"It is not easy to make a world plagued by war and a family reckoning with itself feel like a place that is both familiar and a place you'd like to return to. For its intimate cinematography, the warmth of detail to the composition, and depiction of community, family, and memory to what could be and still is, the jury would like to give a special mention to MY FATHER'S SHADOW, written and directed by Akinola Davies Jr."