2020 IDU Film Festival

4th IDU Film Festival
Date	July 20, 2020 (2020-07-20)
Site	Hanshui, Laeral
Hosted by	Laeral
Highlights
Best Film	Sawdust
Best Classic Film	Swirls of Magic
Best Documentary	The Council of Reform
Best Foreign Film	Gaviria
Best Actor	Eloi Liang Legend of the Branded Swordsman

The 2020 International Democratic Union Film Festival was held in July of 2020, in Hanshui, Laeral, for the purpose of honoring IDU cinema. During the festival, delegations from eleven nations within the IDU voted on winners in five categories. Films were screened in cinemas throughout Hanshui, before being voted on. Libertas Omnium Maximus won in the category of 'Best New IDU Film' with its submission 'Sawdust', but Kerlile became the first country in the history of the Festival to receive two awards: "Best Classic IDU Film" for "Swirls of Magic" and "Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film" for "The Council of Reform." The 2020 IDU Film Festival was noteworthy as having more entrants than any previous iteration of the festival, as well as being the first instance that ranked-choice voting was used to determine winners of each festival. Winners of each category are printed in bold, while the number of first-preference votes received are listed following each entry.

Best New IDU Film

The category 'Best New IDU Film' is the most prestigious of the awards presented at the IDU Film Festival, honoring the films released in the IDU between the date of the prior film festival, in 2018, and the 2020 festival. Five entries were submitted in this category.

• A Different Life — Lauchenoiria (1)
• Craterfall — Eiria (1)
• Quiauhticue: Rise of an Empire — Xiomera (1)
• Sawdust — Libertas Omnium Maximus (2)
• The Back Country — Gardavasque (2)

Best Classic IDU Film

This category honors the best IDU films released prior to 2016. Three entries were submitted in this category.

• Legend of the Branded Swordsman — Laeral (2)
• Spring Unsung — Latidonia (2)
• Swirls of Magic — Kerlile (3)

Best Actor in an IDU Film

This category honors actors within the IDU. Submissions were required to cite a single role. Four entries were submitted in this category.

• Celino Austurias in A Different Life — Lauchenoiria (1)
• Eloi Liang in Legend of the Branded Swordsman — Laeral (4)
• Heather Grey in The Back Country — Gardavasque (2)
• Samuel Murphy in Sawdust — Libertas Omnium Maximus

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

This category honors the best IDU non-fiction film released since 2016. Five entries were submitted.

• Asal and Farideh — Tsiba (2)
• Survivors: Six Unlikely Stories of Unsung Heroes — Eiria
• The Council of Reform — Kerlile (3)
• The Dangerous Lives and Amazing Loves of Trees — Gardavasque (2)
• Those Who Are Called — Xiomera

Best Foreign Film

This category, honoring the best films produced since 2018 in a nation outside the IDU, received only one entrant, which won by default.

• Gaviria — Zamastan (by acclamation)