Previous Editions

2025 : The Islands of Quebec

Golden Island

Valentina and the MUOStri by Francesca Scalisi

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Okurimono by Laurence Levesque

Audience Award

Geographies of solitude by Jacquelyn Mils

Jury Special Mention

Oblivion kills twice by Pierre Michel Jean

Fiction Short Film Prize

Pirateland by Stavros Petropoulos

Documentary Short Film Prize

Wouldn’t make it any other way by Zhou Hat

Audience Award Short Film

Once again by Giulia Di Maggio

2024 : The Portuguese Islands

Golden Island

44 days by Martine Delumeau

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Mo’Zar, my style by Sébastien Petretti

Audience Award

Mo’Zar, my style by Sébastien Petretti

Jury Special Mention

The Flats by Alessandra Celesia

Fiction Short Film Prize

Gaby the hills by Zoé Pelchat

Documentary Short Film Prize

We have to survive : Fukushima ! by Tomás Krupa

KuB Feature Film Special Mention : Domus de Janas by Myriam Celesia

KuB Short Film Special Mention : Summer 96 by Mathilde Bédouet

2023 : The Scottish Islands

Golden Island

Malavoune Tango by Jean-Marc Lacaze

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Austral by Benjamin Colaux

Audience Award

Kristos, the last child by Giulia Amati

Jury Special Mention

Kristos, the last child by Giulia Amati

Fiction Short Film Prize

Nothing holier than a dolphin by Isabella Margara

Documentary Short Film Prize

Ghosts of Mória by Michael Graversen and Florian Elabdi

2022: Corsica

Golden Island

140 km west of paradise by Céline Rouzet

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Ostrov, the lost island by Laurent Stoop and Svetlana Rodina

Audience Award

Ostrov, the lost island by Laurent Stoop and Svetlana Rodina

Jury's Favourite

Hydebank by Ross McClean

Fiction Short Film Prize

Den druknede – The Drowned by Luc Perez

Documentary Short Film Prize

Nātura, the painter and the invisible by Zoé Lamazou

2021: Views of islanders

Golden Island

Overseas by Sung-A Yoon

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Moshta by Talheh Daryanavard

Audience Award

Aya by Simon Coulibaly Gillard

Jury's Favourite

Aswang by Alyx Ayn Arumpac

Fiction Short Film Prize

Massacre by Maïté Sonnet

Documentary Short Film Prize

Zanaka, thus spoke Félix by Nantenaina Lova

2019: The Chilean islands

Golden Island

Freedom by Guillaume Massart

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Opposite of the Cinémakhia Collective

Audience Award

Zona Franca by Georgi Lazarevski

Jury's Favourite

Breakwater by Hélène Robert and Jérémy Perrin

Young Jury Prize – Fiction

The road to the end of the world by Lucile Prin & Anaïs Le Berre

Young Jury Prize – Documentary

Synti, Synti (The Scorched Island) by Marion Jhöaner

2018 : Sicily and its islands

Golden Island

Douvan Jou Ka Levé by Gessica Généus

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Youth struggle by Thierry de Peretti

Audience Award

Douvan Jou Ka Levé by Gessica Généus

Young Jury Prize – Fiction

Tangent by Julie Jouve & Rida Belghiat

Young Jury Prize – Documentary

Nowhere Line : Voices from Manus Island by Lukas Schrank

2017 : The Lesser Antilles

Golden Island

Be’ Jam Be and it will have no end by Cyprien Ponson & Caroline Parietti

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Ama-San by Cláudia Varejão

Audience Award

The Opposition by Hollie Fifer

Jury's Favourite

The Cities and the Exchanges by Luísa Homem & Pedro Pinhoi

Short Film Prize

A iucata by Michele Pennetta  and Kwassa Kwassa by Tuan Andrew Nguyen & Superflex

Young Jury Prize – Fiction

Nightmare Before Wedding by Fabienne Orain Chomaud

Young Jury Prize – Documentary

Kale Zombie by Yuri Ancarani

2016 : The Scandinavian Islands

Golden Island

Lampedusa in Winter by Jakob Brossmann

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Rendala le Mikea by Alain Rakotoarisoa

Audience Award

The island of the children of the exodus by Sarah Lebas and Cyril Thomas

Jury's Favourite

The Archipelago by Benjamin Huguet

Young Jury Prize

Blackboard by Môta Soa

2015: The Philippines

Golden Island

The tides in the lives of men by Loïc Jourdain

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Harana, the search for the lost art of serenade by Benito Bautista

Audience Award

Ikaria by Arnaud Gaillard

Jury's Favourite

The lost sea by Hung Chun-Hsiu

Best Fiction Short Film Prize

4 April 1968 by Myriam Gharbi

Best Documentary Short Film Prize

Tsika Jiaby by Laurent Pancaccini

2014: The Greek Islands

Golden Island

Ashes by Mélanie Pavy and Idrissa Guiro

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Ananahi, tomorrow… by Cécile Tessier-Gendreau

