2023
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 5,000):
I Have Electric Dreams (Valentina Maurel)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 3,000):
Mitläufer (Frederic Kau)
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
Tuulikki (Teemu Nikki)
Honourable mention:
Thoughts of a young person at the sight of a disintegrating world (Jonathan Berlin)
Westfalen Connection:
Film over 30 minutes (EUR 1,500):
Morgen irgendwo am Meer (Patrick Büchting)
Film under 30 minutes (1,000 EUR):
Die Spökenkiekerin und das Fräulein (Mark Lorei)
2021
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 5,000):
Mi iubita, mon amour (Noémie Merlant)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 3,000):
The turner – 81 RPM (Robin Trouillet)
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
Girl Meets Boy (Ferdinand Arthuber)
Westfalen Connection:
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
Mavis and Kosmas (Zauri Matikashvili)
2019
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 5,000):
Tous les dieux du ciel | All the Gods in the Sky (Quarxx)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 3,000):
Aquarium (Lorenzo Puntoni)
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
November 1st (Charlie Manton)
Honourable mention:
Linde van der Storm in Till the End of the World (Florence Bouvy)
Westfalen Connection:
Audience Award (500 EUR):
Absence of Light (Beatrice Aliné)
2017
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 5,000):
Heartstone (Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 3,000):
Ruah (Flurin Giger)
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
Fruit & Vegetables (Duc Ngo Ngoc)
Honourable mention:
Kaputt (Volker Schlecht & Alexander Lahl)
Westfalen Connection:
Audience Award (500 EUR):
Werner (Rainer Bärensprung)
2015
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 5,000):
Petting Zoo (Micah Magee)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 3,000):
ex aequo to Vorwärtsgang (Daniel Abma) & Abseits der Autobahn (Rhona Mühlebach)
Sponsorship Award of the WDR Studio Münster (EUR 3,000):
Everything will be fine (Patrick Vollrath)
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
Forever Over (Erik Schmitt)
Honourable mentions:
The Ballad of Ella Plummhoff (Barbara Kronenberg)
Westfalen Connection:
Audience Award:
What do you actually know about it? (Nina Mielitz)
2013
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 5,000):
The Invention of Love (Lola Randl)
Honourable mention:
Youth (Tom Shoval)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 3,000):
Blue Dream (Malte Stein)
Sponsorship Award of the WDR Studio Münster (EUR 3,000):
Momentum (Boris Seewald)
Audience Award (EUR 1,000):
To you? (Sylvia Borges)
Honourable mentions:
Saint & Whore (Anne Zohra Berrached)
Benny Claessens in Bumpy Night (Julie Kreuzer)
School programme:
Schülerjurypreis:
Falling Pigeons (Esther Bialas)
“Filmreif” Audience Award:
The Hour Glass (Joscha Thelosen)
Münster-Connection:
Münster-Connection Audience Award:
Weltklasse Kreisklasse (Daniel Huhn)
2011
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (7,500 EUR):
Majority (Seren Yüce)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 5,000):
Leonid’s Story (Rainer Ludwigs & Tetyana Chernyavska)
Vatermutterkind (Daniel Karl Krause)
Sponsorship Award of the WDR Studio Münster (EUR 3,000):
Jessi (Mariejosephin Schneider)
Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (EUR 1,000):
The Centrifuge Brain Project (Till Nowak)
School programme:
Schülerjurypreis OmU:
Daniel’s Ashes (Boris Kunz)
Audience Award:
List Dogs (Steffen Cornelius Tralles)
2009
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (EUR 7,500):
Versailles (Pierre Schoeller)
German language short film competition:
The grand prize of the Filmwerkstatt (5,000 EUR):
Fallen (Daniel Büttner & Max Baberg)
Award of the WDR Studio Münster (2.500 EUR):
Rainbow angel (Anna Kasten)
Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (EUR 1,000):
Wagah (Supriyo Sen)
Honourable mention:
Jacob Matschenz in Fliegen (Piotr J. Lewandowski)
Man Dies (Patrick Doberenz & Philipp Enders)
School programme:
Resistance (Baris Aladag)
2007
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (10,000 EUR):
Man’s Job (Aleksi Salmenperä)
Honourable mention:
Opposite (Jan Bonny)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 5,000):
Skyscraper (Nikias Chryssos)
Award of the WDR Studio Münster (EUR 2,500):
Hilda & Karl (Toke Constantin Hebbeln)
Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (EUR 1,000):
15 Minutes of Truth (Nico Zingelmann)
Honourable mention:
Mr Schwartz, Mr Hazen & Mr Horlocker (Stefan Müller)
Kobe (Rainer Komers)
School programme:
Miss Pabst & Miss Wüst (Christa Pfafferott)
2005
European Feature Film Competition:
Director’s Prize (10,000 EUR):
Live and Become (Radu Mihaileanu)
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 5,000):
The Raft (Jan Thüring)
Sponsorship award of the WDR Studio Münster (2,500 EUR):
Currently deceased (Thomas Wendrich)
La Vida Dulce (Bettina Blümner & Rouven Rech)
Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (EUR 1,000):
Compulsory flying for square heads (Stephan Flint Müller)
2003
German-language short film competition:
The Filmwerkstatt Grand Prize (EUR 5,000):
Neulich 3 (Jochen Kuhn),
Wet Cigars for Berlin (Stephan Flint Müller),
Yo Lo Vi – I saw it (Hanna Nordholt & Fritz Steingrobe).
