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Protesting Buddhist monks in Myanmar in 2007. One dries his tears for other monks arrested by police in Yangon.
The film is about journalists who risked their lives to cover a revolt by Buddhist monks against Myanmar's military junta in 2007.
"By honouring the film, the panel of judges intended to support an entire people on the way towards liberty," the organisers said.
Swiss director Daniel Schweizer also won top honours for his film "Dirty Paradise" about clandestine gold-diggers who have sparked a health and environmental disaster by dumping mercury into a river in French Guiana.
The film shows how the dumping contaminates the food chain, causing local indigenous people to suffer from neurological problems.
The judges intended to help the Wayana Indian tribe in French Guiana denounce "an environmental crime which has hit a poor and peaceful people hard," organisers said.
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"By honouring the film, the panel of judges intended to support an entire people on the way towards liberty," the organisers said.
Swiss director Daniel Schweizer also won top honours for his film "Dirty Paradise" about clandestine gold-diggers who have sparked a health and environmental disaster by dumping mercury into a river in French Guiana.
The film shows how the dumping contaminates the food chain, causing local indigenous people to suffer from neurological problems.
The judges intended to help the Wayana Indian tribe in French Guiana denounce "an environmental crime which has hit a poor and peaceful people hard," organisers said.
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