Biarritz Film Festival

Awards

• HUG for Best Feature
• Jury Award for Best Feature
• Best Actress
• Best Actor
• Feature Film Audience Award in collaboration with Air France
• Prize of the French Union of Film Critics
• HUG for Documentary, Latin Union Festival of Biarritz
• Audience Award for Best Documentary Film
• HUG for Best Short film
• Special Mentions of the Short Film Jury
• Prizes Shorts TV Numéricâble

Award winners

2025

• HUG Award for Best Film: La Hija Cóndor by Álvaro Olmos Torrico
• Special Jury Prize: Bajo el Mismo Sol by Ulises Porra
• Best Performance: Ubeimar Rios for A Poet
• Jury Coup de Coeur: The Best Mother in the World by Anna Muylaert
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Bajo el Mismo Sol by Ulises Porra
• Biarritz Award: Bajo el Mismo Sol by Ulises Porra
• Audience Award: Belén by Dolores Fonzi

• Best Documentary Film: Toroboro: El Nombre de las Plantas by Manolo Sarmiento
• Special Mention: Identidad by Florencia Santucho and Rodrigo Vazquez-Salessi
• IHEAL Student Jury Award: Si Vas para Chile by Amilcar Infante and Sebastián González
• Audience Award: Runa Simi by Augusto Zegarra

• Best Short Film: Domingo Familiar by Gerardo del Razo
• Special Mention:Buscando un Burro by Juan Vicente Manrique
• Queer Look Award: Presépio by Felipe Bibian

2024

• HUG Award for Best Film: Baby by Marcelo Caetano
• Special Jury Prize: ' by Celina Murga
• Best Performance: Paulina García and Jenny Navarette for Beloved Tropic by Ana Endara
• Jury Coup de Coeur: Through Rocks and Clouds by Franco García Becerra
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Zafari by Mariana Rondón
• Biarritz Award: Senhoritas by Mykaela Plotkin
• Audience Award: Beloved Tropic by Ana Endara

• Best Short Film: Mala Facha by Ilén Juambeltz
• Special Mention: Utopia Muda'' by Julio Matos

2023

• HUG Award for Best Film: Power Alley by Lillah Halla
• Special Jury Prize: Un Pájaro Azul by Ariel Rotter
• Best Performance: Alfonso Tort for Un Pájaro Azul
• Jury Coup de Coeur: The Punishment by Matías Bize
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: The Settlers by Felipe Gálvez Haberle
• Biarritz Award: The Punishment by Matías Bize
• Audience Award: The Punishment by Matías Bize

• Best Documentary Film: Adieu Sauvage by Serfio Guataquira Sarmiento
• Special Mention: A Invenção do Outro by Bruno Jorge and Nosotras by Emilce Quevedo Díaz
• IHEAL Student Jury Award: El Juicio by Ulises de la Orden
• Audience Award: The Echo by Tatiana Huezo

• Best Short Film: Takanakuy by Gustavo Bockos
• Special Mention: Antes de Madrid by Nicolás Botana and Ilén Juambeltz )

• BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: El Tiempo Después by Fede Pintos
• BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Bajo de Agua by Itzel Sacnité Garcia
• Crystal Publishing Award: Siempre Vuelven by Sergio de León
• L'Alhambra Studios Award: La Luz de Masao Nakagawa by Hideki Nakazaki

2022

• HUG Award for Best Film: The Kings of the World by Laura Mora
• Special Jury Prize: ' by
• Jury Coup de Coeur: Daniela Marín for her performance in I Have Electric Dreams
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Daughter of Rage by Laura Baumeister
• Biarritz Award: Daughter of Rage by Laura Baumeister
• Audience Award: 1976 by Manuela Martelli

• Best Short Film: ' by Leonardo Martinelli
• Special Mention: La Baláhna by Xóchitl Enríquez Mendoza

• BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Cuando Todos se Vayan by Felipe Rodríguez Cerda
• BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Todo Esto Eran Mangas by Daniela Abad
• CNC Development Assistance Grant Recipient: Los Pájaros by Fabián Hernández
• Crystal Publishing Award: by Leonardo Martinelli
• Alhambra Studios Award: La Primavera de los Anacoretas by Andrés Kaiser
• Lily Post Prod-Etalonage Award: Esencia Habana by Luis Ernesto Doñas

2021

• HUG Award for Best Film: ' by
• Special Jury Prize: Candela by Andrés Farías Cintrón
• Jury Special Mention for Best Performance: and for Una Película Sobre Parejas
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Una Película Sobre Parejas by and
• Audience Award: ' by Alfredo Arias and Ignacio Masllorens

• Best Documentary Film: Qué Será del Verano by Ignacio Ceroi
• Special Mention: Vaychiletik by Juan Javier Pérez
• IHEAL Student Jury Award: Edna by Eryk Rocha
• Audience Award: Cantos de Represión by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner

• Best Short Film: Entre Ellas by Roxane Florin
• Special Mention: La Luz de Masao Nakagawa by Hideki Nakazaki

• BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Bea VII by Natalia Garayalde
• BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Godspeed Satan by José Pablo Escamilla
• Jury Special Mention: What's in the Air by and Rodrigo Plá
• CNC Development Assistance Grant Recipient: On Top of the Cliff by Enrica Pérez

2020

• HUG Award for Best Film: Ofrenda by Juan María Mónaco
• Special Jury Prize: Fortitude by Jorge Thielen Armand
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine by Alex Piperno
• Audience Award: Tragic Jungle by Yulene Olaizola

• Best Documentary Film: El Otro by Francisco Bermejo
• IHEAL Student Jury Award: O Índio Cor de Rosa Contra a Fera Invisível by Tiago Carvalho
• Audience Award: O Índio Cor de Rosa Contra a Fera Invisível by Tiago Carvalho

• Best Short Film: Teoría Social Numérica by Paola Michaels

• BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Es Mentira Que Debes Obedecer by Bruno Santamaría
• BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: La Casa del Perro by
• CNC Development Assistance Grant Recipient: Morir de Pie by María Paz González

2019

• HUG Award for Best Film: The Fever by Maya Da-Rin
• Special Jury Prize: The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão by Karim Aïnouz
• Special Mention: Song Without a Name by Melina León
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão by Karim Aïnouz
• * Special Mention: ' by Ana García Blaya
• Audience Award: La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante

• Best Documentary Film: ' by Ezequiel Yanco
• Audience Award: La Búsqueda by Daniel Lagares and Mariano Agudo

• Best Short Film: O Mistério da Carne by Rafaela Camelo
• Special Mention: Hogar by Gerardo Minutti

• BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Ceci Bon by Rodrigo John
• BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Sangue Do Meu Sangue by Rafaela Camelo

2018

• HUG Award for Best Film: Birds of Passage by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• Special Jury Prize: La Flor by Mariano Llinás
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Unremember by
• Audience Award: A Twelve-Year Night by Álvaro Brechner

• Best Documentary Film: Tranny Fag by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman
• Special Mention: Modelo Estéreo by Colectivo Mario Grande
• Audience Award: Locura al Aire by Alicia Cano and Leticia Cuba

• Best Short Film: O Órfãoby Carolina Markowicz
• Special Mention: El Verano del León Eléctrico by Diego Céspedes

• Lizières Award: Un Personaje Volador by The Landscapes That You Seek by Juanita Onzaga

2017

• HUG Award for Best Film: The Family by Gustavo Rondón Córdova
• Special Jury Prize: Los Perros by Marcela Said
• Special Mention: Good Manners by Juliana Rojas and
• Best Actress: Gabriela Ramos for Last Days in Havana
• Best Actor: Daniel Aráoz for A Sort of Family
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: La Soledad by Jorge Thielen Armand
• Audience Award: Last Days in Havana by Fernando Pérez

