Awards

Winners per festival edition

• 2023

  Grand Jury Documentary Award
  Theatre of Violence by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe

  Grand Jury Fiction Award
  Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot

  Activist Documentary Award
  Seven Winters in Tehran by Steffi Niederzoll

  Camera Justitia Award
  Twice Colonized by Lin Alluna

  Dutch Movies Matter Award
  Mijn grote broer by Mercedes Stalenhoef

  Shorts Award
  Haulout by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev

  Students’ Choice Award
  The Kings of the World by Laura Mora Ortega

  Audience Award
  Aurora’s Sunrise by Inna Sahakyan

• 2022

  Grand Jury Documentary Award
  Writing With Fire by Rintu Thomas en Sushmit Ghosh

  Grand Jury Fiction Award
  Erasing Frank by Gábor Fabricius

  Activist Documentary Award
  The Territory by Alex Pritz

  Camera Justitia Award
  Myanmar Diaries by Myanmar Film Collective

  Dutch Movies Matter Award
  Huda’s Salon by Hany Abu-Assad

  Students’ Choice Award
  Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege by Abdallah Al-Khatib

  Shorts Award
  My Uncle Tudor van Olga Lucovnicova

  Publieksprijs
  Navalny by Daniel Roher

• 2021

  Grand Jury Documentary Award
  Watch Over Me by Farida Pacha

  Grand Jury Fiction Award
  Quo Vadis, Aida? by Jasmila Zbanic

  Activist Documentary Award
  Fly So Far by Celina Escher

  Camera Justitia Award
  Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte

  Dutch Movies Matter Award
  Shadow Game by Eefje Blankevoort & Els van Driel

  Students’ Choice Award
  Gagarine by Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh

• 2020

  Activist Documentary Award
  Ximei by Andy Cohen & Gaylen Ross

  Camera Justitia Award
  Collective by Alexander Nanau

  Dutch Movies Matter Award
  Stop Filming Us by Joris Postema

  Students’ Choice Award
  Atlantis by Valentyn Vasyanovych

• 2019

  Activist Documentary Award
  Ghost Fleet by Shannon Service & Jeffrey Waldron

  Activist Human Rights Award
  Shakila Ibrahimkhail from Facing the Dragon

  Camera Justitia Award
  Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads Brügger

  Dutch Movies Matter Award
  Dirty God by Sacha Polak

  BNNVARA Publieksprijs
  Ghost Fleet by Shannon Service & Jeffrey Waldron

  Students’ Choice Award
  The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Boundaoui

• 2018

  Activist Documentary Award
  Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella

  Activist Human Rights Award
  Jaha Dukureh from Jaha’s Promise

  Camera Justitia Award
  Armed to the Teeth by Alberto Arnaut

  Dutch Movies Matter Award
  The Bastard by Floris-Jan van Luyn

  BNNVARA Publieksprijs
  City of Joy by Madeleine Gavin

  Students’ Choice Award
  I Am Not a Witch by Rungano Nyoni

  MovieZone MtM Award
  Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella

• 2017

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Saliha Ben from The Empty Room

  Camera Justitia Award
  Algo Mío – Argentina’s Stolen Children by Jenny Hellmann & Regina Mennig

  BNNVARA Publieksprijs
  Bram Fischer by Jean van de Velde

  Students’ Choice Award
  The Citizen by Roland Vranik

  MovieZone MtM Award
  Stranger in Paradise by Guido Hendrikx

• 2016

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  Hooligan Sparrow by Nanfu Wang

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Ye Haiyan from Hooligan Sparrow

  Camera Justitia Award
  Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr by Patrick Reed & Michelle Shephard

  VARA Publieksprijs
  Frame by Frame by Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli

  Students’ Choice Award
  The Chosen Ones by David Pablos

  MovieZone MtM Award
  El Clan by Pablo Trapero

• 2015

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  The Man Who Mends Women: The Wrath of Hippocrates by Thierry Michel

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Maryam en Zainab al-Khawaja from We Are The Giant

  Camera Justitia Award
  Those Who Said No by Nima Sarvestani

  VARA Publieksprijs
  The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer

  Students’ Choice Award
  We Are the Giant by Greg Barker

  MovieZone MtM Award
  Toto and His Sisters by Alexander Nanau

• 2014

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus by Madeleine Sackler

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Yves Yomb from Born This Way

  Camera Justitia Award
  Miners Shot Down by Rehad Desai

  VARA Publieksprijs
  Sound of Torture by Keren Shayo

  Students’ Choice Award
  #chicagoGirl – The Social Network Takes on a Dictator by Joe Piscatella

  MovieZone MtM Award
  La jaula de oro by Diego Quemada-Díez

• 2013

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  Camp 14: Total Control Zone by Marc Wiese

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Tep Vanny from Even a Bird Needs a Nest

  Camera Justitia Award
  Justice for My Sister by Kimberly Bautista

  VARA Publieksprijs
  One Day After Peace by Erez Laufer & Miri Laufer

  Students’ Choice Award
  Camp 14: Total Control Zone by Marc Wiese

  MovieZone ALLRights Award
  Wadjda by Haifaa Al-Mansour

• 2012

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Geronimo Arevalos from Raising Resistance
  Mnikelo Ndabankulu from Dear Mandela

  Camera Justitia Award
  Love Crimes of Kabul by Tanaz Eshaghian

  VARAgids Publieksprijs
  Give Up Tomorrow by Michael Collins

  Students’ Choice Award
  5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi

  MovieSquad ALLRights Award
  Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman

• 2011

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  Sarabah by Maria Luisa Gambale & Gloria Bremer

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Ayed Morrar from Budrus

  Camera Justitia Award
  Impunity by Juan José Lozano en Hollman Morris

  VARAgids Publieksprijs
  Min Dît – The Children of Diyarbakir by Miraz Bezar

  Students’ Choice Award
  The Green Wave by Ali Samadi Ahadi

  MovieSquad ALLRights Award
  Neukölln Unlimited by Agostino Imondi & Dietmar Ratsch

• 2010

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  To Shoot an Elephant by Alberto Arce

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Shadi Sadr from Women in Shroud

  Camera Justitia Award
  Mugabe and the White African by Lucy Bailey

  VARAgids Publieksprijs
  Tibet in Song by Ngawang Choephel

  Students’ Choice Award
  Reporter by Eric Daniel Metzgar

  MovieSquad ALLRights Award
  No One Knows About Persian Cats by Bahman Ghobadi

• 2009

  A Matter of ACT Documentary Award
  Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country by Anders Østergaard

  A Matter of ACT Human Rights Award
  Etweda Cooper from Pray the Devil Back to Hell

  Camera Justitia Award
  The Judge and the General by Patricio Lanfranco

  VARAgids Publieksprijs
  The Heart of Jenin by Leon Geller & Marcus Vetter

  Students’ Choice Award
  Résolution 819 by Giacomo Battiato

  MovieSquad ALLRights Award
  Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country by Anders Østergaard