Mannheim Arts and Film Festival

Mannheim Arts and Film Festival

Winners 2025

Winners and Awards, 2025

  • Where You Go I Will Go ◦ Joseph Franciosa ◦ VR and 360
  • The First Train ◦ Gero Brötz, Markus Veith ◦ Best Science Fiction Film
  • Orestes Fiedler ◦ The First Train ◦ Best Actor – Feature Film
  • ARK TAROKO ◦ CHEN-TANG LEE ◦ Honorable Mention – Documentary
  • ARK TAROKO ◦ CHEN-TANG LEE ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • Vivyen Bastajyan ◦ The Gospel According to Parajanov ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • The Gospel According to Parajanov ◦ Vivyen Bastajyan ◦ Best Short Film
  • The Gospel According to Parajanov ◦ Vivyen Bastajyan ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Musical Angels ◦ Saul Pincus ◦ Best Music Video
  • BONES ◦ Christian Glatzel ◦ Best Comedy, Short Film
  • Paul Jannowski ◦ Björn Beton Warns ◦ Best History Film
  • Paul Jannowski ◦ Björn Beton Warns ◦ Honorable Mention – Comedy
  • FOUR MOTHERS ◦ Inbal Abergil ◦ Best War and Peace Theme
  • Patriots ◦ Yura Vavilov ◦ Honorable Mention
  • One Hundred Percent ◦ Leona Esther Klocke ◦ Best Student Film
  • Whispers Of Magic ◦ Sara Seyed Azizi ◦ Best Animation
  • Where Blue Meets Red ◦ Tamás Patrovits ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Raindrop – The Journey of Water ◦ Marco Dominik Graf ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Feature
  • The Outlaw Gardeners – Giardinieri d’Assalto ◦ Angelo Camba ◦ Honorable Mention
  • MY OWN WORST ENEME ◦ Nicola Napoli ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • Mimosa ◦ Theresa Müller ◦ Honorable Mention
  • THE FLAME OF A CANDLE ◦ André Gil Mata ◦ Best Feature Film
  • Ice Breath ◦ Leonard Alecu ◦ Honorable Mention
  • EMPERICA ◦ Kris De Meester, Ron Chiers ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • Prisoners of Fire: The Dude Fire Story ◦ Scott E Briggs ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Dawson Island, a Song in the Adversity ◦ Pablo Ignacio Guzmán ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Zeppelin oben rechts ◦ Zeppelin oben rechts ◦ Best Documentary
  • Atlantic Narratives ◦ Kostiantyn Mishchenko, Valeriy Zayets ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Go To Hell Goliath ◦ Andrij Smirnov, Luis Janßen ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Bluebells ◦ Marc Gaudet ◦ Best Comedy, Short Film
  • Worship ◦ Fredrik Carlsson ◦ Mobile Short Film
  • Posh Boy ◦ Robert Andrews Wood ◦ Best Student Film
  • IN HER SKIN ◦ Kazım Mutlu ◦ Best Science Fiction Film
  • AI Ferrari Commercial ◦ Jaeyong Choi ◦ Best Commercial & Advertising
  • Die Unterhaltung ◦ Marian Bruchholz ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • NEXT UP ◦ Hervine De Boodt ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Maria ◦ Abdelhakim majed abudaqen ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • RAIN ◦ Mark Limburg ◦ Best Documentary
  • Crossing through the Highlands of Iceland ◦ Dan Razvan Coman ◦ Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
  • Last climber on Three Peaks ◦ Dan Razvan Coman ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Why – The Music Video ◦ Lucas W ◦ Honorable Mention
  • CONNY – Warum es nicht so bleiben kann wie es war ◦ Vick Polok ◦ Best Music Video
  • Wildfire Smoke – Sky Swallower ◦ Rodolfo Pérez-Luna ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • Tangle ◦ Carla Hoogewijs, Frank Stevens ◦ Semi-Finalist
  • Directions To The Other Side Of The World ◦ Derrick Belcham ◦ Semi-Finalist
  • Imagine Ocean ◦ Imagine Ocean ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Seeking Tranquility ◦ Ysabelle Taylor ◦ Best Dance Film, Short
  • Pictures of a negative chair ◦ Magdalena Bermudez ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Rewriting a Memory and Different Rooms ◦ Anna Persson ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • Touchless ◦ Zhongze Li ◦ Honorable Mention
  • La valse des adieux version allemande ◦ Louis Salvatore Bellanti ◦ Best Short Film
  • Ancress ◦ Liam “Lilo Ghul” Doheny ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Crow’s Shadow ◦ Evan T Mack ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Bluebells ◦ Marc Gaudet ◦ Best Comedy, Short Film
  • Worship ◦ Fredrik Carlsson ◦ Best Mobile Short Film
  • Posh Boy ◦ Robert Andrews Wood ◦ Best Student Film
  • IN HER SKIN ◦ Kazım Mutlu ◦ Best Science Fiction
  • AI Ferrari Commercial ◦ Jaeyong Choi ◦ Best Commercial & Advertising
