Awards and Recognition

For more than twenty years, our films have travelled across territories, weaving the stories that bring us together. On their own, they continue their journey, creating a bridge between us—the artisans—our audiences, and the people whose voices shape these works. This page gathers the awards, distinctions, and official selections received by MÖ FILMS and its collaborators over the years. These recognitions highlight the artistic quality, social impact, and international reach of our documentary films, reflecting an ongoing dialogue between creation, commitment, and humanity.

Portrait of documentary filmmakers Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins standing side by side.

Artists’ Recognition

Laurels indicating the Artist of the Year – Capitale-Nationale award presented to Olivier Higgins by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
2022
Artiste de l’année - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Laurels indicating the Arts and Culture Personality Award – Capitale-Nationale presented to Mélanie Carrier.
2021
Arts and Culture Personality Award – Capitale-Nationale
Laurels indicating the Raymond-Blais Medal from Université Laval awarded to Mélanie Carrier.
2012
Raymond-Blais Medal from Université Laval
Laurels indicating the Excellence Medal from Université Laval awarded to Olivier Higgins.
2004
Excellence Medal from Université Laval

Awards and Distinctions – Mélanie Carrier

  • 2025        Finalist – Artist of the Year Award, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 2021        Laureate – Arts and Culture Personality Award, Capitale-Nationale
  • 2021        Personality of the Year, Le Soleil newspaper
  • 2020        Finalist – François-Samson Award for Cultural Development, City of Québec
  • 2018        Named Outstanding Alumna by Cégep Limoilou on the occasion of its 50th anniversary
  • 2016        Laureate – Québec Radio-Canada / Le Soleil
  • 2014        Honorary President – Festival Vues sur Mer, Gaspé
  • 2015        Shortlisted among Influential Alumni of Université Laval
  • 2013        “Women of Distinction” Award, YWCA, Arts and Culture category
  • 2013        Honorary President – Gala du Mérite, Cégep Limoilou
  • 2012        Raymond-Blais Medal, Université Laval (Outstanding Young Graduate)
  • 2007        Laureate – Québec Radio-Canada / Le Soleil
  • 2004        Excellence Medal, Université Laval
  • 2004        Adrien-Pouliot Award for Excellence
  • 2004        Finalist – AVENIR Personality Award representing Université Laval, Provincial University Gala Forces AVENIR
  • 2003        International Learning Scholarship, CIDA
  • 2003        Université Laval Réseau Contact International Scholarship for the project From Québec to Madagascar
  • 2001        Excellence Scholarship, Girardin-Vaillancourt Foundation
  • 2000        Honourable Mention from the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences – Université Laval

Awards and Distinctions – Olivier Higgins

  • 2022        Artist of the Year Award, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 2021        Nominee for Best Cinematography at the Canadian Screen Awards (with Renaud Philippe)
  • 2021        Iris Award for Best Editing (with Amélie Labrèche)
  • 2021        Iris Award for Best Cinematography (with Renaud Philippe)
  • 2021        Personality of the Year, Le Soleil newspaper
  • 2020        Finalist – François-Samson Award for Cultural Development, City of Québec
  • 2018        Named Outstanding Alumnus by Cégep Limoilou on the occasion of its 50th anniversary
  • 2016        Laureate – Québec Radio-Canada / Le Soleil
  • 2014        Honorary President – Festival Vues sur Mer, Gaspé
  • 2015        Shortlisted among Influential Alumni of Université Laval
  • 2013        Honorary President – Gala du Mérite, Cégep Limoilou
  • 2007        Laureate – Québec Radio-Canada / Le Soleil
  • 2006        Raymond-Blais Scholarship
  • 2004        Excellence Medal, Université Laval
  • 2003        Université Laval Réseau Contact International Scholarship for the project From Québec to Madagascar
Close-up of a child’s eye, main visual of the documentary film At Their Height by MÖ FILMS

At their height

Laurels for the Jean-Marc-Vallée Award at Festival de cinéma de la Ville de Québec, awarded to the film At Their Height..
Prix Jean-Marc-Vallée
Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
Laurels for the Special Mention Award at the Vues sur Mer Festival, awarded to the film At Their Height.
Prix Mention spéciale du Jury
Festival Vues sur Mer

