True Story Festival

Juan José Martínez d'Aubuisson

USA / 2023-09-13

TRUE STORY AWARD – 3rd Prize

We, The Massacred

Inside the Taliban's Luxury Hotel

El Salvador / 2023-09-14

Honorable Mentions

Andreas Babst

Deutsch English

Switzerland / 2023-09-16

الهه محمدی

A Country’s Grief

فارسی English

Iran / 2022-09-18

Facundo Fernández Barrio y Miriam Lewin

The “Happiest Days” of Argentina’s Repressors

Nemanja Rujević, Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams and Tristen Taylor

Argentina / 2023-08-30

Parrots as valuable as cocaine

Mohammad Bassiki, Ali Ali Brahim, Kaamel Ahmad

Serbia / 2023-02-09

Nominees 2024

Syrian refugees’ homes in the hands of fraudsters linked to intelligence services

أخبار الآن - أسعد حسين - هدى زكريا - وسيم عرابي

Lebanon / 2023-04-24

100, 000 barrels of petrol from Iraq to China daily in exchange for unsafe schools!

The medicalisation of female circumcision

UAE / 2023-08-23

سارة جمال

The Silent Storm: Omicron Comes to the Northern Villages

Egypt / 2023-09-26

姚胤米

China / 2022-12-29

lan Luo

Ma Yuan in the Castle

Nineteen Painful Portraits of a Young Worker

China / 2023-03-22

吴呈杰

Rosa Furneaux, Laura Margottini

China / 2023-05-04

The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying.

United Kingdom / 2023-01-25

Jack Losh

The Rescuers

TRUE STORY AWARD – 2nd Prize

United Kingdom / 2023-02-18

Hannah Dreier

The Kids on the Night Shift

Redacción Ecuador Chequea, La Barra Espaciadora

USA / 2023-09-13

Illegal Gold Creates A Parallel Economy in Podocarpus National Park

Facundo Fernández Barrio y Miriam Lewin

Ecuador / 2023-06-09

The “Happiest Days” of Argentina’s Repressors

Juan José Martínez d'Aubuisson

Argentina / 2023-08-30

TRUE STORY AWARD – 3rd Prize

We, The Massacred

Inside the Jails of the Syrian Regime

El Salvador / 2023-09-14

Ebrahim Mahfoud

Qatargate: A Heist at the Very Heart of European Democracy

Belgium / 2022-11-08

joel matriche

Sahara, the Thirst for Gold

Belgium / 2023-01-11

Amaury Hauchard

France / 2023-09-03

Switzerland / 2023-05-19

Germany / 2023-05-25

Inside the Taliban's Luxury Hotel

Deutsch English

Switzerland / 2023-09-16

الهه محمدی

A Country’s Grief

فارسی English

Iran / 2022-09-18

Zahra Jafarzadeh and Elnaz Mohammadi

Uncertainty on Both Sides of the Bars

Iran / 2022-11-09

Iran / 2022-11-22

The Land’s Only Children

The doctors punished for an indigenous health revolution

Portugal / 2022-09-23

Malu Delgado

The Portuguese Romani: How a Culture of Resistance was Made

Brazil / 2023-04-10

Ana Cristina Pereira

You don’t forget that kind of thing

Portugal / 2023-07-23

редакция Холода

What I felt? You fuck off, that’s what!

Russia / 2022-11-01

Шура Буртин

Losing “MIR”: The Story of Russia’s Most Expensive Industrial Disaster

Latvia / 2022-11-10

Кирилл Руков

A Young Woman from Beirut is Changing the Lebanese Countryside

Russia / 2023-09-20

Ula Idzikowska

Greenwashing made in Europe by Michelin and BNP Paribas in Indonesia

Poland / 2022-10-09

Stefano Valentino

Nemanja Rujević, Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams and Tristen Taylor

France / 2022-11-09

Parrots as valuable as cocaine

Financing The Ambazonian Dream

Serbia / 2023-02-09

Justice Nwafor

Arianna Poletti and Aïda Delpuech

Nigeria / 2022-10-31

TuNur: what lurks in the shadow of the Tunisian sun export to Europe?

The Aleppo electronic artists using music to heal in Gaziantep

Tunisia / 2022-11-11

Stefania D'Ignoti

Qatar / 2023-05-26

Mansi Choksi

Inside India's Cram City

TRUE STORY AWARD – 1st Prize

India / 2023-01-22

Rahul Bhatia

The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare

Bhanwari Devi was raped for trying to stop child marriage

United Kingdom / 2023-03-02

Jyoti Yadav

مباحث.. أول سفينة علمية مصرية جابت المحيطات وعادت لتغرق على شواطئها

India / 2023-09-18

Shortlist 2024

Arabic

مارينا ميلاد

السجون الجديدة وتحديث الانتهاكات

Egypt / 2022-11-02

Rana Mamdouh

تحقيق.. شبح الجوع والهجرة يخيم على القرى المغربية

Egypt / 2022-11-21

عبد الصمد ادنيدن

Mohammad Bassiki, Ali Ali Brahim, Kaamel Ahmad

Morocco / 2023-03-10

Syrian refugees’ homes in the hands of fraudsters linked to intelligence services

