December 2024
Newcastle — Sahand Ghorbanpoor, Sepehr Ghorbanpoor
Best Labor and Social Film
Romsdalen - the wildest of Norway — Sven-Erik Knoff
est Travel and Discovery, Short Film
Amazing Türkiye — Marie-Noelle Michaud
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
FANTASIA — DIAN WANG
Best Artist Film, Short
FANTASIA — DIAN WANG
Best War and Peace Theme Film
My skin — Jette Bödige, Malte Bruer, Fynn Piepenschneider, Philip Schimpl
Best Student Film
My skin — Jette Bödige, Malte Bruer, Fynn Piepenschneider, Philip Schimpl
Best Animation
Portraits In Drag – The Faces of Pinay Colada — Stephan Schaar
Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights Film
You Don't Know 2: Discovery of Happiness — YongNam Lee
Best Human Rights Film
Ice Breath — Leonard Alecu
Best Environment and Climate, Feature Film
Scores for Mother & Daughter — NATALIA SARDI
Bets Dance Film, Short
Wolf Lodge — Sven-Erik Knoff
Best Commercial & Advertising
Decalogue | Ten Visual Poems — Guliz Mutlu
Honorable Mention
OMOTENASHI — Akiko Matsumoto, Roku Jingwen Long
Best Mobile Short Film
fifteen zero three nineteenth of january two thousand sixteen — Petra Bauer, Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Honorable Mention
Raising Spirits | The Big Muddy Dance Company — Ria Ruthsatz, Chadwell Ruthsatz
Honorable Mention
Home Game - Luge World Championships 2024 — Leon Fuchs
Best Short Documentary
Forever 21 — Bonnie McKee, David Richardson
Honorable Mention
Jenny's Got a Boyfriend — Bonnie McKee, David Richardson
Best Music Video
HOW MANY CROWS ARE SITTING — Schorsch Feierfeil
Honorable Mention
At The Barber's — Joel de Veyra
Honorable Mention
igeonman & Cockroachboy — Simon Begemann
Honorable Mention
Our Loyalties — Alexia Portal
Best Short Film
Yoroboshi / Lost in the darkness — Ryosuke Handa
Honorable Mention
At Gino's — Christoph Otto
Honorable Mention
Life - up and down — Ingrid Gans
Best Experimenta Film
My friend Miles — Pieter Solta
Best Feature Film
November 2024
I’m Perfectly Fine — Dario van Vree
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
Washed Up — Thomas Bayne
Best Student Film
Fernherrlichkeit — Sebastian Kern
Best Discrimination and Equality Film
Out of the Picture — Mary Louise Schumacher
Best Culture Film
Bird Island Suite — Iris Trio
Best Environment and Climate, Short Film
Incubating Home — Soyeon Jung
Best Artist Short Film
ORANGE BLUES 24 — Alyssa Dann
Best Music Video
Alone in the dark — Christian Kaiser
Best Short Film
Out of the Picture — Mary Louise Schumacher
Best Documentary
FRED — Julius Dommer
Honorable Mention
Chekhov.Offstage — Anna Turchaninova
Best Short Documentary
October 2024
Nothing — Sophia Münster
Best Student Film
I would have liked to make a different film — Suse Itzel
Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights Film
LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution — Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo
Best Culture Film
Algorithm Party — Roy Boulter
Honorable Mention
Of Color and Ink — Zhang Weimin
Honorable Mention
Fight for Ukraine: For the Children — Karen Floyd
Honorable Mention
North Cormorant Island — John Harford Williams, Yu Iwasaki
Best Documentary
ECHO — Jasmin Michelle Mittner
Best Artist Short Film
ECHO — Jasmin Michelle Mittner
Best Director - Short Film
Ti lamp ti lamp — Jonathan Arnoult
Best Short Film
BERLIN. EVERYTHING'S-CHANGED PLACE — Wolfgang Friedrich Müller
Honorable Mention
You, Me and The Night — Coco Bigles
Best Music Video
Mirjam — Allegra Schneider, Daniel Poštrak, Julia Chaker, Dörthe Boxberg, Petra Maurer
Best Short Documentary
YAREN — mehmet ali poyraz
Honorable Mention
ABYSS — Alessandro Porzio
Honorable Mention
The Imagination of a Child — Cesare Catania
Honorable Mention
HOLY B3 — Claudio D´Attis, Roberto Basile
Honorable Mention
Dreamer's Key — Lukas Zumbrock
Best Experimental Film
Everything is Green — Shannon Litzenberger
Best Dance Film, Short
territory — Zachary Chant
Best Experimental Film
September 2024
Josefine — Maestro Broadcasting & Scottish Opera
Honorable Mention – Animation
Josefine — Maestro Broadcasting & Scottish Opera
Best Family and Children Friendly
Gaslight — Stellario Di Blasi
Best Fashion Film
When I had rice pudding — Linda Ludwig
Best Health and Medicine
Ehrensache — David Sebastian Rothe
Best Comedy, Short Film
Operation Talus — Sean Cygan
