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)

Animalia

Sofia Alaoui

FR / MA / QA
2023
Spielfilm
89’
OmeU

In a village in the Atlas Mountains, newly-wed and heavily pregnant Itto lives in the home of her wealthy in-laws. […]

DK / PL / FR
2022
Documentary
116’
OmeU

Pictures of Apolonia – they’re everywhere: from videotapes of her birth to oil-painted self-portraits. Rarely has it been so hard […]

Bye Bye Tiberias

Lina Soualem

PS / FR / BE / QA
2023
Documentary
82’
OmeU, dt. UT

A mother and daughter look at photographs of the past together. A complex family history is viewed in the Paris […]

Camping du lac

Éléonore Saintagnan

BE / FR
2023
Spielfilm
69’
OmeU, dt. UT

»I’d like to tell you about an odd thing that happened.« This is the opening line of Camping du lac, […]

Chuck Chuck Baby

Janis Pugh

UK
2023
Musical, Spielfilm
102’
OmU

In a small town in North Wales, Helen lives together with her husband, his new partner, their child and her […]

City of Wind

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

FR / MN / PT / NL / DE / QA
2023
Spielfilm
103’
OmeU

Roughly half of Mongolia’s 3.2 million people reside in the capital Ulaanbaatar, a sprawling maze of roads and jagged skyscrapers. […]

Copa 71

Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine

UK
2023
Documentary
91’
OmU

»Why haven’t I seen this before?« In the first scene of Copa 71, American international footballer Brandi Chastain stares at […]

Dry Ground Burning

Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

BR / PT
2022
Spielfilm
153’
OmeU

Fresh out of prison, Léa returns to the Sol Nascente favela and joins a formidable gang of women led by […]

Echo of You

Zara Zerny

DK
2023
Documentary
76’
OmU

Older people hold their hands in front of their eyes and visualise their loved ones. They try to remember them […]

Elbow

Aslı Özarslan

DE / TR / FR
2024
Spielfilm
86’
OmeU, dt. UT

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her greatest wish is to have a life, a real future! Despite writing […]

Family Time

Tia Kouvo

FI / SE
2023
Spielfilm
116’
OmeU

Christmas time is family time. The children arrive. Doors open. Doors close. For Ella and Lasse’s daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, […]

Hello Dankness

Soda Jerk

AU
2022
Experimental
70’
OFe

In a stunning collage of hundreds of borrowed film clips, Soda Jerk dissect American society and politics between 2016 and […]