• Best Short Film: Centauro de Nicolas Suarez
• Special Mention: Damiana by Andrés Ramírez Pulido
• TV5 Monde Award for Best Short Film: Selva by Sofia Quiros Ubeda

• Best Documentary Film: Cine São Paulo by Ricardo Martensen and Felipe Tomazelli
• Special Mention: Chavela by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi
• Audience Award: Chavela by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi

• Lizières Award: A Dupla Naturaleza da Luz by Marcia Mansur and Marina Thomé

2016

• HUG Award for Best Film: Where I Grow Old by Marilia Rocha
• Special Jury Prize: Aquarius by Kleber Mendonça Filho )
• Best Actress: Sônia Braga for Aquarius
• Best Actor: Alejandro Sieveking for The Winter
• Audience Award: El Amparo by
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: The Winter by Emiliano Torres

• HUG Award for Best Short Film: El Edén by Andrés Ramírez Pulido
• Special Mention: Rosinha by Gui Campos
• TV5 Monde Award: Caminho dos gigantes by Alois Di Leo

• Lizières Award: El Edén by Andrés Ramírez Pulido

• HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: Nueva Venecia by Emiliano Mazza de Luca
• Special Mentions: Damiana Kryygi by and Yo No Soy de Aquí by Maite Alberdi
• Audience Award: Exil-Sur-Scène by Jean-Michel Rodrigo and Marina Paugan

2015

• HUG Award for Best Film: Ixcanul by Jayro Bustamante
• Special Jury Prize: A Monster with a Thousand Heads by Rodrigo Plá
• Best Actress: Dolores Fonzi for Paulina
• Best Actor: Luis Silva for From Afar
• Audience Award: The Perfect Dictatorship by Luis Estrada
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: Ixcanul by Jayro Bustamante

• HUG Award for Best Short Film: O Bom Comportamento by Eva Randolph
• Special Mention: Domingo by Raúl López Echeverría
• TV5 Monde Award: Las Cosas Simples by Álvaro Anguita
• Young Jury Award for Best Short Film: Echo Chamber by Guillermo Moncayo

• Lizières Award: En la Piel del Otro by Natalia Bruschtein

• HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: Invasion by Abner Benaim
• Audience Award: La Once by Maite Alberdi

2014

• HUG Award for Best Film: Return to Ithaca by Laurent Cantet
• Special Jury Prize: Las Búsquedas by José Luis Valle
• Best Actress: Erica Rivas for Wild Tales
• Best Actor: Héctor Noguera and Néstor Guzzini for Mr. Kaplan
• Audience Award: Wild Tales by Damián Szifron
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: ' by Juan Martín Hsu

2013

• HUG Award for Best Film: Workers by José Luis Valle
• Prix du Jury: El Tío by
• Best Actress: The female ensemble of The Amazing Catfish
• Best Actor: Lisandro Rodríguez for '
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said
• Audience Award: 7 Boxes by Juan Carlos Maneglia and

• HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: El Impenetrable by Daniele Incalcaterra
• Special Mention: Madera by Daniel Kvitko
• Audience Award: Ensayo de una Nación'' by Alexis Roitman

2012

• HUG Award for Best Film: De Martes a Martes by Gustavo Triviño
• Special Jury Prize: Juan of the Dead by Alejandro Brugués
• Best Actress: Roxana Blanco for The Delay
• Best Actor: Luis Tosar for Operation E
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: No by Pablo Larraín
• Audience Award: ' by Andrés Burgos Vallejo

• HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: El Etnógrafo by Ulises Rosell
• Special Mention: Uno al Otro by Milena Almira
• Audience Award: La Máquina Loca'' by

2011

• HUG Award for Best Film: Las Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli
• Special Jury Prize: Porfirio by Alejandro Landes
• Best Actress: Paula Galinelli Hertzog for The Prize
• Best Actor: Porfirio Ramirez for Porfirio
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: The Prize by Paula Markovitch
• Audience Award: Ticket to Paradise by Gerardo Chijona