  • Die Unterhaltung ◦ Marian Bruchholz ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • NEXT UP ◦ Hervine De Boodt ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Maria ◦ Abdelhakim majed abudaqen ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • RAIN ◦ Mark Limburg ◦ Best Documentary
  • Crossing through the Highlands of Iceland ◦ Dan Razvan Coman ◦ Best Travel and Discovery
  • Last climber on Three Peaks ◦ Dan Razvan Coman ◦ Honorable Mention
  • CONNY – Warum es nicht so bleiben kann wie es war ◦ Vick Polok ◦ Best Music Video
  • Wildfire Smoke – Sky Swallower ◦ Rodolfo Pérez-Luna ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • Tangle ◦ Carla Hoogewijs, Frank Stevens ◦ Semi-Finalist
  • Seeking Tranquility ◦ Ysabelle Taylor ◦ Best Dance Film, Short
  • Imagine Ocean ◦ Angela Liong, Jiekai Liao ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Directions To The Other Side Of The World ◦ Derrick Belcham ◦ Semi-Finalist
  • Rewriting a Memory and Different Rooms ◦ Vick Polok ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • Touchless ◦ Zhongze Li ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Pictures of a negative chair ◦ Magdalena Bermudez ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Ancress ◦ Liam “Lilo Ghul” Doheny ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Crow’s Shadow ◦ Evan T Mack ◦ Honorable Mention
  • La valse des adieux version allemande ◦ Louis Salvatore Bellanti ◦ Best Short Film
  • “Das Sinnieren eines glücklosen Mochileros
  • ” ◦ Carlos Stöver ◦ Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
  • Back To The Past ◦ Dario Melo Maciel ◦ Best VR and 360 Film
  • Humans, Weightless ◦ Chan Ting-kin ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • SOMNAMBUL ◦ Benno Blome ◦ Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights
  • By the Shore ◦ Rojin Aslan Vesek ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Short
  • dust ◦ Noelle Kayser ◦ Best Dance Film, Short
  • One Night Only ◦ Avery Maycock ◦ Best Artist Feature Film
  • DAS ◦ Natia Nikolashvili ◦ Best mmercial & Advertising
  • I dare you to climb Mount Matutum ◦ Dan Razvan Coman ◦ Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
  • What do you believe in? (Matosinhos) ◦ Nelson Carvalheiro ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Tell me what foot you’re dancing on ◦ Philippe Ménard ◦ Best Documentary
  • Who but When, How ◦ Yehuda Sharim ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Border Within Us ◦ Knutte Wester ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Meet the Makers ◦ Lars Möller, Manja Schröder ◦ Best Short Documentary Ex-Aequo
  • The Dissident Club – Taha Siddiqui’s Journey ◦ Muhammad Owais Khan ◦ Best Short Documentary Ex-Aequo
  • The Land Of The Nowhere ◦ Tenglin PENG ◦ Best Short Film
  • Single Malt Sadness ◦ Xiaohan Zhang ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The heaven in the shower ◦ Gino CERIACHI ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The End of Summer ◦ Donnie Cai ◦ Honorable Mention
  • My Valley of Draughts ◦ Neringa Naujokaite ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Borderland ◦ Ines Sebalj ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • The Hunter ◦ Diego Ospina Melo ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Each Day Feels The Same ◦ Lisa Reinerth ◦ Best Health and Medicine Short Film
  • amniotic artheraπ ◦ Konrad Mihat ◦ Best VR and 360 Film
  • Burn Ceremony ◦ Alexander Girav ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • SACREBLEU – Chapter 1 ◦ Clement Oberto ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Short
  • Mary, Mother of God ◦ Johannes Fröhlich ◦ Best director, Short Film
  • BREAK THE SILENCE ◦ Dax Phelan ◦ Best Commercial and Advertising
  • Bayadere ◦ Peter Gellén, Áron Gasztonyi ◦ Best Dance Film, Short
  • Rojo clavel (Red carnation) ◦ Roser Corella ◦ Best Dance Film, Feature
  • Mary, Mother of God ◦ Emily Kusche ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Mary, Mother of God ◦ Brigitte Urhausen ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Mary, Mother of God ◦ Caroline Hartig ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Make it to Munich ◦ MARTYN ROBERTSON ◦ Best Documentary
  • Rain On The Wind ◦ Brian Tobin ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Diamond Girl ◦ Joachim H. Böttcher ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Work hard, have fun, make history. ◦ Zabi Tajik ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Serious Comedy ◦ Jiaozi ◦ Best Short Film

