Winners Germany 2026

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Best Student Film

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Director Marta Fidalgo

 

Best Tv & Web Series

Living Myths - Director Fabio Flecha

 

Best Music Video

It Wasn't Supposed To Be (This Way) - Director Patrick Cormack

 

Best Short Screenplay

Overdue - Writer Philippa Rae

 

Best Feature Screenplay

I Met The Three Stooges - Writer Jeffrey Joseph Baker

 

Best Documentary

The Blue Above And The Gold Within - Director Pepi Romagnoli

 

Best Short Film

Retrace - Director Ario Shakarami

 

Best Feature Film

Chinese Whispers - Director Deborah Hadfield

 

Special Jury Awards

 

The Exile From Bessarabia - Directors Sergiu Ene, Natalia Ghilascu

From The South, The Revenge - Director Fábio Flecha

The Doctor's Office - Director Don Collins

Life - Director Harry Waldman

Organic Architecture - Director Marta Fidalgo

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda - Director Tarun Ramnani

Man With a Gun - Director Kevin Scott Davis

Syvertsen's Complex - Writer Marni Sullivan

28E: Last Stop - Writer Jonathas Davi Gesteira

The Legend of Kaira - Writer Emanuela Del Zompo

The Burden - Writer Xiao Ping Diana Dai

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Winners Germany 2025

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Best Student Film 
Second Shot – Directed By Brent Collins

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Best Music Video
The Girl Who Faded Away – Directed By Brent Heise

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Best Tv & Web Series
Outlaw Land – Directed By Ezra Sholeh

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Best Short Screenplay
Parallel Lives – Written By Peter Gould

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Best Feature Screenplay
The Lamplighter II: The Oyster Wars – Written By Pamela Hanson Ryder

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Best Documentary
Points Of View – Directed By Pepi Romagnoli

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Best Short Film 
False Rumor – Directed By Mireille Fiévet

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Best Feature Film 
Last Kiss In Paris – Directed by Damian Chapa

Special Jury Awards

Land Of The Mustaches – Directed By Leon Joosen
Vieilles Gâchettes – Directed By Erwan Gobilliard
Dreams That Come True – Directed By Neusa Maria Pinto De Castro
Piece For Solo Solitude – Directed By Jefferson Bittencourt
Arctic Polar Bear Mothers – Directed By Carol J. Amore
State Organs – Directed By Raymond Zhang
Some Kind Of Justice – Directed By Brian Jervay
Hammerstone Meets Woofstock – Directed By Josh Holliday
Waking Conundrum – Directed By Dale Loon, Alyssa-Rose Hunt
One-Upmanship – Written By Helen Rana
KAI – Directed By Graham Cantwell, Amy-Joyce Hastings
Passport Control – Directed By Reza Sholeh
Let's Fight By Your Side – Directed By Ezra Sholeh
Lemmings – Written By Cathy McCullagh
Tangled Tails – Written By Oleg Condrea
Trumpet Player – Directed By Felino Dolloso
Ancient Lands and Lives-Above the Grand Canyon Rims – Directed By Carol J. Amore

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Winners Germany 2024

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Best Animation

Little White Lies – Directed By Jisoo Kim

 

Best Student Film

Glass Girls – Directed By Elizaveta Vinogradova

 

Best TV & Web Series

Los Aspirantes -The Applicants – Directed By María Yolanda Brown Melián, Kevin Ramos Fernández

 

Best Music Video

Something to Say – Directed By Robb McCormick

 

Best Short Screenplay

The Visit – Written By Hoyt Hilsman

 

Best Feature Screenplay

Robot Asteroid – Written By Paul May

 

Best Documentary

"Cuba, Libre?" - Directed By Dick Jordan

 

Best Short Film (Group 1)

In the Backseat – Directed By Harry Waldman

 

Best Short Film (Group 2)

Unconquered – Directed By John Parr

 

Best Feature Film

Agnus Dei – Directed By Agim Sopi

 

Special Jury Award

The Song Of The Earth – Directed By Carlos Pires Silveira

Encontro – Directed By François Manceaux

Beyond The Darkness – Directed By Lorena Sopi

Points Of View – Directed By Pepi Romagnoli

Eyes Wide Shoot , Holiday At Cabin Episode 2 – Directed By Manouchehr Kholghi

Hallelujah (Here's To You) – Directed By Ioannis Koutroubis

Hector Heat Stroke – Directed By Micke

Pink Puzzle – Directed By Mike Adler

Alta California – Written By Lynn H. Elliott

Nothing Beyond Measure – Directed By Alessandro Vantini

Cacerolada – Directed By Teresa Ruiz Velasco

Five Questions – Directed By David Arrow

Nafkot – Yearning – Directed By Malka Shabtay

Six – Directed By Diana Cignoni

Finding the Line – Directed By Aleš Urbanczik, Grzegorz Oleksa

The Dyslexia Dysability – Directed By Shihyun Wang

Cam Girl – Directed By Ian Gregory Trutt

Who would you tell? - Directed By Dery Sultana

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Winners Germany 2023

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BEST ANIMATION
Catisfaction – By Andre Marques Almeida   

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BEST STUDENT FILM
Suitcase – By Emily Reeve

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BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Givin' A Damn – By Sharpe Dunaway – Performed By Pamela Hopkins

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BEST TV & WEB SERIES
Cooking with Kyssara – By Anne Mueller

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BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
Obama's Dreams of His Literary Father – By James Fitzmaurice

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BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Little Dipper or Bust! - By Gavin Irvine

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BEST DOCUMENTARY
Adventures in Cuckooland – By Matt Robinson     