Other awards and selections

  • 2024–2025        Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec / Québec, Canada – Closing film and Jean-Marc-Vallée Award
  • 2024–2025        Vues sur Mer / Québec, Canada – Opening film and Special Jury Mention Award
  • 2024–2025        Festival du film de l’Outaouais / Gatineau, Canada – Official Selection
  • 2024–2025        Festival international du film Cinoche / Baie-Comeau, Canada – Official Selection
  • 2024–2025        Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma / Montréal, Canada – Official Selection
  • 2024–2025        Belleville Downtown DocFest / Belleville, Canada – Official Selection
  • 2024–2025        FICFA – Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie / Moncton, Canada – Documentary Competition and Guest Filmmaker
  • 2024–2025        Festival International du film de Médenine / Tunisia – International Competition and Guest Filmmakers
  • 2024–2025        Festival du cinéma Québécois de Biscarrosse / France – Official Selection and Guest Filmmaker

TV Broadcast

  • Télé-Québec
Silhouette of a Rohingya refugee child walking along an earthen ridge, visual from the documentary Wandering: A Rohingya Story by MÖ FILMS, photo by Renaud Philippe

Wandering, a Rohingya Story

Canadian Screen Awards laurels recognizing the film for Best Feature Documentary.
Meilleur documentaire
Prix écrans Canadiens
Iris Awards laurels recognizing the film for Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography.
Meilleur documentaire
Prix Iris
Global Docs Award laurels recognizing the film for Best Feature Documentary.
Prix Global Docs
Docs MX
Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires laurels recognizing the film with First Prize in the Human Rights Competition.
Premier Prix - compétition Droits humains
FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires

Other Awards and Nominations

  • Nominee – Best Cinematography – Canadian Screen Awards
  • Nominee – Best Sound / Documentary – Iris Awards
  • Nominee – Best Original Music / Documentary – Iris Awards
  • Nominee – SOS Kinderdörfer Weltweit Award – Dok.Fest München, Germany
  • Grand Prize – Breaking Boundaries – Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
  • Winner – Festival Grand Prize and Opening Film – Vues sur Mer, Canada
  • Special Jury Prize – International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, Bulgaria
  • Professional Jury’s Prize, Documentary Feature Film (2nd Prize) – Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, USA
  • Milos Stehlik Global Impact Award – Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, USA
  • First Prize, Human Rights Competition – FIDBA Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, Argentina
  • Best Feature Documentary Film – Stockholm Independent Film Festival, Sweden
  • Audience Award – Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada
  • Winner – La Vague Award for Best Documentary – FICFA, Canada
  • Winner – Global DOCS Award – DOCSMX, Mexico

Other Selections

2020

  • SEMINCI, Valladolid, Spain – Official Competition
  • RIDM, Montréal, Canada – Official Competition
  • 42nd Havana Film Festival, Cuba – Official Selection
  • FIFF Tübingen, Germany – Official Competition

2021–2022

  • 27th Rendez-vous French Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada – Closing Film
  • Belleville Downtown DocFest, Belleville, Canada – Official Selection
  • Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski, Canada – Official Selection
  • Cinéma d’Alès – Itinérances, France – Official Selection
  • Dok.Fest München, Germany – Best of Fest Selection
  • Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Québec City, Canada
  • Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke, Canada
  • Moscow International Film Festival – DOKER, Russia – Official Competition
  • Social World Film Festival, Naples, Italy
  • Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA – Official Competition
  • International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, Bulgaria
  • Berlin Human Rights Film Festival, Germany – Official Competition
  • Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Taiwan
  • Heartland International Film Festival, Indianapolis, USA – Official Competition
  • Ojai Film Festival, USA – Official Competition
  • Festival des Libertés, Brussels, Belgium – Official Competition
  • Ânûû-rû Âboro International Film Festival, New Caledonia – Official Competition
  • Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, USA – Official Competition
  • Mostra São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil – Official Competition
  • FIDBA – Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, Argentina – Official Competition
  • Le Grand Bivouac Documentary Film Festival, France – Official Competition
  • FilmAmbiente, São Paulo, Brazil – Official Competition
  • UNHCR Refugee Film Festival, Japan
  • Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary – Official Competition
  • Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle, USA – Official Competition
  • Rabat International Auteur Film Festival, Morocco
  • Human Rights Documentary Film Days, Izmir, Turkey
  • Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle, France – Official Competition
  • Bushwick Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  • Utopia Film Festival, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
  • MOVE IT! Film Festival for Human Rights and Development, Germany – Official Competition
  • North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, Fargo, USA
  • Carcassonne International Political Film Festival, France – Official Competition
  • Cinema on the Bayou, USA – Official Competition
  • Quebec International Ethnographic Film Festival, Canada
  • Auroville Film Festival, India
  • Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival, USA

