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«Across three programs of this year's International Competition, the jury kept returning to one question: how do these films speak to our place in the world — and to the gap between how we imagine that world and how it actually is. Awarded films trace that question through very different registers, from documentary attentiveness to pure formal excess. The films don't agree with each other, and that disagreement is exactly what made the conversation worth having.»

The jury's recognition — for an undefined alignment