AWARDS

FESTIVAL AWARDS
 

• Marek Nowicki Prize
  
  Since 2003, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has been awarding filmmakers with the festival prize for excellent achievement in showing human rights in film.
  In 2006 the Board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights decided to name this prize with the name of Marek Nowicki (1947 – 2003), cofounder and for many years the President of the Foundation, cofunder of the Helsinki Committee in Poland.
  
  In 2018, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights awards the Marek Nowicki Prize to Dieudo Hamadi

Laureates of the Marek Nowicki Prize:

2017 - Thierry Michel

2016 - Nima Sarvestani

2015 - Nick Broomfield

2014 - Joe Berlinger

2013 - Maria Ramos

2012 - Jafar Panahi

2011 - Zhao Liang

2010 - Frederick Wiseman

2009 - Wiktor Daszuk

2008 - Errol Morris

2007 - Rithy Panh

2006 - Marcel Łoziński

2005 - Maciej Drygas

2004 - Fabrizio Lazzaretti

2003 - Kim Longinotto


WATCH DOCS Award for the best feature-length documentary winners:

2017 - Still Tomorrow dir. Jian Fan

2016 - A 157 dir. Behrouz Nooranipour

2015 - A Syrian Love Story dir. Sean McAllister and Behemoth dir. Zhao Liang

2014 - Rich Hill dir. Andrew Droz Palermo i Tracy Droz Trago

2013 - No burqas behind bars dir. Nima Sarvestani

2012 - Anton's Right Here dir. Ljubow Arkus

2011 - Special Flight dir. Fernand Melgar

2010 - Winds of Sand. Women of Rock dir. Nathalie Borgers

2009 - Les Arrivants dir. Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard

2008 - Juízo dir. Maria Augusta Ramos

2007 - Losers and Winners dir. Ulrika Franke, Michael Loeken

2006 - Avenge But One Of My Two Eyes dir. Avi Mograbi and On a tightrope dir. Peter Lom


Audience Award winners:

2017 - The Ugliest Car dir. Grzegorz Szczepaniak

2016 - Who's Gonna Love Me Now dir. Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann

2015 - Call me Marianna dir. Karolina Bielawska

2014 - Siblings are forever dir.  Frode Fimland

2013 - No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, dir. Callum Macrae

2012 - Call Me Kuchu dir. Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall

2011 - Belarussian Dream dir. Ekatarina Kibalchich

2010 - Presumed guilty dir. Roberto Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith

2009 - Tibet in Song dir. Ngawang Choephel

2008 - Kites dir. Beata Dzianowicz

2007 - Bridge Over the Wadi dir. Barak Heyman, Tomer Heymann

2006 - Street Fight dir. Marshall Curry

2005 - The children of Leningradsky dir. Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celiński