18th Cinema Eye Honors

• No Other Land – Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender and Bård Harazi Farbuer
• Black Box Diaries – Shiori Itō, Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Yuta Okamura, Yuichiro Otsuka, Mark Degli Antoni and Andrew Tracy
• Dahomey – Mati Diop, Eve Robin, Judith Lou Levy, Gabriel Gonzalez, Joséphine Drouin Viallard and Nicolas Becker
• Daughters – Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, Adrian Aurelius, Philip Nicolai Flindt, Michael Cambio Fernandez and Kelsey Lu
• Look Into My Eyes – Lana Wilson, Kyle Martin, Hannah Buck and Stephen Maing
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety, Jonathan Wannyn, Rik Chaubet, Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic Goosse
• Sugarcane – Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, Christopher LaMarca, Nathan Punwar, Maya Daisy Hawke, Mali Obomsawin, Martin Czembor, Andrea Bella, Michael Feuser and Ed Archie Noisecat

• Dahomey – Mati Diop
• Eno – Gary Hustwit
• Look Into My Eyes – Lana Wilson
• Mistress Dispeller – Elizabeth Lo
• No Other Land – Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor
• Sugarcane – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
• Union – Stephen Maing and Brett Story

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• No Other Land – Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor
• Black Box Diaries – Directed by Shiori Itō
• Daughters – Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
• Frida – Directed by Carla Gutiérrez
• Grand Theft Hamlet – Directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane
• Hollywoodgate – Directed by Ibrahim Nash’at

• Union – Mars Verrone and Samantha Curley
• Hollywoodgate – Shane Boris, Odessa Rae and Talal Derki
• Mistress Dispeller – Elizabeth Lo, Emma D. Miller, and Maggie Li
• No Other Land – Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning
• Porcelain War – Paula DuPre' Pesmen, Aniela Sidorska, Camilla Mazzaferro and Olivia Ahnemann
• Sugarcane – Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn

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• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Rik Chaubetn
• Eno – Maya Tippet and Marley McDonald
• Ernest Cole: Lost and Found – Alexandra Strauss
• Frida – Carla Gutiérrez
• Intercepted – Charlotte Tourres
• Look Into My Eyes – Hannah Buck

• Sugarcane – Emily Kassie and Christopher LaMarca
• Dahomey – Joséphine Drouin Viallard
• Mistress Dispeller – Elizabeth Lo
• Nocturnes – Satya Rai Nagpual
• Porcelain War – Andrey Stefanov
• Viktor – Olivier Sarbil

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• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – Uno Helmerssonm
• Dahomey – Wally Badarou and Dean Blunt
• Ernest Cole: Lost and Found – Alexeï Aïgui
• Frida – Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser
• Nocturnes – Nainita Desai
• Sugarcane – Mali Obomsawin

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic Goossed
• Dahomey – Nicolas Becker
• Eno – Nas Parkash and Patrick Fripp
• Intercepted – Alex Lane
• Nocturnes – Tom Paul, Shreyank Nanjappa and Sukanto Mazumder
• Viktor – Peter Albrechtsen, Nicolas Becker and Heikki Kossi

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• Eno – Brendan Dawes
• Frida – Sofía Inés Cázares and Renata Galindo
• Piece by Piece – Howard Baker
• Porcelain War – Brendan Bellomo and BluBlu Studios
• Queendom – Agniia Galdanova
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – Rasmus Tukia and Ada Wikdahl

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Shortlist

• Incident– Directed by Bill Morrison (New Yorker)
• Contractions – Directed by Lynne Sachs (NY Times Op-Docs)
• Eternal Father – Directed by Ömer Sami (New Yorker)
• I Am Ready, Warden – Directed by Smriti Mundhra (MTV Documentary Films)
• Instruments of a Beating Heart – Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki (NY Times Op-Docs)
• Love in the Time of Migration – Directed by Erin Semine Kökdil and Chelsea Abbas (LA Times)

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• Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World – Directed by Julio Palacio (Netflix)
• The Medallion – Directed by Ruth Hunduma (New Yorker)
• A Move – Directed by Elahe Esmaili (NY Times Op-Docs)
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra – Directed by Molly O'Brien (Netflix)
• A Swim Lesson – Directed by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (POV)

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• Black Snow – Directed by Alina Simone
• Homegrown – Directed by Michael Premo
• A New Kind of Wilderness – Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
• A Photographic Memory – Directed by Rachel Elizabeth Seed
• Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other – Directed by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet

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• Songs from the Hole – Directed by Contessa Gayles
• Caught by the Tides – Directed by Jia Zhang-ke
• Kneecap – Directed by Rich Peppiatt
• My First Film – Directed by Zia Anger
• Pavements – Directed by Alex Ross Perry
• Sing Sing – Directed by Greg Kwedar

• Porcelain War – Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
• Copa 71 – Directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay
• Daughters – Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
• Frida – Directed by Carla Gutiérrez
• Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa – Directed by Lucy Walker
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – Directed by Benjamin Ree
• Skywalkers: A Love Story – Directed by Jeff Zimbalist
• Sugarcane – Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui
• Will & Harper – Directed by Josh Greenbaum

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• Black Box Diaries – Shiori Itō
• Eno – Brian Eno
• Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa – Lhakpa Sherpa
• No Other Land – Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra
• Patrice: The Movie – Patrice Jetter
• Queendom – Gena Marvin
• Union – Chris Smalls
• Will & Harper – Harper Steele

• Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. – Directed by Jeremy O. Harris (HBO)
• Bread & Roses – Directed by Sahra Mani (Apple TV+)
• Girls State – Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss (Apple TV+)
• Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family's Secrets – Directed by Amanda Mustard and Rachel Beth Anderson (HBO)
• The Lady Bird Diaries – Directed by Dawn Porter (Hulu)
• Spermworld – Directed by Lance Oppenheim (FX)

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• Telemarketers – Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern (HBO)
• America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders – Directed by Greg Whiteley and Chelsea Yarnell (Netflix)
• Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court – Directed by Dawn Porter (Showtime)
• The Enfield Poltergeist – Directed by Jerry Rothwell (Apple TV+)
• The Luckiest Guy in the World – Directed by Steve James (ESPN)
• Ren Faire – Directed by Lance Oppenheim (HBO)

• Girls State – Amy Foote (Apple TV+)
• The Greatest Night in Pop – Nic Zimmerman, Will Znidaric and David Brodie (Netflix)
• Ren Faire – Max Allman and Nicholas Nazmi (HBO)
• The Saint of Second Chances – Alan Lowe, Jeff Malmberg and Miles Wilkerson (Netflix)
• Telemarketers – Christopher Passig (HBO)
• Time Bomb Y2K – Marley McDonald and Maya Mumma (HBO)

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• Ren Faire – Nate Hurtsellers (HBO)
• America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders – Jonathan Nicholas (Netflix)
• The Enfield Poltergeist – Ruben Woodin Deschamps, Carmen Pellon Brussosa and David Katznelson (Apple TV+)
• Girls State – Martina Radwan, Daniel Carter, Laela Kilbourn, Erynn Patrick Lamont, Laura Hudock, Thorsten Thielow (Apple TV+)
• Photographer – Michael Crommett, Rita Baghdadi, Peter Hutchens, Melissa Langer and Pauline Maroun (National Geographic)
• You Were My First Boyfriend – Brennan Vance and J. Bennett (HBO)