Winners 2026

Jury Award Humour/Satire

Jury: Gabriela Maria Schmeide (actress), Ulf Israel (producer) und Florian Lukas (actor)
  • Best Short Film (1.500€)

    LA MORT

    by Jesús Martínez „Nota“

  • Best medium-length Film (2.500€)

    TIDE

    by Roxanne Stam

  • Best Feature Film (5.000€)

    DREAMING OF LIONS

    by Paolo Marinou-Blanco

Jury Award Innovation

Jury: Julian Quentin (director & artist), Sandra Ehlermann (producer & screenwriter), Theo Jessel (documentary filmmaker)
Jury: Julian Quentin, Theo Jessel and Sandra Ehlermann with Artistic Director Ilona Rieke at the award ceremony
  • Best Narrative Innovation (1.500€)

    FAREWELL EMILE

    by Alexis Diop

  • Best Visual Innovation (1.500€ gestiftet von der Bremischen Landesmedienanstalt)

    WHEN THE PHONE RANG

    by Iva Radivojević

  • Beste Technical Innovation (1.500€)

    SOMEONE TO STEAL HORSES WITH

    by Dylan Pailes-Friedman

German Premieres

WESER-KURIER audience award

  • 1. Prize (5.000€ gestiftet vom WESER-KURIER))

    I AM GITXSAN

    von Hossein Martin Fazeli

  • 2. Prize (2.500€ gestiftet vom WESER-KURIER)

    WINTER OF THE CROW

    von Kasia Adamik

Jury Award Bremen & Surroundings – sponsored by Senator for Culture Bremen

Jury: Birgit Möller (director), Meike Dannenberg (journalist & author) und Ayhan Salar (director & author)
v.l.: Alexandra Tacke (project manager at Senator for Culture), Meike Dannenberg, Birgit Möller, Ayhan Salar and Ilona Rieke
  • Bester fictional Film (2.000€)

    THE SONS OF ILIR

    by Robert Decani

  • Best Dokumentary Bremen (2.000€)

    FREIRAUM

    by Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks, Katrin Stahrenberg

  • Bester Short Film Bremen & Surroundings (1.500€)

    SOME THINGS SHOULD BE CONTAGIOUS

    by Jan van Hasselt

BAB – Sustainability Award

Jury:  Uwe Müller (wildlife filmmaker), Svenja Pohlmann (cutter & environmentalist at Sea Shepard) and Björn Jantzen ( sustainability manager at Bremer Aufbaubank – BAB)
v.l.: Ralf Stapp (BAB), Svenja Pohlmann, Björn Jantzen, Uwe Müller and Matthias Greving
  • Gewinnerfilm (2.500€)

    ESCAPE FROM EXTINCTION: REWILDING

    by Matthew R. Brady

Gateways to the World – The Power of Ports – sponsored by bremenports

Jury: Jacqueline van Vugt (director), Prof. Dr. Ruth Schilling (managing director of the German Maritime Museum), Irina Feller (bremenports)
Jacqueline van Vugt, Ruth Schilling, Robert Howe (managing director of bremenports) and Ilona Rieke
  • Best Short Film (1.000€)

    MAJINI

    by Joshua Neubert and Victor Muhagachi

  • Best Feature Film (2.000€)

    EINHUNDERTVIER

    by Jonathan Schörnig

Globally local – sponsored by buten & binnen / Radio Bremen

Jury: Astrid Menzel (filmmaker), Lars Rosentreter (editorial director buten & binnen), Julia Rehkopf (journalist)
v.l.: Julia Rehkopf, Matthias Greving, Lars Rosentreter, Astrid Menzel
  • Best documentary with regional focus(2.000€)

    I AM GITXSAN

    by Hossein Martin Fazeli

Filmprize Diversity – powered by brema & swb

Jury: Eva Maria Sommersberg (author & producer), Burkhard Knoch (director for diversity and inclusion at swb) and Julia Heimlich (brema)
  • Bester Short Film DIVERSITY (1.000€)

    ALI

    by Adnan Al Rajeev

  • Best Feature Film DIVERSITY (2.000€)

    LUISA

    von Julia Roesler