• HUG Award for Best Short Film: Coral by Ignacio Chaneton
• Special Mention: Luminaris by
• Shorts TV Numericable Award: Café con leche by Mauricio Leiva Cock

• HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: Abuelos by Carla Valencia Davila
• Special Mention: by Tatiana Huezo
• Audience Award: El Tren de las Moscas by Nieves Prieto Tassier and Fernando Lopes Castillo

2010

• HUG Award for Best Film: Revolución by Amat Escalante, Carlos Reygadas, Diego Luna, Fernando Eimbcke, Gael García Bernal, Gerardo Naranjo, Mariana Chenillo, Patricia Riggen, Rodrigo García and Rodrigo Plá
• Special Jury Prize: ' by Juan Carlos Valdivia
• Best Actress: Nanda Costa, and Kika Farias for ' by Sandra Werneck
• Best Actor: Osmar Nuñez for The Invisible Eye
• Audience Award: ' by Manaira Carneiro, Wagner Novais, Rodrigo Felha, Cacau Amaral, Luciano Vidigal, Cadu Barcelos and Luciana Bezerra

• HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: ' by
• Audience Award: Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán

2009

• HUG Award for Best Film: Nora's Will by Mariana Chenillo
• Special Jury Prize: The Paranoids by
• Best Actress: Catalina Saavedra for The Maid
• Best Actor: Daniel Hendler for The Paranoids
• French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award: The Maid by Sebastian Silva
• Audience Award: Horn of Plenty by Juan Carlos Tabio
• European Young Jury Award: The Maid by Sebastian Silva

• HUG Award for Best Short Film: Distancias by Matias Lucchesi
• Special Mention: El hombre muerto by Julian Goyoaga
• European Young Jury Award: Espalhadas pelo Ar by
• Numéricable Award: ' by Gaston Rothschild

• Biarritz Young Directors Award: Días Robados'' by

2008

• HUG Award for Best Film: by Josué Méndez
• Special Jury Prize: Estômago by
• Best Performance : Aline Kuppenheim, Manuela Martelli and Roberto Farias for The Good Life
• Audience Award: Insignificant Things by Andrea Martínez Crowther
• European Young Jury Award: La Rabia by Albertina Carri

• HUG Award for Best Short Film: El Deseo by Marie Benito
• Special Mention: Ofelia by Humberto Gutierrez Montero
• European Young Jury Award: Ahendu nde sapukai by Pablo Lamar
• ENS Louis Lumière School Award: Ahendu nde sapukai by Pablo Lamar
• Numéricable Award: Cuilos by Paz Fábrega

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: La Sombra de Don Roberto by Juan Diego Spoerer and Hakan Enström
• Special Mention: ' by Luciana Burlamaqui
• Audience Award: ' by Luciana Burlamaqui
• Voyage Award: ' by Sebastián Bednarik

• Biarritz Young Directors Award: Thursday Till Sunday'' by Dominga Sotomayor

2007

• HUG Award for Best Film: Postcards from Leningrad by Mariana Rondón
• Special Jury Prize: La Noche de los Inocentes by Arturo Sotto
• Best Performance: Ana Carabajal and Luisa Nuñez for Por Sus Propios Ojos
• Audience Award: ' by Esteban Schroeder
• European Young Jury Award: La Sangre Iluminada by Iván Avila Dueñas

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: Secretos de Lucha by Maiana Bidegain
• Special Mention: ' by

• Biarritz Young Directors Award: 1994 by Jean-Marc Rousseau

2006

• HUG Award for Best Film: Forbidden to Forbid by
• Special Jury Prize: In the Pit by Juan Carlos Rulfo
• Best Actress: for Black Butterfly
• Best Actor: for '
• Audience Award: On Probation by Damian Szifron
• European Young Jury Award: The Greatest Love of All by Carlos Diegues

