04-02-2025

Winners of 2025 Budapest International Documentary Film Festival

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    Forest by Lidia Duda Forest by Lidia Duda source: BIDF

    BUDAPEST: The winners of the 11th Budapest International Documentary Film Festival (BIDF) have been announced in eight categories. The festival was held from 25 January to 2 February in Budapest, 11 towns and also online.

    Films by Sergei Loznitsa, Lidia Duda and László Csáki received awards.

    WINNERS:

    Everyday Fears Competition:

    Main Award:
    Forest (Poland, Czech Republic)
    Directed by Lidia Duda

    Special Mention:
    Requiem for a Tribe (Iran, Spain)
    Directed by Marjan Khosravi

    Everyday Families Competition:

    Main Award:
    A New Kind of Wilderness (Norway)
    Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen

    Special Mention:
    In Limbo (Poland)
    Directed by Alina Maksimenko

    Everyday Heroes Competition Section:

    Main Prize:
    The Invasion (the Netherlands, France, USA)
    Directed by Sergei Loznitsa

    Special Mention:
    The Black Garden (France, Belgium)
    Directed by Alexis Pazoumian

    Everyday Struggles Competition:

    Main Award:
    Dear Beautiful Beloved (Austria)
    Directed by Juri Rechinsky

    Special Mention:
    Igualada (USA, Columbia)
    Directed by Juan Mejia Botero

    Everyday Desire Competition:

    Main Award:
    Agent of Happiness (Hungary, Bhutan)
    Directed by Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó

    Special Mention:
    Monogamia (Israel)
    Directed by Ohad Milstein

    Hungarian Competition:

    Main Award:
    Pelican Blue (Hungary)
    Directed by László Csáki

    Special Mention:
    Invisible Bonds (Hungary)
    Directed by Ágota Varga

    Senior Jury Award:
    The Sky above Zenica (Denmark)
    Directed by Nanna Frank Møller, Zlatko Pranjic

    Student Jury Award:
    Fakir (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)
    Directed by Roman Duris