Awards

International Competition

City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film
10 000€

Doclisboa International Competition Jury Award
3500€

Médecins Sans Frontières International Competition Jury Award for Best Director
2000€

Portuguese Competition

Doclisboa Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
6000€

Portuguese Authors Society Portuguese Competition Jury Award
2000€

School Award
ETIC Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
1500€ (in technical services)

Green Years Competition

Conserveira de Lisboa Award for Best Green Years Competition Film
1000€

Pedro Fortes Award for Best Director of a Green Years Portuguese Film
Participation grant for Doc’s Kingdom – International Seminar on Documentary Film

Cross-Sectional Competition

New Talent Award
Doclisboa Award for Best First Feature-Length Film (over 60’) from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
3000€

Eligible films

• Afterlives (NV)
• Bajo las banderas, el sol / Under the Flags, the Sun (NV)
• Bulakna (EM)
• Do You Love Me (NV)
• Fantaisie / Fantasy (IC)
• La memoria de las mariposas / The Memory of Butterflies (EM)
• Men ottu kuyguzdum! / I Lit the Fire! (GY)
• As Muitas Mortes de Antônio Parreiras / The Many Deaths of Antonio Parreiras (NV)
• La noche está marchandose ya / The Night is Fading Away (IC)
• Usi dorogi privodiat do tebe / All Roads Lead to You (EM)
• Vacances (IC)

Award for Best Short Film (up to 40’) from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
The winner will be pre-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Doclisboa – International Film Festival was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to pre-nominate candidates to the Oscars®, thus becoming the only Portuguese festival to take part in the network of Academy-qualified festivals.

Eligible films

• 09/05/1982 (NV)
• L’ Amour sur le chemin des roncettes / Love on the Bramble Path (NV)
• Andar com Fé (PC)
• Inventar / Inventory (NV)
• Ji min re çîrokek beje / Tell Me a Fairy Tale (IC)
• Llenya / Firewood (PC)
• Le Meilleur spectateur de la piece historique qui se joue sur terre (NV)
• Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (EM)
• Miraculous Accident (NV)
• Moraine (NV)
• Podeljeni grad Kosovska Mitrovica / The Divided City of Mitrovica (NV)
• The Strongest Lightning Strikes Not From Dark Skies (IC)
• Studio Beaumettes / Baumettes Studio (NV)
• Three of Cups (PC)

Healthy Workplaces Film Award
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Award for Best Feature-Length Film Dealing with Work from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
5000€

Eligible films

• Bulakna (EM)
• As Estações / The Seasons (PC)
• Inventar / Inventory (NV)
• I kardia tou tavrou / Bull’s Heart (HB)
• The Long Road to the Director’s Chair (EM)
• Seablindness (GY)
• Series of Actions (NV)
• Stolz & Eigensinn / Pride & Attitude (EM)
• Wishful Filming (EM)

Audience Awards

Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award
Award for Best Film Dealing with Human Rights from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
1500€

Eligible films

• Aurora (EM)
• Cartas a mis padres muertos / Letters to My Dead Parents (IC)
• Cinema Kawakeb (IC)
• Hikayat elbeit elorjowani / Tales of the Wounded Land (EM)
• La Ligne bleue / The Blue Line (EM)
• Loin de moi la colère / Far from Anger (EM)
• La memoria de las mariposas / The Memory of Butterflies (EM)
• Noghteh-e-Goriz / The Vanishing Point (EM)
• Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks (EM)
• Prefiro condenarme / I’d Rather Be Condemned (NV)
• Us & Them (NV)
• When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea (EM)

TVCine Channels Award
Award for Best Portuguese Film from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and competitions
1500€ (including distribution rights)

Eligible films

• Aqui, Ali (EM)
• Aurora (EM)
• Bulakna (EM)
• La memoria de las mariposas / The Memory of Butterflies (EM)
• Memórias do Teatro da Cornucópia / Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia (HB)
• Pele Nómada (HB)
• Una película de miedo / A Scary Movie (EM)
• Pescadores de Bubaque / Bubaque Fishermen (EM)
• Soco a Soco / Punch for Punch (HB)
• Usi dorogi privodiat do tebe / All Roads Lead to You (EM)