Berlinale Documentary Award
The Berlinale Documentary Film Prize is awarded to the best documentary film at the annual Berlin International Film Festival . The aim is to depict and appreciate the diversity of documentary forms.
From the sections Competition , Berlin Special , Encounters , Forum , Generation , Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino , around 20 current documentary films are nominated for the award. A three-person jury decides on the award of the prize.
The Berlinale Documentary Film Prize was first awarded in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, the prize money was 50,000 euros and was donated by the watch manufacturer Glashütte Original . Danebe was awarded a trophy made in the company's watchmaking school. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) has been sponsoring the award since 2020 . The award will be presented at the official award ceremony in the Berlinale Palast . The prize money of 40,000 euros will be shared equally between the director and the production of the award-winning film.
Award winners
(Information in brackets: translation of the film title, unless there is an official German version)
- 2017
- Istiyad Ashbah (Ghost Hunting / Geisterjagd) (France, Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar)
- 2018
- Waldheim's Waltz (Austria)
- 2019
- Talking about Trees (France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar)
- 2020
- Irradiés ("Irradiated") (France, Cambodia)
- Honorable Mention: Notes from the Underworld (Austria)
Web links
- Awards & Honors at the Berlinale on the official website of the Berlin International Film Festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlinale Documentary Film Award . Berlin International Film Festival, accessed on February 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Philipp Nagels: A price for authentic pictures. In: welt.de. February 16, 2018, accessed February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ rbb donates Berlinale Documentary Award. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, November 13, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2020 .