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The Look of Silence and Flotel Europa win prizes in Berlin

BERLIN. Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Look of Silence" wins the Peace Film Prize, and Vladimir Tomic's "Flotel Europa" wins the Tagesspiegel Reader's Jury Award.

14. February 2015 Redaktionen

Two Danish films were awarded when the independent juries gave out their prizes today at the Berlinale.

Joshua Oppenheimer's second documentary about the Indonesian genocide, "The Look of Silence," won the Peace Film Prize, awarded under the patronage of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

"The Look of Silence is produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real. Read interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

Vladimir Tomic's documentary about his memories from growing up on the refugee ship "Flotel Europa," received the Reader's Jury Award from the Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.

"Flotel Europa" is produced by Selma Jusufbegovic og Srdjan Keca. Read interview with Vladimir Tomic

See all the Independent Jury Prize winners

Flotel Europa

Vladimir Tomic, 2015

In 1992, a wave of refugees from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached Denmark. With refugee camps completely full, the Red Cross pulled a giant ship into the canals of Copenhagen. The ship, Flotel Europa, became a temporary home for a thousand people waiting for decisions on their asylum applications.

The Look of Silence

Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014

Through Joshua Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.