June 2025

  • WiRSiNN ◦ Riu Lohri, Christof Bünter ◦ Best Labor and Social Film
  • No Man’s land ◦ Vincent Wittich ◦ Best War and Peace Theme Film
  • Menopause Menopaws ◦ Akiko Matsumoto ◦ Best Mobile Short Film
  • Wurst Case Szenario ◦ Patrick Praschma ◦ Best Science Fiction Film
  • LOST PAGES OF WAR ◦ Maik Giessler ◦ Best History Film
  • ECHO BLOOM ◦ Kasumi Hiraoka ◦ Best Fashion Film
  • Suburban Safari: A Backyard Wildlife Adventure ◦ James Edward Porter ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Feature
  • Rapunzel Red ◦ Ben Crompton ◦ Dance Film, Feature
  • Shrimp ◦ Boya Gao, Yan Yang, Qiaozhi Xiong, Huijuan Cheng, Yuwen Zhang, Xintong He, Yutang Wang, Qirui Hua, Minjie Zhou, Zhuangyi Li, Zixian Tan, Zhiyi Pan, Zi Lin, Hongjin Mou, Wenyu Li, Yiqing Shen, Xiaoyu Liu, Hanle Yi, Laura, Yifan Sun, Xitong Guan, Jialu Wang ◦ Dance Film, Short
  • The Bytes Dreams are Made of ◦ Alessandro Amaducci ◦ Best Artist Feature Film
  • Turbulences ◦ Helene Pierrette Mukhtar ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • Tricorder.Zero™ Online Ad ◦ Marcus C.B. Soori ◦ Best Commercial & Advertising
  • HOT ELEPHANT ◦ Anna Senan ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Changing Sides ◦ Loraine Blumenthal ◦ Best Documentary
  • THE MUSLIM ◦ ILIR HARXHI ◦ Best Feature Film
  • Nave ◦ Mortimer Steffen ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Crown of Exhaustion ◦ Philipp Kowalski ◦ Best Student Film
  • Art History / as told by logos ◦ Greg Gersch ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • The Banned ◦ Haman Vaferi ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • Dream Man ◦ Harald Takke, Steven Takke ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • Les filles et les garçons de mon âge (It, Can) ◦ giovanni princigalli ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Hot Mess Express ◦ Chao Niu ◦ Best Short Film
  • Folie À Deux ◦ Helen Collien ◦ Honorable Mention
  • To Belong ◦ Mats Landström ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Art History / as told by logos ◦ Greg Gersch ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Banned ◦ Haman Vaferi ◦ Best Short Documentary

July 2025

  • Complete sense of freedom ◦ Karlo Mitok ◦ Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
  • The Child Within ◦ Daniel Troia ◦ Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
  • Ida Rolf – Mother of Fascia ◦ Ale拧 Urbanczik ◦ Best Health and Medicine Feature
  • Menopause Menopaws ◦ Akiko Matsumoto ◦ Bwat Mobile Short Film
  • Altrove – Elsewhere ◦ Ettore Zito ◦ Best documentary
  • Debate ◦ Nikolai Geffele ◦ Best Human Rights Film
  • Uprising of Youth ◦ Simon Marian Hoffmann ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Feature
  • The Sound of Memories ◦ Gonghee Lee ◦ Best Artist Feature Film
  • Empathy ◦ Steffi Alte ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • CLOCKING OUT ◦ Joshua Mueller ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • All Just Borrowed ◦ Bjoern Rolf Sickel ◦ Best Music Video
  • Imi Oughlad ◦ Andrea Lazzari ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • Bittersweet Çay ◦ Demet Şener ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Daydreaming ◦ Aleksandra Szczyrek ◦ Best Student Film
  • Vanitas ◦ Tomaz Standeker ◦ Honorable Mention
  • CLOCKING OUT ◦ Joshua Mueller ◦ Best Doirector, Short Film
  • The Dreaming Man ◦ Christian Reina ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • KARL – The Man Behind The Mask ◦ Gero von Boehm ◦ Best Documentary
  • reEarth …Rights of Nature ◦ Dhama Pundarika ◦ Honorable Mention
  • ENESCU, skinned alive ◦ Toma Enache ◦ Honorable Mention
  • A Dinner to Remember ◦ Leonardo Re ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Enna Vilai ◦ Sajeev Pazhoor ◦ Best Feature Film
  • A Garden over the Sea ◦ Ziying WU ◦ Best Short Film
  • BARTHES from MABRES ◦ Elisabet MABRES ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Woman in a Bottle ◦ Baonan Wang ◦ Honorable Mention
  • An excess baggage ◦ Sophie Verbeeck ◦ Best Actress – Short Film
  • Break Up to Make Up ◦ Chang OU ◦ Honorable Mention
  • This Is Our Apocalypse ◦ Piaera Lauritz ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Zero Feet Zero Inches ◦ Timothy James Nohe ◦ Honorable Mention
  • [Un]becoming (#felt cute won’t delete later) ◦ Dawn Woolley ◦ Best Dance Film, Short

