As the National Competition and National Short Film Competition Award Ceremony ends, the films selected for the National Documentary Competition to be held in October as part of the 39th edition of the Istanbul Film Festival were also announced. The films in the National Documentary Competition section are:

Göbeklitepe Sakinleri / Residents of Göbeklitepe by Sedat Benek
Ah Gözel İstanbul / Invisible to the Eye by Zeynep Dadak
Kadınlar Ülkesi / Women's Country by Şirin Bahar Demirel
Kuyudaki Taş / The Stone in the Well by Gökçin Dokumacı
Miss Holokost Survivor / The Pageant by Eytan İpeker
Mimaroğlu / Mimaroğlu: The Robinson of Manhattan Island by Serdar Kökçeoğlu
Muhammed Ali by Nursen Çetin Köreken, Ümit Köreken
Asfaltın Altında Dereler Var! / Under The Road, The River! by Yasin Semiz
Tenere by Hasan Söylemez
Atık Sözlüğü: Tanımların ve İmajların Geri Dönüşümü / Dictionary of Waste: Recycling Definitions and Images by Alper Şen
Maddenin Halleri / Phases of Matter by Deniz Tortum

Out of competition:

İyi Ki Yapmışım / Glad I did it! by Selçuk Metin

The Best Documentary Award in the National Documentary Competition is supported by a monetary award of 10,000 TL.