December 2023
Conversation with Albert Knoll — Philipp Gufler
Gender Equality, Issues and Rights
Baggage Check — Emma James
Best Dance Film, Short
Fallen: The Search of A Broken Angel — Alex Kruz
Best Artist Feature Film
Dropped - History in the breaking — Zan Barberton, Syann van Niftrik
Artist Short Film
To The Zero Line — Benjamin I. Goldhagen
Best Director - Feature Film
The Katinas - Love God / Love People — Michael Everett
Best Documentary ex aequo
"Pioneers of the Pacific" — kirk james findlay
Honorable Mention
We Will Not Be Silenced — Luis Solarat
Best Documentary ex aequo
Don Andrés: El Guitarrero — Dmitry Zagumennikov
Best Short Documentary
November 2023
The Beauty Within Us All — Lorenza Castella
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
AI'S DIARY — Alice Barrese
Beet Mobile Short Film
The Duguesclin Tower — Ronan LIOT
Best VR and 360 Film
SHINE ON — Anna Jauch, Anne Kabelitz, Marie Jahn, Ricardo Reule
Best Animation
ABANDONADOS — Francisco Manso Faria
Best Human Rights Film
AWARDS Beyond the limits of hairdressing — Juan San Martín
Best Fashion film
Remember the Future — Gerald Geier
Best Environment and Climate, Short Film
A Buddhist requiem — Gu Dam (Park Jung Min)
Best Dance Film, Feature
SIE — Alexander Schellow
Nominee
Breakdown — Michael Paone
Best Actor - Short Film
Allegro Confuso — Clément de Dadelsen
Best Comedy, Short Film
Oscillating Sporadically — Gabby Follett Sumney, Hogan Seidel
Experimental Film
The Handbag — Marion H von Loewenstern
Best Cinematography
Breakdown — Hannah Coffman
Best Actress - Short Film
Breakdown — Gabriel Tibi
Best Director - Short Film
Ma Fatsh Leah مافتش ليه — Marion Auvin
Honorable Mention
MATAR NAEM — Ekin Koca
Best Music Video
DOCTOR HARRIET'S FOUR — Lukas Metjes
Nominee
TROUBADOURS CELESTES — TROUBADOURS CELESTES
Nominee
Marie-Luise — Hervine De Boodt
Nominee
October 2023
SARDINES — Katharine Dreves
Best Mobile Short Film
Humbug — Koen Malliet
Best Animation
Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops — Susan Gray
Best Environment and Climate, Short Filkm
Reverie — Benedict Yu, Enhard Xavier Magaline
Best Dance Film, Short
Farewell Dreams — Daniel Wolters
Artist Short Film
Feature film with subtitles: Welcome to reality or death in the aquarium — Eugenia Winckler
Best Actress - Feature Film
The Unsaid — Eliane Germanos
Best Actress - Short Film
My Red Bicycle — Holger E. Metzger
Best Music Video
Rummy — Moritz Mayer
Best Short Documentary
Rising Wings — Harun Kazaz
Best Documentary
Sophia — Efriem Kahsay Quada
Best Feature Film
WordLotto - Pilot — Johnny Baca
nominee
Impfdrutschala — Michael von Hohenberg
Best Comedy, Feature
System Change - A story of growing resistance — Klaus Sparwasser
Best Environment and Climate Film, Feature
STRATA — Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes, VestAndPage
Honorable mention
Hope — Ferdinand Schnabl
Best Short Film
September 2023
Angel VR — Avatâra Ayuso
Best VR and 360
Romeo and Benvolio — Anna Ma
Best Family and Children Friendly Film
Relics of Love and War — Keith Lawrence Lock
Best History Film
Chessno — Georgii Ivaentc, Daniel Ovsienko
Best Fashion Film
On the Alpen Road to St. Martin — Anne E. Witte
Best Short Documentary
Poetry Zaban — Prof. Amir Har-Gil
Best Documentary
Songs of Kamui — Hiroshi Sugawara
Best Feature Film
Songs of Kamui — Hiroshi Sugawara
Best Human Rights Film
Songs of Kamui — Hiroshi Sugawara
Best Discrimination and Equality Film
Montauk The End — Vuk Stojanovic
Best Experimental Film
…der Flitter graut. Es bleibt Verpasstes übrig. — Carsten Fuhrmann
Nominee
August 2023
SPEAK TO ME OF BLUE — CEMİLE KIRMIZI KARADAŞ, FATİH ZAMAN
Best Labor and Social Film
Sharkey's Bar — Keven Siegert
Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
Natural Art — Henrik Bobb
Best Student Film
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI — Bayarma Bayarma
Best Actress - Feature Film
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI — Vincent Molli
Best Actor - Feature Film
