CPH:DOX Award 2007: "Santa Fe Street"
(Director Carmen Castillo, Chile, France, Belgium 2007)
Motivation:
"A film richly layered with history exploring the personal consequences of political engagement across three genrations. Many films have been made about the 1970s revolutionary movement, but few with as much complexity and craft as this one. It begins from one person's perspective and widens to encompass multiple views. Its director confronts the past with a remarkable honesty and self-reflection conveyed in your eyes long after the film has ended."

Special mention: "Vesterbro"
(Director Michael Noer, Denmark 2007)

Amnesty Award 2007: "No end in sight"
(inst. Charles Ferguson, USA 2006)
Motivation:
"A highly researched investigative documentary addressing the occupation of Iraq by the American government. A film that reveals important findings of the mismanagement, carelessness and arrogance of the American leadership occupying Iraq and raises serious doubts about the legitimacy of the leader of the free world."

Special mentions: "The Not Dead"
(inst. Brian Hill, UK 2007)
and "Umbrella"
(inst. Du Haibin, China 2007)

Sound & Vision Award 2007: "Joy Division"
(Director: Grant Gee, UK 2007)
Motivation:
"Great selection of footage, a deep engagement with the subject and intimate interviews combines to make a restless and engaging documentary. The background material gives a good sense of the psychogeography of Manchester at the time, and the effects create a tension and energy which mirrors the evolving epilepsy of lead singer Ian Curtis."

Special mention: "Pilgrimage from Scattered Points"
(Director: Luke Fowler, UK 2006)
Motivation:
We would like to extend an honourable mention to Pilgrimage from Scattered Points, a thoughtful and original portrait of composer Cornelius Cardew. It documents uncompromising political music and stays faithful to its subject.

New Vision Award 2007

BEST SHORT: "France 2007"
(Director Gee-Jung Jun, France 2007)
Motivation:
"A film comprised of footage of ambiguous origin, whose friendly direct gaze evokes in its subjects a casual open playfulness. On the edge of France 2007, shantytown inhabitants briefly take possession of their own space and their own lives."

BEST FEATURE LENGTH (TWO FILMS): "Dust"
(Director Hartmut Bitomsky, Germany 2007)

and "A Crime Against Art"
(Director Hila Peleg, Germany 2007)

Motivation:
"We have a clean film about dust and a dirty video about art. Both are comparable achievements with completely distinct subjects and strategies. Therefore the jury for New Vision has decided to split the prize.

"Dust" by Hartmut Bitomsky - An indexical exploration of the little pieces of our selves and our lives that we are obsessed with keeping under control and brushing away if necessary.
This film evokes a kind of heightened awareness towards our entire physical surroundings, reaching as far as the grains of celluloid that create the very images we are watching.

"A Crime Against Art" by Hila Peleg - This staged conceptual trial on the morals of participation in the contemporary art field blurs the lines of script and character with its real performers and their possibly actual beliefs. Suddenly art promoters and theorists take on the appearance of criminals in a kind of daily TV-court, questioning the responsibility and negotiating the performative aspects of the art discourse."