Year: 2023.
Country: Serbia
Toša Jovanović National Theatre
Director: Sonja Petrović

Year: 2022.
Country: Italy
Zaches Teatro
Director: Luana Gramegna

Year: 2021.
Country: Czech Republic
DRAK Theatre
Director: Jakub Vašiček

Year: 2019
Country: China
Xi'an Children's Art Theatre
Director: Guo Hongbo

Year: 2018
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Children´s Theatre of Republic of Srpska – Banja Luka
Director: Todor Valov

Year: 2017
Country: Russia
Vologda Regional Puppet Theatre „Teremok“
Director: Oleg Zhugzhda

Year: 2016
Country: Montenegro
City Theatre Podgorica
Director: Yevgeny Ibragimov

Year: 2015
Country: Serbia
Youth Theatre – Novi Sad
Director: Emilija Mrdaković

Year: 2014
Country: Hungary
Budapest Puppet Theatre – Budapest
Director: Edina Ellinger

Year: 2013
Country: Russia
Vologda Regional Puppet Theatre „Teremok“
Director: Boris Konstantinov

Year: 2012
Country: Slovenia
Mini Theatre – Ljubljana
Director: Marek Bečka

Year: 2011
Country: France
Cie Jean-Pierre Lescot – Fontenay-sous-Bois (Paris)
Director: Jean-Pierre Lescot

The story of My Pinocchio is happening in the world of shadows and paper and depicts the tale of the puppet-child who sets off to discover the world. Pinocchio walks open-heartedly, running towards his dreams…and getting lost in them.

Year: 2010
Country: Hungary
Budapest Puppet Theatre – Budapest
Director: Pal Macsai

A sophisticated puppet play which abounds in witty phrases, distorted poetic images and lively humour and equally well, on different levels, communicates with children and adult audience.

Year: 2009
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Children´s Theatre of Republic of Srpska – Banja Luka
Director: Bonjo Lungov

Unusual performance which presents Balkan folklore in an original way using movement, dance, music and puppets created from the objects which belong to ethnological treasure while actors transmit the unique experience and emotions through superior acting and manipulation.

Year: 2008
Country: Estonia
tate Puppet Theatre – Tallinn
Director: Yevgeny Ibragimov

Timeless performance based on the Russian classic, the play by Nikolai Gogol, which tells a story about the devastating impact the passions can have on a human being through life-like puppets and extraordinary, almost unreal animation. Masterly directed by Yevgeny Ibragimov.

Year: 2007
Country: Austria
OKI – Mobile Theatre for Children – Vienna
Director: Jakub Krofta

The classic story of Cinderella takes new form in the modern world still reminding children that only the good-hearted can find happiness and love. Actual topic, excellent acting, attractive and well thought out music, creative stage design.

Year: 2006
Country: Estonia
State Puppet Theatre – Tallinn
Director: Finn Poulsen

The performance Troll Boy is based on the story The Changeling by Selma Lagerlöf, dramatized by Swedish poet Göran Tunström who gave poetic tone to the text, which thematizes the eternal problem of relationship between parents and children in an exceptional way.

Year: 2005
Country: Serbia and Montenegro
Children’s Theatre – Subotica
Director: Hernyák György

This performance is an example of coreo-ethnotheatre and represents high range of collective play, harmoniously, in modern reconstruction of folklore ritual and rich Hungarian tradition of music, acting and dance.

Year: 2004.
Country: Hungary
The Puppet Theatre “Ciroka” – Kecskemet
Director: Lászlo Rumi

Classical shadow theatre, with application of other forms of puppet theatre, creating miraculous aesthetics and poetics of contemporary puppetry based on the phon of pure visuality and aesthetics.

Year: 2003
Country: Slovakia
Bratislava Puppet Theatre – Bratislava
Director: Jozef Bednarik

Multimedia directing, syncretism on stage to be remembered.

Year: 2002
Country: Germany
Fairy Tale Theatre – Hamburg
Director: Mark Lovic

Experimental performance the genre of which is hard to determine. Prehaps the closest determinant would be animation of light and colours, with elements of education. And only three words are pronounced: blue, red and yellow. Out of those colours and light the whole world is created!

Year: 2001
Country: Bulgaria
State Puppet Theatre – Vidin
Director: Yana Tsankova

Puppets, people, costumes, total animation, total theatre.

Year: 2000
Country: Macedonia
Children and Youth Theatre – Skopje
Director: Bonjo Lungov

Ethnotheatre performance encompassing animation of everyday objects. Music, dance, folklore of authentic Macedonian tradition. Performance of amazing beauty.

Year: 1999
Country: Belarus
Belarusian Theatre “Lialka” – Vitebsk
Director: Oleg Zhugzhda

Afer Borschevsky, directed by Oleg Zhugzhda: renaissance of marionette art in filigree animation and realization of puppets, a living myth about Faustus of unseen beauty.

Year: 1998
Country: Yugoslavia
The Puppet Theatre “Pinokio” – Zemun
Director: Živomir Jokovic

Performance directed by Živomir Jokovic, doyen of Serbian puppetry, as an example of the successful transposition of Tolstoy’s literature to puppet stage.

Year: 1997
Country: Hungary
Budapest Puppet Theatre – Budapest
Director: Szonyi Kato

World famous performance made in the aesthetics of the eighties of the 20th century, which has been carrying the fame of Hungarian puppetry throughout the world.

Year: 1996
Country: Slovakia
State Puppet Theatre – Bratislava
Director: Jozef Bednarik

Puppet opera after Donizetti, masterly directed by Jozef Bedanrik, from which the contemporary opera directing could take over the best solutions.

Year: 1995
Country: Slovakia
Trnava Theatre – Trnava
Director: Ladislav Kocan

Poetic staging in an empty space. Animation of light and shadows.

Year: 1994
Country: Russia
Academic Theatre of Comedy “N.P. Akimov” – St. Petersburg
Director: Ilya Makarov

Total theatre in the key of Meyerhold’s biomechanics.