Grand Prix – winners

2002

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): Paradox Lake, dir. Przemysław Reut (US/PL)

2003

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): Dolls (Dōruzu), dir. Takeshi Kitano (FR/JP)

2004

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): A Common Thred (Brodeuses), dir. Eleonore Faucher (FR)

2005

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): Tarnation, dir. Jonathan Caouette (US)

2006

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): The Sacred Family (La sagrada familia), dir. Sebastián Lelio (CL)

2007

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): Potosi, the Journey (Potosi, le temps du voyage), dir. Ron Havilio (IL/FR)

2008     

• Grand Prix (Audience Award): Rain of the Children, dir. Vincent Ward (NZ)

2009

jury: Łukasz Barczyk, João Botelho, Sebastián Lelio, Peter Strickland, Leszek Wosiewicz

• Grand Prix: Hunger, dir. Steve McQueen (IR)
• Audience Award: Oxygen (Kisłorod), dir. Iwan Wyrypajew (RU)

2010

jury: Jonathan Caouette, Piotr Dumała, Gideon Koppel, Mariusz Treliński, Yeşim Ustaoğlu

• Grand Prix: Mundane History (Jao nok krajok), dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong (TH)
• Audience Award: The Four Times (Le Quatro Volte), dir. Michelangelo Frammartino (IT/DE/CH)

2011

jury: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Denis Côté, Hugo Vieira da Silva, Frédéric Boyer, Mariusz Grzegorzek

• Grand Prix: Attenberg, dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari (GR)
• special mention: Gravedigger (A sírásó), dir. Sándor Kardos (HU)
• Audience Award: The Prize (El premio), dir. Paula Markovitch (MX/FE/PL/DE)

2012

jury: Urszula Antoniak, Naomi Kawase, Lav Diaz, Amat Escalante, Przemysław Wojcieszek

• Grand Prix: Thursday Till Sunday (De Jueves a Domingo), dir. Dominga Sotomayor Castillo (CL/NL)
• Audience Award: Donoma, dir. Djinn Carrénard (FR)

2013

jury: Béla Tarr, Dominga Sotomayor-Castillo, Edgar Pêra, Joanna Kos-Krauze, Christoph Terhechte

• Grand Prix: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari), dir. Aleksiej Fiedorczenko (RU)
• Audience Award: Floating Skyscrapers (Płynące wieżowce), dir. Tomasz Wasilewski (PL)

2014

jury: Tomasz Wasilewski, Christian Jeune, Martin Schweighofer, Leonardo Brzezicki, Syllas Tzoumerkas

• Grand Prix: White Shadow, dir. Noaz Deshe (IT/DE/TZ)
• Audience Award: White Shadow, dir. Noaz Deshe (IT/DE/TZ)

2015

jury: Anna Sasnal, Khavn De La Cruz, Reha Erdem, Noaz Deshe, Diane Henderson

• Grand Prix: Lucifer, dir. Gust Van den Berghe (BE)
• special mention: The Project of the Century (La obra del siglo), dir. Carlos M. Quintela (AR/CU/CH/DR)
• Audience Award: Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh), dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz (AT)

2016

jury: Mania Akbari, Gust Van den Berghe, Adrian Sitaru, Magnus von Horn, Sandrine Marques

• Grand Prix: In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina), dir. Tamer El Said (EG/DE/UK/AE)
• Audience Award: All These Sleepless Nights (Wszystkie nieprzespane noce), dir. Michał Marczak (PL)

2017

jury: Tamer El Said, Hadas Ben Aroya, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Gastón Solnicki, Gustavo Beck

• Grand Prix: Western, dir. Valeska Grisebach (DE/BG/AT)
• special mention: All The Cities of The North (Svi severni gradovi), dir. Dane Komljen (RS/BA/ME)
• Audience Award: Photon, dir. Norman Leto (PL)

2018

jury: Fred Kelemen, Valeska Grisebach, Anna Jadowska, Michał Marczak, Claudia Landsberger

• Grand Prix: Holiday, dir. Isabella Eklöf (SE)
• Audience Award: An Elephant Sitting Still (Da xiang xi di er zuo), dir. Hu Bo (CN)

2019     

jury: Isabella Eklöf, Johann Lurf, Rasha Salti, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Kim Yutani

• Grand Prix: Bait, dir. Mark Jenkin (UK)
• Audience Award: Bait, dir. Mark Jenkin (UK)

2020

jury: Dorota Lech, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Monika Strzępka, Klaudia Śmieja, Greg Zgliński

• Grand Prix: The Metamorphosis of Birds (A Metamorfose dos Pássaros), dir. Catarina Vasconcelos (PT)
• special mention: The Trouble with Being Born, dir. Sandra Wollner (AT/DE)
• Audience Award: The Metamorphosis of Birds (A Metamorfose dos Pássaros), dir. Catarina Vasconcelos (PT)

2021     

jury: Olga Tokarczuk, Catarina Vasconcelos, Burhan Qurbani, Adina Pintilie, Jagoda Szelc

• Grand Prix: Theo and the Metamorphosis (Théo et les métamorphoses), dir. Damien Odoul (FR)
• special mention: Feathers, dir. Omar El Zohairy (EG, NL, GR, FR)
• Audience Award: Death of a Virgin, and the Sin of Not Living (Aa Amal Tiji), dir. George Peter Barbari (LB)

2022     

jury: Agata Buzek, Michel Franco, Radu Jude, Nadav Lapid, Sandra Wollner

• Grand Prix: See You Friday, Robinson (À vendredi, Robinson), dir. Mitra Farahani (FR)
• special mention: Afterwater, dir. Dane Komljen (DE/KR/ES/RS)
• Audience Award: 107 Mothers (Cenzorka), dir. Péter Kerekes (SK/CZ/UA)

2023

jury: Mark Jenkin, Dane Komljen, Jennifer Reeder, Sergio Fant, Aga Woszczyńska

• Grand Prix: The Delinquents (Los delincuentes), dir. Rodrigo Moreno (AR, BR, LU, CL)
• special mention: After, dir. Anthony Lapia (FR)
• Audience Award: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, dir. Elene Naveriani (CH, GE)

2024

jury: Rodrigo Moreno, Anthony Lapia, Jan P. Matuszyński, Kasia Smutniak, Ann Oren

• Grand Prix: Explanation for Everything (Magyarázat mindenre), dir. Gábor Reisz (HU)
• Audience Award: Hoard, dir. Luna Carmoon (UK)