European Film Award for Best Documentary
The European Film Award for Best Documentary or Prix Arte has been awarded annually since 1989 by the European Film Academy.
| European Film Award Prix Arte | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Documentary |
| Country |  Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | 1989 (to Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary) |
| Currently held by | Collective (2020) |
| Website | www.europeanfilmawards.eu |
Criteria
Documentary films taken into consideration must have a minimum length of 70 minutes. They must have either had a theatrical release in at least one European country, at a European competitive feature film festival accredited by FIAPF or been screened at one of the following documentary festivals:
- Cinéma du Réel (France)
- CPH:DOX (Denmark)
- Doclisboa (Portugal)
- Dok Leipzig (Germany)
- IDFA (The Netherlands)
- Jihlava (Czech Republic)
- Kraków Film Festival (Poland)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK)
- Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece)
- Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
Note: in the lists below, the two signs below have the following meaning:
- ± Oscar winner
- ≠ Oscar nominee
1989
| Year | Result | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 (2nd) | |||||
| Winner | Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary | Recsk 1950-1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története | Géza Böszörményi, Lívia Gyarmathy | Hungary | |
| Jury Special Award | A Story of the Wind | Een verhaal van de wind | Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan | Netherlands | |
| Special Mentions | The Road to God Knows Where | - | Alan Gilsenan | Ireland | |
| Pictures of the Old World | Obrazy starého sveta | Dušan Hanák | Czechoslovakia | ||
1990s
| Year | Result | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (3rd) | |||||
| Winner | The Crossroad | Šķērsiela | Ivars Seleckis | Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| Special Mentions | Step Across the Border | - | Nicholas Humbert & Werner Penzel | Switzerland | |
| 1991 (4th) | |||||
| Winner | Hear My Cry | Usłyszcie mój krzyk | Maciej Drygas | Poland | |
| Special Mentions | Crimes and passions - the scar | Crimes et passions - la cicatrice | Mireille Dumas | France | |
| The Wall | Die Mauer | Jürgen Böttcher | Germany | ||
| 1992 (5th) | |||||
| Winner | Earth of the Blind | Neregiu zeme | Audrius Stonys | Czech Republic | |
| Special Mentions | Dostoyevsky’s Travels | Paweł Pawlikowski | United Kingdom | ||
| Lovers on Trial | Les amants d'assises | Manu Bonmariage | Belgium | ||
| 1993 (6th) | |||||
| Winner | Misfits To Yuppies | Det sociala arvet | Stefan Jarl | Sweden | |
| Special Mentions | The Man Who Loves Gary Lineker | - | Ylli Hasani, Steve Sklair | United Kingdom | |
| 89mm from Europe≠ | 89 mm od Europy | Marcel Łoziński | Poland | ||
| 1994 (7th) | |||||
| Winner | Angels of Sarajevo | Anđeli u Sarajevu | Saga-Group Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 1995 (8th) | |||||
| Winner | Viva Stalin | - | Jens Meurer | Germany | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 1996 (9th) | |||||
| Winner | Vendetta - Blood Revenge in Albania | Vendetta - Blutrache in Albanien | Jerzy Sladkowski, Stanislav Krzeminski | Germany | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 1997 (10th) | |||||
| Winner | Gigi, Monica... and Bianca | Gigi, Monica... et Bianca | Yasmina Abdellaoui, Benoît Dervaux | Belgium, Romania | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 1998 (11th) | |||||
| Winner | Painting with Falls | Tableau avec chutes | Claudio Pazienza | Belgium, France | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 1999 (12th) | |||||
| Winner | Buena Vista Social Club≠[1] | - | Wim Wenders | Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Cuba, France | |
