The Cinémathèque du documentaire and Tënk will award the prize for best documentary film at the 2026 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.
Prizes:
- €1,000 (for the director),
- €2,500 for the purchase of film rights by the Cinémathèque du documentaire for the Images de la culture catalogue,
- as well as a purchase of rights by Tënk for a 4-month SVoD broadcast.
List of eligible films:
Compétition nationale
Au bain des Dames / Margaux Fournier / France / 2025 / Documentary fiction / 30′
Intersecting Memory / Shayma’ Awawdeh / France, Palestine / 2025 / Documentary / 21′
Jolie Petite Histoire / Élodie Beaumont Tarillon / France / 2025 / Documentary / 27′
L’ Éternité / Sébastien Betbeder / France / 2025 / Fiction / 29′
8 litres et demi jusqu’à l’aube / Sébastien Betbeder / France / 2025 / Fiction / 29′
Compétition internationale
No Mean City / Ross McClean / United Kingdom, Northern Ireland / 2025 / Documentary / 15′
Qui part à la chasse / Lea Favre / Switzerland / 2025 / Animated documentary / 11′
Air Horse One / Lasse Linder / Switzerland, Belgium / 2025 / Documentary / 21′
Buda / Raphaël Kaddour / Belgium / 2025 / Documentary / 24′
Ru ni suo yuan / Hao Zhou / Germany, United States / 2025 / Documentary / 22′
Breaking Walls / Jan-Dirk Bouw / Netherlands, Norway, Belgium / 2025 / Animated documentary / 23′
Not Scared, Just Sad / Isabelle Mecattaf / Lebanon, Bulgaria / 2025 / Documentary / 18′
Compétition Labo
Dar Band / Hesam Eslami / Iran / 2025 / Documentary / 15′
Lengua Muerta / José Jiménez / Chile / 2025 / Documentary / 25′
Murewa / Ché Scott-Heron Newton / United Kingdom, England / 2025 / Documentary / 15′
Death of a Fantastic Machine / Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck / Sweden / 2025 / Documentary / 17′
O Rio de Janeiro Continua Lindo / Felipe Casanova / Belgium, Brazil, Switzerland / 2025 / Experimental documentary / 24′
Souvenirs d’un ami / Olivier Smolders / Belgium / 2025 / Experimental documentary / 24′
Amateur in the Moon / Chunni Lin, Pang-Chuan Huang / Taïwan / 2025 / Experimental documentary / 22′
Équarrisseurs / Hippolyte Burkhart-Uhlen / France / 2025 / Experimental documentary / 10′
Their Eyes / Nicolas Gourault / France / 2025 / Documentary / 23′
Soixante-sept millisecondes / Fleuryfontaine / France / 2025 / Animated documentary / 15′
L’Mina / Randa Maroufi / France, Maroc / 2025 / Experimental documentary / 26′
I Want My People to Be Remembered / Hélène Giannecchini / France / 2025 / Experimental documentary / 27′