2025 Edition Awards
Romania Competition
Best Documentary Romania
Still Nia
Paula Onet / Romania, France / 2025 / 71 min
A young Romanian artist living in France embarks on a journey to reconnect with herself through movement and artistic expression. Can dance heal childhood wounds?
Best Director in the Romanian Competition
BRIGHT FUTURE
Andra MacMasters / Romania, Republic of Korea (South Korea) / 2024 / 85 min
The last great socialist dream — the 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students, revisited through archival footage. Featuring Mugur Isărescu, Dan Bittman, and Adrian Năstase.
Emerging Voices of Documentary
Best Documentary New Voices of Documentary
KABUL, BETWEEN PRAYERS
Aboozar Amini / Netherlands, Belgium / 2025 / 101 min
A film that allows us to fully understand why Afghan boys, raised under the shadow of the Taliban, come to believe with all their being that the ultimate purpose of their lives is to fulfill Allah’s will in missions of holy war, becoming suicide bombers.
Best Director in the New Voices Competition
To the West, in Zapata
David Bim / Cuba, Spain / 2025 / 75 min
How can you live and provide for your family, with a child, in a village in Central America, practicing the traditional craft of hand-catching crocodiles in a jungle where nature rules, where the news fades into the distance, and even the pandemic remains only a distant echo?
Eastern Europe
Best Documentary in the Eastern Europe Competition
My Dear Théo
Alisa Kovalenko / Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic / 2025 / 98 min
A young mother, who volunteered on the front lines in Ukraine, records a video journal for her five-year-old son, offering us a profound and moving testimony of courage, motherhood, and sacrifice.
DocSchool
Awarded Films DocSchool
God's Other Plan
Moritz Müller-Preißer / Germany / 2025 / 79 min
A young American from Utah is part of the Mormon religious community and, at the same time, discovers that he is gay. He must choose whether to remain in the religious community he belongs to by denying his sexual orientation, or to dedicate himself to the life he truly desires.
DocShorts
Awarded Films DocShorts
Sixty-Seven Milliseconds
Fleury Fontaine / France / 2025 / 15 min
The film traces the trajectory of a crime captured by surveillance cameras and the stories of those involved.