The European Film Award for Best Documentary or Prix Arte has been awarded annually since 1989 by the
European Film Academy
The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.
The Academy—under the name of European Cinema Soc ...
. Special Mentions were presented alongside the winner of the award until 1993, since 1999 a set of nominees are presented out of which a winner is chosen.
Criteria
Documentary films taken into consideration must have a minimum length of 70 minutes. They must have either had a theatrical release in at least one European country, at a European competitive feature film festival accredited by FIAPF or been screened at one of the following documentary festivals:
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(France)
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Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Denmark)
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Doclisboa (Portugal)
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Dok Leipzig (Germany)
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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ...
(The Netherlands)
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Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava), known as MFDF Ji.hlava or Ji.hlava IDFF, is a documentary film festival in Jihlava, Czech Republic, normally held in late October. T ...
(Czech Republic)
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Kraków Film Festival (Poland)
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Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest), short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), is an international documentary festival and Marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England.
The Festival includes film sc ...
(UK)
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) is an international documentary festival held every March in Thessaloniki, Greece. TDF, founded in 1999, features competition sections and ranks among the world's leading documentary festivals. Since 20 ...
(Greece)
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Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
Winners and nominees
The winners are in a yellow background and in bold.
1980s
1990s
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Jury Special Award
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Special Mention
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
External links
European Film Academy archive
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Documentary film awards
Awards established in 1989