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Brave, cinematic, beautiful, warm, urgent. Read about the winning documentaries here.

Eight strong films are in the running for a cash prize of €3,000 in Tempo Documentary Festival's main international competition.

Tempo Documentary Award is one of Sweden’s largest documentary competitions. Eight Swedish films compete for a cash prize of 100,000 SEK.

The staged, the faked, the synthetic, the AI-generated, the dramatic, the polished, the entirely made up. In this year's edition of Tempo Documentary Festival we will deep dive in the fictional and explore how different forms of fiction create perspectives on reality and shift the boundaries for documentary storytelling.

A master of balancing the documentary and the fictional is this year's guest of honor, the Slovakian director Péter Kerekes. It's funny, it's ludicrous, it's brutal, terrible and straight to the point.

Tempo Documentary Festival is undergoing a partial leadership change as Ida Thorén has stepped down from her role as festival director. As part of an organizational review, Cecilia Björk will step in as interim festival director until the next edition of the festival.