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“Ibelin,” directed by Benjamin Ree, is about Mats Steen, a Norwegian who died in 2014, at age 25, from a rare, degenerative genetic condition.

Ree employed animators to recreate scenes from Steen’s World of Warcraft life, drawing on a huge archive of transcripts detailing his conversations and activities.

Ree also visits some of Steen’s friends in real life, who range across Europe and have immensely moving stories to tell.

“Ibelin,” which was acquired by Netflix out of Sundance, won the audience award for world cinema documentary and a juried award for Benjamin Ree’s direction.

The audience award for U.S. documentary also went to the jury-honored “Daughters,” with the audience award for the world documentary competition going to the Norwegian film “Ibelin” directed by Benjamin Ree.