TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES
AWARD WINNERS 2024
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Screaming silence. Between aristocratic nostalgia and imperial decay. A family gathering in anticipation of something about to happen. Weary tension, frozen faces, a juxtaposition of eerie encounters. A series of portraits of women from the back, a secret hairy drawer. Shrieking animals disrupting meticulously detailed sceneries.
Freedom and joy in filmmaking translate into dark explorations of loving and living. For its poetic, condensed and existentialist humor, we give the Grand Post award to Tako Tsubo by Eva Pedroza and Fanny Sorgo.
SABINE & NICOLAI SAWCZYNSKI AUDIENCE AWARD
AUSTRIAN PANORAMA AWARD
We chose the movie because it shows two coexisting layers: the static landscapes as well as the agitated audio that enables the viewer to take an active role in imagining moments of resistance. The movie shows us the importance of culture of remembrance in a digital age by preserving a moment of history while also creating an image of the public space as a space of possibilities.
HUBERT-SIELECKI-AWARD FOR AN AUSTRIAN ANIMATION
The Hubert Sielecki Award at Tricky Women 2024 goes to a multifaceted and mesmerizing short that is like a colourful firework display – a masterful computer animation with an absolutely fitting score by experienced musician Stephen Ferguson that blends perfectly with the author’s impressive visual execution.
Jury Statement
What we were looking for in the Up & Coming section were young talents that surprise us with their unique ways of seeing the world, that are filled with unbridled energy and unashamed ways of being themselves. And we found it - in a film, that is a pop of colour without being in color at all; a vivaschious, unbridled force from its first minute to its last. The heroin, a girl on the brink of puberty, waddling around like a newly born duck, a duck out of water, so to say, and just simply amazed at everything that suddenly feels new and strange and awkward. On a seemingly normal day, at a swimming lesson that isn’t just about swimming anymore. And life will never be quite the same again. For taking a brave plunge and capturing these big feelings in most unique, minimalist and sweetly hilarious ways, we award Isabel Santos and her film SWIM! with the Tricky Women Up & Coming Award.
