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FIPRESCI, nan world critics group, named Fiume o morte! nan champion documentary of 2025, beating retired Oscar victor Mr. Nobody Against Putin and Oscar nominee The Perfect Neighbor.
The announcement of nan inaugural FIPRESCI Documentary Grand Prix was made connected nan opening nighttime of Millennium Docs Against Gravity successful Warsaw, Poland. As Deadline antecedently reported, nan recently created grant will beryllium announced each twelvemonth astatine MDAG.
The assemblage for nan Grand Prix was comprised of each FIPRESCI members, “representing complete 50 nationalist sections and individual members from much than 30 further countries,” according to a release. Filmmaker Igor Bezinović, who hails from Rijeka, Croatia, directed Fiume o morte!, which centers connected an overseas and important infinitesimal successful history erstwhile a paramilitary group led by Italian nationalist and writer Gabriele D’Annunzio claimed nan metropolis of Fiume – now known arsenic Rijeka, Croatia – for Italy.
“Bezinović teams up pinch 300 residents to create a subversive, punk-style reenactment that dismantles nationalist myths and exposes nan spectacle of governmental performativity,” notes a release.
The Grand Prix triumph for Fiume o morte! must beryllium considered a surprise, moreover though it won nan European Film Award for Best European Documentary, on pinch galore different prizes astir nan world. It qualified for Oscar information arsenic Best Documentary Feature but didn’t get a existent campaign. Fiume o morte! won nan FIPRESCI Grand Prix complete overmuch better-known films, including Oscar-shortlisted 2000 Meters to Andriivka, directed by Oscar victor Mstyslav Chernov, and Orwell: 2+2=5, directed by Raoul Peck. Mr. Nobody Against Putin, directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Pavel Talankin, won nan Oscar successful March, wherever that movie went up against The Perfect Neighbor, directed by Geeta Gandbhir.
Fiume o morte! will surface astatine MDAG connected Saturday pinch nan head present. Igor Bezinović was connected manus for nan Grand Prix announcement connected nan opening nighttime of MDAG.
“It’s astonishing to beryllium present and to spot nan documentary Grand Prix goes to our film,” Bezinović told nan audience. “And particularly because nan juncture is very circumstantial and very typical because it’s nan first clip that nan FIPRESCI assemblage decided to springiness an grant to a documentary movie and to commencement a caller tradition… I conjecture that successful a fewer years’ time, we’ll spell backmost and spot nan database of galore films that will beryllium awarded. And for us, it will ever beryllium very typical [because] we were nan first ones to get this award.”
Bezinović besides touched connected nan value of nan grant – erstwhile what constitutes “movie reviews” whitethorn beryllium nary much than personification tapping retired a societal media post. FIPRESCI members are established professionals – journalists, movie critics, and scholars.
“It intends a lot, particularly coming erstwhile group are capable to constitute their ain reviews whenever they want,” he commented. “Just to person a explanation of a reappraisal that comes from a movie master [like FIPRESCI members], I deliberation it intends a lot.”
