Baltic Sea Docs Winners

IGA: The project The Shepherd’s Son (Azerbaijan) directed by Nurlan Hasanli received the Baltic Sea Docs Award at the 30th edition of Baltic Sea Docs, held in Riga.

A total of 26 projects were showcased and, for the first time, ARTE presented an award.

The forum was attended by film sales agents, representatives of international TV broadcasters, festivals, and producers from across Europe and other parts of the world.

Baltic Sea Docs 2026 was held 6–11 September 2026, organised by the National Film Centre of Latvia with support from Creative Europe – MEDIA, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.

WINNERS:

Baltic Sea Docs Award:The Shepherd’s Son (Azerbaijan)
Directed by Nurlan Hasanli

ARTE European Talent Development Award:Two of Us (Lithuania)
Directed by Jūratė Samulionytė

BBposthouse Award
Going Underground (Latvia, Estonia, Finland)
Directed by Armands Začs
Produced by Mistrus Media
Coproduced by Allfilm, Making Movies

Sheffield DocFest Award:
Lunatics (Finland)
Directed by Saila Kivelä

Movies That Matter Award:Two of Us (Lithuania)
Directed by Jūratė Samulionytė

IDFA & Baltic Sea Docs Collaboration Award
Borderline (Estonia, Finland)
Directed by Ville Seppänen, Johan Huimerind
Produced by DOKFILM

East Doc Platform Award:
35 Letters (Poland)
Directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz

TV3 Group Award:I See No Death (Ukraine, Latvia)
Directed by Yevhen Titarenko
Produced by Braha Production Company, Ego Media

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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