Awards

NIHRFF awards three cash prices and features an international jury as well as the Open Eyes Youth Jury. The award statue and medallions are specially created and made by the Nuremberg artist Chrsitan Rösler.

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg

Audience Award

Open Eyes Youth Jury Award

In the main competition, films compete for the International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg.This award for outstanding filmic achievement in a human rights film will be awarded by an indepedent international jury. The award is endowed with EUR 2,500.

All films in the festival programme compete for our audience award, worth EUR 1,000.

A jury of students will chose the winner of the Open Eyes Youth Jury Award. They select the film best suited for human rights education in schools. The jury consists of Nuremberg high school students. The award is endowed with EUR 1,000 and is kindly sponsored by Stabilo International GmbH.

Previous Award Winners

2023

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg		The Intrusion (O Estranho) Brazil/France 2023, Directors: Flora Dias, Juruna Mallon
Audience Award		Lonely Oaks Germany 2023, Directors: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award		We Will Not Fade Away, Ukraine/France/Poland 2023, Director: Alisa Kovalenko
Special Mention		People Can Die Twice – Short Films, Germany 2019-2022, Director: Hamze Bytyci

2021

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	This Is Not A Burial, It’s A ResurrectionLesotho, Italy, South Africa 2019, Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Audience Award	Mr. Bachmann and His Class Germany 2021, Director: Maria Speth
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Who Owns My Village?, Germany 2021, Director: Christoph Eder

2019

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	The Silences (Los Silencios), Brazil/France/Columbia 2018, Director: Beatriz Seigner
Audience Award	A Thousand Girls Like Me, France/Afghanistan 2018, Director: Sahra Mani
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	PUSH , Sweden 2019, Director: Fredrik Gertten

2017

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	Ta’ang, Hongkong/France 2016, Director: Wang Bing
Special Mention	Communion, Poland 2016, Director: Anna Zamecka
Audience Award	The War Show, Denmark/Finnland/Syria 2016, Directors: Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Dil Leyla, Germany 2016, Director: Aslı Özarslan
Special Mention	For Ahkeem, USA 2017,Directors: Jeremy S. Levine, Landon van Soest

2015

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	Maidan, Ukraine/Netherlands 2014, Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Audience Award	The Look of Silence, Denmark/UK/Indonesia/Norway/Finnland 2014, Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Something Better To Come ,Denmark/Poland 2014, Director: Hanna Polak

2013

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	Norte, Philippines 2013, Director: Lav Diaz
Audience Award	No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka/Großbritannien 2013, Regie: Callum Macrae
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Wasteland – So that No One Becomes Aware of It Germany 2013, Director: Anne Kodura
Special Mention	Call Me Kuchu, USA 2012, Directors: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall

2011

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	The Prize, Mexico/France/Poland/Germany 2011, Director: Paula Markovitch
Audience Award	Son of Babylon, Egypt/France/Iraq/Netherlands/UK/United Arab Emirates/Palestine 2010, Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	9 Lives, Germany 2011, Director: Maria Speth
Special Mention	Cartonera, Germany 2010, Director: Maria Goinda

2009

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	Crime & Punishment, China 2007, Director: Zhao Liang
Audience Award	Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country, Denmark 2008, Director: Anders Østergaard
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country,Denmark 2008, Director: Anders Østergaard

2007

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	The Violin, Mexico 2005, Director: Francisco Vargas
Special Mention	Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, Cambodia/France 2007, Director: Rithy Panh
Audience Award	Sisters in Law, Cameroon 2005, Directors: Florence Ayisi, Kim Longinotto
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Favela Rising, Brazil/USA 2005, Directors: Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist

2005

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	Estamira, Brasilien 2004, Director: Marcos Prado
Special Mention	Mardi Gras: Made in China, USA 2004, Director: David Redmon
Audience Award	The Amateurs and the General, Germany 2004, Director: Helge Cramer
Open Eyes Youth Jury Award	Bunso: The Youngest, Philippines/UK 2004, Director: Ditsi Carolino

2003

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, Cambodia/France 2002, Director: Rithy Panh
Special Mention	Otzenrather Sprung, Germany 2001, Director: Jens Schanze

2001

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	Long Night’s Journey into Day, USA 2000, Directors: Deborah Hoffmann Frances Reid
Special Mention	Sud, France/Belgium 1999, Director: Chantal Akermann

1999

International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg	The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Senegal/France 1999, Director: Djibril Dio Mambety
	Kisangani Diary, Austria/France 1997, Director: Hubert Sauper
	Memoria, Italy 1997, Director: Ruggero Gabbai