14 - 20 APRIL 2025
/previous editions/2020 - 2021
/press release 2020-2021
Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival announces the winners of a special double edition.
After a last-minute canceled edition in 2020, the Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival was challenged for a second year in a row to adapt to the corona crisis. Cinemas were still compulsorily closed, but film screenings in museums and art galleries in a limited circle were possible. That is why this year exceptionally the Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival took place at the Alfred Sküll Art Gallery, instead of our long-term partner Studio Skoop. The film festival organized 45 film screenings from 15 to 23 May 2021, Covid-proof for a very limited number of people. In the art gallery, on the big screen. This allowed the films to be screened in a respectful way and it kept the festival from going ‘online’ like many other festivals.
This year, no fewer than sixty exceptional documentaries (both full-length and short films, both from the 2020 and 2021 selection) from all over the world were on the agenda of the Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival. From this gigantic selection of work, the following films were awarded with a prize.
Best Documentary Feature Film 2021: Boy from the blaze (Spain) by Ignacio Acconcia
Best Documentary Feature Film 2020: On The Inside of a Military Dictatorship (Denmark) by Karen Stokkendal Poulsen
Best Documentary Short Films 2021: Spontaneous (United States) by Lori Felker
Best Documentary Short Films 2020: PACIFIC (Lebanon) by Angie Obeid
Best Environmental Documentary Film 2021: The Beekeeper (United Kingdom) by William McGregor
Best Environmental Documentary Film 2020: The Edge of Existence (South Africa) by James Suter , Charlie Luckock
Best Society Documentary Film 2021: I am Wounded (Germany) by Orkan Bayram
Best Society Documentary Film 2020: African Bride (The Netherlands) by Roy Dames , Jos Driessen
Best LGBTQ Documentary Film 2021: Killing Tony (Finland) by Panu Suuronen
Best LGBTQ Documentary Film 2020: The Prince of Ostia Bronx (Italy) by Raffaele Passerini
Best Health Documentary Film 2021: The Daydreamers (United Kingdom) by Thomas Renckens
Best Health Documentary Film 2020: Int.Anouchka-Night (Belgium) by Louise Hansenne
Best Artist Documentary Film 2021: Dead Souls' Vacation (Georgia) by Keko Chelidze
Best Artist Documentary Film 2020: Fenni Zombie (China) by Juefang Zhang
Best Experimental Documentary Film 2021: My Own Landscapes (France) by Antoine Chapon
Best Experimental Documentary Film 2020: And we'll be happy again (Poland) by Krzysztof Wołżański
Best Belgian Documentary Film 2021: A.WAY (Belgium) by Glenn Dumortier
Best Belgian Documentary Film 2020: Century of Smoke (Belgium) by Nicolas Graux
/official selection 2021
Lumen (Canada) by Sarah Seené
Mood Atlas (Ireland) by Mia Mullarkey
Being Sascha (Switzerland) by Manuel Gübeli
Killing Tony (Finland) by Panu Suuronen
I will go backwards of our path (Italy) by Mattia Biondi
Festina Lente (Belgium) by Marius Lefever
Things Floating in the Hudson (United States) by Ellen Sampson
Sitting Still (United States) by Weixin Zhuang
By Your Side (China) by Huan Wang
Supernatural Report (United Kingdom) by Robert Turnbull
Hotel Stadt Altona (Germany) by Sophia Schachtner
Generation 328 (Belarus) by Veranika Nikanava
Married People (United Kingdom) by Tyro Heath
My Own Landscapes (France) by Antoine Chapon
Dead Souls' Vacation (Georgia) by Keko Chelidze
*** (fish) (Poland) by Filip Bojarski
Llaves (Keys) (United States) by Mayra A. Flores, Nicholas Manting Brewer
The Daydreamers (United Kingdom) by Thomas Renckens
Forest (Ireland) by Dermott Burns
Boy from the blaze (Spain) by Ignacio Acconcia
Natural Hosts (United Kingdom) by Nick Jordan
Round About (Germany) by Andreas Uranowicz
I am Wounded (Germany) by Orkan Bayram
Fatima - A short life (Germany) by Hakim El Hachoumi
The Scroll of The Prophet Isaiah (Canada) by Jake Kovnat
Tears Teacher (Japan) by Noemie Nakai
A.WAY (Belgium) by Glenn Dumortier
Bellydance Vogue (Lebanon) by Hadi Moussally
The Beekeeper (United Kingdom) by William McGregor
Emily, ilaw ng tahanan (Qatar) by Anna Prokou
Good Girls Don't Get Beaten (Belarus) by Halina Adamovich
Moto (Canada) by Brian Dale Sokolowski
Will They Know (Netherlands) by Kim Faber
Spontaneous (United States) by Lori Felker
The ospreys and the old man (United Kingdom) by Ang Gao
Everyone wants to be the next Weismann (Spain) by Alberto Triano
/official selection 2020
No.13 (Iran) by Reyhaneh Zahiri
Sleeves (Denmark) by Maria Morgaine Müller
Under the Ashoka tree (Belgium) by Jialai Wang
Inga Can Hear (Latvia) by Kaspars Goba
connections (Germany) by Jannis Alexander Kiefer
Terraria (Belgium) by Hanna Hovitie
On The Inside of a Military Dictatorship (Denmark) by Karen Stokkendal Poulsen
The Jacket (United States) by Will Berry
Mama Mania (Netherlands) by Vincent Sparreboom
Thora (Belgium) by Tuur Tisseghem
Century of Smoke (Belgium) by Nicolas Graux
Decorum (Australia) by Lorenzo Monti
Lovemobil (Germany) by Elke Lehrenkrauss
Fenni Zombie (China) by Juefang Zhang
And we'll be happy again (Poland) by Krzysztof Wołżański
The Prince of Ostia Bronx (Italy) by Raffaele Passerini
Glassy Stares (Turkey) by Rıdvan Karaman
Brother, move on (Switzerland) by Antshi von Moos
Ravens (United Kingdom) by Karl Friis Forchhammer
The Puzzle of Christina (Norway) by Pål Winsents
PACIFIC (Lebanon) by Angie Obeid
The Edge of Existence (South Africa) by James Suter, Charlie Luckock
Displacement (Poland) by Jacek Jędrzejczak
Int.Anouchka-Night (Belgium) by Louise Hansenne
African Bride (Netherlands) by Roy Dames, Jos Driessen
