WINNERS WINTER EDITION 2023

GOLDEN DOC:

Best Feature Documentary
Winner
System Change - A story of growing resistance (Klaus Sparwasser, Germany)
Honorable Mention
ON THE OTHER SIDE (Nikolay Rusakiev Rusakiev, Bulgaria)

Europe Documentary
Winner
The Palace of the Citizens (Sofia Anna Katarina Wikström, Sweden)

Asia & Australia Documentary
Winner
Our Voice, Our Heart (Laurens Goud, Justin Grant, Australia)

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Best Documentary About a Person
Winner
The Decisive Moment (Dominic Kubisch, Austria)

Best Documentary About a Theme: History
Winner
Lombard Women (Simone Vrech, Sandra Lopez Cabrera, Italy)

Best Female Director
Winner
The Bus Savior (Fanny Ben David, Israel)

WINNER OF THE THIRD YEAR
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD - 2022/23 WINTER EDITION

Best Super Short Documentary
Winner
The Embroideresses (Bo Sjökvist, Sweeden) 

Best Short Documentary
Winner
City Without A Subway 1986 (Steve Boyle, USA)

Best Feature Documentary
Winner
Közüngü (Ahmet Tolga Ayıklar, Turkey)

Best Documentary from Asia and Australia
Winner
The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan (Rionne McAvoy, Japan)

Best Documentary from South America
Winner
After Tomorrow (Gabriel Panazio, Brazil)

Best Female Director
Winner
Borderlands (Mackenzie Trudy Baradic, USA)
Honorable Mention
Anjela (Vilma Kartalska, Bulgaria)


Best First-Time Director
Winner
Memoirs of Métiers (Krisztian Egry, Hungary)

Best Cinematography
Winner
Memoirs of Métiers (Krisztian Egry, Hungary)

Best Document about a theme: History
Winner
The Longobard Warrior (Simone Vrech, Italy)

Best Document about a theme: War
Winner
With This Scar (Adamo Pedro Bronzoni, Italy)

Best Document about a Person
Winner
Idol in a Strange Company (Minkuen Choi, Yooyoung Koo, Seungyeon Lee, Republic of Korea)

Best Document about LGBT
Winner
Disco Bloodbath (Marcus Palmer, New Zealand)

Best Document about Human Rights
Winner
The Aesthetics of the Fight (Guillermo Planel, Brazil) 

WINNERs OF THE THIRD YEAR
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD - 2022/23 AUtuMN EDITION


Best Super Short Documentary
Winner
The Journey You'll Take (Laura Makai, UK)

Best Short Documentary
Winner
The Soul of Sicily (Margie Raimondo, USA)

Best Feature Documentary
Winner
Case for Kindness (Steven Sawalich, USA)

Best Documentary from Asia and Australia
Winner
Stage Changers (Ella Genevieve Wright, Australia)

Best Documentary from America
Winner
Somehow Hopeful: The Story of a Woodsman (Jerry McNutt, USA)

Best Documentary from South America
Winner
Muribeca (Mario Fidba, Mario Fidba, Brazil)

Best Director
Winner
Marsh Clouds: the oysters of Harris Neck (Kevin Mannens, USA)

Best Male Director
Winner
Beyond Ink: Deep Water (Pilot) (Marcus Paul Peters, Australia)

Best First-Time Director
Winner
Abandoned Adopted Here (Lucy Sheen, USA)

Best Cinematography
Winner
Vertigo (Haruo Inoue, Japan)

Best Editor
Winner
Spark (2022) (BETO SPORKENS, Brazil)

Best Document about a theme: Nature and Ecology
Winner
Unbearable - The Global Heatwave Crisis (Vishal Munsif, USA)

Best Document about a theme: War
Winner
Helianthus (Daniele Lo Presti, Italy)

Best Document about a Person
Winner
Never Ask Why (Saurabh Dubey, India)

Best Document about LGBT
Winner
In Bloom (Ashley Davidson, USA)

Best Document about Human Rights
Winner
DREAMS OF DARAA (Reilly Dowd, USA)

WINNER OF THE THIRD YEAR BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD
2022/23 - SUMMER EDITION


Best Short Documentary (under 10 minutes)
Artist: Sena Shah (Todor Tragmar, UK)
 

Best Short Documentary
One Last Ride: The U.S. - Canada Horse Meat Pipeline
(Jen Osborne, Canada)
 

Best Feature Documentary
Blowing on the Embers (Chris Frieswijk, Netherlands)
 

Best Documentary from Asia and Australia
What I learned from cycling 6 times around the world (Kenji Ogusu, Japan)
 

Best Documentary from America
Taste the Diversity: Portuguese (Olena Tumanska, Canada)
 

Best Female Director
Teacher of Patience (Carmen Vincent, USA)
 

Best Document about a theme: Nature and Ecology
Tandem Local (François Legrand, Marc-Antoine Boyer, Ludovic Bollette, Belgium)
 

Best Document about Human Rights
BULLY
(Alejandro Mendoza Llopis, USA)
 

Best Document about Quarantine
Wilde Zeiten - No mask no party (Patrick Protz, Dennis Groß, Germany)

WINNER OF THE THIRD YEAR BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2022/23 - SPRING EDITION


Best Super Short Documentary
The Savior of Coney Island (Gary Beeber, USA)

