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‘Farming the Revolution’ Harvests Top International Competition Award at Hot Docs
Nishta Jain’s “Farming the Revolution” has won Hot Docs’ Best International Feature Documentary Award.
Pablo Álvarez-Mesa’s “The Soldier’s Lagoon”—which traces Simon Bolívar’s campaign to liberate Colombia while exploring contemporary political and environmental realities in the Andes’ páramo region—won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award and a Cnd. In the same category, the jury gave special mention to Subina Shrestha’s “Devi” for its “gut-wrenching portrayal of a woman’s endless fight for the voiceless and disregarded victims of wartime sexual violence in [an] uncompromising film.” The jury said the film “has extraordinary access to both sides of a post-colonial country where climate change is pushing people to become the worst versions of themselves,” and called it ”an unflinching, transparent lens on Kenya’s ongoing struggle for Indigenous land rights which is exasperated by apocalyptic drought.”
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