Nordic/Docs concluded this weekend with an awards ceremony celebrating standout work across shorts, mid-length, and feature documentaries, alongside student honours and craft prizes. Below is the complete list of winners, jury mentions, and special recognitions from this year’s festival.
Nordic/Docs Award Winners 2025
- Best Documentary (Short, under 30 min)
- The Border Within Us – (dir. Knutte Wester)
- Honourable Mention: Time is Material – (dir. Bår Tyrmi)
- Best Documentary (Medium, 31–60 min)
- Grace and the Storm – (dir. Dina Mwende, Julia Dahr)
- Honourable Mention: Kopala – (dir. Hugh Francis Anderson, Vetle Sevild, Krister Kopala)
- Best Documentary (Feature, over 60 min)
- Flophouse America – (dir. Monica Strømdahl)
- Honourable Mention: Henden – Requiem for a Photographer – (dir. Rune Denstad Langlo)
- Honourable Mention: The Lions by the Tigris River – (dir. Zaradasht Ahmed)
- Jury Special Award
- Skärvor – (dir. Sara Broos)
- FNF Prize for Best Cinematography
- Mauri Lähdesmäki for Mu giedas – In My Hand – (dir. Marja Helander, Liselotte Wajstedt)
- Janne Lindgren for Teenage Life Interrupted – (dir. Åse Svenheim Drivenes)
- Best Student Film
- Family (Familj) – (dir. Clara Vida)
- Jury Honourable Mention: The Art of Living (Kunsten å leve) – (dir. Lydia Diana Kok)
- Jury Honourable Mention: Trapped by the Mirror Image (Fanget av speilbildet) – (dir. Hannah Nordanger)
- Jury Honourable Mention: I Want to Be Princess Kristin Scout (Jeg vil Prinsesse Kristin speider være) – (dir. Hannah Nordanger)
- Audience Award
- Together We Are Knut (Sammen er vi Knut) – (dir. Martin Hjortland, Øivind Solgård-Jensen, Thomas Brække)
- Winner of the Pitch Competition (with Viken Film Center)
- My Walther & Maria Simonsen — (Producer: Ivar Hartviksen)
- Nordic/Docs Film Festival Special Honorary Mention (festival management)
- Fighter – (dir. Mari Bakke Riise, Sunniva Sundby)
- Nordic/Docs Icon Award
- Vibeke Løkkeberg
- Additional Special Recognitions
- Personal honorary prize to Festival Director Paul René Roestad (service since 2013)
- Staff prizes: JP Jon-Patrick Henriksen (Best Festival Chef 2025) & Joacim Asbjørnsen (Culinary Honorary Prize 2025)