| Nominations | Mr Zwilling und Mrs Zuckermann | Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann | Volker Koepp | Germany | |
| Bach in Auschwitz | La chaconne d'Auschwitz | Michel Daeron | France | ||
| The Truth Commission | La commission de la vérité | André van In | Belgium | ||
| My Best Fiend | Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski | Werner Herzog | Germany | ||
| Mobutu, king of Zaire | Mobutu, roi du Zaïre | Thierry Michel | Belgium | ||
| Pripyat | - | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria | ||
2000s
| Year | Result | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (12th) | |||||
| Winner | The Gleaners and I[2] | Les glaneurs et la glaneuse | Agnès Varda | France | |
| Nominations | Calle 54 | Fernando Trueba | Spain | ||
| Gulag | Goulag | Iossif Pasternak, Hélène Châtelain | France | ||
| Home Game | Heimspiel | Pepe Danquart | Germany | ||
| One Day in September± | - | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom | ||
| Working Women of the World | Ouvrières du monde | Marie-France Collard | France | ||
| 2001 (13th) | |||||
| Winner | Black Box BRD | - | Andres Veiel | Germany | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 2002 (14th) | |||||
| Winner | To Be and to Have | Être et avoir | Nicolas Philibert | France | |
| no other nominees | |||||
| 2003 (16th) | |||||
| Winner | S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine | S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia | |
| Nominations | The Five Obstructions | De fem benspænd | Lars Von Trier, Jørgen Leth | Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, France | |
| Whose Is This Song? | Chia e tazi pesen? | Adela Peeva | Bulgaria, Belgium | ||
| Eat, Sleep, No Women | Essen, schlafen, keine Frauen | Heiner Stadler | Germany | ||
| A Species' Odyssey | L'odyssée de l'espèce | Jacques Malaterre, Javier G. Salanova | France, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium | ||
| The Day I Will Never Forget | Kim Longinotto | United Kingdom | |||
| The Story of the Weeping Camel≠ | Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel | Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni | Germany, Mongolia | ||
| Hush! | Tishe! | Victor Kossakovsky | Russia | ||
| 2004 (17th) | |||||
| Winner | Darwin's Nightmare≠[3] | Hubert Sauper | Austria, France, Belgium | ||
| Nominations | Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer | Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill | United Kingdom | ||
| Addicted to Acting | Die Spielwütigen | Andres Veiel | Germany | ||
| Basque Ball, Skin Against Stone | La pelota vasca, la piel contra la piedra | Julio Medem | Spain | ||
| The World According to Bush | Le monde selon Bush | William Karel | France | ||
| Checkpoint | Mahssomim | Yoav Shamir | Israel | ||
| The Last Victory | John Appel | Netherlands | |||
| Touch the Sound | Thomas Riedelsheimer | Germany, United Kingdom, Finland | |||
| 2005 (18th) | |||||
| Winner | The Pipeline Next Door | Un dragon dans les eaux | Nino Kirtadzé | France | |
| Nominations | Stroke | Am seidenen Faden | Katarina Peters | Germany | |
| The Devil's Miner | Berg des Teufels | Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson | Germany | ||
| Dreamland | Leiputrija | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia, Germany | ||
| Melodias | François Bovy | Switzerland | |||
| Before Flying Back to the Earth | Pries parskrendant i zeme | Arunas Matelis | Lithuania, Germany | ||
| Rehearsals | Repetitioner | Michal Leszczylowsky, Gunnar Källström | Sweden | ||
| The Swenkas | Jeppe Rønde | Denmark, Sweden | |||
| Raw Youth | Ungdommens råskap | Margreth Olin | Norway, Denmark | ||
| Viva Zapatero! | Sabina Guzzanti | Italy, Denmark | |||
| Workingman's Death | Michael Glawogger | Austria, Germany | |||
| 2006 (19th) | |||||
