Best feature doc

Tóc, Giấy và Nước… (hair, paper, water…)

Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
Belgium, France, Vietnam | 2025 | 71′

For the purity of its cinematic language, the overwhelming power of its imagery, and the delicate tenderness with which it portrays a fluid journey home

Best Short doc

How it begins

Chloé Wasp
France | 2025 | 12′

For making the movements of the wind visible and revealing humanity’s enduring drive to shape the landscape

Jury award

Retour à Fukushima

Thomas Licata
Belgium | 2026 | 80′

For the clarity with which it portrays the unsettling everyday reality of a sacrifice zone

Jury award

Bela Koprena

Žiga Ciber
Ireland, Slovenia | 2025 | 10′

For its visual poetry in recounting, through oral history, the scars left by industrial modernity

Special mentions

Visi putni skaisti dzied

Krista Burāne
Latvia | 2025 | 87′

For the fusion of different forms of visual art, used to tell a drama unfolding between nature and local traditions

Special mentions

Yupumà

Verónica Castro
Portugal | 2024 | 70′

For its ability to portray an ancestral community through a dreamlike journey into the forest, shaped by the flow of the river and the resonance of spiritual chants

Special mentions

Mandzarsoa

Germain Le Carpentier
France, Mayotte, French Guyana | 2025 | 15′

For its cinematography, which with extraordinary realism reflects the identity of a people quietly regenerating in the aftermath of climate disasters, surviving the erasure imposed by the paradoxes of contemporary neocolonialism

Special mentions

Буркан на времето (Jar of Time)

Nevena Semova
Bulgary | 2025 | 27′

For its ability to portray, with extraordinary realism, the lives of those on the margins, celebrating their everyday existence and rural way of life

“Border Visions” Award – from Evò ce Esù

Sunset on the Aral

Sabi Baibussinov
Kazakhstan | 2025 | 36′

For its ability to portray, with clarity and a global perspective, one of the greatest environmental disasters in human history