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01.Edition 2024
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01.Docs del Mes
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With a cash prize of €5000 and a festival statuette. This award is applicable to the films of the Official Section – Panorama that do not compete for the New Talent Award, produced after January 2018, that have not been released commercially in Spain (in commercial cinemas and / or VOD) and that have not been broadcasted on television in Spain.
Award-winning movie: Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky
This award is applicable to the films of the Official Section – Panorama that are the filmmaker’s first feature-length film and consist of a statuette (also in case of co-directing). This award is given by the DocsBarcelona Panorama Jury. This award is not compatible with the DocsBarcelona Award for the Best Documentary. In the event that the final selection does not have a minimum of 5 films that can qualify for this award in accordance with the above provisions, the festival organization may also establish films that are the second feature film of his/her director (also in case of co-directing) and these will automatically qualify for the New Talent award.
Award-winning movie: Inside the red brick wall by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
Addressed to films selected for the so-called section that includes documentaries from Spain, Portugal and Latin-American countries. This prize is awarded by the DocsBarcelona Latitud Jury and sponsored by Antaviana Films, it consists of 3000€ worth in services of completion work for the director’s next film (finishing, conformation, color correction, sound, DCP copy) and a statuette. This award has an expiring date of 2 years after the Awards ceremony for its execution.
Award-winning movie: El secreto del Doctor Grinberg by Ida Cuéllar
This award is applicable to any of the films (in the Official Sections Panorama and Latitud) with a theme or topic that defends the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom of speech and the values shared by International Amnesty, and it also shows a remarkable use of cinematographic elements in the fight for transforming reality. This award consists of a statuette and is given by the Amnesty International Catalunya Jury.
Award-winning movie: Room without a view by Roser Corella
This award is applicable to all the films of the DOC-U Section. This award is given by the DOC-U Jury and consists of a statuette and a 1000€ worth in renting material, sponsored by 16nou.
Award-winning movie: La ermitaña by Anna Hanslik
All the films of the Official Sections (Panorama and Latitud) will compete for this award. The audience of the films will grant this award. The winning film will be the one who gets the best score in the audience votes. This award, sponsored by Moritz, consist of a cash prize of 1500€ and a statuette. The award is given by the festival’s audience.
Award-winning movie: El retorn, la vida després de l'ISIS by Alba Sotorra
The audience of the Docs&Teens Section will grant this award. The winning film will be the one who gets the best score in this section. This award is given by the audience and consists of a statuette.
Award-winning movie: El niño de fuego by Ignacio Acconcia
Films within the Official Sections (Panorama and Latitud) that are part of the Reteena Itinerary, a special selection made up for the Reteena Festival organization, collaborators of the DocsBarcelona Festival, which are eligible for this award. The special selection is based on films within the three official sections that stand out and are considered for young audiences. This Award is given by the Reteena Young Jury and consists of a statuette.
Award-winning movie: El retorn, la vida després de l'ISIS by Alba Sotorra
All documentaries in the Docs&Pearls Official Section are eligible for this award. Consists of a cash prize of 5.000€ and a statuette. Awarded by Docs&Pearls Jury.
New Talent Award to best film of the newcomer directors at Panorama Section, sponsored by Filmin. With a cash prize of 4.000€ and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Rebellion by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot
DocsBarcelona Latitud Award to the best film of Latitud DocsBarcelona section.Consists of a 3.000€ worth of completion work (conformation, graphics, color correction and final deliveries) for the director’s next film and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: El vent que ens mou by Pere Puigbert
This award is applicable to any of the films (except DOC-U Section and Docs&Teens) with a theme or topic that defends the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom of speech and the values shared by International Amnesty, and it also shows a remarkable use of cinematographic elements in the fight for transforming reality.
Award-winning movie: The Territory by Alex Pritz
DOC-U Award to best film of this section. Awarded by the DOC-U Jury, it consists of 1.000€ worth of rental for shooting equipment. Sponsored by 16nou.
Award-winning movie: Paola by Claudia Solano, Marta Martín and 2 more
Audience Award to best film of the Oficial Sections (Panorama and Latitud). Sponsored by Moritz and awarded by the audience and consists of 1.500€ and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Robin Bank by Anna Giralt Gris
Award to best film in this section awarded by the audience.
Award-winning movie: Limiar by Coraci Ruiz
Awarded by young jury Reteena, made up of young people between 16 and 21 years old. The prize is a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Erasmus in Gaza by Chiara Avesani and Matteo Delbò
Granted by the audience attending the screenings of DocsBarcelona of the Month in 2021 and consists of a statuette.
