September 29, 2015

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival – Winners 2015


We present the winners of the 7th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival that took place from the 17th to the 24th of September.

This annual festival is organized jointly by the cities of Goyung and Paju, from the Gyeonggi Province, in a buffer zone called the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The festival aims to present documentaries with the theme of peace, reconciliation, coexistence and to promote the documentary genre as a means of communication.

International Competition
White Goose Award
Homeland – Abbas Fahdel
Iraq, France | 2015 – 334 minutes

Special Jury Award
28 Nights and a Poem
Akram Zaatari – Lebanon, France | 2015 – 105 minutes


Asian Competition
Asian Perspective Award
-1287 – Ian Thomas Ash
Japan | 2014 – 70 minutes

Korean Competition
Best Korean Documentary Award
The Letter – Lee Hyun-jun
South Korea | 2014 – 16 minutes


Korean Special Jury Award
Troublers – Lee Young
South Korea | 2015 – 98 minutes

Brave New Docs Award
Thirty-four, On the Road – Kim Byung-chul, Lee Sun-hee
South Korea | 2015 – 84 minutes


Youth Competition
Best Youth Documentary Award
We Didn´t Start the Fire – Hong Da-ye
South Korea | 2014 - 12 minutes


Excellence Youth Documentary Award
599.4 Km – Kim Myo-in
South Korea | 2015 - 6 minutes

Audience Award
Red Mari2 – Kyung Soon
South Korea | 2015 - 120 minutes

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