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI — Nikolay Bogomilov
Honorable Mention, Feature Film
Ruminant — Jannis Welters, Brandon Marlon Moldenhauer, Zabi Tajik, Mark Tumba
Best Short Film
Weakness — Antonio Orbe
Best Comedy, Short Film
Ich flitze, also bin ich — Manuel Molinari
Honorable Mention
Body Issues — Marjorie Conrad
Best Experimental Film
Study for Clouds — Jyrgen Ueberschär
Quarter-Finalist
IN VINO WHISKY — Nina Ullmann, Jule Peuckmann
Best Dance Film, Short
Spirit Of The Tree — Ysabelle Taylor
Honorable Mention
Neighborhood — Ahmad Sadik Saqqar
Best Feature Film
Soultribe — Stefan Rainer
Honorable Mention
July 2023
THE CREATURE 2.0 — Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov
Honorable Mention
The Becoming — Ben Crompton
Best Dance Film, Short
AUDITION — Gino Zhang
Best Director - Short Film
AUDITION — Name
Best Actor - Short Film
Mountain, Fountain, River — Charles Dowdell Brown
Best VR and 360
When you are 17 — Giorgi Mukhadze
Best Feature Film
"playBACK - Die Performance endet nie!" — Dennis Böddicker, Georg Böhm
Best Comedy, Feature
Weil Ihr Nur Eure Hunde Liebt — Chehad Ali Abdallah
Best Short Film
death will come like a shadow — Saba Hasan
Best Artist Short Film
Münster Künstler: I'm an Artist — Joshua Berling
Best Culture Film
fishy — Leonore Poth
Best Animation
ECHOS — Axel Clevenot
Best Short Documentary
Soulful Serenade — Jarid Polite
Honorable Mention
The Engine Inside — Darcy Wittenburg, Darren McCullough, Colin Jones, Anthill Films
Best Documentary
rodney — Karen Driver
Best Discrimination and Equality Film
rodney — Karen Driver
Best Human Rights Film
Purebred Spanish: The Origin — Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
Honorable Mention
When Autumn Comes — Christopher Jacobs
Best Feature Film
Itu Ninu — Itandehui Jansen
Environment and Climate, Feature
June 2023
GRAU — David Pohlus
Best Student Film
Not a long time ago — Marcus Günther
Best Animation
La sposa nel vento - The bride in the wind — Giovanni Coda
Best Gender Equality Issues and Rights Film
Mannheim: Green City — Oliver Hoffmann
Best Environment and Climate, Short
Thread Threat — Konstantina Sofokleous
Best Artist Short Film
Mannheim: Culture and Festival City — Oliver Hoffmann
Best Commercial & Advertising
A Time For Summer — Jacek Raginis
Best Director - Feature Film
A Time For Summer — Jacek Raginis
Best Feature Film
Words like violence — Arjan Gebraad
Honorable Mention
ALOW — Tanja Bombach
Best Dance Film - Short
Dante's Paradise — Osseily Hanna
Honorable Mention
DHL - Innovation That Moves — Oliver Geibel
Best Short Documentary
Joan of Arc — Tim S Lott
Honorable Mention
Hex Papa, Hex! — Leonard Carow
Best Short Film
War Machine — Katia Ospino
Honorable Mention
The journey — ZRIBIAA SAID
Best Documentary
“2020: A Pandemic Odyssey” (Or, How I Got Stanley Kubrick Out of My {Solar} System Once and For All) — Roger F. Copeland
Best Experimental Film
zeit / time — Ingrid Gans
Honorable Mention
Focus. - 24/7 — Andreas Eisenach
Best Music Video
The Troxler Effect — Deborah Marshall
Best Actress - Short Film
May 2023
The Inadequacy to be Together — Maximilian Hirsch
Best Health and Medicine
The Inadequacy to be Together — Justin Otto
Best Actor - Feature Film
The Inadequacy to be Together — Lea Freund
Best Actress - Feature Film
"The Tree House" — Flávio Ermírio de Moraes
Best Director - Feature Film
TRACE Tracing Rare African Canadian Extraordinaire — Sonia Oduwa Aimiumu
Best Discrimination and Equality Film
TRACE Tracing Rare African Canadian Extraordinaire — Sonia Oduwa Aimiumu
Best History Film
Obsidian Dream — Scotty Hardwig, Claudia Lavista
Best Dance Film, Short
Ukungu — Johannes Horak
Honorable Mention
I Killed You a Dozen Times — Kris De Meester
Best Experimental Film
"Flare" — Shannon Silva
Best Artist Short Film
Melodia: a short film in rondo form — A T Beaune 唐博訥
Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
Flare — Shannon Silva
Best Artist Short Film
Das Kulturgespräch im Radio — Errkaa .
