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Awards 2018

Grand Prix

  Megeti, Africa’s lost wolf




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2017


A film by: Yann Sochaczewski
Produced by: Altayfilm GmbH& Doclights GmbH

This is the moving story of Megeti, a wolf from the very highlands of Ethiopia, who lost her pack and is left on her own. Under the sun, the rain, and in the cold night, she sets out to discover new territories. What will happen to him?

Amateur Award

  Forest litter, an unknown universe...




Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2017


A film by: Jean-Pierre Bertrand et Patrick Bodu
Produced by: Jean-Pierre Bertrand

Autumn is coming. Slowly, the soil is covered with dead leaves, life seems to fade with the first frosts ... But in the forest litter, invisible, tiny animals swarm, collembola, mites and other arthropods. And in this other dimension, appears a whole strange universe, with multiple landscapes, populated with a microfauna essential to the life of the forest.

Award of knowledge and discovery of the animal world

  Tasmania - Weird and wonderful




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2017


A film by: Matt Hamilton
Produced by: A production of Terra Mater Factual Studios Produced by Humble Bee Films in association with Black Devil Productions And BBC

Located in southern Australia, Tasmania is a world apart. Snowy mountains, temperate rainforests, sandy beaches and glacial lakes. There are black devils, white wallabies, platypus, echidnas, wombats, bandicoots, opossums ... and also the smallest penguins in the world, from the waters of Antarctica

Award of knowledge of the relationship between man and animal

  Papouasie, expédition au cœur d’un monde perdu




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2016


A film by: Christine Tournadre
Produced by: Mona Lisa Production

An exceptional scientific odyssey, discovering one of the last unexplored sanctuaries of the planet: the Lengguru Massif in West Papua. Endemic species, which are found nowhere else on the planet and on which everything remains to be discovered.

Special Jury Award

  œil pour œil




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2017


A film by: Miléna Mathèz-Loïc
Produced by: Mona Lisa Production

How do cats, hawks, dragonflies see? How to apprehend visions so different from ours? Through technology, and through experiments, meetings of artists and scientists, this film proposes to see the world through their eyes.

Award for protection of animal species

  Children of the sun, wild bees




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2017


A film by: Jan Haft
Produced by: Melanie Haft, Nautilusfilm

Honey is associated with bees. But there are more than 2,000 species in Europe, 20,000 species on the planet, most live their lives as workers, some deceive the other insects, others are even killers. Their habitats are varied. The world of wild bees is incredibly fascinating.

Special Award for best picture

  Wild Cornwall




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2016


A film by: Ian McCarthy
Produced by: Terra Mater Factual Studios

Intimate portrait of Cornwall. Let's follow in the course of a year the peregrine falcon, the kingfisher, the dolphin, blue sharks and basking sharks as well as the gray seal. All must try to survive the winter storms and the challenges of the breeding season on high rocky cliffs, sandy bays, estuaries and rivers.

Special Award for Best Screenplay

  Punda le zèbre




Duration: 51 min.
Year completed: 2016


A film by: Laurent Frapat
Produced by: Magneto Presse

This is the story of Punda, a young zebra, from his first steps to adulthood. By choosing to make this film in black and white, Laurent Frapat renews our vision of the fauna of Masai Mara. Most unusual aesthetic bias, which is shaking the map-postcard image of the savannah.

Special Award for Best Sound

  Wild Cornwall




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2016


A film by: Ian McCarthy
Produced by: Terra Mater Factual Studios

Intimate portrait of Cornwall. Let's follow in the course of a year the peregrine falcon, the kingfisher, the dolphin, blue sharks and basking sharks as well as the gray seal. All must try to survive the winter storms and the challenges of the breeding season on high rocky cliffs, sandy bays, estuaries and rivers.

Special Award for Best Editing

  The canary islands, life at the limit




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2016


A film by: Michael Schlamberger
Produced by: Rita Schlamberger

Few places on earth bring together such a variety of terrain and climates in such a small area. Each island is unique, populated by plants, insects and animals, transported there by the wind, the ocean and the people, and together they have all the characteristics of a small continent, these are the Canary Islands.