NORWAY director Aslaug Holm’s “Brothers” took the top jury prize on Friday night at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.

    Holm’s film, seemingly a documentary version of Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood,” about two brothers, Lukas and Markus, whose growth over eight years from toddlers to teenagers is captured by their filmmaker mother, earned the best international feature documentary prize, and US$10,000.

    And Hot Docs gave its special jury prize for an international feature documentary to the American doc “God Knows Where I Am” by directors Todd Wider and Jedd Wider. The film reveals a troubling account of mental illness through the mysterious death of a woman in a New Hampshire farmhouse.

    Elsewhere, the best emerging foreign filmmaker award went to Mike Day for his U.K.-Denmark co-production, “The Islands and the Whales.” The best mid-length documentary prize went to another Norwegian film, “The Button,” a film about two al-Qaida suicide bombers in Syria, by Paul S. Refsdal.

    Hot Docs also handed out prizes to local films, with the best Canadian feature doc prize going to Nettie Wild’s “Koneline,” while the special jury prize for a Canadian doc went to “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” Brett Story’s Canada-U.S. co-production about the American prison industry.

    Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, wrapped up Sunday in Toronto. In all, Hot Docs screened 232 documentaries from 51 countries during its April 28 to May 8 run.(SD-Agencies)