Crowned with Laurels

The One World film festival proudly presents the newest documentary films that have been recently awarded at the most prestigious festivals, such as Berlinale, IDFA, Sundance, or Cannes, guaranteeing world-class quality. These films are the most precious imported cherries on top of our festival cake.

Films of the section Crowned with Laurels

APOLONIA, APOLONIA

Lea Glob has followed the Danish-French artist Apolonia Sokol over 13 years. The result is an extraordinarily up-close and personal film that is both a portrait of the life of a unique artist and of the budding friendship and intimacy between two women over a (very) long and formative period in their lives. The charismatic …

KOKOMO CITY

Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves while confronting issue long avoided. Awards (selection):NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award – Sundance Film Festival 2023 (USA)Panorama Audience Award – Berlin International Film Festival 2023 (Germany)The Best Film in the International Competition – DocAviv Film Festival 2023 in Tel …

THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES

Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae el Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate …

AURORAʼS SUNRISE

At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest …

BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

In the 1970s, an Iranian student named Zahra meets a fellow student called Maria at university in Bucharest. They are both pursuing a degree in medicine and develop a deep friendship and admiration for each other. When the revolution against the Shah breaks out in 1979, Zahra goes back to Iran, moved by the hope …

SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN

Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her trial results in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh’s family, their testimonies and …

FOUR DAUGHTERS

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters. An intimate journey …

THE ECHO

In the remote village of El Eco that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to …

MATTER OUT OF PLACE

Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. Matter Out of Place is a film about rubbish, which has spread across the world, to the most remote corners of the planet. Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the traces of our rubbish across the planet and sheds light on …

MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the …