Spanish director Olmo Couto won the ‘Juror’s Choice’ prize at the award ceremony of the film festival. He has worked with the Rojava Film Commune for five years. Serekaniye, his latest documentary, follows three women’s lives during Turkey’s 2019 invasion of the city.

Olmo Couto said, “this prize is more for the people of Serekaniye, for the resistance and for, principally, these two characters who are in the film - Diya Ebdela and Heval Suriya. They really gave a lot of their love for this film”. Both women attended the first screening at the festival.