Award of the WDR Studio Münster (EUR 2,500):
Exit (Benjamin Kempf).
Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (EUR 1,000):
The Cat of Altona (Wolfgang Dinslage).
2001
German-language short film competition:
Sponsorship award (DM 10,000):
Freaky (Gabriele Neudecker),
Salzfische (Till Endemann).
Special prize of the WDR:
Time out (Michael Stehle),
Two in one (Gerald Maas).
Liliput Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (DM 1,500):
No more fun – My life with Eva (Andreas Kölmel).
1999
German-language short film competition:
Sponsorship award (DM 10,000):
Between four and six (Corinna Schnitt),
El Cordobes (Sven Taddicken),
Let me sleep!!! (Thomas Brückler).
Special prize of the WDR (DM 5,000):
Sherut Taxi (Holger Borggrefe),
Adrian and the Wolf (Sylvie Lazzarini).
Liliput Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (DM 1,500):
Kleingeld (Marc-Andreas Bochert).
1997
German-language short film competition:
Sponsorship award (DM 7,000):
Ku’damm Security (Ed Herzog),
Negative Nights (Istvan Imreh, Robert Laatz & Susanne Schüle),
L’Hotel (Mark-Steffen Göwecke).
Special prize of the WDR (2,000 DM):
12 pictures for Konrad (Katharina Werner).
Liliput Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (DM 1,500):
Coming Out (Carsten Strauch).
1994
German-language short film competition:
Sponsorship award (DM 7,000):
Amok (Stefan Trampe),
Sleepy Haven (Matthias Müller),
The Story of O. (Angela Holtschmidt),
Liebenslänglich (Gruscha Rode).
Special prize of the WDR (3,000 DM):
A party for Beyhan (Ayse Polat).
Liliput Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (DM 1,500):
Liebenslänglich (Gruscha Rode).
1992
German-language short film competition:
“Golden Gnome” award (DM 7,000):
Statt Werk Stadt (Marc Adrian),
This is the house of Nicolaus (Lutz Garmsen),
The Drunken Ship (Jochen Renz),
Serengeti must not die (Bernhard Schmid & Philipp Moser).
Special prize of the WDR (3,000 DM):
Love, Jealousy and Revenge (Michael Brynntrup).
Lilliput Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (DM 1,500):
Boliden (Walter Feistle).
1990
German-language short film competition:
Advancement Award (DM 5,000):
Bravo Papa (Susanne Fränzel).
Special prize of the WDR (2,000 DM):
Lindenhotel (Andreas Fischer & Fayd Jungnickel),
The Kitchen Bench of Horror (Andreas Fischer).
Liliput Audience Award of the Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe (DM 1,500):
Tage eines Tonmanns (Thomas Freundner).
1988
German-language short film competition:
Sponsorship award (DM 3,000):
The Worst Time (Werner Senft),
Stachoviak (Philip Gröning),
Die Klärung am Hof (Clemens Reinders).
Special prize of the WDR (DM 1,500):
The Heaven of Heroes (Robert Bramkamp).
Audience Award:
The Worst Time (Werner Senft).
1985
German-language short film competition:
Sponsorship award (DM 5,000):
Negative Man (Cathie Joritz),
Eigenstetter’s Zeppelin (Cornelia Lotz),
City in Flames (Schmelz Dahin),
Être parallele (Christoph Bartolosch),
Das große Bums (Kathrin Köster).
Special prize of the WDR (DM 1,500):
Negative Man (Cathie Joritz).
Audience Award “Golden Stealth Cap”:
Bahlsenschwenk (Hannelore Kober & Jonnie Döbele)
1981
German-language short film competition:
“Daumenkino” prize (DM 10,000):
Im Rhenus-Haus (Ulrich Sappok-Anarchistische Gummizelle),
90 Degrees (Rotraut Pape),
Stromsperre (Volker Führer and Pimes Dörfler).
“Goldene Tarnkappe” (prize from audience donations):
Part 2 (Axel Schäffler).