10 wins & 14 nominations
- 2022 Winner CPH:DOX Award
- DOX:AWARD
"Why cinema? The DOX:AWARD goes to a film that affirms a vocation for the moving image in a time of global crisis. The director dares to look in the mirror of a troubled present and reckon with the ghosts of a bloody past, arguing that historical amnesia is a burden carried across generations. At a time when an insistence on the individual is common - and often an alibi for self-indulgence - this film affirms the undeniably collective stakes of the personal. Grappling with the history of the family and the traumas of the nation, it questions what it means to belong to either, and what kind of responsibility that sense of belonging entails. And these questions are not just relegated to the content of the film: its daring, experimental form gives stunning texture to the existential wounds of war, and treats cinematic form as a kind of politics itself, where every aesthetic decision is also an ideological gesture. We were stirred by the film's rage, moved by its tender beauty, and roused by the ugliness it courageously makes its subject. As our present of war and violence threatens to one day become yesterday's news, this film tells us in unambiguous terms: do not look away; do not forget. By this jury's unanimous decision, the DOX:AWARD goes to... The Eclipse by Natasa Urban."
- 2022 Winner Special Mention
- International Documentary
"It was impossible to sit down to watch this film in Kosovo - in an audience of peoples whose independence was so recently threatened, once again, by a country that has, for a decade and a half, refused to recognise its independence - without feeling immediately uneasy and tense. But Natasa Urban matched and raised this tension, with her relentlessly confronting investigation of 'the other side.' 'The Eclipse' skillfully navigates an extensive, chronological history of Serbia, the country she has left behind, and an investigation of her family members who occupy positions ranging from denial and extreme anger at their nation's actions. We were impressed by the confidence with which these strands were weaved together, both visually and in the edit, and its pedagogical but non-didactic force. It is a shame that this film's subject is once again so pertinent, but the questions Urban asks about memory culture and a nation's compulsion to repeat are, and always will be, of global relevance."
- 2022 Winner Best Feature Documentary
- Best Feature Documentary (over 60 min)
Personal. Impartial. Lingering. Thought provoking. Beautiful. Seeking. Unspoken. Demanding. Elegant. Fearless. Confrontational. Poetic. Open. Captivating. Insistent. Expansive. The sum of this, and much more, gives us THE ECLIPSE.
- 2022 Winner Best Film
- Best Film
A multi-layered, sophisticated work of memory reclamation connecting the past with the present and the personal with the political, with an eye for poetic detail and a commitment to the integrity of historical testimony, The Eclipse is a significant contribution to the Balkan region's reckoning with war, displacement and identity.
- 2022 Winner Doc Alliance Award
- Best Documentary Film
- Natasa Urban (director)
Doc Alliance Award Special Mention
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