2022–2023

  • Freiburger Filmforum – Festival of Transcultural Cinema, Germany
Promotional visual of the documentary film Québékoisie showing two crossed faces symbolizing Indigenous and settler relations in Quebec

Québékoisie

Laurels indicating Quebekoisie nomination for Best Documentary at the Jutra Awards.
Best Documentary Nominee
Jutra Awards
Laurels for the Magnus Isacsson Award awarded to Quebekoisie at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM).
Magnus Isacsson Award
Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montréal - RIDM
Laurels for Best Feature Documentary awarded to Quebekoisie at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Best Feature Documentary
Rhodes Island International Film festival
Laurels for the Humanist Award awarded to Quebekoisie at the Vues sur Mer festival.
Humanist Award and Audience Award
Vues sur Mer

Awards and Distinctions

  • 2016        International Outreach Award, Conseil de la culture de la ville de Québec
  • 2015        Presented as a “Gift from Québec” by the Minister Responsible for Indigenous Affairs as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
  • 2014        Nominee – Best Feature-Length Documentary, Jutra Awards
  • 2014        Work of the Year Award, CALQ (Capitale-Nationale)
  • 2014        Grand Prize – Feature Documentary, Rhode Island International Film Festival
  • 2014        Best Documentary Prize, Dreamspeakers Film Festival
  • 2014        Audience Award & Humanist Award, Festival Vues sur Mer de Gaspé
  • 2014        Honorary Presidency & Opening Film, Festival Vues sur Mer de Gaspé
  • 2014        Best of Fest Award & Opening Film, Wakefield International Film Festival
  • 2014        Top 5 Most-Watched Canadian Films in Theatres Across Canada (four consecutive weeks)
  • 2014        Magnus-Isacsson Award, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal

Other Festivals, Special Screenings, Television | Selection

  • 2016        Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway
  • 2015        Tour of 35 cinema-lectures across French-speaking Switzerland
  • 2015        International Documentary Film Festival in Cévennes, France
  • 2015        Maine International Film Festival, United States
  • 2015        Palm Beach International Film Festival, United States
  • 2014        Cinéma du Québec in Paris and Nîmes, France
  • 2014        Yellowknife International Film Festival, Canada
  • 2014        Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Canada

Television Broadcast

  • TV5 UNIS, TV5 MONDE, ICI TOU.TV
Illustrated map showing the territory explored in the documentary Encounters, with landmarks including Mashteuiatsh, Wendake, Québec, and the St. Lawrence River.

Encounters

Laurels indicating the official selection of Quebekoisie at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival.
Official Selection
National Geographic - All Roads Film Festival
Laurels for Best Humanist Documentary awarded to Quebekoisie at the Cinema on the Bayou festival.
Best Humanities Themed Documentary
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival

Awards and Selections

  • 2012        Best Humanities-Themed Documentary, Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, United States
  • 2012        National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, Guest Filmmakers, United States
  • 2012        Best Native American Feature Film, Indie Spirit Film Festival, United States
  • 2012        Oaxaca International Independent Film Festival, Mexico
  • 2012        37th American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, United States
  • 2012        Brantford Film Festival, Ontario, Canada
  • 2012        Ojai Film Festival, California, United States
  • 2012        Utopia Film Festival, Maryland, United States
  • 2012        Native Spirit Film Festival, London, England
  • 2012        Rêves d’Automne Festival, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada
  • 2012        Festival de la Paix, Victoriaville, Québec, Canada
  • 2012        Mashteuiatsh Native American Museum, Canada
  • 2012        Huron-Wendat Museum of Wendake, Canada
  • 2012        Cinema Politica
  • 2013        Wild and Scenic Film Festival, San Francisco, United States
  • 2013        Inkafest, Peru

Television Broadcast

  • TV5 UNIS
Glacial lake in Iceland with large floating ice formations.

