Films about dissident journalists in Myanmar and dangerous river pollution in French Guiana won the top prizes at a human rights film festival and forum in Geneva, AFP reports.
Danish director Anders Hogsbro Ostergaard won the Grand Prix offered by the state of Geneva for his film "Burma VJ-Reporting from a closed country".
The film is about journalists who risked their lives to cover a revolt by Buddhist monks against Myanmar's military junta in 2007.
"By honoring the film, the panel of judges intended to support an entire people on the way towards liberty," the organizers said.
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