| Winner | Into Great Silence | Die Grosse Stile | Philip Gröning | Germany | |
| Nominations | 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep | Ben Hopkins | United Kingdom | ||
| Dreaming by Numbers | Anna Bucchetti | Netherlands | |||
| Grandmother's House | La casa de mi abuela | Adán Aliaga | Spain | ||
| Maradona, the Golden Kid | Maradona, un gamin en or | Jean-Christophe Rosé | France | ||
| The Cemetery Club | Moadon beit hakvarot | Tali Shemesh | Israel | ||
| The Fisherman and the Dancing Girl | Rybak i tantsovshitsa | Valeriy Solomin | Russia | ||
| Our Daily Bread | Unser täglich Brot | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria | ||
| 2007 (20th) | |||||
| Winner | Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers | Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise | Rithy Panh | France | |
| Nominations | To the Limit | Am Limit | Pepe Danquart | Germany, Austria | |
| Belarusian Waltz | Andrzej Fidyk | Norway | |||
| Forever | Heddy Honigmann | Netherlands | |||
| Echoes of Home | Heimatklänge | Stefan Schwietert | Switzerland, Germany | ||
| 9 Star Hotel | Malon 9 Kochavim | Ido Haar | Israel | ||
| The Champagne Spy | Meragel Hashampaniya | Nadav Schirman | Israel, Germany | ||
| The Monastery | Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Denmark | |||
| Where is the Love in the Palmgrove? | Où est l'amour dans la palmeraie? | Jérôme Le Maire | Belgium | ||
| Divorce Albanian Style | Razvod Po Albanski | Adela Peeva | Bulgaria | ||
| 2008 (21st) | |||||
| Winner | René | Helena Trestikova | Czech Republic | ||
| Nominations | Durakovo – Village of Fools | Durakovo – Le village des fous | Nino Kirtadzé | France | |
| Fados | Carlos Saura | Portugal, Spain | |||
| Children. As Time Flies. | Kinder. Wie Zeit vergeht. | Thomas Heise | Germany | ||
| The Mother | La mère | Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov | Switzerland | ||
| Man on Wire± | James Marsh | United Kingdom, United States | |||
| Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains | Naufragés des Andes | Gonzalo Arijón | France | ||
| Citizen Havel | Obcan Václav Havel | Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek | Czech Republic | ||
| Shadow of the Holy Book | Pyhän kirjan varjo | Arto Halonen | Finland | ||
| The Dictator Hunter | Klaartje Quirijns | Netherlands | |||
| 2009 (22nd) | |||||
| Winner | The Sound of Insects – Records of a Mummy | Das Summen der Insekten – Bericht einer Mumie | Peter Liechti | Switzerland | |
| Nominations | Cooking History | Ako sa varia dejiny | Peter Kerekes | Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic | |
| Below Sea Level | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, United States | |||
| Burma VJ≠ | Anders Østergaard | Denmark | |||
| The Damned of the Sea | Les damnes de la mer | Jawad Rhalib | Belgium | ||
| Defamation | Yoav Shamir | Denmark, Austria, Israel, United States | |||
| The Woman with the 5 Elephants | Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten | Vadim Jendreyko | Switzerland, Germany | ||
| The Heart of Jenin | Das Herz von Jenin | Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter | Germany | ||
| Pianomania | Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis | Germany, Austria | |||
| The Beaches of Agnès | Les plages d'Agnès | Agnès Varda | France | ||
2010s
| Year | Result | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (23rd) | |||||
| Winner | Nostalgia for the Light | Nostalgia de la luz | Patricio Guzmán | France, Germany, Chile | |
| Nomination | Armadillo | Janus Metz | Denmark, Sweden | ||
| Steam of Life | Miesten vuoro | Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen | Finland, Sweden | ||
| 2011 (24th) | |||||
| Winner | Pina≠[4] | Wim Wenders | Germany | ||
| Nomination | Position Among the Stars | Stand van de sterren | Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands | |
| ¡Vivan las Antipodas! | Victor Kossakovsky | Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile | |||
| 2012 (25th) | |||||
| Winner | Winter Nomad | Hiver Nomade | Manuel von Stürler | Switzerland | |
| Nomination | London – The Modern Babylon | Julien Temple | United Kingdom | ||
| Tea or Electricity | Le thé ou l'électricité | Jerome Lemaire | Belgium, France, Morocco | ||
| 2013 (26th) | |||||
| Winner | The Act of Killing≠[5] | Jagal | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom | |
| Nomination | Stop-Over | L'escale | Kaveh Bakhtiari | Switzerland, France | |
| The Missing Picture | L'image manquante | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia | ||
| 2014 (27th) | |||||
| Winner | Master of the Universe[6] | Marc Bauder | Germany, Austria | ||
| Nomination | Just the Right Amount of Violence | Jon Bang Carlsen | Denmark | ||
| Of Men and War | Des hommes et de la guerre | Laurent Bécue-Renard | France, Switzerland | ||
| Sacro GRA | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France | |||
| Waiting For August | Teodora Ana Mihai | Belgium, Romania | |||
| We Come as Friends | Hubert Sauper | Austria, France | |||
| 2015 (28th) | |||||
| Winner | Amy± | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom[7] | ||
| Nomination | Dancing with Maria | Ivan Gergolet | Italy, Argentina, Slovenia | ||
| The Look of Silence≠ | Senyap | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom | ||
| A Syrian Love Story | Sean McAllister | United Kingdom, France | |||
| Toto and His Sisters | Alexander Nanau | Romania | |||
| 2016 (29th) | |||||
| Winner | Fire at Sea≠[8] | Fuocoammare | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France | |
| Nomination | 21 x New York | 21 x Nowy Jork | Piotr Stasik | Poland | |
| A Family Affair | Tom Fassaertr | Netherlands, Belgium | |||
| Mr. Gaga | Tomer Heymann | Israel, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands | |||
| S Is for Stanley | Trent'anni dietro al volante per Stanley Kubrick | Alex Infascelli | Italy | ||
| The Land of the Enlightened | Pieter-Jan De Pue | Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany | |||
| Selection | A German Life | Ein deutsches Leben | Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer & Florian Weigensamer | Austria | |
| Becoming Zlatan | Den unge Zlatan | Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten | Sweden, Netherlands, Italy | ||
| Déjà vu | - | Jon Bang Carlsen | Denmark | ||
| Europe, She Loves | - | Jan Gassmann | Switzerland, Germany | ||
| Herr von Bohlen | - | André Schäfer | Germany | ||
| Lost and Beautiful | Bella e perduta | Pietro Marcello | Italy | ||
| Mallory | - | Helena Třeštíková | Czech Republic | ||
| The Event | Событие | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Belgium | ||
| The Longest Run | Ο Πιο Μακρυς Δρομος | Marianna Economou | Greece | ||
| We'll be alright | Bref manuel de liberation | Alexander Kuznetsov | France | ||
| 2017 (30th) | |||||
| Winner | Communion | Komunia | Anna Zamecka | Poland | |
| Nomination | Austerlitz | - | Sergei Loznitsa | Germany | |
| La Chana | - | Lucija Stojevic | Spain, Iceland, United States | ||
| Stranger in Paradise | - | Guido Hendrikx | Netherlands | ||
| The Good Postman | Hyvä postimies | Tonislav Hristov | Finland, Bulgaria | ||
| Selection | Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas | - | Joakim Demmer | Sweden, Germany, Finland | |
| How to Meet a Mermaid | - | Coco Schrijber | Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium | ||
| Libera Nos | Liberami | Federica Di Giacomo | Italy, France | ||
| Nothingwood | - | Sonia Kronlund | France, Germany | ||
| School Life | In loco parentis | Neasa Ní Chianáin & David Rane | Ireland, Spain | ||
| Taste of Cement | - | Ziad Kalthoum | Germany, Lebanon, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Qatar | ||
