{"id":219590,"date":"2025-12-07T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219590\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:15:11","slug":"2025-ida-documentary-awards-winners-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219590\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 IDA Documentary Awards Winners List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Tale of Silyan<\/a> clinched the top prize at Saturday\u2019s International Documentary Association<\/a> Awards<\/a> ceremony.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe National Geographic title, which follows a North Macedonian immigrant who forms a relationship with an injured white stork as he adjusts to life in a new country, received the best feature documentary award. The film also won the best cinematography prize for Jean Dakar, who has previously worked on the feature The Walk and the television series Radius.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, directed by Oscar-nominated Honeyland director Tamara Kotevska, previously won the Cinema and Arts award at the Venice Film Festival. North Macedonia has selected the title as its best international feature Oscar\u00a0submission.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther winners at Saturday\u2019s ceremony included Brittany Shyne, who won the best director prize for her portrait of Black farmers, Seeds<\/a>. Apocalypse in the Tropics<\/a>, an examination of the role that evangelism has played in Brazilian politics, received two prizes, for best production and best writing.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther winners included Looking for a Donkey (best short documentary), WTO\/99 (best editing),
The Sorcerer: Julio Zachrisson (best original score) and Only on Earth (best sound design). 99 won best curated series, Citizen Nation was awarded best episodic series and One to One: John & Yoko won best music documentary.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat a day, what a life out of the U.K.\u2019s National Film and Television School, earned the best student documentary prize. Deaf President Now! won the ABC News Videosource Award and River of Grass was awarded the Pare Lorentz Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2025 IDA Awards took place over three days but concluded with the ceremony on early Saturday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in downtown L.A. The ceremony was hosted by former Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the full list of winners below.<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Tale of Silyan<\/a> (Republic of North Macedonia, United States, United Kingdom)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tLooking for a Donkey (Mexico, Venezuela)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST DIRECTOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBrittany Shyne, Seeds (United States)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tJean Dakar, <\/strong>The Tale of Silyan (Republic of North Macedonia, United States, United Kingdom)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST EDITING<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAlex Megaro, Ian Bell, WTO\/99 (United States)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Filiatre, <\/strong>The Sorcerer: Julio Zachrisson (Panama)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST PRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAlessandra Orofino, Petra Costa, Apocalypse in the Tropics (United States)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST SOUND DESIGN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThomas Perez-Pape, Only on Earth (Denmark, Spain)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST WRITING<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tPetra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, Nels Bangerter, David Barker, Tina Baz, Apocalypse in the Tropics (United States)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST CURATED SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t99 (France)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST EPISODIC SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tCitizen Nation (United States)<\/p>\n

\n\tBEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOne to One: John & Yoko (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n

\n\tDAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWhat a day, what a life (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n

\n\tABC NEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tDeaf President Now! (United States)<\/p>\n

\n\tPARE LORENTZ AWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tRiver of Grass (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tale of Silyan clinched the top prize at Saturday\u2019s International Documentary Association Awards ceremony. The National Geographic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[4648,18,117,19,105454,17,327,112329],"class_list":{"0":"post-219590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-international-documentary-association","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-the-tale-of-silyan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115676349924502223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}