Natasa Urban’s ‘The Eclipse’ Wins Top Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Festival
variety.comLise Pedersen “The Eclipse” by Nataša Urban has picked up the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival.It was awarded at a ceremony in the Danish capital, which opened with a homage to Ukraine – where fest organizers announced they would be screening Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” in theaters across the nation immediately after the festival to show “that there is another Russia.”“The Eclipse” was competing with 11 others for the top award – half of them had their world premiere at the fest, part of no fewer than 76 world premieres during the event.Focusing on the events of Aug.
11, 1999, when most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers in fear of a total solar eclipse, the film uses the rare natural phenomenon as a metaphor for a nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices.
In the process, Urban’s documentary essay confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past, and the evil that is still on the loose today. “This film broke me down and I’m still picking myself up.
It was indescribably difficult to make that film, but I will do it again,” said Urban as she received the award on behalf of herself and her team.Handing out the award, the jury said: “The Dox:Award goes to a film that affirms a vocation for the moving image in a time of global crisis.
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