# Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film

The Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film (French: Prix Iris du meilleur film documentaire) is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best documentary film made within the cinema of Quebec.
Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Documentary in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016.
Patricio Henríquez is the most nominated and decorated filmmaker in this category, receiving three awards from five nominations. Producer Colette Loumède is the only person to receive multiple nominations in the same year in this category, with three films nominated in 2015, including eventual winner Finding Macpherson.
Two ties occurred in this category: À Hauteur d'homme and Roger Toupin, épicier variété both won the award during the 6th Jutra Awards, while La classe de Madame Lise and Gilles Carle: The Untamable Mind (Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire) tied during the 8th Jutra Awards.
Cielo, Bestiaire and Manufacturing the Threat are the only documentaries to be nominated for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec. Three documentaries were nominated for the Public Prize award: Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain), The Perfect Victim (La parfaite victime) and eventual winner The Rose Family (Les Rose). Of these, only Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain) also received a nomination for Best Documentary Film.

## 1990s

| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Forest Alert (L'erreur boréale) | Richard Desjardins, Robert Monderie |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Charles Daudelin | Richard Lavoie |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Dans la gueule du crocodile | Lucie Ouimet, Catherine Larivain |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Voyage illusoire | Georges Dufaux |

## 2000s

| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Images of a Dictatorship (Images d'une dictature) | Patricio Henríquez |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Before Daybreak (Avant le jour) | Lucie Lambert |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Choir Boys! (Enfants de chœurs !) | Magnus Isacsson |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Light of the Snow Geese (Lumière des oiseaux) | Jean-Philippe Duval |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | The Megaphone Reel (Le réel du mégaphone) | Serge Giguère |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Searching for Louis Archambault (À la recherche de Louis Archambault) | Werner Volkmer |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Guantanamera Boxe | Richard Jean-Baptiste, Yann Langevin |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | If Only I | Donigan Cumming |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Man of Grease | Ezra Soiferman |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Blue Potatoes (Le Minot d'or) | Isabelle Raynauld |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | 4125 Parthenais (Le 4125, rue Parthenais) | Isabelle Lavigne |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | My Dinner with Weegee | Donigan Cumming |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Three Princesses for Roland (Trois princesses pour Roland) | André-Line Beauparlant |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | A Falconer's Chronicle (Rien sans pennes) | Marc Girard |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Les derniers chasseurs du petit havre | Dominique Morissette, Catherine Pappas |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | The Library: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (La bibliothèque entre deux feux) | Serge Cardinal |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | My Eye for a Camera (Mon œil pour une caméra) | Denys Desjardins |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | À Hauteur d'homme | Jean-Claude Labrecque |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Roger Toupin, épicier variété | Benoît Pilon |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | The Fifth Province (La Cinquième Province) | Donald McWilliams |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Something Like Immortality (L'immortalité en fin de compte) | Pascale Ferland |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | What Remains of Us (Ce qu'il reste de nous) | François Prévost, Hugo Latulippe |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | East End Kids (Vues de l'est) | Carole Laganière |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Le petit Jésus | André-Line Beauparlant |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Soraida: A Woman of Palestine (Soraida, une femme de Palestine) | Tahani Rached |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | La Classe de Madame Lise | Sylvie Groulx |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Gilles Carle: The Untamable Mind (Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire) | Charles Binamé |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Perreault Dancer (Danser Perreault) | Tim Southam |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Who Shot My Brother? (Qui a tiré sur mon frère?) | German Gutierrez [fr] |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Driven by Dreams (À force de rêves) | Serge Giguère |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | The Dark Side of the White Lady (Le côté obscur de la dame blanche) | Patricio Henríquez |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Notre père | Marie-Julie Dallaire |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | The River Where We Live (Un fleuve humain) | Sylvain L'Espérance |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | The Invisible Nation (Le peuple invisible) | Richard Desjardins, Robert Monderie |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Americano | Carlos Ferrand |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | The Great Resistance (Au pays des colons) | Denys Desjardins |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Under the Hood: A Voyage Into the World of Torture (Sous la cagoule, un voyage au bout de la torture) | Patricio Henríquez |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | The Memories of Angels (La mémoire des anges) | Luc Bourdon |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | My Father's Studio (L'atelier de mon père) | Jennifer Alleyn |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | The Other Side of the Country (De l'autre côté du pays) | Catherine Hébert |