Award-winning movie: As I want by Samaher Alqadi
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary, a new award is born, the Honorary Docs Award, which will recognize a figure with a particularly outstanding career in documentary filmmaking. Awarded: Llorenç Soler
Audience Award to best film of the Oficial Sections (Panorama, Latitud and What The Doc!). Awarded by the audience and consists of 1.500€ and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: ¿Puedes oírme? by Pedro Ballesteros
This award is applicable to any of the films (except DOC-U Section and Docs&Teens) with a theme or topic that defends the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom of speech and the values shared by International Amnesty, and it also shows a remarkable use of cinematographic elements in the fight for transforming reality.
Award-winning movie: Overseas by Sung-A Yoon
DOC-U Award to best film of this section. Awarded by the DOC-U Jury, it consists of 1.000€ worth of rental for shooting equipment. Sponsored by 16nou.
Award-winning movie: Mareas Ocultas by Mònica Cambra
Award to best film in this section awarded by the audience.
Award-winning movie: Lo que dirán by Nila Núñez Urgell
Granted by the audience attending the screenings of DocsBarcelona of the Month in 2019 and consists of a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Womanhood by Beryl Magoko
DocsBarcelona Latitud Award to the best film of Latitud DocsBarcelona section.Consists of a 3.000€ worth of completion work (conformation, graphics, color correction and final deliveries) for the director’s next film and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: El gran viaje al país pequeño by Mariana Viñoles
New Talent Award to best film of the newcomer directors at Panorama Section. Consists of an statuette.
Award-winning movie: Solo by Artemio Benki
DocsBarcelona What The Doc! Award to the best film of What The Doc! section. Consists of an statuette.
Award-winning movie: Il Varco by Michele Manzolini and Federico Ferrone
Award to the best film of the Reteena Itinerary, awarded by young jury Reteena, made up of young people between 16 and 21 years old. The prize is a statuette.
Award-winning movie: That which does not kill by Alexe Poukine
With a cash prize of 5.000€ and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Magic Mountain by Mariam Chachia and Nik Voigt
New Talent Award to best film of the newcomer directors at Panorama Section, sponsored by Filmin. With a cash prize of 4.000€ and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Who I Am Not by Tünde Skovran
To the best film of Latitud DocsBarcelona section.Consists of a 3.000€ worth of completion work (conformation, graphics, color correction and final deliveries) for the director’s next film and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Alis by Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hemelryck
This award is applicable to any of the films (except DOC-U Section and Docs&Teens) with a theme or topic that defends the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom of speech and the values shared by International Amnesty, and it also shows a remarkable use of cinematographic elements in the fight for transforming reality.
Award-winning movie: Lyra by Alison Millar
DOC-U Award to best film of this section. Awarded by the DOC-U Jury, it consists of 1.000€ worth of rental for shooting equipment. Sponsored by 16nou.
Award-winning movie: Avashesh by Dhanraj Barkote
Audience Award to best film of the Oficial Sections (Panorama and Latitud). Sponsored by Moritz and awarded by the audience and consists of 1.500€ and a statuette.
Award-winning movie: La Singla by Paloma Zapata
Award to best film in this section awarded by the audience.
Award-winning movie: Rebellion by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot
Awarded by young jury Reteena, made up of young people between 16 and 21 years old. The prize is a statuette.
Award-winning movie: Polish Prayers by Hanka Nobis
Granted by the audience attending the screenings of DocsBarcelona of the Month in 2021 and consists of a statuette.
Award-winning movie: We are the thousand by Anita Rivaroli
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary, a new award is born, the Honorary DocsBarcelona Award, which will recognize a figure with a particularly outstanding career in documentary filmmaking. Awarded: Helena Třeštíková
All documentaries in the Docs&Pearls Official Section are eligible for this award. Sponsored by Antaviana Films, with 3.000€ for post-production services for the director’s subsequent work and a statuette. Awarded by Docs&Pearls Jury.
All short documentaries in the DOC-U Section are eligible for this award. Sponsored by 16nou, consists of 1.000€ worth of rental for shooting equipment and a statuette. Awarded by DOC-U Jury.
All documentaries within the Docs&Pearls and Docs&Cat Official Sections are eligible for this award. Sponsored by Moritz, with a prize of 1.500€ and a statuette. Awarded by the festival audience.
All documentaries in the Docs&Teens Section are eligible for this award. Consists of a statuette.
