
Mannheim Arts and Film Festival
Winners 2024
Winners and Awards, 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 ◦ onorable 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

























- 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








- 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

















- 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















- 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














- 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


















- 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


















- 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









- 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














- 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









- 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
















- 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 ◦ Bext Gender Equality, Issues and Rights FilmGender Equality, Issues and Rights
- 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







