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)

Life Unrehearsed

Jieun BANPARK

KR / DE
2022
Documentary
80’
OmU

The two protagonists in this film met and fell in love many years previously during a retreat. They both came […]

Mambar Pierrette

Rosine Mbakam

BE / CM
2023
Spielfilm
93’
OmeU, dt. UT

It’s the rainy season and the new school year is about to begin. From dawn ’til dusk, Mambar Pierette sews […]

Milk

Stefanie Kolk

NL
2023
Spielfilm
96’
OmeU, dt. UT

Seldom does a feature film explore the profound significance of breast milk production, a symbol of nurturing life. However, when […]

Perpetrator

Jennifer Reeder

US / FR
2023
Spielfilm
100’
OmU

Jonquil Baptiste (known as Jonny) makes a living from burglaries and petty crimes. Her single father suffers from a strange […]

Reas

Lola Arias

AR / DE / CH
2024
Documentary
82’
OmU

Set in a former prison in Buenos Aries, this film tells the story of a group of cis and trans […]

Scrapper

Charlotte Regan

GB
2023
Spielfilm
84’
OFe

A »scrapper« may embody improvisational determination and a fighting spirit in the face of adversity. Other meanings refer to dealing […]

Silent Sun of Russia

Sibylla Tuxen

DK
2023
Documentary
71’
OmeU

»Do you think we could have changed something if everyone had stayed?«, asks one of the film’s characters. A direct […]

The Face of the Jellyfish

Melisa Liebenthal

AR
2022
Experimental
76’
OmeU

One night, Marina’s face suddenly changed. Otherwise, she has the same body, the same life. »I don’t know what to […]

KR
2023
Documentary
99’
OmU

At the start of the 20th century, when cinema was emerging, Korea was under Japanese occupation – a violent colonisation […]