Best Animation
SURVIVAL — PETER IYEN
Best Experimental Film
But Also With A Smile — Yuansheng Sun
Honorable Mention
Untitled Skates — Koketso Matabane
Honorable Mention
Slava — Davide Ficuciello
Best Short Documentary
The Oxen Cathedral — Christian Beyer
Honorable Mention
I don't love my mother — GERARD CUQ
Honorable Mention
Whenever I Died I Died 1,000 Times — Nicky Otis Smith
Honorable Mention, Experimental
NEW ORDER — Alexander Frizzera
Best Music Video
Robin Poitras: A Thousand Memories of Dance — Larry J. Bauman
Honorable Mention
The Room on the Third Floor — Ning Jia Song
Best Dance Film, Short
August 2024
Tram - Wash your hands before dying — Martin "Gotti" Gottschild, Christian Klandt
Best Comedy, Short Film
Coffin Room — KAY KWAN, LAM NHI LE
Best 360 and VR Project
Together — Holger Rada
Best Student Film
TAGE IM WINTER — Carsten Fuhrmann, Mark Klotz
Best Experimental Film
Fotorevolte — Jule Körperich
Honorable Mention, Animation
Mindscapes — Charlotte Paula Emma Mader
Best Animation
Fur Change — Lioba Schmidt
Honorable Mention, Artist Short Film
The Coviad — David Shulman
Artist Short Film
OUTSIDER. FREUD — Yair Qedar
Best Documentary
ROOTS — Michael Schindhelm
Honorable Mention, Documentary
Saving Jaguars and Ourselves--Climate Change Is Now — Susan Perz
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
A DEADLY THREESOME — RODRIG ANDRISAN
Nominee
antisocial — Tobias Rothacker
Best Music Video
The Connections — Carsten Jain-Pütz
Best Feature Film
July 2024
POOVU (FLOWER) — Anish Babu Abbas, Binoy George
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
The Player — Daniel Yanik
Best Short Film
The Player — Daniel Yanik
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
Bespoke ART — Jingjing Chen
Best Director - Feature Film
Bespoke ART — Jingjing Chen
Best Actress - Feature Film
Bespoke ART — Jingjing Chen
Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights Film
I Create As I Speak — Robert Campbell, David Stout
Best Artist Short Film
Look Up To The Sun — Asadeh Khakban
Best Music Video
A Love Letter To Skating — Cassandra Edwards
Honorable Mention
Surrounded Serenity — Malak Quota
Best VR and 360 Film
Metamorphosis — Theresa Bauer, Sophia Maravelia Forst
Best Student Film
sisters — Alesia Fedarenka
Honorable Mention
HAKKI — HIKMET KEREM OZCAN
Best Feature Film
cycling against ghosts — Livia Giuliani
Best Short Documentary
The Weight of Sight — Truls Krane Meby
Honorable Mention
No horses on Mars — Bea de Visser
Honorable Mention
THE TERRITORY OF PULOUI — Luz Carmela Daza Vaca, Maik Gleitsmann-Frohriep
Best Human Rights Film
Tanzt — Travis Clausen-Knight
Best Dance Film, short
Five rooms — Daniel Rakovsky, Claire Pastier
Honorable Mention
Unification Orah — gyumin GIM
Honorable Mention
LAUGH LAUGH DIE — Takuya Matsumoto
Honorable Mention
1 min for human rights — Devy Man
Honorable Mention
June 2024
WHAT WENT DOWN — Danièle Wilmouth
Best Dance Film, Short
WHAT WENT DOWN — Danièle Wilmouth
Best Comedy, Short Film
And Above Us The Stars — Joris Bürger
Best War and Peace Theme
The Carrier — Andrew Cochrane
Best VR and 360
In the Land of Palm Oil — Denise Dragiewicz
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
Poyyamozhi — Jaffar Idukki
Best Actor - Feature Film
Poyyamozhi — Nathaniel Madathil
Best Actor - Feature Film
The Land of Nowhere — Zongsheng Liu
Best Actor - Short Film
1948 What We Knew — Jill Daniels
Best Short Documentary
I'm Still Kind of a Daydreamer — Eva Chen
Best Feature Film
Presssure — Benjamin Stapleton, Austin Ikard
Honorable Mention
IT TAKES BALLS — Vincent Dolinsek
Best Student Film
Free Ada — Sascha Oliver Bauer
Honorable Mention
Die Stadt ist die Gilde und die Gilde ist die Stadt — Jonas Leichsenring
Best Artist Short Film
Love In The Afternoon — Roberto Pili
Honorable Mention
I dream My dream — Monique van Kerkhof, Bo Oudendijk
Honorable Mention
"Mama said" — Timur Bartels, Serge Mattukat
Best Music Video
PUPPE — Sandra Julia Reils
Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights Film
Pilgrim — Tim Kuhr
Honorable Mention
I see in story’s — Madmo Cem Adam Cem Adam Springer
Best Short Film
Verflechtung — Philip Hofmänner, Simon Jonas Pflanzer
Nominee
May 2024
Light On — Flavia-Ioana Lacrama
Best Student Film
Unsinkable Mac — Heather Lynn Barcelo
Best Animation
Hercules Recycled 2.0 — Don Moriarty, Greg Alt