## 2010s

| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Last Train Home | Lixin Fan |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Antoine | Laura Bari |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Men for Sale (Hommes à louer) | Rodrigue Jean |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Shots in the Dark (Silence, on vaccine) | Lina B. Moreco |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | A Tent on Mars (Une tente sur mars) | Martin Bureau, Luc Renaud |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Falardeau | Carmen Garcia, German Gutierrez |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Heart of Auschwitz (Le cœur d'Auschwitz) | Carl Leblanc |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Hope Builders (Les porteurs d'espoir) | Fernand Dansereau |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Journey's End (La belle visite) | Jean-François Caissy |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo | Luc Côté, Patricio Henríquez |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | The Heart that Beats (Ce cœur qui bat) | Philippe Lesage |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | At Night, They Dance (La nuit, elles dansent) | Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Inside Lara Roxx | Mia Donovan |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | John Max, a Portrait | Michel Lamothe |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Turtles Do Not Die of Old Age (Les tortues ne meurent pas de vieillesse) | Hind Benchekroun, Sami Mermer |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Over My Dead Body | Brigitte Poupart |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Alphée of the Stars (Alphée des étoiles) | Hugo Latulippe |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Bestiaire | Denis Côté |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Mort subite d'un homme-théâtre | Jean-Claude Coulbois |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | My Real Life (Ma vie réelle) | Magnus Isacsson |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Waiting for Spring (En attendant le printemps) | Marie-Geneviève Chabot |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Frameworks: Images of a Changing World (Dans un océan d'images) | Helen Doyle |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Silence Is Gold (Le prix des mots) | Julien Fréchette |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Québékoisie | Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Wavemakers (Le chant des ondes) | Caroline Martel |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Finding Macpherson (Le mystère Macpherson) | Serge Giguère, Nicole Hubert, Colette Loumède, Sylvie Van Brabant |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | From Prisons to Prisons (De prisons en prisons) | Steve Patry |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Grandma (Bà nôi) | Khoa Lê, Karine Dubois |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Guidelines (La marche à suivre) | Jean-François Caissy, Johanne Bergeron, Colette Loumède |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Self(less) Portrait (Autoportrait sans moi) | Danic Champoux, Colette Loumède |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd (Ouïghours, prisonniers de l'absurde) | Patricio Henríquez |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Amina Profile (Le profil Amina) | Sophie Deraspe |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Footprints (L'empreinte) | Yvan Dubuc, Carole Poliquin |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | L'Or du golfe | Ian Jaquier |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Price We Pay (Le prix à payer) | Harold Crooks |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Manor (Manoir) | Martin Fournier, Pier-Luc Latulippe |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Callshop Istanbul | Hind Benchekroun, Sami Mermer |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Gulîstan, terre de roses) | Zaynê Akyol, Mehmet Aktaş, Nathalie Cloutier, Fanny Drew, Yanick Létourneau, Sarah Mannering, Denis McCready |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Living With Giants (Chez les géants) | Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Sébastien Rist, Jean-Simon Chartier |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Perfect (Parfaites) | Jérémie Battaglia, Sylvie Van Brabant |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Resurrecting Hassan (La résurrection d'Hassan) | Carlo Guillermo Proto |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Destierros | Hubert Caron-Guay |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Devil's Share (La part du diable) | Luc Bourdon, Colette Loumède |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Manic | Kalina Bertin, Marina Serrao |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel) | François Jacob, Christine Falco, Vuk Stojanovic |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Innu Nikamu: Resist and Sing (Innu Nikamu: Chanter la résistance) | Kevin Bacon-Hervieux, Ian Boyd |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Anote's Ark | Matthieu Rytz |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Cielo | Alison McAlpine, Paola Castillo |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | The Other Rio (L'autre Rio) | Émilie Beaulieu-Guérette, Fanny Drew, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Sarah Mannering |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political (Pauline Julien, intime et politique) | Pascale Ferland, Johanne Bergeron |

## 2020s

| Year | Film | Filmmakers |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Xalko | Hind Benchekroun, Sami Mermer |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou) | Pedro Pires |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Dark Suns (Soleils noirs) | Julien Élie |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Mad Dog and the Butcher (Les derniers vilains) | Thomas Rinfret, Vito Balenzano, Valérie Bissonette, Bruno Rosato |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah (Ziva Postec: La monteuse derrière le film Shoah) | Catherine Hébert, Christine Falco |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour) | Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Call Me Human (Je m’appelle humain) | Kim O'Bomsawin, Andrée-Anne Frenette |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Forbidden Reel | Ariel Nasr, Kat Baulu, Sergeo Kirby |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow (Tant que j'ai du respir dans le corps) | Steve Patry |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Wintopia | Mira Burt-Wintonick, Annette Clarke, Bob Moore |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Big Giant Wave (Comme une vague) | Marie-Julie Dallaire, Andrée Blais, Alex Sliman |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Alone (Seuls) | Paul Tom, Julie Boisvert, Mylène Péthel, Marie-Pierre Corriveau, Karine Dubois |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Archipelago (Archipel) | Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Dehors Serge dehors | Martin Fournier, Pier-Luc Latulippe, Virginie Dubois |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (Rumba Rules, nouvelles généalogies) | Sammy Baloji, David Nadeau-Bernatchez, Rosa Spaliviero, Kiripi Katembo Siku |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Dear Audrey | Jeremiah Hayes, André Barro, Annette Clarke |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age (Je vous salue salope : La misogynie au temps du numérique) | Léa Clermont-Dion, Guylaine Maroist, Éric Ruel |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Gabor | Joannie Lafrenière, Line Sander Egede |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills, Rosalie Chicoine Perreault |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Rojek | Zaynê Akyol, Sylvain Corbeil, Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones (Kite Zo A: Laisse les os) | Kaveh Nabatian, Joseph Ray, Zach Niles |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | After the Odyssey (Au lendemain de l'odyssée) | Helen Doyle |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Days (Les Jours) | Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert (Graver l'homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert) | Loïc Darses, Marc Bertrand |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Wild Feast (Festin boréal) | Robert Morin, Cédric Bourdeau, Louis Laverdière, Stéphane Tanguay |