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!

No Good Men

Shahrbanoo Sadat

DE / FR / NO / DK / AF
2026
Spielfilm
103’
OmeU, dt. UT

Camera operator Naru (played by Sadat herself) has given up on the men of Afghanistan. An incompetent husband, physical abuse […]

Nunkui

Verenice Benítez

EC / CL / DE
2026
Spielfilm
91’
OmeU

»Nunkui is a story of resistance that emerges from the female practice of tending the garden and honouring the spirits […]

One Woman One Bra

Vincho Nchogu

KE / NG
2025
Spielfilm
79’
OmeU

»Are we telling the stories that we really want to tell, or is the funding dictating the stories we tell?« […]

Perla

Alexandra Makarová

AT / SK
2025
Spielfilm
110’
OmeU

»If I forgot about myself, it wouldn’t be good for my daughter.« Alexandra Makarová In 1980s Vienna, dissident artist Perla […]

Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency

Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle

US
2025
Documentary
71’
OmU

Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens take us on an irresistibly humorous journey into their eco-sexual world of human/non-human collaborations and […]

Sirens Call

Miri Ian Gossing & Lina Sieckmann

DE / NL
2025
Documentary
121’
OmU

A film women can enter like clear water: at its centre is Gina Rønning, a psychologist from Portland, Oregon, whose […]

Six Weeks On

Jacqueline Jansen

DE
2025
Spielfilm
98’
dt. OmeU

»I was afraid of disturbing her while she was walking. I always lit a new candle because I thought that […]

The Son and The Sea

Stroma Cairns

UK / US
2025
Spielfilm
102’
OmeU

Set between London and Scotland’s northern coast, The Son and the Sea follows three young men on the edge of adulthood. […]

The Vanishing Point

Bani Khoshnoudi

IR / US / FR
2025
Documentary
104’
OmeU

An empty kitchen table, covered with a colourful tablecloth. Abandoned places. Photos in a family album. Faded memories. An exploration […]

Vena

Lisa Jilg (DoP)

DE
2024
Spielfilm
116’
dt. OmeU

Female Gaze – CineOne & sPOTTlight National Award for Best Female Director of Photography in a Fiction Film Jury’s statement […]

Where the Waves Took Her

Sophia Fenn (DoP)

DE
2025
Documentary
82’
OmeU

Female Gaze – CineOne & sPOTTlight National Award for Best Female Director of Photography in a Documentary Jury’s statement (Greta […]

Women & the Wind

Alizé Jireh

US
2025
Documentary
95’
OFe

Their hands trace the grooves in the wood of the fifty-year-old catamaran, grasp the ropes and embrace each other. Three […]