Audience Award

Audience Award

We are delighted that the Dortmund-based production company Sally Forth Cinema is sponsoring the festival’s Audience Award starting this year and has doubled the prize money to €2,000.

All films in the festival program with a runtime of at least 60 minutes that are no more than two years old are eligible to participate. This award is highly valued by filmmakers, as it reveals what is currently resonating most with our audience. Join in, come to the cinema, and cast your vote!

Agatha’s Almanac

Amalie Atkins

CA
2025
Documentary
86’
OmU

Agatha is 90 years old and lives alone on an old family farm in the Canadian province of Manitoba with […]

Between Goodbyes

Jota Mun

KR / US
2024
Documentary
96’
OmeU

Mieke Murkes, a queer Korean adoptee, grew up in the Netherlands. In adulthood, she finds out that her Korean parents […]

Do You Love Me

Lana Daher

FR / LB / DE / QA
2025
Experimental
75’
OmeU, dt. UT

History can’t be thought of in linear terms. The overlapping events of historical change are always seeking new connections. Lana […]

DE
2026
Documentary
81’
dt. OmeU

Jelena Ilić’s father was convicted of aggravated assault and spent many years in a forensic psychiatric clinic. The director salvaged […]

Formfragen: Fia Fabula

Alice Dalgalarrondo

BR / DE
2026
Experimental
77’
OmeU, dt. UT

A red thread stretches between the fingers of our protagonists, reminding us of the myth of Ariadne. In this sensuous […]

God Will Not Help

Hana Jušić

HR / RO / IT / GR / FR / SI
2025
Spielfilm
137’
OmeU

»Figures like Teresa and Milena could easily be among us today: women who unsettle the structures that seek to discipline […]

US
2025
Documentary
89’
OmeU

In 2023, the Republican-governed US state of Tennessee passed a law prohibiting gender-affirming medical care for under-18s. In 2024, the […]

I Dreamed His Name

Ángela Carabalí

CO
2025
Documentary
86’
OmeU

Traces give rise to actions – a photograph among grains of rice, a faint silhouette over the field, and a […]

I Lost Sight of the Landscape

Sophie Bédard Marcotte

CA
2025
Documentary
85’
OmeU

In times when everyone is constantly filming themselves and stories begin with the self, we meet filmmaker Sophie. Suffering from […]

US
2024
Spielfilm
113’
OmeU

»There is an abyss between the mother and the child.« Julia Kristeva Linda (Rose Byrne), mother and therapist, drifts through […]

Manok

Yu-jin Lee

KR
2025
Spielfilm
108’
OmeU

Manok, the owner of what used to be an iconic lesbian bar in Seoul, hits rock bottom when her mother […]

Mayilaa

Semmalar Annam

IN
2026
Spielfilm
97’
OmeU

»The film is a call for change, urging future generations to break the cycle of silence and oppression.« Semmalar Annam […]