• Biarritz Young Directors Award: Hombre de Pieza'' by Celso R. García

2005

• HUG Award for Best Film: Tatuado by Eduardo Raspo
• Special Jury Prize: Noticias Lejanas by
• Best Actress: Roxana Blanco for Alma Mater
• Best Actor: Julio Jung for '
• Audience Award: Maroa by Solveig Hoogestejin

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: ' by

• HUG Award for Best Short Film: El Pasajero by Matias Meyer and El Tesoro de los Caracoles by Cristián Jiménez
• ENS Louis Lumière School Award: La Vida y Obra de John H by Lourdes Rebora
• Cinécourts by Cinécinema Award: El Tesoro de los Caracoles by Cristián Jiménez

2004

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: Whisky Romeo Zulu by Enrique Piñeyro
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: China Zorrilla for Conversations with Mother
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Roque Valero for Punto y Raya
• * Special Mention: Leonardo Ramírez for ' by
• France Bleu Audience Award: Conversations with Mother by Santiago Carlos Oves

• Cinécourt by Cinecinema Award: Los elefantes nunca olvidan'' by Lorenzo Vigas

2003

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: ' by Francisco Lombardi
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Paulina Gálvez for '
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: for Amar Te Duele
• Special Mention: Un Titan en el Ring by
• France Bleu Audience Award: Amar Te Duele by Fernando Sariñana

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: Estadio Nacional by Carmen Luz Parot

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Como se morre no cinema by Luelane Loiola Corrêa

2002

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: Como el Gato y el Ratón by
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Beatriz Thibaudin for Tan de Repente
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Julio Chávez for Un Oso Rojo
• Special Mention: Madame Satã by Karim Aïnouz
• France Bleu Audience Award: Valentín by Alejandro Agresti

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: El Último Vagón by

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: The Island of the Lost Children by Florence Jaugey

2001

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: Brainstorm by Laís Bodanzky
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Tamara Acosta and Loreto Moya for La Fiebre del Loco
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls for Nine Queens
• Special Mention: To the Left of the Father by Luis Fernando Cavalho
• France Bleu Audience Award: Una Casa con Vista al Mar by

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: O Branco by Angela Pires and

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: by Sérgio Machado
• Special Mention: Latido Latino by and José P. Estepa

2000

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: ' by
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Béatrice Agenin for Amelia
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Jean-Pierre Noher for '
• France Bleu Audience Award: Waiting for the Messiah by Daniel Burman

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Nostalgia en la Mesa 8 by Andrés Muschietti

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: The Day that You Love Me by Florence Jaugey

1999

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: ' by
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Flora Martínez for '
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Ulises Dumont for '
• France Bleu Audience Award: ' by

• Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: Fé by Ricardo Dias

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Periférico by

1998

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: ' by Eliane Caffé
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Angela Correa for The Cloud
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Eduardo Pavlovsky for The Cloud
• France Bleu Audience Award: Plaza de Almas by Fernando Díaz

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: En es Espejo del Cielo'' by Carlos Salces

1997

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: ' by Román Chalbaud
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Leandra Leal for The Oyster and the Wind
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Eusebio Poncela for Martín (Hache)
• France Bleu Audience Award: Eva Perón: The True Story by

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Ratas'' by Dieguillo Fernández and Diego Sabanés

1996

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: Deep Crimson by Arturo Ripstein
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Margarita Rosa de Francisco for Ilona Arrives with the Rain
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Daniel Alvarado for '
• Special Mention: ' by Tata Amaral

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Novia Mia by Rodrigo Plá

1995

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: Madagascar by Fernando Pérez
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actress: Zaida Castellanos for Madagascar
• Soleil d'Or for Best Actor: Ulises Dumont for '
• Special Mention: ' by
• South-West Audience Award: Guantanamera by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Guarisove by Bruno Stagnaro

1994

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: Sciario by José Ramón Novoa

• Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Calle 22 by Mariana Rondón

1993

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: The Strategy of the Snail by Sergio Cabrera

1992

• Soleil d'Or for Best Film: The Frontier by Ricardo Larraín