August 2025

  • Harar – The Forgotten Islamic City ◦ Dhia Ben Naser, Ouissem Satouri ◦ Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
  • Music of our Neighbors ◦ Juniper Hill, Cornelia Günauer, Steffen Boseckert ◦ Best Culture Film
  • The Burn ◦ Wiliam Marques Concolato ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Short
  • GILBERT & GEORGE DAYTRIPPING FOREVER! ◦ Iain B. MacDonald ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • BARVINSKY ◦ Sofiya Boyko ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • yourbunnywrote – ty vir meni ◦ Tymur Haiovyi ◦ Best Music Video
  • The Great Massacre of Alimos ◦ ATHANASIOS TOMMY SKLAVOS ◦ Best Feature Film
  • Across the field ◦ Dean Murphy ◦ Best Mobile Short Film
  • Bra Top ◦ Akiko Matsumoto ◦ Honorable Mention
  • My Shadow ◦ Astra Silver Burke ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • Paper Garden ◦ HARAN KIM ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Na Trí Céilithe ◦ Rhys Ryan ◦ Best Dance Film
  • DAVID CASSIDY ◦ Lauren Shiells Edson ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Farewell Night ◦ Jun Li ◦ Honorable Mention
  • When the curtain falls ◦ Dominique Pierre Lüthi ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Best Mom Ever ◦ Chaewon Suh ◦ Honorable Mention
  • MODUS ◦ Miriam Ghobrial ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Tao ◦ Giselle Herzog ◦ Honorable Mention
  • A Day In His Life ◦ Aaron Turadj Omidi-Sabet ◦ Best Short Film
  • Jade Earrings of the Last Empress ◦ Lin Zuo, Marlin Darrah ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • The Deep Dive ◦ Blair Murphy ◦ Honorable Mention
  • NOTHING BUT BLUE ◦ Sebastian Bechtel ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Reverence ◦ Charles Evans, Jr ◦ Honorable Mention
  • GRAND OLD PARTY ◦ Keith Ervin ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Tumaini Festival ◦ Rupert Poeschl ◦ Honorable Mention
  • I Am Gitxsan ◦ Hossein Martin Fazeli ◦ Best Documentary
  • Following in the footsteps of my ancestors An Ute Köhler Documentary ◦ Ute Koehler, Katherin Wermke ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Gift in Adversity ◦ John Robertson Spender ◦ Best Documentary
  • HUMAN ◦ Debora Bergamini ◦ Best VR and 360 Film
  • THE ONE YOU CANT SE ◦ Haonan ZAHNG ◦ Best Student Film
  • The Great Massacre of Alimos ◦ ATHANASIOS TOMMY SKLAVOS ◦ Best Feature Film

