Audience Award

Audience Award

In the Audience Award, our cinema spectators decide which film they think deserves an award. This award is highly appreciated by the filmmakers, as it reveals what moves our audience the most at the moment.

The Audience Award is endowed with €1,000 and is sponsored by Sparkasse Dortmund. Al l films with a running time of 60 minutes or more that are no more than two years old can take part. Join us, come to the cinema and vote!

DE
2024
Documentary
109’
dt. OmeU

Barbara Morgenstern at work: melodies are hummed, lyrics written and refined, funding applications drafted, rehearsals scheduled and band discussions planned. […]

Cidade; Campo

Juliana Rojas

BR / DE / FR
2024
Spielfilm
119’
OmU

Juliana Rojas juxtaposes two narratives and gives two movements a structuring role: the journey from the country to the city, […]

KR
2023
Spielfilm
105’
OmeU

Portraying three generations of women in South Korea, the film centres on the figure of the mother, using her story […]

El Sueño

Lisa Bühl

DE
2025
Documentary
72’
OmU

The Pacific coast of Colombia: wild, away from big cities and roads, affected by years of armed conflict. In the […]

Europa

Sudabeh Mortezai

AT
2023
Spielfilm
97’
OmeU, dt. UT

»Exploitation is at the core of our way of life in the privileged societies of the West … Someone has […]

Familiar Places

Mala Reinhardt

DE
2024
Documentary
94’
OmeU, dt. UT

Akosua is a queer, Ghanaian-German, polyamorous woman who wants a child. She divides her time between three cities: Berlin, her […]

Family Therapy

Sonja Prosenc

SI / IT / HR / NO / RS
2024
Spielfilm
122’
OmeU, dt. UT

A car is ablaze. Standing on the roadside is a family, in a state of shock. A second family drives […]

Faruk

Aslı Özge

DE / TR / FR
2024
hybrider Spielfilm
97’
OmeU, dt. UT

The face of an old man. He’s following instructions coming from off camera: »Look at us for a long time […]

Harvest

Athina Rachel Tsangari

GB / DE / GR / FR / US
2024
Spielfilm
131’
OmeU

Grasses sway in the wind. A hand with black fingernails picks up a snail. The man taking in the trees, […]

CH
2024
Documentary
107’
OmU

The people of Stromboli share a deep affection for their IDDU, the volcano in the heart of their island. But […]

Milisuthando

Milisuthando Bongela

ZA / CO
2023
Documentary
128’
OFe

Milisuthando Bongela was born in 1985 in Transkei, the first »homeland« set up for Black South Africans, which was declared […]

Okurimono

Laurence Lévesque

CA
2024
Documentary
96’
OmeU, dt. UT

Some still remember how the cicadas in Nagasaki fell silent in the first few minutes after the atomic bomb was […]