| 2025 | Marching in the Dark (Kinshuk Surjan, India/ Belgium, 2024) | Winner |
| 2023 | Rebel Objects (Carolina Arias Ortiz, Costa Rica, 2020) | Winner |
| The Prison Promise (Joseph Dégramon Ndjom, Cameroon, 2021) |
Special Mention | |
| 2021 | The Body Won’t Close (Mattijs van de Port, Netherlands, 2020) | Winner |
| In Search… (Beryl Magoko, Kenya/ Germany, 2018) | Special Mention | |
| 2019 | Thank You for the Rain (Julia Dahr, Norway/ UK, 2017) | Winner |
| Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock (Myron Dewey, Josh Fox & James Spione, USA, 2017) | Special Mention | |
| 2017 | Journey to the Maggot Feeder (Liivo Niglas & Priit Tender, Estonia, 2015) | Winner |
| 2015 | Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars (Berit Madsen, Denmark, 2013) |
Winner |
| Echo of the Mountain (Nicolás Echevarrίa, Mexico, 2014) |
Special Mention | |
| 2013 | The Act of Killing – Director’s cut (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous, Denmark/ Norway/ UK, 2012) | Winner |
| Like Here, Like There (Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar, India, 2011) | Special Mention | |
| 2011 | Manenberg (Karen Waltorp & Christian Vium, Denmark, 2010) | Winner |
| The Caviar Connection (Dragan Nikolić, USA, 2008) | Special Mention | |
| The House of the Dead (Deborah Diniz, Brazil, 2009) | Special Mention | |
| 2009 | Balkan Rhapsodies (Jeff Silva, USA, 2008) | Winner |
| 2007 | SchoolScapes (David MacDougall, Australia, 2007) | Winner |
| 37 Uses of a Dead Sheep (Ben Hopkins, UK, 2006) | Special Mention | |
| The Bimo Records (Yang Rui, China, 2006) | Special Mention | |
| 2005 | The City Beautiful (Rahul Roy, India, 2003) | Winner |
| Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi, UK, 2005) | Special Mention | |
| 2003 | A Kalahari Family (John Marshall, USA, 2002) | Winner |
| Kusum (Jouko Aaltonen, Finland, 2000) | Special Mention | |
| 2000 | Tigers Apprentice (M. Trinh Nguyen, USA, 1998) | Winner |
| Quand les hommes pleurent (Yasmine Kassari, Morocco/ Belgium, 1999) | Special Mention | |
| 1998 | Ymako (Laurent Van Lanker & Robin Shuffield, Belgium, 1998) | Winner |
| 1996 | Aeroplane Dance (Trevor Graham, Australia, 1994) | Winner |
| 1994 | Our Way of Loving (Jean Lydall & Joanna Head, UK, 1994) | Winner |
| Tempus de Baristas (David MacDougall, Italy/ Australia, 1983) | Special Mention | |
| 1992 | Black Harvest (Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly, Australia/ Papua New Guinea, 1992) | Winner |
| Eyes of Stone (Nilita Vachani, Greece, 1990) | Special Mention | |
| Turnim Hed (James Bates, UK, 1992) | Special Mention | |
| 1990 | Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly, Australia, 1988) | Winner |
| The Condor and the Bull (Peter Getzels & Harriet Gordon, UK, 1989) | Special Mention | |
| Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda (Richard Hawkins & Suzette Heald, USA, 1989) | Special Mention | |
| Kafi’s Story (Arthur Howes & Amy Hardie, UK, 1989) | Special Mention | |
| 1988 | A Tibetan New Year (Jon Jerstad, UK, 1987) | Winner |
| 1986 | Pomen (Georgi Balabanov, Bulgaria, 1981) | Winner |
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