41st IDA Documentary Awards – ‘The Tale of Silyan’ Wins Best Feature, ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Wins Best Music Docu

The Tale of Silyan directed by Tamara Kotevska was crowned Best Feature Documentary at the 41st IDA Documentary Awards.

The film also won the IDA Award for Best Cinematography for Jean Dakar.

From the Oscar-nominated director of Honeyland, the film, set in rural Macedonia, follows struggling farmer Nikola who ends up befriending an injured white stork Silyan, after his daughter and wife move to Germany in search of a better life.

Brittany Shyne won Best Director for her film Seeds, that captures multiple generations of Black farming families in Thomas County, Georgia.

Kevin Macdonald’s One to One: John & Yoko, an inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, won Best Music Documentary.

No Other Land won Best Feature Documentary at last year’s IDA Awards, and went on to win Best Feature Documentary at the Academy Awards.

See below the complete list of winners.

41ST IDA Documentary Awards Winners

Best Feature Documentary

The Tale of Silyan (Republic of North Macedonia, United States, United Kingdom | National Geographic | Director: Tamara Kotevska | Producers: Tamara Kotevska, Jean Dakar, Anna Hashmi, Jordanco Petkovski)

Best Feature Documentary Special Mentions

Come See Me in the Good Light (United States | Apple | Director: Ryan White | Producers: Jessica Hargrave, Ryan White, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen)

Cover-Up (United States | Netflix | Director: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus | Producers: Yoni Golijov, Olivia Streisand, Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus)

Deaf President Now! (United States | Apple | Directors: Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim | Producers: Amanda Rohlke, Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan King, Nyle DiMarco, Michael Harte, Wayne Betts Jr.)

Mothers of Chibok (United States, Nigeria | Director: Joel ‘Kachi Benson | Producers: Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, Rachel Halilej, Joel ‘Kachi Benson, Samira Mohammed, Adeyinka Oduniyi)

ORWELL: 2+2=5 (United States | NEON | Director: Raoul Peck | Producers: Alex Gibney, Raoul Peck, George Chignell, Nick Shumaker)

YANUNI (Austria, Brazil, United States | Director: Richard Ladkani | Producers: Anita Ladkani, Richard Ladkani, Juma Xipaia, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson, Phillip Watson)

Best Short Documentary

Looking for a Donkey (Mexico, Venezuela | Director: Juan Vicente Manrique | Producers: Juan Vicente Manrique, María Benítez)

Best Short Documentary Special Mentions

All The Empty Rooms (United States | Netflix | Director: Joshua Seftel | Producers: Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones, James Costa, Trevor Burgess)

The Candy Factory (United States | The New Yorker | Directors: Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt | Producers: Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt)

Landscapes of Longing (India, United States | Directors: Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani | Producers: Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez)

perfectly a strangeness (Canda, Chile | Premium Films | Director: Alison McAlpine | Producer: Alison McAlpine)

Please Step Aside! (Germany | Raha Films | Director: Raha Faridi | Producer: Raha Faridi)

Voices From The Abyss (Mexico | EPF Media | Directors: Irving Serrano & Víctor Rejón | Producer: Ramón Llaven Zavala)

Best Director

Brittany Shyne, Seeds (United States)

Best Cinematography

Jean Dakar, The Tale of Silyan (Republic of North Macedonia, United States, United Kingdom | National Geographic)

Best Editing

Alex Megaro, Ian Bell, WTO/99 (United States)

Best Original Music Score

Fréderic Filiartre, The Sorcerer: Julio Zachrisson (Panama)

Best Production

Alessandra Orofino, Petra Costa, Apocalypse in the Tropics (United States | Netflix)

Best Sound Design

Thomas Perez-Pape, Only on Earth (Denmark, Spain | DR, HBO, SVT)

Best Writing

Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, Nels Bangerter, David Barker, Apocalypse in the Tropics (United States | Netflix)

Best Curated Series

99 (France | EP: Jérôme Plan)

Best Episodic Series

Citizen Nation (United States | PBS | Directors: Bret Sigler, Singeli Agnew | Producers: Veronika Adaskova, Emily Orr, Wesley Harris, Cole Cahill, Victor Couto, Tom Brown)

Best Music Documentary

One to One: John & Yoko (United Kingdom | Magnolia Pictures, HBO Documentary Films | Director: Kevin Macdonald | Co-director: Sam Rice-Edwards | Producers: Peter Worsley, Kevin Macdonald, Alice Webb)

David L. Wolper Student Documentary

What a day, what a life (United Kingdom | National Film and Television School, UK | Director: Maylana Colchete | Producers: Luiza Amelio de Carvalho, Maylana Colchete)