| The Venerable W. | Le vénérable W. | Federica Di Giacomo | France, Switzerland | ||
| The War Show | - | Andreas Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon | Denmark, Syria, Finland | ||
| Ultra | - | Balazs Simonyi | Hungary, Greece | ||
| West of the Jordan River | A l'ouest du Jourdain | Amos Gitai | France | ||
| 2018 (31st) | |||||
| Winner | Bergman: A Year in a Life[9] | Bergman - ett år, ett liv | Jane Magnusson | Sweden, Norway | |
| Nomination | A Woman Captured | Egy nő fogságban | Tuza-Ritter | Romania, Germany | |
| Of Fathers and Sons | Kinder des Kalifats | Talal Derki | Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar | ||
| The Distant Barking of Dogs | - | Simon Lering Wilmont | Denmark, Finland, Sweden | ||
| The Silence of Others | El silencio de otros | Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar | Spain, United States | ||
| Selection | End of Life | - | Paweł Wojtasik & John Bruce | Greece, United States | |
| Meteors | Meteorlar | Gürcan Keltek | Netherlands, Turkey | ||
| Samouni Road | La strada dei Samouni | Stefano Savona | Italy, France | ||
| Srbenka | - | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia | ||
| Tarzan's Testicles | Ouale lui Tarzan | Alexandru Solomon | Romania, France | ||
| The Dead Nation | Țara moartă | Radu Jude | Romania | ||
| The Lust for Power | Mečiar | Tereza Nvotová | Slovakia, Czech Republic | ||
| The Other Side Of Everything | Druga strana svega | Mila Turajlic | Serbia, France | ||
| The Other Side of the Wall | Al otro lado del muro | Pau Ortiz | Spain, Mexico | ||
| The Poetess | - | Stefanie Brockhaus & Andreas Wolff | Germany, United Arab Emirates | ||
| 2019 (32nd)[10] | |||||
| Winner | For Sama≠ | - | Waad al-Kateab, Edward Wat | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Nomination | Honeyland≠ | Медена земја | Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska | North Macedonia | |
| Selfie | - | Agostino Ferrente | France, Italy | ||
| The Disappearance of my Mother | - | Beniamino Barrese | Italy, United States | ||
| Putin's Witnesses | - | Vitaly Mansky | Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic | ||
| Selection | Advocate | לאה צמל, עורכת דין | Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche | Israel, Canada, Switzerland | |
| Aquarela | - | Victor Kossakovsky | Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark | ||
| Delphine and Carole | Delphine et Carole, insoumuses | Callisto Mc Nulty | France, Switzerland | ||
| Heimat Is A Space in Time | - | Thomas Heise | Germany, Austria | ||
| M | - | Yolande Zauberman | France | ||
| Push | - | Fredrik Gertten | Sweden, Canada | ||
| Scheme Birds | - | Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Halli | Sweden, United Kingdom | ||
2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (23rd) | ||||
| Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania, Luxembourg | |
| Acasa, My Home | Acasā | Radu Ciorniciuc | Romania, Germany, Finland | |
| The Cave | Feras Fayyad | Syria, Denmark | ||
| Gunda | Victor Kossakovsky | Norway, Russia | ||
| Little Girl | Petite fille | Sébastien Lifshitz | France | |
| Saudi Runaway | Susanne Regina Meures | Switzerland | ||
Notes
- ± Oscar winner
- ≠ Oscar nominee
References
- PBS presents Buena Vista Social Club
- The Gleaners And I/Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse - Film - European Film Awards
- Darwin's Nightmare|Film Reviews|Film|Spirituality & Practice
- Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' Wins Best Film at European Film Awards|Hollywood Reporter
- European Film Awards (2013) - IMDb
- European Film Awards (2014) -IMDb
- AMY - Film - European Film Awards
- Fire at Sea/Fuocoammare - Film - European Film Awards
- European Film Awards (2018)- IMDb
- ‘For Sama’, ‘Honeyland’ among 12-strong European Film Awards documentary longlist|News|Screen
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