Sundance Film Festival / Audience Award - Best Foreign Documentary
With the audience award ( World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary ) at the annual Sundance Film Festival, the best foreign feature film from the viewer's point of view is awarded.
The prize has been awarded since the 21st edition of the film festival in 2004, separately from the audience prize for US documentary films . So far, the winner has agreed once with the eventual winner of the jury award .
| year | Award winners | German title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Corporation | The Corporation |
Mark Achbar Jennifer Abbott |
| 2005 | Shake Hands with the Devil - The Journey of Roméo Dallaire | not known | Peter Raymont |
| 2006 | De nadie | De Nadie | Tin Dirdamal |
| 2007 | In the Shadow of the Moon | In the shadow of the moon |
David Sington Christopher Riley |
| 2008 | Man on Wire * | Man on Wire | James Marsh |
| 2009 | Afghan Star | not known | Havana marking |
| 2010 | Waste land | not known | Lucy Walker |
| 2011 | Senna | Senna | Asif Kapadia |
| 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | not known | Malik Bendjelloul |
| 2013 | The Square (Al Midan) | not known | Jehane Noujaim |
| 2014 | The Green Prince | not known | Nadav Schirman |
| 2015 | Dark Horse | not known | Louise Osmond |
| 2016 | Sonita * | Sonita | Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami |
| 2017 | Joshua: teenager vs. Superpower | not known | Joe Piscatella |
* = Film productions and the Sundance jury prize won