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BEST GERMAN DOCUMENTARY
Bavarian Tales part 2 – By Marcus Shullman   

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BEST SHORT FILM    
The Promenade – By Nico Falcone     

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BEST GERMAN SHORT FILM
Carlos Perro Viejo – By Wilfredo Casas   

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BEST ASIAN SHORT FILM
Lonely Season – By Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

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BEST FEATURE FILM
Eyes Upon Waking – By Timothy Zwica

 

BEST GERMAN FEATURE FILM
Die Welt – By Hermann Shutz        

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BEST ASIAN FEATURE FILM
October 22 – By Nauwroz Khan

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BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
The future of the past – By  Zoltan Boros

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SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Charles Vs. Charlie – By Madhu Narayanaswamy Ramanathan
No Biscuits In Heaven – By Ruth Finnegan
Hypertoad – By Virginia Mariposa
Sven – By Jesse Dorian
Mollie And The Kid – By Peter Gartner
Legal Passion – By James K Jones
A Writer In The Darkness – By Giuseppe De Vuono
I’m Here – By Jennifer Hathaway
Where Are You – By Simone Chierici
Pithora – By Dinesh Shukla
Dajla: Cinema And Oblivion – By Arturo Dueñas Herrero

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HONORABLE MENTION

Starship Troopers Deadlock - By  Steffen Werner
Pandemic Academy - By Gökhan Evecen

The Free Hearts Friedrich Nietzsche - By Garshasp Y Ghobadi

Perfect - By Luis Almeida

Red Faust - By Zsolt Pozsgai

Chateau Laurier - By  James Stewart

A Woman from the Middle East - By Analy Goldentouch, Seyedali Peyghambari

A Bad Influence - By Andreas Toumbas

Falling In Love In Broken English - By Alice Rehemutula

Cuckoo's Den - By Michael Acland

Countryman - By Peter Mark Pecotic

Mutual - By Maverick Garcia

The Master of Sento - By Yusuke Ishide

For A Few Dollars More - By Meg Pfeiffer and Luca Stricagnoli

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Winners 2022

 

 

 

 

BEST ANIMATION

Bom Papa – By Annika Maria Udo Winther

 

BEST STUDENT FILM

Distortion – By Samuel J Punto

 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Sorry – By Franz Josef Danner

 

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

Bloodline - Elisa's Story – By Michael Cooper

 

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

The Outcasts – By Alkyoni Valsari

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Father of a Broken Angel – By Dhiney Ramos

 

BEST GERMAN DOCUMENTARY

80.000 Schnitzel – By Hannah Schweier

 

BEST ASIAN SHORT FILM

The Way We Are – By Donald Li

 

BEST GERMAN SHORT FILM

Chasing 200 – By Alexandra Lier

 

BEST SHORT FILM

Do You Like Poetry? - By Eduardo Mattos

 

BEST SHORT FILM #2

Beyond Her Lens – By Tereza Hirsch - Czech Republic

 

BEST GERMAN FEATURE FILM

My Indian Summer - By Dustin Loose

 

BEST FEATURE FILM

Because You're Dead To me – By Chris Maruna

 

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

Frozen Chaos – By Lukas Van Loon

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SPECIAL JURY AWARD

 

We Are Here – By Fadi Awad

The Witch Princess – By Ngo The Chau
Dark Day – By Farhad Shahed

Good Old Friends – By Peter Kondra & Mikael Schallock

The Canvas – By Salvatore Garau
Dark Hearts – By Kevin Van Stevenson

Alaska Long Hunters – By Mark D. Rose
Face Painters – By Giovanni Sanseviero
Fractions of Seconds – By Sascha Klar
Life Appointment – By Amr Elbehidy
Tell Me Who I Am – By Luca Caserta
Daddy's Note – By Gavin irvine
The Gutter – By Tim Lee
I'm Just A Memory That I Can't Even Remember – By Mana Jahangard

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HONORABLE MENTION 

 

There Is Exactly Enough Time – By Oskar Salomonowitz

My Boy - By Lauren Fripont

Glow – By Giovanna Guarnieri Saraiva & Isabella Wagner

Shadowland – By Bellopropello

Love of Silence – By Tsai, Han-Yun, Chen, Zhi-Ling

A Day in the Life of a Boy – By Niklas Bauer

Amir Hetsroni | Case Study – By Giuseppe Strenger

Modern Day Cathedral – By Philos Maurice Klein

Lovemaking – By Tereza Hirsch

Coyote Tears – By Ron Longo & Craig Clement

Bloodslide – Pica – By Evan Pearce

Axon Terminal – By Robin Christopher Johnston

Beholder – By Peter Hardy 

Candyland.Com – By Joan Barrett

The Bench – By Cjay Boisclair

La Natura – By Kilian Seavers

Land of Wooden Gods – By Börje Peratt

Into the Light of Day – By David Law

 The Legacy – By Jens Klingebiel
Milked – By Amy Taylor

Belina - Music For Peace – By Marc Boettcher
Room to Roam – By Zoë Jungmann 

Marettimo – By Carlo Avventi

Exchange Offer – By Saunak Mitra

Death Offers Life - By Saheer Abbas

Tell me About it, Dennis! - By Thorsten Hamer & Cosma Dujat 

Defect – By Frederik Bösing 

Sea at Night – By Kim Fabienne Hertinger

Aleph – By João Butoh
Perfect Song – By Andreas Kranzler 

Zugvögel – By Johannes Buchholz

All of us – By Willem Wallyn

Bastard's Crossing – By Travis Mills 

The Last Witness – By Piotr Szkopiak 

For Old Times Sake – By Tiago Mesquita

Another Day In The Office– By Tiago Mesquita