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)

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 […]

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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 […]

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