
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