Sununga Award 

award for an innovative film that changes the way we see things.

BANGLA SURF GIRLS, direction by Elizabeth Costa, script and production by Lalita Krishna

It's an authentic love story for surfing set in Bangladesh, a country not usually associated with the surfing world. The film transports us into the lives of the protagonists and moves us with the resistance and strength they have to survive in a completely oppressive reality.

The photography and editing are very sensitive and fluid and the intimacy that the director has built with her characters is unique. For these reasons, Bangla Surf Girls takes the Sununga Award.

Vermelhinha Award

award for a more radical film, which takes us to the limit

When we think of radical surfing, the references are almost always the same: an athlete dropping Pipeline, Jaws or something like that. But radical is also overcoming one's limits.

And the best-selling film for the Vermelinha Award shows us the effort of a team of French para-athletes to be at sea, surfing, and competing among the best in the world.

A round of applause for BELIEVE, a film by Michel Garcia.

Itamambuca Award

award for a complete film, with a good narrative, well done in all its aspects.

WATERMAN, by Isaac Halasima, fits all these requirements perfectly. It is a film with a touching character, a story with a beginning, middle and end and a formal metric: strong testimonies, impeccable iconographic research and dramaturgy re-enactments.

But Waterman moves mainly for its content, as it courageously portrays the racism faced by the Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. Surfer, swimmer, rower, 5-time Olympic medalist, fisherman, lifeguard, Duke redefined the real concept of the word waterman.

Perequê Açu Award 

For first-time directors, they are in their first or second film. The jury defined two awards in this category.

The first award-winning film is A LA MAR, by Bruno Monteferri, a Peruvian documentary that shows the conflicts of interest and the ways of using the sea – public authorities, fishermen, surfers, real estate speculation. And how the mobilization of surfers culminated in something unprecedented: a law that guarantees the preservation of waves.

 The second film bets on a more experimental language to tell surfing stories. He has the poetic look of two directors who throw themselves into the sea in search of a path. FÉ SALGADA, by Victoria Zolli and Bia Pinho. 

Praia Grande Award

Public Choice

SKIMBOARD NAZARÉ, directed by Loic Wirth