DOK Leipzig: Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
DOK Leipzig: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Founded in 1955, DOK Leipzig is the biggest German and one of the leading international festivals for documentary and animated films. DOK Leipzig presents up to 400 films from 50 countries. The Festivals comprises of four competitive programmes, a broad international programme, an annual retrospective, several special programmes and hommages and master-classes with famous film-makers. The awards donated at DOK Leipzig amount to 58,500 Euro.
52nd edition
2009 | 26 October - 1 November
2nd Prize - Animated Films
9
Best Animated Film
7
La Madre que los Parió
Portrait of a Silence
Spain | Oct 2008 | 28:28
Director: Inmaculada Jimenez Neira
Questions to complete a torn family photo where a woman´s face is missing. Answers that reveals us a portrait between reality and imagination.
3
Mei Ling
France | Jan 2009 | 15:00
Directors: François Leroy, Stéphanie Lansaque
Mei Ling, an idle young chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She de...
18
Please Say Something
Ireland | Jan 2009 | 10:00
Director: David OReilly
Please Say Something is the product of a heartfelt story and strict aesthetic rules.
9
Prayers for Peace
United States | May 2009 | 7:38
Director: Dustin Grella
Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion animation confronting the memory of the artist's younger brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq.
19
Sparni un Airi
Wings and Oars
Latvia | Feb 2009 | 5:38
Director: Vladimir Lesciov
A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth, the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned ...
7
Short film types screened
Fiction / Live action
Animation Documentary Experimental Music videoCompetition and rewards
International competition
No cash awards No screening fees
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