مقابر بلا شواهد.. روايات ناجين من سجون “نبع السلام”

Lebanon / 2023-04-24

Helez Abdulaziz

ولاية الجسد: مستشفيات مصرية تمتنع عن إجراء جراحات للنساء من دون موافقة أزواجهن

Syria / 2023-05-08

آيات خيري

UAE / 2023-05-14

محمود السبكي

"طريق دموي" عبر ليبيا

أخبار الآن - أسعد حسين - هدى زكريا - وسيم عرابي

Jordan / 2023-08-16

100, 000 barrels of petrol from Iraq to China daily in exchange for unsafe schools!

UAE / 2023-08-23

سارة جمال

The medicalisation of female circumcision

The Silent Storm: Omicron Comes to the Northern Villages

Egypt / 2023-09-26

Chinese

China / 2022-12-24

China / 2022-12-29

lan Luo

Ma Yuan in the Castle

China / 2023-03-22

吴呈杰

Nineteen Painful Portraits of a Young Worker

China / 2023-05-04

China / 2023-06-02

滴滴和美团里的女性：派单无性别，她们却赚得更少

China / 2023-07-04

China / 2023-09-04

China / 2023-09-21

China / 2023-09-25

English

Cassidy Randall

Alone at the Edge of the World

In El Salvador and Beyond, an Unsolved Kidney Disease Mystery

USA / 2022-09-30

Fletcher Reveley

Rosa Furneaux, Laura Margottini

USA / 2022-11-16

The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying.

Inside the European forest that geopolitics has turned into a graveyard

United Kingdom / 2023-01-25

United Kingdom / 2023-02-18

Sophie Pinkham

United Kingdom / 2023-03-07

Antonia Cundy

The Fishermen

Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease

United Kingdom / 2023-06-15

Krithika Varagur

TRUE STORY AWARD – 2nd Prize

USA / 2023-08-01

Hannah Dreier

Awarded

The Kids on the Night Shift

Ronna Rísquez, Karina Peraza, Liz Gascón y dos periodistas que reservaron su identidad por motivos de seguridad

USA / 2023-09-13

Spanish

Prisiones venezolanas: Repúblicas independientes del crimen

La historia de cómo se salvaron de la hoguera miles de libros prohibidos durante los regímenes militares en Chile y Argentina

Venezuela / 2022-09-22

Alejandro Millan

Redacción Ecuador Chequea, La Barra Espaciadora

United Kingdom / 2022-09-23

Illegal Gold Creates A Parallel Economy in Podocarpus National Park

Ecuador / 2023-06-09

Santiago Wills

El gobierno del viento

Okba Mohammad, Moussa al Jamaat, Maribel Izcue

Mexico / 2023-08-09

Libia: refugiados convertidos en mercancía

Facundo Fernández Barrio y Miriam Lewin

Spain / 2023-08-24

Finalist

The “Happiest Days” of Argentina’s Repressors

Juan José Martínez d'Aubuisson

Argentina / 2023-08-30

Awarded

TRUE STORY AWARD – 3rd Prize

We, The Massacred

El Salvador / 2023-09-14

French

Ebrahim Mahfoud

Inside the Jails of the Syrian Regime

Procès du 28 septembre à Conakry : « C’est devenu comme une série télé »

Belgium / 2022-11-08

Matthias Raynal

Guinea / 2022-11-17

joel matriche

Qatargate: A Heist at the Very Heart of European Democracy

Espoir, stupeur et tremblements: 2003–2023, récit d’une jeunesse irakienne

Belgium / 2023-01-11

Emmanuel Haddad

Comment l’industrie pharmaceutique a tronqué les études - Antidépresseurs : un médicament a-t-il poussé Romain, 16 ans, au suicide ?

Lebanon / 2023-03-20

Ariane Denoyel

Joachim barbier et Chloé Triomphe

France / 2023-05-23

Olivier Bailly

(il n'y a pas de titre)

Belgium / 2023-06-01

France / 2023-06-01

Le deal et la tentation

France / 2023-06-08

Amaury Hauchard

Sahara, the Thirst for Gold

Inside the Taliban's Luxury Hotel

France / 2023-09-03

German

Moritz Aisslinger

Dem Sturm ausgeliefert

Germany / 2022-11-10

Germany / 2023-03-03

Switzerland / 2023-05-19

Germany / 2023-05-25

Germany / 2023-08-08

Wie man eine Insel kauft

Deutsch

Switzerland / 2023-09-09

Andreas Babst

Finalist

Deutsch English

Switzerland / 2023-09-16

Asia Haidar und Jonah Lemm

Zwei Brüder

Deutsch

Germany / 2023-09-23

Barbara Achermann

Warum er und nicht ich?

