"A film searching for its own language. Most films in this section are about an artform, but this film is an artwork in itself. A meditative, interactive, playful ethnography that transcends its own subject, again and again. Its honesty, imperfection, and imagination inspired us to rethink our own ways of creating images. We give the award to Twenty Eight Nights and a Poem by Akram Zaatari."

"God is a circle. You love. You betray. You disappear. Then life begins with this, this broken circle. You dance. You trip. You see everything. You don't see everything. While the world is a nuclear plant waiting to explode. While family members burn each other to death. While life goes on as a single letter. This film is the circle in your eyes. I want to see you but you are not here. For its innovative syncopation in this familiar dance of faith and fakery, love and betrayal, hope and pessimism. For being Mexican, for being Belgian, for going beyond its being, for being itself. For its lush yet grounded mythification and mystification of what is real, what is not, and the great in-between."

For the segment 20 Handshakes For Peace

"For confronting a contemporary social crisis through storytelling that is at once imaginative, playful and challenging, elevating everyday lives to the level of myth."

Info: Winner of Second Award. The winners were selected by an international Jury.