Sud (1999 film)
Sud (English: South) is a 71-minute 1999 Belgian-Finnish-French English-language independent documentary art film directed by Chantal Akerman.

Reception

The film, which premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where it was nominated for the International Confederation of Art Cinemas Award) and was released on DVD in 2016 as part of a boxset also containing D’Est (1993), De l’autre côté (2002), and Down There (2006), examines the effect of the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. on the residents in Jasper, Texas. Financed by Institut national de l’audiovisuel, La Sept-Arte, RTBF, and the Ministry of Transport and Communications’s Yle, produced by , and edited by Claire Atherton, it was also shown at the 2000 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, at the 2000 International Film Festival Rotterdam, at the 2000 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, at the 2001  (where it won the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Award – Special Mention), at the 2006 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, at the 2011 Vienna International Film Festival, and at the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival.

References

External links

1999 documentary films
1999 independent films
1999 films
Belgian documentary films
Belgian independent films
Documentary films about crime in the United States
Films about murder
Films directed by Chantal Akerman
Films set in Alabama
Films set in Atlanta
Films set in Texas
Films shot in Alabama
Films shot in Atlanta
Films shot in Texas
Finnish documentary films
French documentary films
French independent films
1990s English-language films
1990s French films