Best Best Culture Film
EVERYBODY BRINGS SOMETHING TO THE PARTY — DAVID CC ERICKSON
Honorable Mention
Night Thoughts — Nestor Villasmil
Best Music Video
"The Eye Begins in The Hand" — Yehuda Sharim
Best Labor and Social Film
"ELVIS" — FABRIZIO FANELLI
Best Short Film
The Penrose Triangle — Kai Groenwald
Honorable Mention
If Not Now — Jill Daniels
Best Short Documentary
My Nanny — Adriana Jacobsen
Honorable Mention
Letters2Maybe — Yehuda Sharim
Honorable Mention
Between Heaven and Earth — Stephanie Englert
Honorable Mention
Dutch Colonial Traces — Reda van der Putten
Best Documentary
April 2023
Momo or Moses — Charif Ounis
Discrimination and Equality
Tábor — Stanislav Danylyshyn
Honorable Mention
1989 - Maybe tomorrow everything will be different… — Martin Kreusch
Best Feature Film
The Three Little (Proletariat) Pigs — Daniel Oluwasayo Olabode, Atticus Orsborn
Honorable Mention
Termite — Tathagata Bhowmik
Best Short Film
Fredag Ovenpå — Tim Shaughnessy Hansen
Honorable Mention
Stay With Me — Graeme Finlayson
Honorable Mention
A meeting between two. The secret. A short film by Yoram Marcus, the original long version. — Yoram Marcus, Eyal Kantor
Honorable Mention
keep going.. — Lisa Wagner
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
"The Velveteen Rabbit" — Liv Lorent
Best Family and Children Friendly Film
"Deus Ex Machina" — Daniel Theiler
Best Environment and Climate, Short Film
"Shadowland II" — Kari Hoaas, Alexander Kayiambakis
Best Dance Film, Short
Jetbridge Jesus — Daniel Theiler
Best Artist Short Film
The Fate of Cysalion — Marc Blasweiler
Best Director - Feature Film
Yu - Unique — Andreas Eisenach
Best Music Video
"The watch" — Anna Milena Brass
Best Short Documentary
Lead and Copper — William Hart
Best Documentary
March 2023
FRONTIER — Axel Schuldes
Best Student Film
Balanced - Guardians of Weather and Earth — Carolina Bu
Best Animation
The New Renaissance Immortal Beauty ELAWIATR ART — ELAWIATR
Best Experimental Film
The Group (Balagam) — Venu Yeldandi
Best Culture Film
The Group (Balagam) — Venu Yeldandi
Best Director
The Group (Balagam) — Priyadarshi Pulikonda
Best Actor
The Group (Balagam) — Kavya Kalyanram
Best Actress
Warsaw Rising — Tomasz Dobosz
Best VR and 360
Wiktoria 1920 — Tomasz Dobosz
Honorable Mention
Midnight escape - Fateme — Jacqueline Peters, Anastasia Misbach
Gender Equality, Issues and Rights Film
When the tea gets cold — Arian Nowbahari
Honorable Mention
THE EVERYMAN / WOMAN — Yorgos Loucas
Human Rights Film
It's Just Business — Judy Boyle
Honorable Mention
Table phenomena - research on spiritistic séances with physical medium Kai Mügge — Eckhard Kruse
Best Short Documentary
Art in the Desert — Rick Meghiddo
Honorable Mention
Jelena Jeremejewa, Catalina Flórez — Jelena Jeremejewa, Catalina Flórez
Best Documentary
Flowers in the veins — Rune Schytte
Honorable Mention
Queer Gardening — Ella von der Haide
Honorable Mention
Just a Friday — Jacqueline May
Best Short Film
You Made Me — Lukas Amores
Honorable Mention
Emancipation — Jerry Digby
Honorable Mention
You Made Me — Lukas Amores
Honorable Mention
Robota — Bjoern Lingner
