''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
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Cannes Film Festival
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(where it was nominated for the
International Confederation of Art Cinemas
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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.
James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was a black American man who was murdered by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him fo ...
on the residents in
Jasper, Texas
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.
[Rapord, Nicolas. ] Financed by
Institut national de l’audiovisuel,
La Sept
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-
Arte
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It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...
,
RTBF, and the
Ministry of Transport and Communications’s
Yle
Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, found ...
, produced by , and edited by
Claire Atherton, it was also shown at the 2000
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
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, at the 2000
International Film Festival Rotterdam, at the 2000
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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, 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
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The average number of visitors is about 75,000. Traditional cinema venues are ''Gartenbaukino'', ''Urania'', ''Metro ...
, and at the 2018
Jerusalem Film Festival
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.
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{{Chantal Akerman
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