promise of dreams – and for posing under-explored and ultimately universally resonant questions of identity and belonging for second-generation migrants – the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece Award goes to Home Court by directors Elpida Nikou and Rodrigo Hernandez and producers Yuri Averof and Rea Apostolides. Reasoning: For bringing an unexpected, unorthodox, and often disarmingly humorous angle on the ongoing war in Ukraine, one focused on the divergent perspectives of the residents of occupied Crimea, exploring the eye-opening influences of superstition on one hand and Russian propaganda on the other, the Neaniko Plano Subtitling Award goes to Tower, Sun and the Seven of Wands by director Tanya Vikhreva and producer Maria Gavrilova.
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