Two Canadian doc projects have received honors at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

The Special Jury Award was given to Montreal filmmakers Luc Coté and Patricio Henriquez for their film, You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantánamo (pictured), which uses declassified footage to examine the case of Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr.

The IDFA jury, in awarding the prize, saluted the film’s “effective use of evidence, opinion and testimony,” saying it creates “a provocative and moving story that reaches into the dark hole of our consciousness, maintaining a consistent visual and audio vocabulary that allows its viewers to determine what is just and what is moral.”

The other Canadian project awarded at IDFA claimed the fest’s inaugural DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling.

The honor, and a Canon 5D Mark II camera prize, was presented to Katerina Cizek’s 360-degree documentary produced with the National Film Board of Canada, Out My Window, the first film of the NFB’s multi-year, multimedia Highrise project.

The jury offered this assessment: “The project draws its strength when viewed in depth and at length. The meetings in dozens of countries, from Bangalore and Beirut to Toronto, Canada are all beautiful and the design of the piece resonates with the stories. Photos, video, audio and interactivity all work in seamless harmony towards telling the stories in a compelling way.”

From realscreen magazine.