Magritte (Film Award) / Best Documentary

Magritte : Best Documentary (Meilleur documentaire)

Winner and nominee in the category Best Documentary (Meilleur documentaire) since the first award of the Belgian national film award . The award will be given to the best domestic film productions in the documentary film sector of the past cinema year.

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the original title and the name of the director in brackets in italics.

Award winners and nominees

2011

• Les Chemins de la mémoire - Director: José-Luis Peñafuerte
  • Dreaming Films
  • Katanga Business
  • Terre d'usage
  • Winds of Sand - Women of Rock: Die Frauenkarawane der Toubou (Vents de sable, femmes de roc) - Director: Nathalie Borgers

2012

• LoveMEATender - Director: Manu Coeman
  • Fries and Palaver - Belgian impressions (Fritkot) - Director: Manuel Poutte
  • In the violence of the other (Sous la main de l'autre) - directed by Vincent Detours and Dominique Henry
  • Giacomo's Summer (L'estate di Giacomo) - Director: Alessandro Comodin

2013

• Tea or Electricity (Le thé ou l'électricité) - Director: Jérôme Le Maire
  • L'affaire Chebeya, un crime d'Etat
  • Cinéma Inch'Allah!
  • With love from the colonies (Bons baisers de la colonie) - Director: Nathalie Borgers

2014

• La Nuit qu'on suppose - Director: Benjamin d'Aoust
  • Amsterdam Stories USA
  • L'irrésisitible ascension de Moïse Katumbi
  • The Sound of Belgium - Director: Jozef Devillé

2015

• When I'm a dictator (Quand je serai dictateur) - Director: Yaël André
  • L'Âge de raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne
  • Rwanda, la vie après
  • Waiting for August

2016

• L'Homme qui répare les femmes - Director: Thierry Michel
  • Bureau de chômage - directed by Anne Schiltz and Charlotte Grégoire
  • I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman - Director: Marianne Lambert
  • La Nef des fous - Directed by Éric D'Agostino and Patrick Lemy

2017

• En bataille - Portrait d'une directrice de prison - Director: Ève Duchemin
  • Integration Inch'Allah - Director: Pablo Muñoz Gomez
  • La Terre abandonnée - Director: Gilles Laurent

2018

• Burning out - Director: Jérôme le Maire
  • Enfants du Hasard - directed by Thierry Michel and Pascal Colson
  • La Belge Histoire du festival de Cannes - Director: Henri de Gerlache
  • Rester Vivants - Director: Pauline Beugnies

2019

• Ni juge, ni soumise - directed by Jean Libon and Yves Hinant
  • Des Cowboys et des Indiens, le cinéma de Patar et Aubier - Director: Fabrice du Welz
  • La grand-messe - directed by Valéry Rosier and Méryl Fortunat-Rossi
  • Manu - Director: Emmanuelle Bonmariage
  • Mitra - Director: Jorge León

2020

• Mon nom est clitoris - directed by Daphné Leblond and Lisa Billuart Monet
  • Bains publics - Director: Kita Bauchet
  • By the name of Tania - Directed by Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard
  • Sans frapper - Director: Alexe Poukine

Web links

• Magritte Awards website (French)