The Best Film award in the Serbian competition went to Without / Bez (Serbia) directed by Luka Papić. The Best Film award in the international competition went to Late August directed by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini. The festival took place from 11 to 18 May 2022.
This year Beldocs hosted more than 170 international guests: directors, producers, as well as representatives of world film sales companies, festivals, television, VoD platforms, national film centers, professional organisations.
The Beldocs Industry, which took place from 11 to 14 May, was open to filmmakers from Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia), Baltic States and Post-Soviet Media countries (Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine). This year the top prize the Al Jazeera Balkans Award of 2000 EUR went to We Are Pretty Loud (Serbia) directed by Joey David Jovanovich.
FULL LIST OF AWARDS:
Serbian Comptetition:
Best Film:
Without / Bez (Serbia)
Directed by Luka Papić
Produced by Ranč production
Coproduced by Non- Aligned Films, Cinnerent
International Competition:
Best Film:
Late August (Italy)
Directed by Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Special mention:
A Night of Knowing Nothing (France, India)
Directed by Payal Kapadia, Himanshu Prajapat
Other awards:
Best photography:
Srđan Keča for Museum of Revolution / Muzej revolucije (Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic)
Produced by UZROK
Coproduced by Croatia’s RESTART, Czech nutprodukce
Best editor:
Jelena Maksimović for Without / Bez
Best short film:
Hooyo, Why Here? (PortugalBelgiumHungary)
Directed by Neema Ngelime
Special mention:
Aralkum (Germany, Uzbekistan)
Directed by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Best film in the Teen segment:
Raise the Bar (Iceland, Finland)
Directed by Gudjon Ragnarsson
Special mention:
The Mission (Germany, Finland)
Directed by Tania Anderson
Beldocs Industry:
Al Jazeera Balkans Award – 2000 EUR:
We Are Pretty Loud (Serbia)
Directed by Joey David Jovanovich
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival Award:
Listening to the World (Ukraine)
Directed by Yelizaveta Smith
East Silver Caravan Award:
Flotacija (Serbia)
Directed by Eluned Zoë Aiano, Aleksandra Tatić
Produced by Wild Pears Arts
DAE – Documentary Association of Europe Award:
I Don’t Want (North Macedonia)
Directed by Hanis Bagashov
Pitch the Doc Award:
How to Talk to Lydia (Georgia, Germany)
Directed by Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Produced by Black Market Film Production
