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!

Previous award winners in Dortmund:
2025: Hind Meddeb Sudan, Remember Us (FR/TN 2025)
2023: Claudia Richarz Helke Sander Aufräumen (DE 2023)
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)

Previous award winners in Cologne:
2024: Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine Copa 71 (UK 2023)
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)

Salve Maria

Mar Coll

ES
2024
Spielfilm
112’
OmeU, dt. UT

Catalan filmmaker Mar Coll delivers a daring psychological thriller on one of society’s great taboos: the notion that not all […]

Samia

Yasemin Şamdereli

IT / DE / BE / SE
2024
Spielfilm
102’
OmU

Samia is growing up in a modern Muslim large family in Mogadishu. At home, the atmosphere is warm and humorous, […]

Sima’s Song

Roya Sadat

NL / ES / FR / TW / AF
2024
Spielfilm
98’
OmeU, dt. UT

»Global history has largely ignored our stories, reducing Afghanistan to a narrative of war, extremism and fundamentalism. Many people believe […]

Sudan, Remember Us

Hind Meddeb

FR / TN
2025
Documentary
76’
OmeU

This film cautiously captures the spirit of Khartoum’s youth as they resist a dictatorial regime, fighting above all for freedom […]

Sunshine

Antoinette Jadaone

PH
2024
Feature Film
92’
OmeU

In the deeply Catholic and patriarchal Philippines, where abortion is illegal and societal expectations for women are unforgiving, Sunshine illuminates […]

The Moelln Letters

Martina Priessner

DE
2025
Documentary
96’
OmeU

Germany 1992: Rostock-Lichtenhagen in August, Mölln in November. Solingen and Lübeck follow. A wave of right-wing extremist attacks sweeps across […]

Union

Brett Story, Stephen Maing

US
2024
Documentary
104’
OmU

A storm is brewing. Amazon workers have spent countless days and nights camped outside the company’s Staten Island warehouse, rallying […]

IN / SG
2024
Spielfilm
108’
OmeU, dt. UT

Set in rural Assam, this intimate sequel to Village Rockstars (2016) revisits Dhunu, now a determined 17-year-old navigating the hardships […]

We Are Inside

Farah Kassem

LB / QA / DK
2024
Documentary
180’
OmeU

Farah Kassem has returned to Tripoli. Time passes by in the apartment she shares with her father. They sit close […]

When the Phone Rang

Iva Radivojević

RS / US
2024
Experimental
73’
OmeU, dt. UT

It’s spring 1992 in Novi Sad. The phone rings – once, twice, and then over and over again. Each of […]