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
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 |