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The Last Shelter Ousmane Samassekou’s The Last Shelter has won the top prize at Cph:dox - Copenhagen's documentary film festival, which was mainly online but which will host physical screenings in Denmark when cinemas reopen on May 6.

The film considers people passing through the House of Migrants in Gao, some leaving Africa and some returning. The jury described it as "a profound film which transports us to a vast landscape of questioning".

Our Memory Belongs To Us, co-directed by Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørense and which sees exiled Syrian journalists looking back at the start of the conflict, received a special mention.

Hong Kong protest documentary When A City Rises - collectively directed by Cathy Chu, Evie Cheung, Iris Kwong, Huang Yuk-kwok, Ip Kar Man, Han Yan Yuen and Jen Lee - won the F:act Award, with the jury saying it had "the narrative tension of an action adventure film".

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Malian filmmaker Ousmane Samassekou’s “The Last Shelter” won the top prize in Danish doc fest Cph:dox’s main international competition on Friday, picking up the Dox:Award.

A total of 11 films garnered prizes in the festival’s six international competitions, including five special mentions.

“The Last Shelter” centers on the House of Migrants, located in the Malian city of Gao, on the edge of the Sahel desert, where the director meets travelers and migrants who find a temporary home there.

“The Dox:Award goes to a profound film which transports us to a vast landscape of questioning,” the jury said. “Through its tender portraiture it populates an epic vista with unforgettable individuals on the cusp of choosing whether they will risk being obliterated in search of a dream.”

The jury’s special mention in the category went to “Our Memory Belongs to Us,” by Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørensen, which...

Top prizes go to an African documentary and the next project from Radu Ciorniciuc.

Ousmane Samassekou’s The Last Shelter has won the top prize at Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Cph:Dox), which announced its competition and industry winners in an online ceremony on Friday evening (April 30).

The African documentary, which centres on a refuge for travellers on the edge of Mali’s Sahel desert, was awarded the top Dox:Award at the festival, which has run virtually from April 21 but is set to physically screen films when cinemas reopen in Denmark on May 6.

Full list of winners below

Directed by Malian filmmaker Samassekou,...

Copenhagen-based Final Cut for Real CEO Signe Byrge Sørensen might be unassuming and soft-spoken, but her vision, will power and fire for urgent stories have made her a world-class producer. Her documentary credits boast countless festival hits and accolades, including two Oscar-nominated films, “The Act of Killing” (2014) and “The Look of Silence” (2016), to the 2020 Cph:dox top winner “Songs of Repression,” and recent Sundance Grand Jury Winner “Flee.”

Her company Final Cut for Real is delivering five competition entries at this year’s Cph:dox, including Sørensen’s own-produced “President,” a Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, and new pic “Our Memory Belongs to Us,” both running for the main Dox:Award.

Helmed by Syrian-born Rami Farah, with Sørensen serving as co-director, “Our Memory Belongs to Us” is a unique window into the Syrian conflict through the lens and memories of those who took part. Brought together by Farah to mark the 10 years of the Syrian uprising,...

Award-winning filmmakers and a documentary from ‘The Act Of Killing’ producer Signe Byrge Sørensen among those selected.

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) has revealed its line-up of competition titles for 2021, set to run April 21 to May 2.

The programme includes films that focus on the dominance of tech giants, new democratic movements, decolonization and climate change among other topics.

The competition programmes consist of 64 titles with 47 world premieres, nine international premieres and six European premieres. In total, 58% of the titles (37 films) are directed by one or more women. This increases to 66% when including films co-directed by male and female directors.