The DOXA Feature Documentary Award is an annual Canadian film award, presented to honour the best international feature documentary film screened at that year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The award frequently, but not always, presents an honorable mention in addition to the overall winner.
A separate award, the Colin Low Award, is presented for Canadian feature documentaries.
Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) | Ref |
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2013 | Fire in the Blood | Dylan Mohan Gray | [1] |
2014 | Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel | [2] |
The Return to Homs | Talal Derki | ||
2015 | I Am the People | Anna Roussillon | [3] |
Cain's Children | Marcell Gerö | ||
2016 | Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson | [4] |
The Woods Dreams Are Made Of (Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits) | Claire Simon | ||
2017 | Horse-Being (Être cheval) | Jérôme Clément-Wilz | [5] |
Miss Kiet's Children | Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster | ||
2018 | The Creator of Universes | Mercedes Dominioni | [6] |
Distant Constellation | Shevaun Mizrahi | ||
2019 | Greetings from Free Forests | Ian Soroka | [7] |
Midnight Traveler | Hassan Fazili | ||
2020 | Overseas | Sung-A Yoon | [8] |
2021 | Father | Deng Wei | [9] |
2022 | Children of the Mist | Diễm Hà Lệ | [10] |
We Don't Dance for Nothing | Stefanos Tai | ||
2023 | Notes on Displacement | Khaled Jarrar | [11] |
The Golden Thread | Nishtha Jain | ||
2024 | Bye Bye Tiberias | Lina Soualem | [12] |
Kamay | Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaraan | ||
The Stimming Pool | Steven Eastwood, The Neurocultures Collective |
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