
Mannheim Arts and Film Festival
Winners 2025
Winners and Awards, 2025
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