The Millennium Docs Against Gravity (originally Warsaw Doc Review, then Planete Doc Review) is an annual documentary film festival in Poland held since 2004, usually in May. [1]
The Millennium Docs Against Gravity (originally Warsaw Doc Review, then Planete Doc Review) is an annual documentary film festival in Poland held since 2004, usually in May. [1]
The main award at the festival is the Grand Prix Bank Millennium Award, sponsored by the Bank Millennium.
| Year | Festival | Film | Director(s) | Country of production | Year of production | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Prix introduced. | ||||||
| 2006 | 3rd | Dreaming by Numbers | Anna Bucchetti |  Netherlands Italy | 2005/2006 | [2] |
| 2007 | 4th | The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun | Pernille Rose Grønkjær |  Denmark | 2006 | [3] |
| 2008 | 5th | Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang |  Canada | 2007 | [4] |
| 2009 | 6th | The Sound of Insects | Peter Liechti |  Switzerland | 2009 | [5] |
| 2010 | 7th | Steam of Life | Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen |  Finland | 2010 | [6] |
| 2011 | 8th | Abendland | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |  Austria | 2010 | [7] |
| 2012 | 9th | 5 Broken Cameras | Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi |  Palestine Israel France Netherlands | 2011 | [8] |
| 2013 | 10th | Forget Me Not | David Sieveking |  Germany | 2013 | [9] |
| 2014 | 11th | We Come as Friends | Hubert Sauper | Austria France | 2014 | [10] |
| 2015 | 12th | Something Better to Come | Hanna Polak | Denmark | 2014 | [11] |
| Above And Below | Nicolas Steiner | Switzerland Germany | 2015 | [12] | ||
| 2016 | 13th | Under the Sun | Witalij Manski |  Russia Germany Czech Republic Latvia North Korea | 2015 | [13] |
| 2017 | 14th | Last Men in Aleppo | Feras Fayyad | Denmark | 2017 | [14] |
| 2018 | 15th | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu |  United States | 2018 | [15] |
| 2019 | 16th | Honeyland | Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska |  North Macedonia | 2018 | [16] |
| 2020 | 17th | The Earth Is Blue as an Orange | Iryna Tsilyk |  Ukraine Lithuania | 2020 | [17] |
| 2021 | 18th | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark France Sweden | 2021 | [18] |
| 2022 | 19th | The Pawnshop | Łukasz Kowalski |  Poland | 2022 | [19] |
| 2023 | 20th | Apolonia, Apolonia | Lea Glob | Denmark Poland France | 2022 | [20] |
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