1st edition Docville (September 28 - October 3, 2005) No awards 2nd edition Docville (September 27 - October 3, 2006) • Best Belgian documentary:
Rwanda, Les Collines Parlent (director:
Bernard Bellefroid) • Best international documentary:
Last Supper (Sweden, directors
Mats Bigert &
Lars Bergström)
3rd edition Docville (May 30 - June 5, 2007) • Best Belgian documentary:
Het Rijksadministratief Centrum (director:
Yves Cantraine) • Best international documentary:
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (Denemarken, regie:
Pernille Rose Grønkjær)
4th edition Docville (May 10–17, 2008) • Best Belgian documentary: ''Le Flic, La Juge et L'assassin
(director: Yves Hinant'') • Best international documentary:
Stranded (France, director:
Gonzalo Arijon)
5th edition Docville (May 2–9, 2009) • Best Belgian documentary:
Zondag Gaat Het Gebeuren (director:
Joeri Vlekken) • Best international documentary:
Dear Zachary (USA, director:
Kurt Kuenne)
6th edition Docville (May 1–8, 2010) • Best Belgian documentary:
Vlasman (director:
Jan Lapeire) • Best international documentary:
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? (Spain, directors:
Norberto López Amado,
Carlos Carcas)
7th edition Docville (April 29 - May 7, 2011) • Best Belgian documentary: ''L'Ile Déserte
(director: Steve Thielemans'') • Best international documentary:
Marwencol (USA, director:
Jeff Malmberg) • ConScience award:
Rainmakers (The Netherlands, director:
Floris-Jan Van Luyn)
8th edition Docville (April 27 - May 5, 2012) • Best Belgian documentary:
Empire of Dust (director:
Bram Van Paesschen) • Best international documentary:
Il Castello (Italy, director: ''Massimo D'Anolfi & Martina Parenti'') • ConScience award:
The Ambassador (Denmark, director:
Mads Brügger)
9th edition Docville (May 3–11, 2013) • Best Belgian documentary:
Behind the Redwood Curtain (director:
Liesbeth De Ceulaer) • Best international documentary:
The Expedition to the End of the World (Denmark, director:
Daniel Dencik) • ConScience award:
A River Changes Course (USA, Cambodia, director:
Kalyanee Mam)
10th edition Docville (May 2–10, 2014) • Best Belgian documentary:
What about Eric (director:
Lennart Stuyck and
Ruben Vermeersch) • Best international documentary:
Happiness (France, Finland, director:
Thomas Balmès) • ConScience award:
Virunga (UK, director:
Orlando von Einsiedel)
11th edition Docville (May 1–9, 2015) • Best Belgian documentary:
Twilight of a life (director:
Sylvain Biegeleisen) • Best international documentary:''Garnet's Gold
(UK, director: Ed Perkins'') • ConScience Award:
Democrats (Denmark, director:
Camilla Nielsson) • Best Flemish TV documentary:
De Werkende Mens (Director:
Lode Desmet) • Knack Audience Award:
The Man Who Saved The World (Denmark, director: Peter Anthony) 12th edition Docville (April 29-May 7, 2016) • Best Belgian documentary:
Reach for the Sky (Director:
Steven Dhoedt) • Best international documentary:
Life, Animated (USA, director:
Roger Ross Williams) • ConScience Award:
This Changes Everything (Canada, director:
Avi Lewis) • Best Flemish TV documentary:
Spul (Director:
Jan Antonissen en Guillaume Graux) • Knack Audience Award:
Life, Animated (USA, director:
Roger Ross Williams)
13th edition Docville (22-30 March 2017) • Best Belgian documentary:
Burning Out (director:
Jérôme Le Maire) • Best International documentary:
School Life (Ireland, director:
Neasa Ní Chianáin and
David Rane) • ConScience award:
City of Ghosts (USA, director:
Matthew Heineman) • Best Flemish TV-documentary:
Steenweg (Acht, production: Zonderlin) • Knack Audience Award:
Magnus (USA, director:
Benjamin Ree)
14th edition Docville (21-29 March 2018) • Best Belgian documentary:
Zie Mij Doen (Watch Me) (director:
Klara Van Es) • Best International documentary:
Piripkura (Brasil, director:
Renata Terra,
Bruno Jorge,
Mariana Oliva) • ConScience Award:
The Deminer (Sweden, director:
Matthew Hogir Hirori) • Audience Award:
Doof Kind (Deaf Child) (The Netherlands, director:
Alex de Ronde)
15th edition Docville (27 March- 4 April 2019) • Best Belgian documentary:
Sakawa (director:
Ben Asamoah) • Best International documentary:
Heartbound (Denmark, director:
Janus Metz,
Sine Plambech) • ConScience Award:
One Child Nation (USA, director:
Nanfu Wang,
Jialing Zhang) • Audience Award:
Free Solo (USA, director:
Jimmy Chin,
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
16th edition Docville (25 September - 3 October 2020) • Best Belgian documentary:
Victoria (director: Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Sofie Benoot en Isabelle Tollenaere) • Best International documentary:
The Painter and the Thief (Norway, director: Benjamin Ree) • ConScience Award:
Collective (Romania, director: Alexander Nanau) • Audience Award:
The Cave (director: Feras Fayyad)
17th edition Docville (9 - 19 June 2021) • Best Belgian documentary:
Holgut (director: Liesbeth De Ceulaer) • Best International documentary:
Some Kind of Heaven (USA, director: Lance Oppenheim) • ConScience Award:
President (Denmark, Norway, director: Camilla Nielsson) • Audience Award:
The Jump (Lithuania, director:
Giedre Zickyte)
18th edition Docville (23-31 March 2022) • Best Belgian documentary:
Juste un Mouvement (director: Vincent Meessen) • Best International documentary:
Trenches (France, director: Loup Bureau) • ConScience Award:
Jason (The Netherlands, director: Maasja Ooms) • Audience Award:
Duty of Care (Belgium, director: Nic Balthazar)
19th edition Docville (22-30 March 2023) • Best Belgian documentary:
Dag Ma (director: Marie De Hert, Ellen Pollard) • Best International documentary:
The Invention of the Other (Brasil, director: Bruno Jorge) • TOPICS Award:
Rojek (Canada, director: Zaynê Akyol) • Nationale Loterij Award for Best Science Documentary:
Make People Better (USA, director: Cody Sheehy) • Audience Award:
Wolf (The Netherlands, director: Cees van Kempen)
20ste edition Docville (20-28 March 2024) • Best Belgian documentary: ''Soundtrack to a Coup D'état'' (director: Johan Grimonprez) • Best International documentary:
The Tuba Thieves (USA, director: Alison O'Daniel) • TOPICS Award:
A Storm Foretold (Denmark, director: Christoffer Guldbrandsen) • Award for Beste Science documentary:
Eternal You (Germany, director: Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck) • Nationale Loterij Audience Award:
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