Experimenta 2024 Awards

The EXPERIMENTA 2024 Adolfas Mekas Award was awarded to:
‘Thokei’ by Malik Irtiza (Kashmir, 2024)

Irtiza accepted the award with the following message: “Thank you, Experimenta, for this honour, especially an award that celebrates the spirit of making mistakes, of taking the risks, of madness— some things which are at the very core of my creative practice. I’m also grateful to be receiving an award for a work which was made amidst deep chaos in Kashmir, and which goes on to show that cinema could do anything could mean anything and something so chaotic could have such a resonance far and wide. (And) I will always remember and this work will always recall the people— from Palestine to Kashmir, the fighting people, the militant lovers and dreamers, the resisting people. Thank you”

SPECIAL MENTIONS

‘Room 404’ by Elysa Wendi and LEE Wai Shing (Hong Kong, 2023)

‘Home And Hatred’ by Dimple Mishra, Praagya Arya (India, 2024)

Babasaheb in Bengaluru by Mahishaa (India, 2024)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE FILMMAKERS!

The Experimenta team would like to thank the International Program jury,
Anuja Ghosalkar, Sohrab Hura and Yashaswini Raghunandan.