The #Doc Alliance# network has unveiled the nominees for the 2025 Doc Alliance Award, celebrating new voices in European documentary cinema. Each of the network’s seven member festivals—CPH:DOX, Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, FIDMarseille, Ji.hlava IDFF, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Visions du Réel—and guest festival Punto de Vista nominated one feature and one short documentary from their recent programs.
Best Feature Film Nominees:
- An Oscillating Shadow (Celeste Rojas Mugica, Argentina/Chile/France, FIDMarseille)
- Aurora (João Vieira Torres, Brazil/Portugal/France, Visions du Réel)
- A Want in Her (Myrid Carten, Ireland/UK/Netherlands, Millennium Docs Against Gravity)
- Flophouse America (Monica Strømdahl, Norway, CPH:DOX)
- Grey Zone (Daniela Meressa Rusnoková, Slovakia, Ji.hlava IDFF)
- Moria Six (Jennifer Mallmann, Germany, DOK Leipzig)
- The Shards (Masha Chernaya, Georgia/Germany, Doclisboa)
- Volver a casa tan tarde (Celia Viada Caso, Spain, Punto de Vista)
Best Short Film Nominees:
- 23:23 (Kateřina Dudová, Czech Republic, Ji.hlava IDFF)
- Bamssi (Mourad Ben Amor, Belgium/Tunisia, Punto de Vista)
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds (Fleuryfontaine, France, Visions du Réel)
- Unstable Rocks (Ewelina Rosińska & Nuno Barroso, Portugal/Germany, Doclisboa)
- Fear Fokol (Tuva Björk, Sweden, CPH:DOX)
- Shuruuk (Amie Barouh, France/Germany, FIDMarseille)
- Can You Hear Me? (Anastazja Naumenko, Poland, MDAG)
