SHORT NEWS

Award Winners
2026

April 2026

THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
♦ Best Film
♦ Zelig Film School Bolzano Award
Bolzano Film Festival

MELT by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
♦ 
Special Award Dolomites Unesco World Heritage
Bolzano Film Festival

ROSE by Markus Schleinzer
♦ 
Best Screenplay 
Istanbul International Film Festival

MILITANTROPOS by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi 
♦ Special Jury Award 
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival – Durham

ROSE by Markus Schleinzer
♦ 
Firebird Award | Young Cinema Competition (World)
Hong Kong International Film Festival

THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
♦ Best Film | International Competition
Uruguay International Film Festival – Montevideo

THE STORIES by Abu Bakr Shawky
♦ Prize for Best Artistic Contribution | Cinematography Wolfgang Thaler
Luxor African Film Festival – Luxor

WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter
♦ Grand Prix for Best Original Music | John Gürtler & Jan Miserre
♦ Best Feature Film
♦ Pass Culture Prize
Festival International Music & Cinema – Marseille

PERLA by Alexandra Makarová
♦ Best Direction
Festival International Music & Cinema – Marseille


March 2026

LONDON by Sebastian Brameshuber
♦ Grand Prix
♦ Library Award
Cinéma du Réel – Paris

THE LAST AMBASSADOR by Natalie Halla
♦ Sky Documentaries Jury Award
♦ Special Mention – Jury National Union of Italian Film Critics
♦ Honorable Mention – Jury Teachers Cinema Accademia09
Sguardi Altrove – Milano

TO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE FIRE by Nicola von Leffern & Jakob Carl Sauer
♦ 
Best Doc Prize – CGIL Bergamo
Filmmeeting – Bergamo


February 2026

ROSE by Markus Schleinzer
♦ 
Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance – Sandra Hüller
Berlinale – Competition

THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
♦ 
Giuseppe Becce Award
♦ Special Mention for Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas
Berlinale – Competition

FOUR MINUS THREE by Adrian Goiginger
♦ 
LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS
♦ 2nd Place – Panorama Audience Award (Feature film)
Berlinale – Panorama

THE MINSTREL by Bernhard Pötscher
♦ 
Best Documentary
International Film Festival – Würzburg

FAR FROM BEING LIPIZZANS by Olga Kosanović
♦ 
Second Prize – Documentary Competition 
International Film Festival – Würzburg

MOTHER'S BABY by Johanna Moder
♦ 
Grand Prix
Festival du film fantastique – Gerardmer


January 2026

MILITANTROPOS by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi 
♦ Audience Award – Best Documentary
Trieste Film Festival

MOTHER'S BABY by Johanna Moder
♦ 
Award for the Most Disturbing Fiction
Tournai Ramdam Festival du film qui dérange

DAYS YET UNKNOWN by Jola Wieszorek
♦ Max Ophüls Preis –
Best Documentary
Festival Max Ophüls Preis – Saarbrücken