Winner of the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: US Documentary and Audience Award: US Documentary

André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.

When André receives dreadful news that a disease is destroying his body and his days on Earth can be counted in weeks and months, he decides to make a movie about it. An admittedly strange choice for the average person, André is no average person. Creative, funny, and inappropriate, he approaches the story of what it feels like to know he will die with the same passion and excitement his loved ones know him for and expect. André is an Idiot is a hilarious portrait of a unique human being who goes on the journey we all must go on and learns that endings, while heart-wrenching and final, can be an opportunity for gratitude and joy for the path taken.—Sudeep Sharma