Awards and Jury
Nicolas Philibert
Darko Bratina Award. Tribute To a Vision 2024
Motivation
In 2024, the Darko Bratina award will be presented to French director Nicolas Philibert for his body of cinematic work, which over the past four decades has documented the central paradigms driving the contemporary world: greed and power, madness and its opposite, lucidity. Lucidity as vision. With his unobtrusive camera, while he watches over psychiatric hospitals, films orangutans through zoo glass, or speaks with corrupt CEOs of leading multinationals, Nicolas shows the world exactly as we left it just a moment before. The institutions he finds himself in reflect the entrapment of contemporary society, laying bare the state of things and revealing the most delicate and darkest details of human behaviour. He transforms them into mosaics, into the faces of individuals and groups, giving them meanings that leave an indelible mark on the viewer. He offers us a vision of a world where openness to dialogue and the most liberated forms of being different constantly meet.
