2023 Rebel Objects (Carolina Arias Ortiz, Costa Rica)
Commendation The Prison Promise (Joseph Dégramon Ndjom, Cameroon)
2021 The Body Won’t Close (Mattijs van de Port, Netherlands, 2020)
Commendation In Search… (Beryl Magoko, Kenya/Germany, 2018)
2019 Thank You for the Rain (Julia Dahr, Norway/UK, 2017)
Special Commendation Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock (Myron Dewey, Josh Fox & James Spione, USA, 2017)
2017 Journey to the Maggot Feeder (Liivo Niglas & Priit Tender, Estonia, 2015) *
2015 Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars (Berit Madsen, Denmark, 2013)
Special Commendation Echo of the Mountain (Nicholás Echevarrίa, Mexico, 2014)
2013 The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous, Denmark, Norway, UK, 2012) (director’s cut)
Like Here, Like There (Anjali Monteiro, KP Jayasankar, India, 2011)
2011 Manenberg (Karen Waltorp, Christian Vium, Denmark, 2010)
The Caviar Connection (Dragan Nikolić, USA, 2008)
The House of the Dead (Deborah Diniz, Brazil, 2009)
2009 Balkan Rhapsodies (Jeff Silva, USA, 2008)
2007 SchoolScapes (David MacDougall, Australia, 2007) *
37 Uses of a Dead Sheep (Ben Hopkins, UK, 2006) *
Special Commendation The Bimo Records (Yang Rui, China, 2006)
2005 The City Beautiful (Sunder Nagri) (Rahul Roy, India, 2003) *
Special Commendation Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi, UK, 2005) *
2003 A Kalahari Family (John Marshall, USA, 2002)
Special Commendation Kusum (Jouko Aaltonen, Finland, 2000) *
2000 Tigers Apprentice (M.Trinh Nguyen, USA, 1968) *
Special Commendation Quand les Hommes Pleurent (Yasmine Kassari, Morroco/Belgium, 1999)
1998 Ymako (Laurent Van Lanker and Robin Shuffield, Belgium) *
1996 Aeroplane Dance (Trevor Graham, Australia, 1993) *
1994 Our Way of Loving (Jean Lydall and Joanna Head)
Special Commendation Tempus de Baristas (David MacDougall, Sardinia/Australia, 1983) *
1992 Black Harvest (Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly, Australia)
Eyes of Stone (Nilita Vachani, Greece, 1990)
Special Commendation Turnim Head (James Bates, UK)
1990 Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly, Australia, 1988)
The Condor and the Bull (Peter Getzels and Harriet Gordon, UK) *
Special Commendation Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda (Richard Hawkins and Suzette Heald, USA, 1989) *
Kafi’s Story (Arthur Howes and Amy Hardie, UK 1989) *
1988 A Tibetan New Year (Jon Jerstad, 1987) *
1986 Pomen (Georgui Balabanov, 1981)

* distributed by the RAI