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Patricio Guzmán will receive the Marek Nowicki Prize in 2022

This year's laureate of the Mark Nowicki Prize is the Chilean master of documentary poetics. For over 50 years, Patricio Guzmán has been making films devoted to the historic memory and violent turns of his homeland. As part of the presentation of his work, we will show his three most recent films that have already found their place in the 21st-century documentary canon, and his latest movie describing the recent Chilean revolt, which swept away the government and led to a change in the country's constitution. 

Marek Nowicki Prize

Since 2003, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has been awarding filmmakers with the festival prize for excellent achievement in showing human rights in film.
In 2006 the Board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights decided to name this prize with the name of Marek Nowicki (1947 – 2003), cofounder and for many years the President of the Foundation, cofunder of the Helsinki Committee in Poland.

WATCH DOCS Award for the best film in the Main Competition

Main WATCH DOCS competition features 12 excellent documentaries, which differ wildly in origin, subject matter and film language. However, they all share two features, they revolve around human rights, and all premiered at the world's leading film festivals. The competition includes new films by renowned documentary masters – like Patricio Guzman, Mark Cousins, Matthew Heinemann, Maria Ramos.

Green Dog Award

The green dog competition has become a permanent part of our festival repertoire. This year, six films bringing together environmental awareness, human rights, and social issues, will compete for the green dog award. Among those are movies dedicated to eco-activists, saving endangered species, marine ecosystems, and an oil-based model of economy. 

Audience Award

Vote for the best festival film on the coupons handed out before cinema screenings. This year, the Audience Poll includes films presented in the Main and Green Dog Competitions as well as the following sections: I Want to See, Of Animals and Men, Discreet Charm of Propaganda and New Polish Films.

Laureates
Laureates of the Marek Nowicki Prize:
Patricio Guzmán
2022
Guzmán
Jean-Gabriel Périot
2021
Périot
Kazuhiro Soda
2020
Soda
Field of Vision
2019
Dieudo Hamadi
2019
Thierry Michel
2017
Nima Sarvestani
2016
Nick Broomfield
2015
Joe Berlinger
2014
Maria Ramos
2013
Jafar Panahi
2012
Zhao Liang
2011
Frederick Wiseman
2010
Wiktor Daszuk
2009
Errol Morris
2008
Rithy Panh
2007
Marcel Łoziński
2006
Maciej Drygas
2005
Fabrizio Lazzaretti
2004
Kim Longinotto
2003
WATCH DOCS Award for the best feature-length documentary winners:
Dieudo Hamadi
2021

za film „Płynąc do Kinszasy”

Anabel Rodríguez Ríos
2020
Rodríguez Ríos

for the film "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela"

Luke Lorentzen
2019

for the film "Midnight Family"

Talal Derki
2018

for the film "Of Fathers and Sons"

Jian Fan
2017

for the film "Still Tomorrow"

Behrouz Nooranipour
2016

for the film "A 157"

Sean McAllister
2015

for the film "A Syrian Love Story"

Zhao Liang
2015

for the film "Behemoth"

Tracy Droz Trago Andrew Droz Palermo,
2014

for the film "Rich Hill"

Nima Sarvestiani
2013

for the film "No burqas behind bars"

Ljubow Arkus
2012

for the film "Anton's Right Here"

Fernand Melgar
2011

for the film "Special Flight"

Nathalie Borgers
2010

for the film "Winds of Sand. Women of Rock"

Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard
2009

for the film "Les Arrivants"

Maria Augusta Ramos
2008

for the film "Juízo"

Ulrika Franke, Michael Loeken
2007

for the film "Losers and Winners"

Avi Mograbi
2006

for the film "Avenge But One Of My Two Eyes"

Peter Lom
2006

for the film "On a tightrope "

Audience Award Winners
Kacper Lisowski
2021

za film "Sędziowie pod presją" 

Daniel Karslake
2019

for the film "For They Know Not What They Do"

Jan Bluz
2018

for the film "The Underground of Hope"

Grzegorz Szczepaniak
2017

for the film "The Ugliest Car"

Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann
2016

for the film "Who's Gonna Love Me Now"

Karolina Bielawska
2015

for the film "Call me Marianna"

Frode Fimland
2014

for the film "Siblings are forever"

Callum Macrae
2013

for the film "No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka"

Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
2012

for the film "Call Me Kuchu"

Ekatarina Kibalchich
2011

for the "Belarussian Dream"

Roberto Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith
2010

for the film "Presumed guilty"

Ngawang Choephel
2009

for the film "Tibet in Song"

Beata Dzianowicz
2008

for the film "Kites"

Barak Heyman, Tomer Heymann
2007

for the film "Bridge Over the Wadi"

Marshall Curry
2006

for the film "Street Fight"

Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celiński
2005

for the film "The children of Leningradsky"