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Last Men in Aleppo wins at CPH:DOX

AWARDS. "Last Men in Aleppo," about the daily life and struggle of a group of White Helmet rescue workers in the war-torn city of Aleppo, won the main award at CPH:DOX (16-26 March).

28. March 2017 Danish Film Institute

"Last Men in Aleppo," directed by Feras Fayyad with co-director Steen Johannessen, won the main DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX (16-26 March).

The film has a "devastating emotional immediacy that plunges us into a Shakespearean tragedy of a people striving to retain their humanity in the face of impossible realities," the jury stated at the awards ceremony Friday evening at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. 

Winner of Sundance's international documentary prize in January, "Last Men in Aleppo" is made to a large extent from footage by video journalists from Aleppo Media Center, placing its audience in the midst of the daily life of local White Helmet rescue workers.

The award for best Nordic documentary went to "Land of the Free" by Camilla Magid, a film about taking your life in your own hands in a tough neighbourhood in Los Angeles.

Read more about the winners of the five competitions and the Politiken Audience Award in the CPH:DOX press release.

Last Men in Aleppo

Feras Fayyad, 2017

After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are getting ready for a siege. Through the volunteers from the White Helmets we experience the daily life, death and struggle in the streets, where they are fighting for sanity in a city where war has become the norm. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud are among the first to enter the destroyed buildings, scouring through the rubble in search of bodies and signs of life.

Land of the Free

Camilla Magid, 2017

This film portrays Brian, Juan and Gianni from South Central, Los Angeles. Obstacles are plenty when you are a child growing up between gang members, or a teenager with an addiction and a newborn, or a middle-aged man, just released into a new and changed world after 24 years in prison. Following their lives for more than two years, the film shows with precision the psychological impact of a prison system that focuses on punishment rather than prevention and rehabilitation.