A double at Cinemambiente
We are happy to announce that both of our films participating at Cinemambiente 2023, have been awarded at the weekend. LYNX MAN won the main award for BEST DOCUMENTARY. This is what the jury says:
For its skillful synthesis of ethnographic research, poetic narrative and aesthetic quality giving birth to a film capable of narrating the culture-nature, transcendence-immanence, man-animal relationship, breaking the anthropocentric vision without giving in to an overly romantic rhetoric. At the same time, the film restores in an almost realistic way a local, Finnish-Arctic culture that conceives the protection of biodiversity and natural heritage as an existential task of the individual and communities.The film presents in a symbolic intimist style an image of the relationship with nature present in European culture and society that is able to coexist with a world undergoing great transformation, traversed by conflicts and upheavals produced by the ongoing energy and climate crisis.
And NUCLEAR NOMADS was awarded with a SPECIAL MENTION. Here is the jury statement:
For being able to put the theme of energy at the center of its narrative, investigating the consequences in the social organization of unsustainable industrial development and resource exploitation. The film recounts in an iconic way the reorganization of individual and community lives around nuclear power, bringing attention to a little-known but highly impactful issue in the world of work and everyday life.
Congratulations to the filmmakers.