European Film Award for Best Documentary

European Film Award Prix Arte
Awarded for	Best Documentary
Country	Europe
Presented by	European Film Academy
First awarded	1989
Currently held by	Amy (2015)
Official website	www.europeanfilmawards.eu

The European Film Award for Best Documentary or Prix Arte has been awarded annually since 1989 by the European Film Academy.

2000s

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2004 (17th)
Darwin's Nightmare		Hubert Sauper	Austria,  France,  Belgium
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer		Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill	United Kingdom
Addicted to Acting	Die Spielwütigen	Andres Veiel	Germany
Basque Ball, Skin Against Stone	La pelota vasca, la piel contra la piedra	Julio Medem	Spain
The World According to Bush	Le monde selon Bush	William Karel	France
Checkpoint	Mahssomim	Yoav Shamir	Israel
The Last Victory		John Appel	Netherlands
Touch the Sound		Thomas Riedelsheimer	Germany,  United Kingdom,  Finland
2005 (18th)
The Pipeline Next Door	Un dragon dans les eaux	Nino Kirtadzé	France
Stroke	Am seidenen Faden	Katarina Peters	Germany
The Devil's Miner	Berg des Teufels	Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson	Germany
Dreamland	Leiputrija	Laila Pakalnina	Latvia,  Germany
Melodias		François Bovy	Switzerland
Before Flying Back to the Earth	Pries parskrendant i zeme	Arunas Matelis	Lithuania,  Germany
Rehearsals	Repetitioner	Michal Leszczylowsky, Gunnar Källström	Sweden
The Swenkas		Jeppe Rønde	Denmark,  Sweden
Raw Youth	Ungdommens råskap	Margreth Olin	Norway,  Denmark
Viva Zapatero!		Sabina Guzzanti	Italy,  Denmark
Workingman's Death		Michael Glawogger	Austria,  Germany
2006 (19th)
Into Great Silence	Die Grosse Stile	Philip Gröning	Germany
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep		Ben Hopkins	United Kingdom
Dreaming by Numbers		Anna Bucchetti	Netherlands
Grandmother's House	La casa de mi abuela	Adan Allaga	Spain
Maradona, the Golden Kid	Maradona, un gamin en or	Jean-Christophe Rosé	France
The Cemetery Club	Moadon beit hakvarot	Tali Shemesh	Israel
The Fisherman and the Dancing Girl	Rybak i tantsovshitsa	Valeriy Solomin	Russia
Our Daily Bread	Unser täglich Brot	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Austria
2007 (20th)
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers	Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise	Rithy Panh	France
To the Limit	Am Limit	Pepe Danquart	Germany,  Austria
Belarusian Waltz		Andrzej Fidyk	Norway
Forever		Heddy Honigmann	Netherlands
Echoes of Home	Heimatklänge	Stefan Schwietert	Switzerland,  Germany
9 Star Hotel	Malon 9 Kochavim	Ido Haar	Israel
The Champagne Spy	Meragel Hashampaniya	Nadav Schirman	Israel,  Germany
The Monastery		Pernille Rose Grønkjær	Denmark
Where is the Love in the Palmgrove?	Où est l'amour dans la palmeraie?	Jérôme Le Maire	Belgium
Divorce Albanian Style	Razvod Po Albanski	Adela Peeva	Bulgaria
2008 (21st)
René		Helena Trestikova	Czech Republic
Durakovo – Village of Fools	Durakovo – Le village des fous	Nino Kirtadzé	France
Fados		Carlos Saura	Portugal,  Spain
Children. As Time Flies.	Kinder. Wie Zeit vergeht.	Thomas Heise	Germany
The Mother	La mère	Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov	Switzerland
Man on Wire		James Marsh	United Kingdom
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains	Naufragés des Andes	Gonzalo Arijón	France
Citizen Havel	Obcan Václav Havel	Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek	Czech Republic
Shadow of the Holy Book	Pyhän kirjan varjo	Arto Halonen	Finland
The Dictator Hunter		Klaartje Quirijns	Netherlands
2009 (22nd)
The Sound of Insects – Records of a Mummy	Das Summen der Insekten – Bericht einer Mumie	Peter Liechti	Switzerland
Cooking History	Ako sa varia dejiny	Peter Kerekes	Slovakia,  Austria,  Czech Republic
Below Sea Level		Gianfranco Rosi	Italy,  United States
Burma VJ		Anders Østergaard	Denmark
The Damned of the Sea	Les damnes de la mer	Jawad Rhalib	Belgium
Defamation		Yoav Shamir	Denmark,  Austria,  Israel,  United States
The Woman with the 5 Elephants	Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten	Vadim Jendreyko	Switzerland,  Germany
The Heart of Jenin	Das Herz von Jenin	Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter	Germany
Pianomania		Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis	Germany,  Austria
The Beaches of Agnès	Les plages d'Agnès	Agnès Varda	France

2010s

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2010 (23rd)
Nostalgia for the Light	Nostalgia de la luz	Patricio Guzmán	France,  Germany,  Chile
Armadillo		Janus Metz	Denmark,  Sweden
Steam of Life	Miesten vuoro	Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen	Finland,  Sweden
2011 (24th)
Pina		Wim Wenders	Germany
Position Among the Stars	Stand van de sterren	Leonard Retel Helmrich	Netherlands
¡Vivan las Antipodas!		Victor Kossakovsky	Germany,  Netherlands,  Argentina,  Chile
2012 (25th)
Winter Nomad	Hiver Nomade	Manuel von Stürler	Switzerland
London – The Modern Babylon		Julien Temple	United Kingdom
Tea or Electricity	Le thé ou l'électricité	Jerome Lemaire	Belgium,  France,  Morocco
2013 (26th)
The Act of Killing		Joshua Oppenheimer	Denmark,  Norway,  United Kingdom
Stop-Over	L'escale	Kaveh Bakhtiari	Switzerland,  France
The Missing Picture	L'image manquante	Rithy Panh	France,  Cambodia
2014 (27th)
Master of the Universe		Marc Bauder	Germany  Austria
Just the Right Amount of Violence		Jon Bang Carlsen	Denmark
Of Men and War	Des hommes et de la guerre	Laurent Bécue-Renard	France   Switzerland
Sacro GRA		Gianfranco Rosi	Italy  France
Waiting For August		Teodora Ana Mihai	Belgium  Romania
We Come as Friends		Hubert Sauper	Austria  France
2015 (28th)
Amy		Asif Kapadia
Dancing with Maria		Ivan Gergolet
The Look of Silence	Senyap	Joshua Oppenheimer
A Syrian Love Story		Sean McAllister
Toto and His Sisters		Alexander Nanau
2016 (29th)
21 x New York	21 x Nowy Jork	Piotr Stasik	Poland
A Family Affair		Tom Fassaertr	Netherlands,  Belgium
Fire at Sea	Fuocoammare	Gianfranco Rosi	Italy,  France
Mr. Gaga		Tomer Heymann	Israel,  Sweden,  Germany,  Netherlands
S Is for Stanley	Trent'anni dietro al volante per Stanley Kubrick	Alex Infascelli	Italy
The Land of the Enlightened		Pieter-Jan De Pue	Belgium,  Ireland,  Netherlands,  Germany

External links

• European Film Academy archive