2025 Winners

Bank Millennium Award – Grand Prix: Yintah, dir. Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano

Special Mention: It Is In Us All, dir. Myrid Carten

Mayor of Gdynia Award: My Stolen Planet, dir. Farahnaz Sharifi
Special Mention: To Show You the Real Me, dir. Ryan White

Freedom Award funded by the City of Poznań: 20 Days in Mariupol, dir. Mstyslav Chernov

Lower Silesia Grand Prix (Wrocław): Coexistence, My Ass!, dir. Amber Fares
Special Mention: Mr. Nobody vs. Putin, dir. David Borenstein, Pasha Talankin

Silesian Voivodeship Audience Award (Katowice): 20 Days in Mariupol, dir. Mstyslav Chernov

BYDGOSZCZ ART.DOC AWARD: Mr. Nobody vs. Putin, dir. David Borenstein, Pasha Talankin

Honorary Mention of the Bydgoszcz Bar Association for the Best Human Rights Production:
My Stolen Planet, dir. Farahnaz Sharifi

Best Polish Film Award: Under the Surface, dir. Kinga Michalska
Special Mention: King Matt the First, dir. Jaśmina Wójcik

Best Short Film Award: Instruments of the Beating Heart, dir. Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Special Mention: Lift Lady, dir. Marcin Modzelewski

Best Cinematography Award: On This Earth, dir. Robin Petré, cinematography by Maria Goya Barquet
Special Mention: Songs of the Burning Soil, dir. Olha Zhurba, cinematography by Volodymyr Usyk

Best Debut Award: Songs of the Burning Soil, dir. Olha Zhurba
Special Mention: My Own Personal War, dir. Lidija Zelovic

Green Warsaw Award: Designing Dreams, dir. Kosai Sekine
Special Mention: On This Earth, dir. Robin Petré

Chopin’s Nose Award: S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Story, dir. David Charles Rodrigues
Special Mention: The House That House Built, dir. Elegance Bratton

Newsweek Psychologia Award for the Best Film on Psychology:
Portrait of a Confused Father, dir. Gunnar Hall Jensen

Polish Studio Cinema Association Award in the Polish Competition:
Letters from the Wild, dir. Arjun Talwar
Special Mention: The Passenger by Andrzej Munk, dir. Michał Bielawski

Amnesty International Poland Award: Songs of the Burning Soil, dir. Olha Zhurba
Special Mention: My Stolen Planet, dir. Farahnaz Sharifi

Smakjam Award for Best Polish Production:
Das Deutsche Volk, dir. Marcin Wierzchowski, produced by Marcin Wierzchowski, Pola Sell, Dorothea Braun

Audience Award: 20 Days in Mariupol, dir. Mstyslav Chernov

Online Audience Award: Yintah, dir. Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano

Onet Big Screen Doc Award: Sally, dir. Cristina Costantini

Other awards presented during ceremonies in Gdynia and Katowice:

ETNOMATOGRAF Award (Gdynia): Yintah, dir. Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano

All About Freedom Festival Award (Gdynia): My Dear Théo, dir. Alisa Kovalenko

Mayor of Katowice Award for an Innovative Perspective on the World:
Tales of the Northern Realms, dir. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady