2024 Healthy Workplaces Film Award winners
Favoriten
Ruth Beckermann
Austria / 2024 / 118'
“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 children and their dedicated teacher. We wanted to find out who they are and become familiar with their skills and strategies, their joys, fears and hardships,” says director Ruth Beckermann.
More than 60 percent of all children in Viennese primary schools do not speak German as their first language. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of teachers and supervisors. Such adverse conditions are the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s documentary Favoriten, for which the Austrian filmmaker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher followed a Viennese primary school class for three years.
The result is an astonishingly cheerful portrait of an unusual community.
A film about teaching and learning and the often very surprising experiences somewhere in between.
Boolean Vivarium
Nicolas Bailleul
France / 2024 / 57'
In a remote location, Léo and Nicolas are creating Vivarium, a video game that shows the decay of a house strangely reminiscent of their own.
As they navigate the challenging creative process, tensions rise, and the duo is put to the test.
Nominations:
Under Fire (Sous le feu), Jérémie Lamouroux, França, Bélgica 2024
Bitter Oranges (Arance Amare), Davide Tisato, Noé Coussot, Suíça, França, 2024
Works and Days (Ilgwa Nal), Minsoo Park, Coreia do Sul, 2024
I Am Here (Estou Aqui), Zsófia Paczolay, Dorian Rivière, Portugal, 2024
Before It's Too Late (Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard), Mathieu Amalric, France, 2023
Piropolis, Nicolás Molina, Chile, 2024
Subject: Filmmaking, Edgar Reitz, Jörg Adolph, Germany, 2024
Sidney, Luca Querio, Jonathan Leggett, Suíça, 2023
A Stone’s Throw, Razan AlSala, Palestina, Canadá, Líbano, 2024