House of Hope en Paikar winnen prachtige prijzen op Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2026

Afgelopen weekend werd House of Hope van Marjolein Busstra 100% Film and Photography bekroond met de Best International Feature Documentary award. Het jury statement licht het mooi toe:

‘A powerful and unsentimental film that bears witness to a family-run Waldorf school in the West Bank and its profound commitment to nurturing the humanity of children. For its clear-eyed portrait of educators whose quiet everyday resilience stubbornly insists on hope under the shadow of occupation and genocide, the jury enthusiastically presents Marjolein Busstra with the Hot Docs Best International Feature Documentary award for House of Hope’.

Paikar van Dawood Hilmandi BALDR Film (vanaf 28 mei te zien in de filmtheaters) werd ook gevierd door het winnen van de Emerging International Filmmaker Award. Het jury statement luidt:

‘For it’s poetic meditation on transgenerational trauma that evocatively navigates the entanglement of memory, war and exile from a deeply personal perspective – initiating a moving dialogue across a lifetime of displacement’.

Mooie onderscheidingen die de diepe urgentie en ontroering onderstrepen die in House of Hope en Paikar zo indringend voelbaar zijn.