2026

Each of the Doc Alliance festivals has nominated one feature-length and one short film, both eligible for two respective feature and short prizes. This year’s jury members are:

Wouter Jansen, CEO Square Eyes (sales and distribution)
Maria Palacios Cruz, film curator, writer and educator, director of Open City Documentary Festival in London
Mark Peranson, author, curator, filmmaker and editor of the film magazine Cinema Scope

Winner
Nominations

Winner

winner Visions du Réel

The Case Against Space

Graeme Arnfield
UK/France, 73 min

Nominations (full-length films)

In the days leading up to Christmas 1973 three astronauts enacted the first labour strike in outer space. Reconstructed from transcripts in claustrophobic close-up via CCTV system, The Case Against Space is a real time investigation, dramatically collapsing embodied historical reenactment and speculative essayistic research – forming a collective testimony on struggle amongst the stars, of fights past, present and those yet to come.

winner FIDMarseille

Some of You Fucked Eva

Lilith Grasmug
France, 2025, 15 min

Nominations (short films)

From a montage of visual archives gathered from YouTube emerges the social and cultural landscape of an American high school, along with a story centred on Eva, a typical cheerleader at the heart of a strange collective episode.