Audience Award

Audience Award

The Audience Award is where festival audiences decide which film they feel deserves recognition. The award acts as a kind of opinion indicator separate from the professional juries, and tells us what our audiences are currently most interested in. The Audience Award, worth €1,000, has been sponsored by Sparkasse Dortmund since 2017. The process for selecting this year’s winner will take place online. Entries must be at least 60 minutes long and no more than two years old. We look forward to receiving your vote!

Previous award winners in Dortmund:
2021: Caru Alves de Souza My Name is Baghdad (BR 2020)
2019: Beryl Magoko mit In Search… (DE 2018)
2017: Sally Potter The Party (GB 2017)
2015: Amal Ramsis The Trace of the Butterfly (EG 2014)
2013: Antoinette Beumer Jackie (NL/US 2012)
2011: Ariane Astrid Atodji Koundi et le Jeudi National (CM 2010)
2009: Marianne Chaud Himalaya, a Path to the Sky (FR/IN 2008)

Previous award winners in Cologne:
2022: Eline Gehring Nico (DE 2021)
2018: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter A Woman Captured (HU/DE 2017)
2016: Leona Goldstein God is not Working on Sunday! (RW/DE 2015)
2014: Yael Reuveny Schnee von gestern (DE/IL 2013)
2012: Britta Wandaogo Nichts für die Ewigkeit (DE 2011)
2010: Susan Muska und Gréta Oláfsdóttir Edie & Thea – A Very Long Long Engagement (US 2009)
2008: Kim Massee Cowboy Angels (FR 2007)
2006: Sarah Watt Look Both Ways (AU 2005)

 

My Name is Baghdad

Caru Alves de Souza

BR
2020
Feature Film
96’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Nothing but the Sun

Arami Ullón

PY / CH
2020
Documentary
75’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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One in a Thousand

Clarisa Navas

AR / DE
2020
Feature Film
120’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Quo Vadis, Aida?

Jasmila Žbanić

BA / AT / RO / DE / NL / PL / FR / NO
2020
Feature Film
104’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Souad

EG / TN / DE
2021
Feature Film
96’
OmeU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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The Man Who Sold His Skin

Kaouther Ben Hania

TN / FR / BE / SE / DE
2020
Feature Film
104’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Their Algeria

Lina Soualem

FR / DZ / CH / QA
2020
Documentary
72’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Threshold

Coraci Ruiz

BR
2020
Documentary
77’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Unapologetic

Ashley O`Shay

US
2020
Documentary
86’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Victoria

Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere

BE
2020
Documentary
71’
OmU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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WTC A Love Story

Lietje Bauwens, Wouter De Raeve

NL / BE
2020
Documentary
61’
OmeU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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Zustand und Gelände

Ute Adamczewski

DE
2019
Documentary
119’
dt. OmeU

This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie. You […]

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