May 2026

Best Health and Medicine Film

Chasing Better

Thea Rosef

Best Human Rights Film

Dreams and Other Realities - retrospective on 30 years of junge Welt

Clara Ehrhardt

Best Dance Film

La Passeggiata (The Walk)

Scotty Hardwig

Best Actor - Short Film

WiFi Date

Giorgio Rossini

Best Music Video

Fear of heights

Marcel Norman Roeder

Best Short Documentary

This May Be A Huge Mistake

Adam Labadie

Best Feature Film

Beijing Syndrome

Dan Zhu

Best Animation

FANTASTICI ANIMALI DA CIRCO

ANGELO ANTONUCCI

Honorable Mention

MADOROMI stage1

Taichi Kunigami

Best Experimental Film

BETON

Anna Gronostayskaya, Linda Stockfleth

Honorable Mention

BOOK OF SKIN

Neil Kendricks

Best Student Film

Staatsraison

Kaspar Graef Lakin

Honorable Mention

Tides of Tradition

Nina van Belzen

Best Short Film

Counterfeit kids

James Sclafani

Honorable Mention

Destiny Line

brahim Bülbül

Honorable Mention

Kuchen oder eine Ode an die Berliner Baulücken

Cajus Kassian Kesler

Best Documentary

TACHELES, A Berlin Story

Andy Cohen

Honorable Mention

Rice in the Wind

Travis Matsumoto