Ice Philosophy

Laurels indicating the Best of Shorts selection of Ice Philosophy at the Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival.
Best of short selection
Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival
Laurels indicating the official selection of Ice Philosophy at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Sélection Officielle
Festival International de films Fantasia
Laurels indicating the official selection of Ice Philosophy at Mountainfilm Telluride.
Sélection Officielle
MOUNTAINFILM Telluride
Laurels indicating the official selection of Ice Philosophy at the Paris International Environmental Film Festival.
Sélection Officielle
Festival International du Film d’Environnement de Paris

Selections

  • Environmental Film Festival at Yale, United States
  • 19th International Environmental Film Festival of Barcelona, Spain
  • “Best Shorts of FICMA”, Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
  • 17th Gran Paradiso Film Festival, Italy
  • Inkafest, Peru
  • Environmental Film Festival Voices, Colombia
  • Mountainfilm in Telluride, Colorado, United States
  • Cinergie Festival, International Francophone Film Festival, Saskatoon
  • 10th Annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, United States
  • 30th International Environmental Film Festival, Paris, France
  • FICAMS Antarctica’s 1st International Film Festival, Punta Arenas, Chile
  • Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China
  • Environmental Film Festival Voices, Colombia
  • 8th Francophone Film Festival of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Short Short Story Film Festival, Providence, Rhode Island and Concord, United States
  • Fantasia International Film Festival, Montréal, Canada
  • Ecologico International Film Festival, Italy
  • International Short Film Festival of Uruguay – FICU, Uruguay
  • The Short Day of the Environmental Film Festival “EcoCup”, Russia
  • Green Film Festival Seoul, South Korea
  • Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal, Canada
  • Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Louisiana, United States
  • Planet in Focus Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
  • Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada
  • Portneuf Environmental Film Festival, Québec, Canada
  • Off-Courts Film Festival, Trouville, France

Television Broadcast

  • TFO
Olivier Higgins smiling, Mélanie Carrier in profile with eyes closed, with a cyclist silhouette in the background.

Asiemut

Laurels for the Public Grand Prize and Special Jury Award awarded to Asiemut at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Prix du Public et Meilleur film d'aventure
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Laurels for the Festival’s Grand Prize awarded to Asiemut at the Cervino CineMountain festival.
Grand prize
Cervino Cinemountain
Laurels for the Festival’s Grand Prize awarded to Asiemut at the Graz International Mountain Film Festival.
Grand prize
Graz International Mountain Film Festival
Laurels for Best Adventure Film awarded to Asiemut at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.
Grand prize
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival

Other Awards and Nominations

  • 2008 Grand Prix of All Adventure Film Festivals, “The Oscar of Adventure Film Oscars”, Cervino CineMountain Film Festival, Italy
  • 2008 Audience Grand Prize, La Rochelle Adventure Film Festival, France
  • 2008 Audience Grand Prize, International Mountain Film Festival of Slovenia
  • 2007 Festival Grand Prize, Graz International Mountain Film Festival, Austria
  • 2007 Festival Grand Prize, Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival, Germany
  • 2007 Audience Grand Prize, Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival, Germany
  • 2007 Special Jury Prize, Danish Adventure Film Festival, Denmark
  • 2007 Golden Frame Award, Explorer’s Film Festival, Poland
  • 2007 Audience Grand Prize, Dundee International Mountain Film Festival, Scotland
  • 2007 Festival Grand Prize, Teplice Mountain Film Festival, Czech Republic
  • 2007 Audience Grand Prize, Diablerets International Film Festival, Switzerland
  • 2007 Special Jury Prize, Diablerets International Film Festival, Switzerland
  • 2007 Festival Grand Prize, Vanka Regule Festival, Croatia
  • 2007 Audience Grand Prize, La Réunion Adventure Film Festival
  • 2007 Most Inspiring Film Prize, Boulder Adventure Film Festival, United States
  • 2007 People’s Choice Award, Wanaka Mountain Film Festival, New Zealand
  • 2007 Festival Grand Prize, Slovak Mountain Film Festival
  • 2007 Jury Hope Prize, Val d’Isère International Adventure Film Festival, France
  • 2007 Festival Grand Prize, Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Canada
  • 2006 Audience Grand Prize, Banff Mountain Film Festival, Canada
  • 2006 Special Jury Award, Banff Mountain Film Festival, Canada
  • 2006 Grandvalira Silver Edelweiss Prize, Torelló Mountain Film Festival, Spain
  • 2006 Young Creators Award, FIFAM, Montréal, Canada
  • 2006 Young Creators Award, Autrans International Mountain Film Festival, France

Television Broadcasts

  • ARTE, RTBF, TSR, RAI, Télé-Québec, Al Jazeera, TV5 UNIS