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 Rösner.
International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg
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
202 3International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg The Intrusion (O Estranho) Brazil/France 2023, Directors: Flora Dias, Juruna MallonAudience Award Lonely Oaks Germany 2023, Directors: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens MühlhoffOpen Eyes Youth Jury Award We Will Not Fade Away , Ukraine/France/Poland 2023, Director: Alisa KovalenkoSpecial 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 Resurrection Lesotho, Italy, South Africa 2019, Director: Lemohang Jeremiah MoseseAudience Award Mr. Bachmann and His Class Germany 2021, Director: Maria SpethOpen 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 ManiOpen Eyes Youth Jury Award PUSH , Sweden 2019, Director: Fredrik Gertten
2017 International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg Ta’ang , Hongkong/France 2016, Director: Wang BingSpecial Mention Communion , Poland 2016, Director: Anna ZameckaAudience Award The War Show , Denmark/Finnland/Syria 2016, Directors: Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas DalsgaardOpen Eyes Youth Jury Award Dil Leyla , Germany 2016, Director: Aslı ÖzarslanSpecial 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 LoznitsaAudience Award The Look of Silence , Denmark/UK/Indonesia/Norway/Finnland 2014, Director: Joshua OppenheimerOpen 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 DiazAudience Award No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka/Großbritannien 2013, Regie: Callum MacraeOpen Eyes Youth Jury Award Wasteland – So that No One Becomes Aware of It Germany 2013, Director: Anne KoduraSpecial 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 MarkovitchAudience 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 SpethSpecial Mention Cartonera , Germany 2010, Director: Maria Goinda
2009 International Human Rights Film Award Nuremberg Crime & Punishment , China 2007, Director: Zhao LiangAudience Award Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country , Denmark 2008, Director: Anders ØstergaardOpen 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 VargasSpecial Mention Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers , Cambodia/France 2007, Director: Rithy PanhAudience Award Sisters in Law , Cameroon 2005, Directors: Florence Ayisi, Kim LonginottoOpen 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 PradoSpecial Mention Mardi Gras: Made in China , USA 2004, Director: David RedmonAudience Award The Amateurs and the General , Germany 2004, Director: Helge CramerOpen 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 PanhSpecial 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 ReidSpecial 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 MambetyKisangani Diary , Austria/France 1997, Director: Hubert SauperMemoria , Italy 1997, Director: Ruggero Gabbai