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Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival


Genre: Documentary

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China (GZ DOC) is now the only national documentary industrial event hosted by State Administration of Radio, Film and TV and Guangdong Provincial Government. GZ DOC endeavours to ‘bring China to the world and have the world know China’ and has been developing itself towards an international, professional and market-oriented festival.


Awards

2012 - Won - Make Hummus Not War - Best Documentary Film Editing

2011 - Won - Mrs Carey's Concert - Best Film for History & Culture

2011 - Won - Lost Years - Best Documentary on History & Culture

2007 - Won - 4 - Special Jury Award

2004 - Won - Japan Education - Special Award

2003 - Won - Sadness - Special Mention by the Jury

2003 - Won - Stolen Generations - Special Mention by the Jury

2003 - Won - My Mother India - Special Mention by the Jury

Screenings

2021 - Like The Wind

2018 - Mountain

2018 - Gurrumul

2018 - Island of the Hungry Ghosts

2018 - China Love

2016 - Ella

2016 - Marovo Carver: Carvings from the Solomon Islands

2016 - War That Changed the World, The: The Making of a New China

2013 - Nature's Greatest Secret: The Coral Triangle

2012 - Make Hummus Not War

2012 - Then the Wind Changed

2011 - We Are Illuminated

2010 - Addicted to Money

2010 - Lost Years – a Sea Turtle Odyssey

2010 - Burning Season, The

2009 - Love the Beast

2009 - Honeybee Blues

2009 - Intangible Asset Number 82

2009 - My Asian Heart

2009 - Paper Dolls - Australian Pinups of World War 2

2009 - Tanaka-san Will Not Do Callisthenics

2009 - Three Hams in a Can

2009 - New Beijing: Reinventing A City

2009 - Motherland

2008 - Chasing Birds

2008 - Fairweather Man

2008 - Secret Lives of Sleepwalkers, The

2008 - Burning Season, The

2003 - Sadness

2003 - Stolen Generations

2003 - My Mother India

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26/11/2025
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28/11/2025

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