This year, Doclisboa welcomed around 20000 spectators over the course of eleven days. Having reached the end of its successful 23rd edition, the festival announced the winners.

The International Competition Jury, composed of Antoine Thirion, Daniela Persico, Dimitris Papaioannou, Hala Elkoussy and Jorge Cramez, awarded The Night is Fading Away by Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini with the festival’s top award, the City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film, for celebrating “cinema as the ultimate collective adventure, where imagination and solidarity light the way in the darkness”. In the same section, Isabel Pagliai received the Best Director prize (the Médicos Sem Fronteiras – Portugal Award) for her film Fantasy. The Jury Prize was given to Tell Me a Fairy Tale by Ebrû Avci.

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This year’s Portuguese Competition consisted of a total of 12 films, seven of which had their world premiere at the festival. Água Mãe, directed by Hiroatsu Suzuki and Rossana Torres, received the Best Film Award in this Competition, for being “an elegant and courageous work that elevates everyday life to the sublime, inviting us to experience a world beyond cinema”, according to the jury (consisting of Ellie Ga, Jesse Cumming and Trương Minh Quý). In the same section, Maureen Fazendeiro’s As Estações received the Portuguese Authors’ Society Jury Award, for “a tactile and engaging film that combines a rediscovered past with an almost timeless present.” The School Jury (consisting of Elias Marreiros, Guilherme Mártires, Mariana Macedo and Nityam Prem) awarded the ETIC Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film to Gil, Let’s Explode São Paulo by Maria Clara Escobar, giving out an honourable mention to Complô by João Miller Guerra.

The Green Years competition gave out two awards: the Conserveira de Lisboa Award for the Best Green Years Film, and the Pedro Fortes Award for Best Director of a Green Years Portuguese Film. The jury (consisting of Eva Vila Purtí, Inês Lima and Nicolas Graux) gave the Best Film Award to Ping Pong by Tianji Yu and an honourable mention to I Lit the Fire! by Valeria Lemeshevskaya. The Best Director Award went to David Falcão for If I Would Never Die!.

In the cross-sectional competition category, the festival had the New Talent Award (with Claire Diao, Pedro Cabeleira and Thomas Bauer in the jury). Under the Flags, the Sun [+lee también:
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The festival gave out two Audience Awards: the Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award for Best Film Dealing with Human Rights (with 12 eligible films), and the TVCine Channels Award for Best Portuguese Film (from a selection of 10 eligible films). The audience awarded Punch for Punch by Diogo Varela Silva with the TVCine Channels Award, and Aurora [+lee también:
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The festival also previously announced the awards in its Arché industry section, with Diary of my revolution by Edgardo Dielek winning the RTP2 Award for Best Project.

The festival’s 24th edition will unspool from 15 to 25 October and has announced Greece as its guest country.

Full list of winners:

International Competition

City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film
The Night Is Fading Away - Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini (Argentina)

Doclisboa International Competition Jury Award
Tell Me a Fairy Tale - Ebrû Avci (Turkey)

Médecins Sans Frontières International Competition Jury Award for Best Director
Fantasy - Isabel Pagliai (France)

Portuguese Competition

Doclisboa Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
Água Mãe - Hiroatsu Suzuki and Rossana Torres (Portugal)

Portuguese Authors Society Portuguese Competition Jury Award
The Seasons [+lee también:
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ETIC Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
Gil, Let’s Explode São Paulo - Maria Clara Escobar (Brazil/Portugal)

Honourable Mention
Complô - João Miller Guerra (Portugal)

Green Years Competition

Conserveira de Lisboa Award for Best Green Years Competition Film
Ping Pong - Tianji Yu (Portugal/Belgium/Hungary/China)
I Lit the Fire! - Valeria Lemeshevskaya (Kyrgyzstan/Belarus/Azerbaijan)

Pedro Fortes Award for Best Director of a Green Years Portuguese Film
If I Would Never Die! - David Falcão (Portugal)

Other awards

New Talent Award
Under the Flags, the Sun [+lee también:
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Honourable Mention
Do You Love Me [+lee también:
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Best Short Film Award
Baumettes Studio - Hassen Ferhani (France)

Healthy Workplaces Film Award
Wishful Filming - Sarah Vanagt (Belgium)

Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award
Aurora [+lee también:
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TVCine Channels Award
Punch for Punch - Diogo Varela Silva (Portugal)

Arché

RTP2 Award
Diary of my revolution - Edgardo Dielek (Argentina)

DMix Collective Award
Tupa no Fear - Miguel Seabra Lopes (Portugal/Brazil)

School of Arts, Catholic University Award
Marandúa. Only One Land - Maria Rojas Arias (Colombia)

DAFilms Award
Fire Drill - Oscar X. Illingworth (Ecuador)

DAE Talent Development Award
The End of the Future. The Mixtape - Lucia Selva (Spain)

Honourable Mention
Auguries, Dreams and Soils - Luciana Decker (Bolivia)