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‘Only on Earth,’ ‘Aliyá, Yeridá’ Win Top Cannes Docs-in-Progress Industry Awards
Dane Robin Petré’s ‘Only on Earth,’ about wildfires in Galicia, has won the top awards at Cannes Docs-in-Progress.
Composed of POV senior producer Opal H. Bennet, head of documentary at IMS in Copenhagen, Rasmus Steen, and RIDM artistic co-director Ana Alice de Morais, handing out the award the jury stated: Dubai-based Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel (“A World Not Ours”), whose debut feature “To A Land Unknown” is playing in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight sidebar this year, picked up the Hiventy Post-Production Award for his doc-in-progress “My Father’s House.” Docs By The Sea contender “Always” by Chinese director Demin Chen, which tells the story of an exceptionally talented child, tracking his profound psychological evolution through poetry as he transitions from childhood to adolescence, picked up the Alphapanda Award.
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