Competition
Each year, the Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke bestows three Cercle d’or awards and the Prix Coup de cœur du public presented by Radio-Canada.
FILMS IN COMPETITION
PRICES
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Each year, the Festival’s programming committee submits 5 dramatic features and 5 documentary features for competition. A panel rewards one film chosen in each category.
Prizes awarded:
– Cercle d’or Meilleur long métrage de fiction (Best Dramatic Feature award)
– Cercle d’or Meilleur long métrage documentaire (Best Documentary Feature award)
REGIONAL COMPETITION
Following a call for short films from the region, a panel selects short films from Estrie to be presented during the Festival. Among this selection, the panel awards the Prix Pierre-Javaux – Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie, and a grant.
Prizes awarded:
– Prix Pierre-Javaux – Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best short film of Estrie region)
PRIX COUP DE COEUR DU PUBLIC
The Prix Coup de cœur du public presented by Radio-Canada is voted on by festival goers. This award goes to the public’s favourite dramatic feature film.
AWARD:
– Prix Coup de cœur du public, presented by Radio-Canada
Winners of previous editions
2025 | Aïcha, by Mehdi M. Barsaoui.
2024 | Àma Gloria, by Marie Amachoukeli
2023 | Le Bleu du caftan, by Maryam Touzani
2022 | Freda, by Gessica Geneus
2021 | La nuit des rois, by Philippe Lacôte
2019 | Les Chatouilles, by Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer
2018 | Une famille syrienne, by Philippe Van Leeuw
2017 | Home Care, by Slávek Horák
2016 | Trois fenêtres et une pendaison, by Isa Qosja
2015 | Ex aequo : Cañada Morrison (Sciences Naturelles), by Matías Lucchesi et Jimmy P., by Arnaud Desplechin
2025 | Au boulot !, by Gilles Perret et François Ruffin
2024 | La Mère de tous les mensonges, by Asmae El Moudir
2023 | Au-delà du papier, by Oana Suteu Khintirian
2022 | Chère Audrey, by Jeremiah Hayes
2021 | Prière pour une mitaine perdue, by Jean-François Lesage
2019 | Amal, by Mohamed Siam
2018 | Des rêves sans étoiles, by Mehrdad Oskouei
2017 | A Flickering Truth, by Pietra Brettkelly
2016 | Les 18 fugitives, by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan
2015 | Le Sel de la Terre, by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
2025 | Marqueur de temps, by Marie-Lou Béland
2024 | P’tit Bouddha by Jean-Sébastien Dutil
2023 | Laura au printemps, by Pascale Rousseau
2022 | Rien ne se perd, by Noémie De Pas
2021 | Vers des champs inconnus, by Charles Duquet
2019 | Ponderosa, by Julien Grégoire Péloquin
2018 | Le dernier jour, by Louis-Charles Blais
2017 | 24H, by Marie-Lou Béland
2016 | Estrela d’Alma, by Fabio Dorea
2015 | La marche du funambule, by Mathieu Drouin
2014 | Ellie & Clara, by Farzin Farzaneh
2025 | Chiennes de faïence, by Marie-Hélène Panisset
2024 | Les filles d’Olfa, by Kaouther Ben Hania
2023 | Farador, by Édouard A. Tremblay
2022 | All My Puny Sorrows, by Michael McGowan
2019 | Capharnaüm, by Nadine Labaki
2018 | Une famille syrienne, by Philippe Van Leeuw
2017 | Fukushima, mon amour, by Doris Dörrie
2016 | The Second Mother, by Anna Muylaert
2015 | La famille Bélier, by Éric Lartigau
2014 | Casse-tête chinois, by Cédric Klapisch