2025 Winners

Audience Awards

  • Best Narrative Short - Ticker (United Kingdom)
  • Best Microbudget Short - Dead Dogs Tale (Germany)
  • Best Short Documentary - Coffee with Salt (Germany)
  • 42 films challenge - Rabbit Hole (Germany)

    • Jury Awards

  • Best Production Sound Mixing - Sebastian Hohberg / Raja (Germany)
  • Best Cinematography - Lorenzo di Nola / Little Finger (Italy)
  • Best Director - Filip Šperl / Baby Jesus Does Not Exist (Czech Republic)
  • Best Supporting Actor - Noel Lee / Heavy Weight (South Korea)
  • Best Actor - Francesco Gheghi / Little Finger (Italy)

    • The 2025 Films

    Narrative Shorts

  • The Rooms we share - Nadiia Khatymlianska (Germany)
  • Love and Substances - Lukas Treudler (Germany)
  • Raja - Franziska von Holst, Louisa Maria Würden (Germany)
  • Seahorse Seniors - Greta Breitländer (Germany)
  • Teresa; Station B - Katharina Sporrer (Germany)
  • The Line - Olivia Nigl (Germany)
  • The Stolen Ride - Masha Mollenhauer (Germany)
  • Forget me Not - Olivia Unruh (Germany)
  • Heavy Weight - Sea-Hoon Jeon (South Korea)
  • Return Home - Aretha Jasmine (Indonesia)
  • Black Water - Joanna Różniak (Poland)
  • Tomorrow Never Dies - Behnam Bahadori (Iran)
  • Hot Mess - Tortor Smith (GB)
  • Rage - Raj Bharath Rajagopal (India)
  • Little Finger - Gianluca Granocchia (Italy)
  • Elena Yurievna, go to the Blackboard - Adrew Sizow (Russian Federation)
  • Merlich Merlich - Hannil Ghilas (France)
  • Ticker - Thom Petty (GB)
  • 509 - Hassaan Imtiaz (Pakistan)

    • Underdocs

  • Ashes - Ioannis Mathioudakis (Greece)
  • Coffee with Salt - Anna Milena Scharmberg, Lara Soraya Schnell(Germany)
  • Ama - Claudia Chau (Spain)
  • Survivors - Oliver Stiller (Mexico)
  • Heroes in a Half Documentary - Austin Sane (USA)

    • B-Reels

  • Die sind auch einfach schön - Julia Flachmann (Germany)
  • Dead Dogs Tale - Marc Freier (Germany)
  • You Can't Beat the Feeling - Mohammad Hossein Khodabandelou (Iran)
  • Brush Me - Nikolaus Jantsch (Austria)
  • Gisela - Annika Lewandowski (Germany)
  • Baby Jesus Does Not Exist - Filip Šperl (Czech Republic)
  • The Third Dimension of Impact - Valentin Devriès(France)

    • 42 films challenge

  • Rabbit Hole - Laura Avemarie (Germany)
  • Gone with the Crowd - Maciej Sadowski (Germany)
  • Thick Skinned - Minou Kropp, Laura Neumann (Germany)
  • Glow - Wenzel Schöne (Germany)
  • Out of nowhere - Patrick Paul (Germany)
  • Allemannsrett - Felix Bausch (Germany)
  • My Happy Place - Ron Vodovozov (Germany)
  • Yesterday I found - Kinga Klajbor (Poland)
  • Song of Life - Luise Niklisch (Germany)
  • My Story - Kateryna Husak (Germany)

    • Audience Award Winners

  • TBA - Best Short Documentary
  • TBA - Best Micro Budget Short
  • TBA - Best Narrative Short

    • Winners in Additional Categories

  • TBA - Best Director
  • TBA - Best Cinematographer
  • TBA - Best Production Sound Mixer
  • TBA - Beste Performance in a Supporting Role
  • TBA - Beste Performance in a Lead Role