| 2023 | Once Upon a Village (Srishti Lakhera, India) | ||
| 2021 | The Two Lives of Li Ermao (Jia Yuchuan, China/UK, 2019) | ||
| 2019 | Even When I Fall (Kate McLarnon & Sky Neal, UK, 2017) | ||
| 2017 | The Cinema Travellers (Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya, India, 2016) | ||
| 2015 | Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars (Berit Madsen, Denmark, 2013) | ||
| 2013 | Algorithms (Ian McDonald, Geetha J, India, UK, 2012) | ||
| Village at the End of the World (Sarah Gavron, UK/Denmark, 2012) | |||
| 2011 | I Dream of Mummers (Adela Peeva, Bulgaria, 2010) | ||
| The Lover and the Beloved (Andy Lawrence, UK, 2010) | |||
| 2009 | The Meaning of Life (Hugh Brody, Canada, 2008), sponsored by the Wallflower Press | ||
| 2007 | Sona and her Family (Daniela Rusnoková, Slovakia, 2006), sponsored by the Manchester University Press | ||
| 2005 | Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi, UK), sponsored by the New Internationalist * | ||