DocsBarcelona awarded the prizes of its 28th edition at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) on May 17. During the ceremony, La Memoria de las Mariposas by Peruvian filmmaker Tatiana Fuentes won the Best Film Award. The prize for Best Catalan Film was won by Grup Natural by Nina Solà.
Forty-eight films, eleven of them world premieres, have attracted a provisional total of 11,000 spectators (with figures from the final two days to be added) across the festival’s six venues (the CCCB, Renoir and Phenomena cinemas, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Casa Montjuïc, and Espai Texas). “This consolidates the upward trend recorded in 2024, a record year with a 60% increase in attendance,” organisers note. This year, the festival sold out ten screenings and brought around fifty filmmakers to the Catalan capital.
“On this 28th edition, dedicated to archive and memory, we will finish with an 18% increase in in-person attendance. We have added two new venues, reaffirming documentary film as the centerpiece of a cultural space rooted in the city. With forty-one Q&As and enthusiastic public participation, we have generated debate, emotion and connection. This edition has been a celebration of documentary film as a place for collective reflection and shared experience,” highlights Maria Colomer, Co-Artistic Director and Head of Programming of the festival.
DOCSBARCELONA 2025 AWARDS:
- DOCS AWARD FOR BEST FILM: La memoria de las mariposas by Tatiana Fuentes
- DOCS AWARD FOR BEST CATALAN FILM: Grup Natural by Nina Solà
- DOCS AWARD FOR BEST NEW TALENT – FILMIN: Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other by Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet
- DOCS JURY AWARD – ANTAVIANA : Timestamp by Kateryna Gornostai
- DOCS AWARD FOR BEST EDITING – AMMAC: Always by Deming Chen
- DOCS AWARD FOR JOURNALISTIC RELEVANCE – EL PERIÓDICO: The Dialogue Police by Susanna Edwards
- SPECIAL MENTION FOR JOURNALISTIC RELEVANCE – EL PERIÓDICO: Facing War by Tommy Gulliksen
- AUDIENCE DOCS AWARD – MORITZ: Mares by Ariadna Seuba
- DOC-U AWARD – 16NOU: Al rojo vivo by Rocío Llambí
- DOC AROUND EUROPE AWARD: How Did I Get There? by Dorottya Márton
- DOCS&TEENS – AUDIENCE AWARD: 2unbreakable by Maike Conway
- YOUNG JURY DOCS AWARD – RETEENA: Khartoum by Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Phil Cox
- DOCS DEL MES AWARD: Echo of You by Zara Zerny
- AMNISTIA INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA AWARD: Mr.Nobody Against Putin by David Borenstein, Pasha Talankin