Best Experimental Film
Succession — Yoshimitsu Kushida
Best Dance Film - Feature
Bubbles — Maria Salinger
Best Feature Film
Bubbles — Maria Salinger
Best Director - Feature Film
Bubbles — Maria Salinger
Best Actress - Feature Film
Shadow — Jae Won Jung
Best Director - Short Film
KØLEEN - REUNITE — Vesely Marek
Best Music Video
Breathrough — Nick Szymczak
Best Documentary
Bubbles — Maria Salinger
Best Comedy, Feature
The Forbidden Language of the Future — Anna Turchaninova
Best Discrimination and Equality Film
Driving Force — Joanie Wind
Best Artist Short Film
I cannot be silence(d) anymore — Kirsten Heshusius
Honorable Mention
Time Giver — Lars Smekal
Best Short Documentary
Heaven on earth — Alexandros Papachristopoulos
Honorable Mention
BRAVE - How the mountains saved my life — Martin Sandin
Honorable Mention
April 2024
寄語白雲 Whispering To The Cloud — PO-CHUN LIAO
Best Student Film
Hypnagogia — Ysabelle Taylor
Best Dance Film, Short
OPERASSION - Painting Music — Fabian Dobler - Stephan Boehme
Best Music Video
OPERASSION - Painting Music — Fabian Dobler - Stephan Boehme
Best Artist Short Film
"Some Sunny Day" — Chris Cole
Best Director - Short Film
Outside — Frank van Bergen
Best Short Film
SYMPHONIC YOUTH — Béatrice Mohr
Best Documentary
APPology — Marco von Moos
Best Feature Film
Things We Swallow — carleen maur
Honorable Mention – Experimental Film
Parallel Botany — Magdalena Bermudez
Best Experimental Film
March 2024
In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky — Anna Leonidovna Turchaninova
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
The Girl From Salonika — Alison Jayne Wilson
Best War and Peace Theme Film
Blue Monday — Ingrid Kamerling
Best Health and Medicine Feature
The Wake-Up Experience — Marin Krasimirov Petkov, Strahil Maximov Jordanov
Best VR and 360 Film
WATER IS LOVE: RIPPLES OF REGENERATION — Ludwig Schramm, Rosa Pannitschka, Martin Winiecki, Isabel Rosa Zabou, Emily Coralyne Bishop
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
How Water makes Climate — Rosa Pannitschka, Ludwig Schramm
Best Environment and Climate, Short
forget my fate — Tommaso Valli
Best Artist Short Film
SURVIVING DEPRESSION — BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE
Best Short Documentary
Kibitzer — Yaar Harell
Best Short Film
February 2024
The Two and a Half Days of Bozena B. — Samu Morys Cornelissen
Best Labor and Social Film
MANIA — Behdad Esfahbod
Best Health and Medicine
Liebe Mich — Simone Wagner
Gender Equality, Issues and Rights
The Tales of the Blue Sky — Vruir Tadevosian
War and Peace Theme
The Tales of the Blue Sky — Vruir Tadevosian
Best Human Rights Film
Close up Marx — Justin Time
Best History Film
MAlice — Mike Pennella
Nominee
All that is Kelp inMeltsto Ice — Jaanika Peerna
Best Artist Short Film
The Two and a Half Days of Bozena B. — Samu Morys Cornelissen
Best Director - Feature Film
The Two and a Half Days of Bozena B. — Samu Morys Cornelissen
Best Feature Film
The Two and a Half Days of Bozena B. — Antina Albrecht
Best Actress - Feature Film
1111 km - Sweet to salty — Fabian Klein, Jonas Boltze, Julius Jacoby
Best Short Documentary
Trauerschiff — Artemisia Refle
Best Comedy, Short Film
Late for Work — Carlos Serrano
Nominee
KLEINE BOOTE (SMALL SHIPS) — Yama Rahimi
Honorable Mention
Father Fauci: The Covid Story — Jeffrey Alan Tipton
Best Documentary
Staudamm (Dam) — Silvana Damm
Best Actress - Short Film
Halfway House — Konstantin Münzel
Best Student Film
Kystgaarden — Jacob Heiss
Best Actor - Short Film – Ex aequo
Kystgaarden — Philipp Rieper
Best Actor - Short Film – Ex aequo
Stone Soup — Nikita Belomestnykh
Honorable Mention
Hating Beckett — Matthew Gossin
Best Short Film
I am Rain — Onur Bilmen
Honorable Mention
January 2024
Influenza — Felix Schaefer
Honorable Mention
Code Name Sausage — Timothy Barry
Best Comedy, Short Film
Depression, Anxiety and Dementia Secrets — Jonathan Otto
Best Health and Medicine Feature film
Stone Age Monkeys 3D — Alexander Sommer
Best VR and 360 Film
Roshni [light of life] — Making Arts Entertainments
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Forgotten Dusk — Forgotten Dusk
Best Student Film
Land of the Free: Out of the Shadows — James Ganiere
Best Short Documentary
Die letzte Hexe — Ömer Pekyürek
Best Short Film
Depression, Anxiety and Dementia Secrets — Jonathan Otto
Best Documentary