During the May 16 award ceremony of the 29th DocsBarcelona, Amazomania, Nathan Grossman’s indictment of the colonial legacy, was handed the Best Film Award. The Travelers by David Bingong took the award for Best Catalan Film.
The Audience Award went to Moritz: Corren las liebres by Lorena Ros) while the Jury Award was won by Manuel Correa for Antaviana: Atlas de la desaparición. Scroll down for all awards.
“This year we wanted DocsBarcelona to be, even more, a festival rooted in the city. We believe that this is the only possible future: generating spaces for dialogue with Barcelona where we are and becoming an event made by the city and for the city,” commented Maria Colomer, co-artistic director and head of programming.
“The sector is experiencing a major distribution crisis. Extraordinary documentaries are made that often do not find exhibition windows,” Colomer sounded a deep note of concern. “We want to be this great window that helps films connect with the public.” This wish was part-met in 2026 with a 12% hike on audience attendance to a record-breaking 12.300 attendees, 28 sold-out screenings, and 70% occupancy of theaters.
DocsBarcelona will celebrate its 30th anniversary from April 29 to May 9, 2027.
DOCSBARCELONA 2026 AWARDS
- Best Film Award: Amazomania (Nathan Grossman)
- Special Mention: Das Deutsche Volk (Marcin Wierzchowski)
- Best Catalan Film – XAL Award: The Travelers (David Bingong)
- Special Mention: Bèstia (Helena Garza)
- Audience Award – Moritz: Corren las liebres (Lorena Ros)
- Jury Award – Antaviana: Atlas de la desaparición (Manuel Correa)
- Best Short Film: Retales (Juanjo Giménez)
- Short Film Audience Award – 16Nou: Dreams for a Better Past (Albert Kuhn)
- Docs del Mes Award: Mr. Nobody Against Putin (David Borenstein and Pasha Talankin)
- Best Editing Award – AMMAC: Mailin (María Silvia Esteve)
- New Talent Award – Filmin: Do You Love Me (Lana Daher)
- Docs&Teens Award: Runa Simi (Augusto Zegarra)
- 3Cat Award: Corren las liebres (Lorena Ros)
- Doc Around Europe Award: Les culpables (Marta Duran Lozano)
- Amnesty International of Catalonia Award: Atlas de la desaparición (Manuel Correa)
- Youth Jury – Reteena Award: A Fox Under a Pink Moon (Mehrdad Oskouei)
More than 2,400 attendees at DocsBarcelona Pro
DocsBarcelona Pro continues to grow and consolidate itself as a key meeting point for the documentary sector, which this year awarded fifteen professional prizes worth 66,000 euros.
“A total of 62 projects in development from more than 35 countries and more than 2,400 attendees participated in an edition that also brought together major guest platforms such as ARTE, which has presented its pan-European expansion plan for the coming years, with the creation of the new channel ARTE España,” organisers point out.
Comments recalls Èric Motjer, co-artistic director and head of the festival’s professional arm: “DocsBarcelona Pro has brought together a selection of courageous authorial perspectives, which take narrative and aesthetic risks, and which have found here the complicity of international professionals to project them everywhere, becoming the best radar for documentary talent in southern Europe.”