Audience Award

Ananahi, tomorrow… by Cécile Tessier-Gendreau

Jury's Favourite

Evaporating Borders by Iva Radivojevic

Special Jury Mention

Like stone lions at the entrance of the night by Olivier Zuchuat

Best Fiction Short Film Prize

To Live by Maharaki

Best Documentary Short Film Prize

The little palace of Aoria by Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos

2013: Ireland

Golden Island

The bookseller of Belfast by Alessandra Celesia

Lucien Kimitete Prize

The world after Fukushima by Kenichi Watanabe

Audience Award

With almost nothing… by Nantenaina Lova

Jury's Favourite

Wavumba by Jeroen van Velzen

Special Jury Mention

The forgotten colonisation by Damien Faure

Best Fiction Short Film Prize

The sentinels of Siberia by Matthieu Maillet

Best Documentary Short Film Prize

The girl with the Mechanical Maiden by Andrew Legge

2012 : The Arctic Islands

Golden Island

The Island by Auberi Edler

Lucien Kimitete Prize

The Opera at the End of the World by Marie-Clémence and César Paes

Audience Award

Heritage Fight by Eugénie Dumont

Special Jury Mention

A Drop of Freedom in the Ocean by Arnaud Hudelot

2011 : New Caledonia

Golden Island

The Pipe by Risteard Ó Domhnaill

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Chagos or the Memory of the Islands by Michel Daëron and The Image Reporter by Nicolas Jouvin

Audience Award

There once was an island by Briar March

2010 : The 10th Anniversary of Fifig

Golden Island

The Future is Today by Sandra Gomez

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Via, via! Move along! by Dorine Brun

Audience Award

The First Rasta by Hélène Lee

Special Mentions from the Jury

The Gentle Drift of a Child from Petit-Goâve by Pedro Ruiz

Madagascar, Travel Journal by Bastien Dubois

2009 : Sri Lanka

Golden Island

The Last Days of Shishmaref by Jan Louter

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Zétwal by Gilles Elie-di-Cosaque

Audience Award

Zétwal by Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque

Special Mention "Golden Island" from the Jury

Robinsons of Mantsinsaari by Victor Asliuk

Special Mention "Lucien Kimitete" from the Jury

The poet's salary by Eric Wittersheim

2008 : Iceland

Golden Island

Promised Paradise by Leonard Retel Helmrich

Second prize

The Modern Times Boutique by Alexandre Boutié

Lucien Kimitete Prize

As old as my tongue by Andy Jones

Audience Award

Fear na nOileán by Loïc Jourdain

2007 : Cuba

Golden Island

The sugar curtain by Camila Guzmán Urzúa

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Nisida, growing up in prison by Lara Rastelli

Audience Award

The sugar curtain by Camila Guzmán Urzúa

Special Jury Mention

José Manuel, the mule and the television by Elsa Cornevin

2006 : Madagascar

Golden Island

Sulphur by Florian Geyer

Silver Island

Outside the walls by Alexandre Leborgne and Pierre Barougier

Lucien Kimitete Prize

The good, the bad and the interesting by Nicolas Frank

Audience Award

The great little world of the River of Rocks by Alexandre Boutié

Jury's Favourite

The Tank Man by Arto Halonen

2005 : Cape Verde Islands

Golden Island

Nicolas Bouvier 22nd Hospital Street by Christoph Khün

Silver Island

Mahaleo by Cesar Paes and Raymond Rajaonarivelo

Lucien Kimitete Prize

On the other side of the water by Thierry Compain

Audience Award

Mahaleo by Cesar Paes and Raymond Rajaonarivelo

2004 : Haiti / Guadeloupe

Golden Island

The long trace by Mike Magidson

Silver Island

20 years in Molène, never a Molénan by Véronique Pondaven

Lucien Kimitete Prize

My grena’ and me by Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque

Audience Award

20 years in Molène, never a Molénan by Véronique Pondaven

Jury Special Mention

Life and Debt by Stéphanie Black

2003 : Réunion / Mauritius

Golden Island

Them and me by Stéphane Breton

Silver Island

The Ochoa Affair by Igor Léon

Bronze Island

The Lord of Ecrehou by Didier Laurent

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Elmer and the flower boat by Øyvind Sandberg

Audience Award

Black how? by Marie Binet

2002 : Saint Pierre and Miquelon / Newfoundland

Golden Island

The man of the rocks of Palawan by Christopher Hooke

Silver Island

Corsica, I was a clandestine activist by Daniel Peressini

Bronze Island

Island was a woman by Pascale Poirier

Lucien Kimitete Prize

Two gendarmes in the Pacific by Michel Kaptur

Audience Award

The lost memory of Easter Island by Thierry Ragobert

2001 : The Marquesas

Dundee Gold

A heart that beats by Patrice Gérard

Dundee Silver

Icelandic by Patrice Roturier

Dundee Bronze

Belle-Île-en-Mer, chronicle of a children's penal colony by Pierrick Guinard

Audience Award

Who sees Groix by Yves Le Gal

Special mention of the Jury

Tabu, last journey by Yves de Peretti