American filmmaker James Longley’s Mohabat has won the Opus Bonum award for most outstanding international documentary at the 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, leading the festival’s newly announced winners.
German director Philipp Fröhlich’s After the Rehearsal received the First Lights Award for best debut. The Best Czech Documentary award was shared by Martin Páv’s Glowing and Nikola Klinger’s Land of Fire.
Audiences selected Aleš Pojar’s Mushroom Seconds, a portrait of poet and mushroom enthusiast Petr Hruška, for the Audience Award.
The festival also honoured Vietnamese-American filmmaker and theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha and Czech documentarian Helena Třeštíková with its Award for Contribution to World Cinema.
The anniversary edition’s honours recognised international documentary filmmaking, emerging directors and Czech work, while celebrating two established figures whose contributions extend across documentary practice and film theory.
