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!

Previous award winners in Cologne:
2026: Jelena Ilić Eine Krankheit wie ein Gedicht (DE 2026)
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)

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)

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 […]

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