All the documentaries from the Docs del Mes 2023 are eligible for this award. Consists of a statuette.
All international short documentaries that participate in the DOC-U Section are eligible for this award. Consists of 1.000€ for the creative team.
All the documentaries from the Docs&Pearls Official Section with a theme or topic that defends the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are eligible for this award. Consists of a statuette
This award recognizes filmmakers with a particularly outstanding career in documentary filmmaking. Awarded: Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret.
Currently the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). She has been the director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, as well as lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has previously been curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; artistic director of Rencontres Picha – Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; curator of contemporary art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; senior curator at Creative Time in New York; and curator of contemporary art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
Born in San Sebastián in 1976. Daughter of a Bubi woman from Equatorial Guinea and an Igbo man from Nigeria. Actress (by vocation) graduated from the Higher School of Dramatic Arts from Murcia in 2002. Playwright (for social responsibility) training at the Beckett studio in Barcelona. Self-taught theatre director (out of obligation).
Co-creator and performer of It's No Country for Black Women, a show on tour since 2016. Translated into English and German, the piece is subject of study by national and international researchers at universities such as the American Marquette in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Tulane, University of New Orleans. Creator of other shows such as Blackface y otras verguenzas, Parad de pararme and Cuentos desde la periferia. As a performer she premiered La moreneta created within the framework of the exhibition Feminismos! and also Somos diáspora, premiered within the show #Nosomosunhastag, both at the CCCB. In theatre she has worked in several shows: Sindrome de gel directed by Xicu Masó, Grrrls directed by Carlota Subirós, premiered at the Estación Alta festival, Kill Agamenon, directed by Carla Rovira for the season Dones LLiures at the Teatre LLiure and L'amansi(pa)ment de les fúries from the company Parking Shakespeare.
In film and television, she has just played a supporting role in the series Detective Touré that will premiere in 2024. She participated in Cathedral of the Sea, produced by Diagonal TV, in the film Inside by Nostromo Pictures, directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas, the short films Panteras directed by Erika Sanchez Marcos, Daucus Carota directed by Carla Linares, Umbered and O No Será, directed by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. Afro-feminist activist, she is part of several groups and promotes different initiatives that work on positive visibility of black women. She is the director of Periferia Cimarronas, the first Afro feminist theatre in the Spanish state.
Programmer and PR representative. Petrula Veljanovska was born and lives in Skopje. After graduating from the Faculty of Classical Studies in Skopje, Petrula has been working on and off as a freelance translator in English and Serbo-Croatian at many film festivals. She is a part of MakeDox from its beginning in 2009. Her role in MakeDox is as Programmer of sections like Country in Focus, Short Docs, Kids and Youth Program and also PR representative, looking after the festival images and relation between the festival and its audience. As a passionate docu-lover, she believes that documentaries are important for the personal and social development of every human being, especially for children, who by learning trough images realize how to express themselves aesthetically and ethically, and growing into people ready to engage in society and discuss different topics. Her working motto is: MAKE DOX and think outside the box!
Since 2021, Jinseok Kang has been the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival's (DMZ Docs) programmer. Before that, he lectured on filmmaking and cinema history at multiple universities, including Korea National University of Arts, Dankook University, and served as a producer of several documentaries, including Exile Trilogy series (directed by Soyoung Kim). He holds degrees in film theory and visual anthropology from the Korea National University of Arts (Karts) and the Freie Universität Berlin, respectively.
Producer, director, writer, DOP. Explores intimate spaces between and within people. Graduate in Psychology, MA in Artistic Productions and Research, trained in photography, she is also alumna of prestigious programmes such as IDFAcademy, Circle - Women’s Doc Accelerator, LIM Development Angels, Dok.incubator, and EURODOC, among others. Member of DAE, EWA, Dones Visuals, DOCMA. As a producer and DOP, she has worked on films like You Will Be a Man and In loco parentis. Her first feature as a director is Light Falls Vertical (2022), premiered at IDFA and nominated for multiple awards such as Best First Feature at IDFA.
