Awards

The DOXA award winners are selected on the basis of three major criteria:
- Success and innovation in the realization of the project’s concept.
- Originality and relevance of subject matter and approach.
- Overall artistic and technical proficiency.
DOXA is very happy to welcome an outstanding group of filmmakers, film critics and industry professionals to the Award Juries this year. Jury members meet during the course of the festival to choose the winning films, as well as award honourable mentions to selected films.
2025 nominees coming soon!
Feature Documentary Award
Films in Competition
To Use a Mountain
Directed by Casey Carter
The Tree of Authenticity
Directed by Sammy Baloji
UNEARTH
Directed by John Hunter Nolan
Mistress Dispeller
Directed by Elizabeth Lo
Sudan, Remember Us
Directed by Hind Meddeb
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
Directed by Kazuhiro Soda
Direct Action
Directed by Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell
HUAQUERO
Directed by Juan Carlos Donoso Gómez
Bogancloch
Directed by Ben Rivers
Sanctuary Station
Directed by Brigid McCaffrey
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Directed by Olha Zhurba
The Pickers
Directed by Elke Sasse
Coexistence, My Ass!
Directed by Amber Fares
The Thousand and One Days of Hajj Edmond
Directed by simone Bitton
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Directed by David Borenstein
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Directed by Gianluca Matarrese
Free Party
Directed by Fabianny Deschamps
Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director
Presented by the Directors Guild of Canada - National Directors Division (DGC)
In Competition
Aisha's Story
Directed by Elizabeth Vibert & Chen Wang
Have You Heard Judi Singh?
Directed by Baljit Sangra
Nechako - It Will Be A River Again
Directed by Lyana Patrick
Among Mountains and Streams
Directed by Jean-François Lesage
Archeology of Light
Directed by Sylvain L'Espérance
Paul
Directed by Denis Côté
Eastern Anthems
Directed by Matthew Wolkow & Jean-Jacques Martinod
Saints and Warriors
Directed by Patrick Shannon
Bedrock
Directed by Kinga Michalska
Spare My Bones, Coyote!
Directed by Jonah Malak
DOXA Short Documentary Award
$500 Award
Films In Competition
in retrospect
Directed by Mila Zhluktenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi
如你所愿 (Correct Me If I'm Wrong)
Directed by Hao Zhou
Citizen-Inmate
Directed by Hesam Eslami
This Dissonance
Directed by Christophe Katrib
Pidikwe (Rumble)
Directed by Caroline Monnet
Paris to Pyongyang
Directed by Helen Lee
Messengers
Directed by Jeffrey Zablotny
Semi-precious
Directed by Kara Ditte Hansen
Entretierra
Directed by Emanuel Licha
No Past To Long For
Directed by Monica Cheema
Burcu's Angels
Directed by Özgün Gündüz
a flower not a flower
Directed by Tanakit Kitsanayunyong
Goat Fish Snake Sparrow
Directed by Abhradeep Ganguli
Al Basateen
Directed by Antoine Chapon
You May Laugh at Me a Little
Directed by Yuula Benivolski
qatŝ’ay
Directed by Jeremy Williams & Trevor Mack
Talking Walls
Directed by Marcellus A.
Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming
DOXA is extremely proud to present the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming, first launched in 2013. Named in memory of Nigel Moore, a young man whose passion for knowledge, exploration and advocacy found a home in his love for documentary film.
For younger audiences, documentary has particular relevance. The world in which they’re growing up is an increasingly complex place. Documentary not only captures this complexity, but also has the capacity to act as a catalyst for social change, and fundamentally alter people’s behaviour.
Films in Competition
#skoden
Directed by Damien Eagle Bear
They are sacred
Directed by Kim O’Bomsawin
King Arthur's Knight
Directed by John Bolton
The award will be adjudicated by a youth jury, who will choose the film that best exemplifies the qualities of compassion, social engagement and spirit in which Nigel lived.