Deutsch

Switzerland / 2023-09-30

Persian

Iran / 2022-09-18

Zahra Jafarzadeh and Elnaz Mohammadi

Uncertainty on Both Sides of the Bars

Iran / 2022-11-09

Iran / 2022-11-22

بمب‌های بودار / جزئیات جدید از ماجرای مسمومیت دختران دانش‌آموز در 2 دبیرستان و یک دبستان در بروجرد

Iran / 2023-02-27

Iran / 2023-06-10

صحبت از افتادن یک برگ نیست

فارسی

Iran / 2023-08-06

محمد باقرزاده، سیاوش خسرونژاد

«سحر» در تاریک روشن «آزادی»

فارسی

Iran / 2023-09-09

Portuguese

Joana Ascensão

The Land’s Only Children

‘Quando a maré dobrar, a mancha vai entrar’

Portugal / 2022-09-23

Brazil / 2022-10-01

Brazil / 2022-10-18

Português

Brazil / 2023-02-03

Malu Delgado

The doctors punished for an indigenous health revolution

Brazil / 2023-04-10

Brazil / 2023-07-01

The Portuguese Romani: How a Culture of Resistance was Made

Portugal / 2023-07-23

Russian

редакция Холода

You don’t forget that kind of thing

Russia / 2022-11-01

Шура Буртин

What I felt? You fuck off, that’s what!

Забытые. «Черта» рассказывает о судьбах вывезенных из Украины людей, которые больше полугода живут в ПВР

Latvia / 2022-11-10

Редакция "Черты"

Pусский

Georgia / 2022-11-23

Владимир Севриновский

Последняя река на планете. История Варзуги: от опричнины до мобилизации

Russia / 2023-03-08

Latvia / 2023-04-05

«Они за меня и молились, и оберег в карман запихивали»

Russia / 2023-08-01

Кирилл Руков

Losing “MIR”: The Story of Russia’s Most Expensive Industrial Disaster

A Young Woman from Beirut is Changing the Lebanese Countryside

Russia / 2023-09-20

Europe

Poland / 2022-09-07

Poland / 2022-10-09

Stefano Valentino

Greenwashing made in Europe by Michelin and BNP Paribas in Indonesia

După o crimă în familie, ce se întâmplă cu copiii?

France / 2022-11-09

Oana Sandu

Bianca Albu and Ovidiu Vanghele

Romania / 2022-11-23

With “Saint Gabriela the Brave” in charge of equal opportunities, social assistance funding becomes thriving business for her cronies & Cristina's internment camps

Nemanja Rujević, Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams and Tristen Taylor

Romania / 2023-01-25

Finalist

Parrots as valuable as cocaine

Shalom Community exposed: a year-long undercover investigation unveils decades of abuse and deception

Serbia / 2023-02-09

Backstair

Pieter Sabel, Fleur de Weerd, Laura Hoogenraad

Italy / 2023-06-06

The children who have to become Russians

Katya Arenina, with participation of Mikhail Rubin

Netherlands / 2023-06-24

Trust-Based

Russia / 2023-09-11

World I

Justice Nwafor

Financing The Ambazonian Dream

Arianna Poletti and Aïda Delpuech

Nigeria / 2022-10-31

TuNur: what lurks in the shadow of the Tunisian sun export to Europe?

Teen Sold into Sex Slavery After Facebook Did Nothing for 24 Hours

Tunisia / 2022-11-11

Philip Obaji Jr.

Escape from Egypt: How I fled the media crackdown

USA / 2022-12-29

basma mostafa

‘Strangers in our own homes’: A waning Assyrian community holds on in northeastern Syria

United Kingdom / 2023-02-04

Lyse Mauvais

The Dispossession of District Six

Germany / 2023-03-21

Eve Fairbanks

USA / 2023-04-04

Stefania D'Ignoti

The Aleppo electronic artists using music to heal in Gaziantep

Could the jihadis dismantle the Sahelian state?

Qatar / 2023-05-26

Nalova Akua

Abortion Tale: On Our Ground

United Kingdom / 2023-06-07

Ghadeer Ahmed

जंगल खोस्यो, जमिन खोस्यो : अहिले बस्ती खोस्दै छ

USA / 2023-07-02

World II

India / 2022-09-03

Nepal / 2023-01-21

Mansi Choksi

Inside India's Cram City

How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women

India / 2023-01-22

Sanket Jain

TRUE STORY AWARD – 1st Prize

India / 2023-02-03

Rahul Bhatia

Awarded

The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare

Between Nickel and A Hard Place: Plight of Indonesian and Chinese Workers Behind Electric Vehicle Boom

United Kingdom / 2023-03-02

Permata Adinda

Monica Jha and Shamsheer Yousaf

Indonesia / 2023-05-27

The crimes of flood plains

India / 2023-08-10

China / 2023-08-13

Bhanwari Devi was raped for trying to stop child marriage