Dominique Cabrera wins Golden Dove at the DOK Leipzig Festival

French director Dominique Cabrera has won one of the main prizes at the DOK Leipzig festival. Her film "La Jetée, the Fifth Shot" was so convincing in the festival's international competition that the jury awarded her the Golden Dove, endowed with 10,000 euros. "With precision and lightness of touch, the filmmaker takes us on an intimate journey (...) and reveals new levels of meaning and emotion behind the enigmatic image of a boy and his family," praised the jurors.

Numerous awards presented

According to the information provided, seven Golden Doves and two Silver Doves were awarded this year, as well as other prizes from partners. In the German competition, "Tarantism Revisited" by Anja Dreschke and Michaela Schäuble was awarded Best Feature Film. In it, they investigate so-called tarantism, it was said. In the 1950s, women in Apulia are said to have been seized by a dance craze after allegedly being bitten by a poisonous spider. "Between archive research and re-enactment, sound and text composition, gender and genre, this film develops an idiosyncratic language that is resistant in the best sense of the word," said the jury.

The Leipzig festival entered its 67th edition this year. More than 200 films and extended reality works were on the program. A total of 73 films competed in the four competitions. More than 30 of them celebrated their premiere in Leipzig. The Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film was founded in 1955. According to the organizers, this makes it the oldest documentary film festival in the world.