September 2025

  • The Answering Machine ◦ Ivon Mateljan ◦ Best Actress – Feature Film Ex Aequo
  • How To Survive Hollywood ◦ Monica Keena ◦ Best Actress – Feature Film Ex Aequo
  • Juliet & the King ◦ Ashkan Rahgozar ◦ Best Animation
  • The Answering Machine ◦ Jose Cortes ◦ Best Director – Feature Film
  • The Grim & The Dark ◦ Breen Daniel Lowman ◦ Honorable Mention
  • ALONG THE RIVER ◦ Gerburg Rohde-Dahl ◦ Best Documentary
  • The Automotive Human ◦ Reinhard Seiss ◦ Best Environment and Climate, Feature
  • DYNAMICS ◦ Teo Baehler ◦ Honorable Mention
  • In This Room Everywhere ◦ Sometimes Alicia, Watson Andrew ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • LE MANI DELLA MODA Episodio 2 ◦ Anna Setliff, Eavan Iredale, Karim Farekh ◦ Best Fashion Film
  • The Color Of Exile ◦ Azlarabe Alaoui ◦ Best Feature Film
  • Black Sheep ◦ Paul Schwind ◦ Honorable Mention
  • “THE SILENCE WITHIN (Lautlos)
  • ” ◦ Christian Peschken ◦ Best Health and Medicine Short Film
  • I Will Never Forget You ◦ Kalina DeMoura ◦ Best Human Rights Film
  • Testimonies of Pain and Hope ◦ Ayelet Bargur ◦ Honorable Mention
  • That Thing That Makes You Win ◦ Jeeve Ducornet ◦ Best Music Video
  • Solar Neighbor ◦ Austin Cole ◦ Best Science Fiction
  • Asemwald ◦ Moritz Schmieg ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • NOBODY HOME ◦ İlker Zor ◦ Honorable Mention
  • To Belong. A documentary ◦ Juan Felipe Bohorquez ◦ Honorable Mention
  • SPIEGELBERG – A german village ◦ Adrian Sagolla ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Asemwald ◦ Moritz Schmieg ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Mia 米娅 ◦ Aiyun Yin ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Über den Tellerrand ◦ Laura Latka ◦ Honorable Mention
  • feeling free ◦ Cora Jessica Pereghy, Tobias Becker ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Happy Places ◦ Nich Frost ◦ Honorable Mention
  • VIER ◦ Sebastian Eppinger ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Portrait of a Daughter ◦ Hannah Swart ◦ Best Student Film
  • NO ◦ Ahmed Alameldeen ◦ Best War and Peace Theme
  • I’M NOT WORK ANYMORE ◦ Gernas İslam Abışka ◦ Best Short Film
  • Corpus Mysticum – Seelenbilder der Unendlichkeit ◦ Victoria Knobloch ◦ Best Artist Film

October 2025

  • TPW 7 ◦ Michael Laux ◦ Best Actor – Short Film
  • Ball Lightning ◦ Catriona Trina Baker ◦ Best Animation
  • Ball Lightning ◦ Catriona Trina Baker ◦ Best War and Peace Theme Film
  • Vlissinger Michiel ◦ Riko ‘t Gilde ◦ Best Student Film
  • Silence Song ◦ Annett Stenzel ◦ Best Experimental Film
  • The Locker ◦ Xinhao Li ◦ Best Director – Short Film
  • Approaching the Book of Changes ◦ Huanzhang Hui ◦ Best Director – Feature Film
  • out of control ◦ bellopropello ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Erntezone – Harvesting Zone ◦ Daniel Raboldt ◦ Honorable Mention
  • The Distortion of a World ◦ Rick Van Oss ◦ Best Science Fiction
  • Bio-Sphere ◦ Ian R Laughlin ◦ Best Artist Short Film
  • Searching for the Sugar Apple ◦ Mingyi Sun ◦ Best Short Documentary
  • Herzogenriedbad ◦ Rokas Wille ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Where is my Home ◦ Jaya Jose Raj ◦ Best Documentary
  • Des Kaisers Neue Krone ◦ Walter Schmuck ◦ Honorable Mention
  • Protector ◦ Kevin Peters ◦ Best Music Video
  • Malaika and the Georgia Swamp Dawgs: “Jesus on the Mainline” ◦ Bert Walser ◦ Honorable Mention
  • niemandsland ◦ Aaron Karls ◦ Honorable Mention
  • No More Wars! ◦ Emeel Safie ◦ Honorable Mention
  • BUEN CAMINO ◦ Young Jun Shin ◦ Honorable Mention
  • REVOLVE ◦ Claire Marshall ◦ Best Dance Film, Short – Ex Aequo
  • The Oath ◦ Alla Kovgan ◦ Best Dance Film, Short – Ex Aequo
  • RUBEDO ◦ Cecilia Bertoni ◦ Selection
  • On the corner ◦ Cecilia Bertoni ◦ Selection
  • Prisoner Bird ◦ Xichen LI ◦ Honorable Mention
  • La Première Image ◦ Olia Verriopoulou ◦ Honorable Mention