Overview
- The international Golden Dove for feature-length documentary went to the Croatian film Peacemaker by Ivan Ramljak, lauded for universal relevance drawn from a Balkan-war context.
- Festival juries awarded seven Golden and two Silver Doves, with 32 prizes overall carrying €85,000 in total winnings.
- Canada notched multiple honors: After the Silence won the short documentary Golden Dove, Endless Cookie topped animation, and Paradaïz received the short animation prize of €1,500.
- In the German Competition, Yulia Lokshina’s Active Vocabulary earned the Golden Dove for feature-length film.
- Additional honors included the MDR Film Prize for Welded Together about a young Belarusian welder and the audience award for Cutting Through Rocks, as more than 250 works from 55 countries were showcased with 30 world premieres.