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)

 

Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon

Constanze Schmitt (DoP)

DE
2021
Documentary
97’
OmU

Statement of the Jury (Isabelle Casez, Birgit Guðjonsdottir, Sabine Panossian) »We were impressed with the successful collaboration between director and […]

Mi iubita, mon amour

Noémie Merlant

FR
2021
Feature Film
95’
OmeU

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

Mighty Flash

Ainhoa Rodríguez

ES
2021
Feature Film
98’
OmeU, dt. UT

In Extremadura, a province in the southwest of Spain, a village awaits a great flash of light. Anything to shake […]

Nico

Eline Gehring

DE
2021
Feature Film
79’
OmU

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

Rebel Dykes

Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams

GB
2021
Documentary
92’
OmU

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

Republic of Silence

Diana El Jeiroudi

DE / FR / SY / IT
2021
Documentary
183’
OmU

»This film starts without a picture.«. We just see white letters on a black background. Childhood memories, a camera given […]

The Mushroom Speaks

Marion Neumann

CH
2021
Documentary
90’
OmU

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

The Other Side of the River

Antonia Kilian (DoP)

DE / FI
2021
Documentary
92’
OmU

Special Mention Statement of the Jury (Isabelle Casez, Birgit Guðjonsdottir, Sabine Panossian) »›I have lived without a man for 20 […]

Vatersland

Petra Seeger

DE / BE
2020
Feature Film
118’
OF

Vatersland starts with the traumatic early death of the director’s mother. With great sensitivity, the film chronicles her personal journey […]

Virgin Blue

Niu Xiaoyu

CN
2021
Experimental
100’
OmeU, dt. UT

This film can’t be trusted: clocks stop suddenly and reflections of light are up to mischief. While Yezi spends a […]

Words of Negroes

Sylvaine Dampierre

FR
2021
Documentary
80’
OmeU, dt. UT

The Grand Anse sugar refinery on the tiny island of Marie-Galante is the setting for the re-enactment of a 1842 […]