The 16 films competing for this year’s Doc Alliance Award are out! 8 feature-length and 8 short films are chosen by the 8 film festivals, from the Doc Alliance as well as this year’s guest festival.
The Doc Alliance Award is endowed with 5,000 EUR (Best Feature) and 3,000 EUR (Best Short). The winners will be presented at the award ceremony of this year’s guest festival Golden Apricot IFF (12 – 19 July 2026). The Doc Alliance network (CPH:DOX, Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, FIDMarseille, Ji.hlava IDFF, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF and Visions du Réel) supports emerging talents in European documentary landscape. Congratulations to all film teams involved!
Doc Alliance will celebrate the nominees on 19 May during the Doc Day at Marché du Film in Cannes, where representatives of all member festivals will also be available to meet.
Best Feature nominees
- “A Song Without Home” by Rati Tsiteladze, nominated by CPH:DOX
- “Afterlives” by Kevin B. Lee, nominated by Doclisboa
- “Fantasy” by Isabel Pagliai, nominated by FIDMarseille
- “Holler For Service” by Ole Elfenkaemper and Kathrin Seward, nominated by DOK Leipzig
- “Imago” by Déni Oumar Pitsaev, nominated by Golden Apricot IFF
- “Minimum Love” by Maja Penčič, nominated by Ji.hlava IDFF
- “The Case Against Space” by Graeme Arnfield, nominated by Visions du Réel
- “Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest” by Viv Li, nominated by Millennium Docs Against Gravity
Best Short nominees
- “Amma, Do Giraffes Cry?” by Kartikeya Saxena, nominated by Millennium Docs Against Gravity
- “Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After Tomorrow” by Anastasiia Bonadyha, nominated by Ji.hlava IDFF
- “Cold Call” by Stefanie Schroeder, nominated by DOK Leipzig
- “Conversations and Dreams” by Melanya Hamasyan, nominated by Golden Apricot IFF
- “Errabonda” by Emma Harris, nominated by CPH:DOX
- “Some of You Fucked Eva” by Lilith Grasmug, nominated by FIDMarseille
- “The Divided City of Mitrovica” by Marko Grba Singh, nominated by Doclisboa
- “The Interpreter” by Mohamad Hafeda, nominated by Visions du Réel