Després de formar-se en diferents disciplines interpretatives a MBT Espácio Escénico (Madrid), Estudi Karloff i El Timbal (Barcelona), la seva trajectòria professional teatral destaca per Conqueridors (Bitò Produccions – Focus, 2023), L’Última Fking Nit (Teatre Lliure, 2023), Bonobo (Q-Ars Teatre–TNC, 2022), Carrer Robadors (Bitò Produccions–Festival Grec, 2021) amb nominació a actor revel·lació als Premis Butaca 2022, ), La Font de la Pólvora (TNC, 2021) i Alhayat o la suma dels dies (Cia. La Viciosa, 2020) En audiovisual, forma part del repartiment de Marbella (Buendía Estudios Canarias, SLU – Movistar+, 2023), Jo Mai Mai (Abacus Coop. – TV3, 2023) i Fuet (Minoria Absoluta, 2023). Anteriorment va protagonitzar el curtmetrage Moros en la Costa, curtmetratge per Damià Serra Cauchetiez (prod. ESCAC, 2018), pel qual va rebre el premi millor interpretació masculina del Certamen Nacional de Creación Audiovisual de Cabra 2019 ex-aequo amb Nacho Guerreros.
Mariona Borrull (they) is a film critic for Fotogramas and regularly collaborates with Gara, El Cultural and Kinótico. On the radio, she speaks to Va de Cine on Ràdio 4, Tot és Comèdia on SER Catalunya and La Finestra Indiscreta on Catalunya Ràdio. She has focused on the coverage of class A festivals (Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto...), which she combines with university teaching (UPC, UOC) and the programming of the Most i de L'Alternativa festival . She is a member of ACCEC and the Comitè dels Feroz, and will be Berlinale Talents 2022.
The documentary "Paola" (2021) is an original idea by Claudia Solano and she developed it along with Marta Martín, Daniela Rey and Pere Neila during the first year of their degree in Cinematography at the ESCAC Film school. Tutored by Fèlix Colomer, director of documentaries such as Vitals, these young creators have made Paola more than just a university project.
The documentary "Paola" (2021) is an original idea by Claudia Solano and she developed it along with Marta Martín, Daniela Rey and Pere Neila during the first year of their degree in Cinematography at the ESCAC Film school. Tutored by Fèlix Colomer, director of documentaries such as Vitals, these young creators have made Paola more than just a university project.
Mariona Borrull (they) is a film critic for Fotogramas and regularly collaborates with Gara, El Cultural and Kinótico. On the radio, she speaks to Va de Cine on Ràdio 4, Tot és Comèdia on SER Catalunya and La Finestra Indiscreta on Catalunya Ràdio. She has focused on the coverage of class A festivals (Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto...), which she combines with university teaching (UPC, UOC) and the programming of the Most i de L'Alternativa festival . She is a member of ACCEC and the Comitè dels Feroz, and will be Berlinale Talents 2022.
Després de formar-se en diferents disciplines interpretatives a MBT Espácio Escénico (Madrid), Estudi Karloff i El Timbal (Barcelona), la seva trajectòria professional teatral destaca per Conqueridors (Bitò Produccions – Focus, 2023), L’Última Fking Nit (Teatre Lliure, 2023), Bonobo (Q-Ars Teatre–TNC, 2022), Carrer Robadors (Bitò Produccions–Festival Grec, 2021) amb nominació a actor revel·lació als Premis Butaca 2022, ), La Font de la Pólvora (TNC, 2021) i Alhayat o la suma dels dies (Cia. La Viciosa, 2020) En audiovisual, forma part del repartiment de Marbella (Buendía Estudios Canarias, SLU – Movistar+, 2023), Jo Mai Mai (Abacus Coop. – TV3, 2023) i Fuet (Minoria Absoluta, 2023). Anteriorment va protagonitzar el curtmetrage Moros en la Costa, curtmetratge per Damià Serra Cauchetiez (prod. ESCAC, 2018), pel qual va rebre el premi millor interpretació masculina del Certamen Nacional de Creación Audiovisual de Cabra 2019 ex-aequo amb Nacho Guerreros.
She holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a Master's degree in Translation and Comparative Literature (UPF). She works as a bookseller and Spanish teacher in the UK, where she has been living since 2019. She has been a member of Amnesty International since 2010 and is an activist in the US-Caribbean Country Task Force. President of Amnesty International Catalonia from May 2002 until April 2024.
Graduate in Political and Administrative Sciences (UPF). For over 10 years she has directed and coordinated the office of Amnesty International Catalonia (AIC) and represents the organisation before institutions, public authorities and the media.
A specialist in human rights, she also has extensive experience as a speaker and trainer.
Political scientist specialising in communication on armed conflicts, peace and social movements. He is currently in charge of activism at Amnesty International Catalonia. He has worked in organisations such as Justice and Peace and the Barcelona Youth Council (CJB). He is an active member of the movement for decent housing and of solidarity networks with various peoples around the world.
