7 awards for EAVE producers at Sundance
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We are pleased to announce seven awards for EAVE producers at the Sundance Film Festival, including the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize for EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN!
Congratulations to the producers, filmmakers, and film crews behind these outstanding achievements! Remarkably, EAVE producers took home an incredible 70% of all World Cinema awards.
World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize
EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazic, producers: EAVE graduates Biljana Tutorov, Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman, executive producer: EAVE graduate Lucila Moctezuma
The Jury's Statement: "This visually and emotionally stunning film transported us to a remote mountain top and into the most intimate moments of a family fighting to protect not only their land, but their way of life. The truest example of the power of cinema to make the personal political."
Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition
SHAME AND MONEY by Visar Morina, producers: EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, co-producers: EAVE graduates Besnik Krapi, Marija Dimitrova, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
HOLD ON TO ME by Myrsini Aristidou, co-producers: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision
FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena
World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award
HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR by Andrius Balezvicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Kostal, Vincent Quenault, associate producer: MW graduate Brigita Beniusyte
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact
BIRDS OF WAR by Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry
Page published 2 February 2026. Updated 23 February 2026.
