This year's winners of the Doc Alliance Award 2025 were announced today at the Doc Day Lunch during the Marché du Film in Cannes!

Best Feature Film:

The prize for Best Feature Film of €5,000 goes to “The Shards” (“Oskolky”, Georgia/Germany) by Masha Chernaya. A powerful and personal film about farewells, loss, and the courage to capture a fragile world through the camera lens. The jury praised the film for its “striking ability to merge personal and collective mourning.”

Best Short Film:

The €3,000 prize for Best Short Film goes to “We Had Fun Yesterday” (Belgium) by Marion Guillard. A sensitive and distinctive work that brings together conventional ideas of femininity, body image, and Marion's experiences as a wildlife filmmaker. The short film had its world premiere with us in 2024.

The jury highlighted its “narrative full of surprises interweaving personal quests of identity and family relations with views of being a filmmaker.”

More information is available in our press release.

We warmly congratulate the winners!

Watch now:

Four of this year’s nominated films — including “Grey Zone,” “Shuruuk,” “23:23,” and “Bamssi” — are now available to watch on DAfilms.com.