Honorable Mention
Ballet and I
(Johnny White, UK)

Best Short Documentary
No Body and the Blue Sky (Magda Gvelesiani, Germany)

 Honorable Mention
La Motera (The Biker) (Luis Galán, Spain)

Best Feature Documentary
Keeping Christmas (Rick Von Veslor, Germany)

Honorable Mention
Ranger (Sean Jaes Spencer, USA)
The Graduates (Dusan Gajic, Serbia)

Best Documentary from Europe
Scream of the Soul (Dominique Othenin-Girard, Switzerland)

Best Documentary from Africa
After You Revolt, You Vote (Liyan FAN, Burkina Faso)

Best Documentary from Asia and Australia
Songs of Beggar Folk Artist (Dhananjoy Mandal, India)

Best Documentary from America
NO EXCUSES, The Greatest Fight (Mauro A Diaz/ Jesus Rouco, USA)

Best Documentary from South America
ELDORADO - Mengele dead or Alive? (MARCELO FELIPE SAMPAIO, Brazil)

Best Director
Neustra (Aaron Bagget, USA)

Best Male Director
Behind the Card (Chritopher Robert Fitzjarrald, USA)

Best Female Director
Look at each other (Sala Olacireguli, France)

Best First-Time Director
The Voices of Courage (Pierrick Menager, France)

Best Cinematography
And Outside Life Goes On (Daniel Maurer, Switzerland)

Best Editor
Load Cycle (Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla Pérez, Peru)

Best Narrator
Canaries in a Cold War (Mathias Magnason, USA)

Best Document about a theme: Nature and Ecology
Heroes of the Sea (York Hovest, Katrin Eigendorf, Sabine Streich, Germany)

Best Document about a theme: History
2005 Nights and Days (Andrzej Dudziński, Poland)

Best Document about a theme: War
Against All Adversity (Jean-Philippe Jacquemin, France)

Best Document about a Person
Coral Gardening (Silke de Vos, Philipines)

Best Document about Sport
Doctor of The “Polish Eagles” (Małgorzata Szyszka, Poland)

Best Document about Human Rights
Pico Reja - The Truth Burried Beneath (Remedios Malvárez, Arturo Andújar, Spain)

Best Document about Quarantine
Turtle's Time (Costanza La Bruna, Italy)

WINNER OF THE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2022


Best Super Short Documentary

The World Is My Stage (Andrew Arrakis, Russia)

Honorable Mention:
Super Short Documentary
A Maid's Life (Tim Mountain, UK)
I'll stand with you (Matt Norman, Australia)

Best Short Documentary
Five Days With Tom (Emmanuel BONN, France)

Honorable Mention: Short Documentary
EARTH MAN (Olga Tugaeva, Yuri Maslak, Russia)
Fernando, the Sea Urchin's Hunter from Castro (Matteo Polo, Italy)
Attila - A Documentary (Dave Majcher, Stefano Ceccarelli, USA)

Best Feature Documentary
Harada, sculpting for Peace (Jean-François Even, Japan)

Honorable Mention: Feature Documentary
China's Rebel City (Chieu Luu, Hong Kong)

Best Documentary from Europe
The Wetland (Dušan Davidov, Slovakia)

Best Documentary from Africa
Dust and Dignity - African Lessons (Carla Zickfeld, Italy)

Best Documentary from Asia and Australia
Film-Wen (Lee, Chien-Cheng, Yang, Chi-Sheng, Taiwan)

Best Documentary from America
The Game Is Up: Disillusioned Trump Voters Tell Their Stories (Melissa Jo Peltier, USA)

Best Documentary from South America
Lost and Hungry in the Amazon: a Yanomami Story (Cliff Orloff, USA)

Best Documentary from Arctic and Antarctic
Alone beneath the Northern Lights (Valentin Boitel-Denyset, France)

Best Director
VUČEDOL PARTRIDGE (Darko Puharić, Croatia)

Best Male Director
Motolady (Pavel Kobyak, Russia)

Best Female Director
In Search of a Better World (Mary Darling, Canada)

Best First-Time Director
He Ara Anō [There is another way] (Holly Beckham, New Zeland)

Best Cinematography
With...Out (Hubert Bąk, Piotr "Latona" Kusal, Poland)

Best Editor
The Tribe of God (Mirjam Strugalla, Ireland)

Best Narrator
Little Victories 100 years of Clovelly Rugby League (Nicholas Carroll, Australia)

Best Document about a theme: Nature and Ecology
Organic (Egor Subbotin, USA)

Best Document about a theme: History
Mexica Nation: 500 years of Resistance (Adrian Rodriguez, Mexico)

Best Document about a theme: War
WALTER & THE CHOPPERS (Fabrice Paget, USA)

Best Document about a Person
An Actress in Wonderland (Maciej Kowalewski, Piotr Konstantinow, Poland)

Best Document about Sport
The Shoulders of Giants (Quinn Early, USA)

Best Document about LGBT
No makeup (Monika Konarzewska, Iceland)

Honorable Mention: Best Document about Human Rights
Don't Be Afraid (Mikhail Arshynski, Belarus)

Best Document about Quarantine
MAY BEE (Veranika Bandarovich, Belarus)

Best Document about Migrations
The Day I Became a British Citizen
(Valentina Signorelli, Italy)