Honorable Mention
The last Paper — Romain Gieren
Honorable Mention
Valkyries — Joscha Seehausen
Honorable Mention
February 2023
Not Worried. But Confused. — Loïc Kreyden
Best Animation
Roots will Remain — garath whyte
Best Human Rights Film
Sheikh Al Tanweer — Eva Riyad Daoud
Best History Film
Arrivederci Paris — Louis Salvatore Bellanti
Best Director - Short Film
The Earth holds me — Sara Manisera
Best Feature Film
loves journey — Thomas Lisle
Best Artist Short Film
Zyklus XX — Johannes Franke, Confusionart Collective
Best Music Video
Once the Dust Settles — Ai Rei Dooh-Tousignant, Amanda Matalanis
Honorable Mention
Women of Rwanda — Sophie Krieg
Gender Equality, Issues and Rights
The Kids of Msholozi — Bennet Faust, Jeronimo Hahn
Best Short Documentary
Bootees — Shreya Jayamohan
Honorable Mention
Water! — Jacob Kressner
Best Student Film
Commitment in this generation — Alina Birjuk, Luisa Zieglmeier
Honorable Mention
Hidden Matter — Rachelle Scott, Permi Jhooti
Honorable Mention
Room to Room — Rachelle Scott
Best Dance Film, Short
Ctrl+Z — Giulia Olivieri
Honorable Mention
Second Chance - A glimpse into the everyday life of German animal shelters — Dana Wiegand
Best Documentary
COMPASS - FIND WAYS - GO WAYS — Max Boje
Best Health and Medicine Feature
Moments — Guilherme Simas
Best Commercial & Advertising
The Gift of Giving — Nando Dietz
Best Short Film
Every Car, A Person — James Proctor
Honorable Mention
Alder Queen — Benjamin Kramme
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
Die Finsternis — Matthias Horbelt
Honorable Mention
Believe in Yourself — Miguel Guzman
Honorable Mention
January 2023
The Squonk — Mike Bothe
Best Family and Children Friendly Film
Who Owns The Sky — Sabian Baumann
Gender Equality, Issues and Rights
The art of friends - business UN usual — Lukas Riedl
Best Culture Film
BREARTH — JULIO DEL ALAMO
Best Environment and Climate, Short Film
LUVOS migrations — Editta Braun, Meni Weissbacher
Best Dance Film, Short
Why Chickens Don't Fly — Lena Schmidtke
Best Actress - Feature Film
Why Chickens Don't Fly — Lena Schmidtke
Best Feature Film
The Ode on Cure — Vladislav Motorichev
Best Experimental Film
Leaving JHQ Rheindahlen Behind — Conor McBride
Honorable Mention
Synthesis — Sukru Ozcevik
Best Fashion Film
Forever Bound — Rob Bell
Honorable Mention
Be Around Me — Princess Computer a.k.a. TZUSOO & Lloyd Marquart
Best Music Video
Vincent Peirani - JOKERS — Alice Thibault, Thibaut Lurois
Honorable Mention
Aïda and the Freedom to Dance — Claus Rasmussen
Best Short Documentary
IN BETWEEN — Piel Schmitt
Honorable Mention
Azart. Come Make Art — Annike Kaljouw
Best Documentary
EPOCH ZERO — Mirna Brkanović
Honorable Mention
Mad About Art Brut — Simon Backès
Honorable Mention
Connected through Cypher — Loubna Doudouh, Arman Marvani
Best Short Film
EIN HASS ZU VIEL — Moshe Zeevi
Honorable Mention
A.P.O.S.T.A.T.E. — Migael van der Westhuizen
Honorable Mention
The horrible 'Charm' of a nuclear explosion — Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Best War and Peace Theme Film
Living Your Life — Sven Molke
Best Student Film