DocsBarcelona Pro Awards 2026

“Crossed” wins the 3Cat Award for Best Project, the highest-prize award from DocsBarcelona Pro (15,000 euros), and “My Sister Gaza” wins the prizes awarded by ARTE (10,000 euros) and Al Jazeera (10,000 euros)

DocsBarcelona Pro, the non-fiction industry platform of DocsBarcelona, announced this Wednesday evening the winning development projects of this year’s edition during an awards ceremony held at Casa Montjuïc in Barcelona.

With these 15 awards, worth a total of €66,000, recognizes talent, creativity and international projection within the industry. The co-artistic director of DocsBarcelona and head of DocsBarcelona Pro, Èric Motjer , highlighted that “This year’s list of winners brings together a selection of courageous authorial perspectives, which take narrative and aesthetic risks, and which have found the complicity of international professionals here to project them everywhere. This is one of the main objectives of DocsBarcelona Pro, and the quality of the selected projects together with the commitment of our collaborators have allowed us to achieve this. “.

DocsBarcelona Pro Awards:

DocsBarcelona Award for Best Project
No Friend but the Mountains

DocsBarcelona Best New Tech Pitch Project Award
Miss Annie

3Cat Co-production Award for Best Forum Project
Crossed

European Talent Development Award ARTE
My Sister Gaza

Al Jazeera Documentary Co-production Award for Best Forum Project
My Sister Gaza

Stories that Travel Award
State of Immortality

Music Library Award
About a Boy and the Building / Four Winters in Edificio Cuba

Antaviana Best Pitch Award
Ever and the Sharks

Women Make Movies Award
Crossed , Into the mist (exaequo)

FipaDoc Award
Words we never say

East Doc Platform Award
Diary of Experiences

MIA DOC Award
Crossed

Forum San Sebastian Lau Haizetara Award
State of Immortality

DOCXS Consultancy Award
Parallel Space

Cuban International Film and Television School Award (EICTV)
Ruda

DocsBarcelona Pro brings to an end four full days of professional activities, a circuit that has connected 62 independent projects from 30 countries and brought together more than 700 accredited professionals. from all over the world, consolidating itself as one of the main radars for European and global documentary talent, with almost three decades of history. DocsBarcelona Pro 2027 will be held from May 3 to 7 , as part of the 30th anniversary of DocsBarcelona.

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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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