Visions du Réel closed its 57th edition Friday with a prize list that leaned firmly toward intimate, formally adventurous nonfiction, as Xisi Sofia Ye Chen’s “ From Dawn to Dawn ” took the Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition.

Centered on the filmmaker’s brother, a Chinese gangster living in Spain, the debut feature offers a rare immersion into a world more frequently explored through fiction than documentary. Told through first-person narration and stylized imagery, the film charts his attempts to reconcile a criminal past with family obligations and shifting moral ground.

The top prize carries a cash award of CHF 20,000 ($22,000).vThe jury, made up of Marrakech Film Festival chief Rémi Bonhomme and filmmakers Lina Soualem and Brett Story, celebrated “an astonishing self assured debut. A moving, intimate and complex portrait of the impacts of exile and the struggle to reclaim one’s life.…