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 film magazine choices. 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)

 

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Payal Kapadia

FR / IN
2021
Documentary
97’
OmU

A box of letters is found on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India. Signed by a […]

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Actual People

Kit Zauhar

US
2021
Feature Film
84’
OmU

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

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All About My Sisters

Wang Qiong

US
2021
Documentary
174’
OmeU

»Why are you filming?« Jin asks her sister Qiong, who’s holding the camera. »To know what you went through as […]

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Benedikt

Katrin Memmer

DE
2021
Documentary
72’
OmU

This film sees us follow beekeeper Benedikt. It’s a year marked by the rhythms of labour, destinies and rituals. Benedikt […]

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Bipolar

Queena Li

CN
2021
Feature Film
111’
OmeU

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

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Blue Moon

Alina Grigore

RO
2021
Feature Film
85’
OmeU, dt. UT

A small room. A young woman asleep in bed. She’s rudely awoken by her sister, other people enter. There’s no […]

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Celts

Milica Tomović

RS
2021
Feature Film
106’
OmeU, dt. UT

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

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Clara Sola

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

SE / CR / BE / DE
2021
Feature Film
106’
OmeU, dt. UT

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

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Cow

Andrea Arnold

UK
2021
Documentary
94’
OFe

»I kept saying involuntarily during the edit: ›I’m seeing you, Luma. Don’t worry Luma, we see you.‹ I’m not sure […]

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Dust of Modern Life

Franziska von Stenglin

DE
2021
Documentary
82’
OmU

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

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For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum

Pilar Moreno, Ana Endara

PA
2021
Documentary
71’
OmeU, dt. UT

This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: […]

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Freda

Gessica Généus

HT / FR / BJ
2021
Feature Film
93’
OmeU

Student Freda lives with her family in a popular but poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Her mother Jeanette supports herself and […]

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