The LICHTER Filmfest Archive
16. Lichter Filmfest (2023) // Annual Topic: Love

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Einzeltäter Teil 3 – Hanau (Director: Julian Vogel) & Fitness California – Wie man die Extra Meile geht (Director: Nadine Zacharias)
- Best Regional Short Film: Поки тут тихо. (It is quiet here.) (Director: Olena Podolianko & Novruz Hikmet)
- Newcomer:inside Award of the Filmhaus Frankfurt: Zwischen uns beiden (Director: Benjamin Kessler)
- Audience Award Feature Length Film: Elaha (Director: Milena Aboyan)
- LICHTER VR Storytelling Award: You Destroy. We create | The war on Ukraine’s culture (Director: Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran
- LICHTER Art Award: Eunhee Lee, Machines Don't Die
- Jury Award of the "Evangelischen Filmarbeit": 20.000 Species of Bees (Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)
The Jury 2023

Programm
- The annual topic in society: Love
- The annual topic in cinema: The love of film, the love of cinema
The 15th LICHTER Filmfest (2022) // Annual Topic: Freedom

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Als Susan Sontag im Publikum saß (Director: RP Kahl)
- Best Regional Short Film: 21:71 Uhr (Director: Joey Arand)
- Audience Award Feature Length Film: On the Other Side (Del Otro Lado) (Director: Iván Guarnizo)
- LICHTER VR Storytelling Award: Lockdown Dreamscape VR (Director: Nicolas Gebbe)
- LICHTER Art Award: Alice Brygo, Soum

Program
- The annual topic: Freedom
- An excerpt from the LICHTER concept 2022: The Freedom of Cinema
The 14th LICHTER Filmfest (2021) // Annual Topic: Change

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: street line (Directors: Justin Peach und Lisa Engelbach)
- Best Regional Short Film: MILK (Director: Jennifer Kolbe)
- LICHTER VR Storytelling Award: Replacements - Penggantian (Directors: Jonathan Hagard)
- LICHTER Art Award: Frankfurter Hauptschule, MOTOR

Program
- The annual topic: Change
The 13th LICHTER Filmfest (2020) // Annual Topic: Power

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: LIVE (Director: Lisa Charlotte Friederich)
- Best Regional Short Film: Nachtschicht (Director: David Dybeck)
- Short Film Audience Award: Die Vergänglichkeit des Bernd Hasselhuhn (Director: Max Rainer)
- LICHTER VR Storytelling Award: Aripi (Director: Dmitri Voloshin)
- LICHTER Art Award: Florencia Levy, Lugar Fósil / Fossil Place

Program
- The annual topic: Power
The 12th LICHTER Filmfest (2019) // Annual Topic: Nature

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Khrustal (Crystal Swan) (Director: Darya Zhuk)
- Best Regional Short Film: We Will Survive (Director: Nele Dehnenkamp)
- Binding Audience Award: The Watson´s Hotel (Director: Peter Rippl, Ragunath Vasudevan und Nathaniel Knop)
- LICHTER VR Storytelling Award: The Real Thing (Director: Benoit Felici)
- LICHTER Art Award: Andrew de Freitas, WEIGHT

Program
- The annual topic: Nature
The 11th LICHTER Filmfest (2018) // Annual Topic: Chaos

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Männerfreundschaften (Director: Rosa von Praunheim)
- Best Regional Short Film: Horizont (Director: Peter Meister)
- Binding Audience Award: Women of the Venezuelan Chaos (Director: Margarita Cardenas)
- LICHTER International Feature Award: Blue My Mind (Director: Lisa Brühlmann)
- Virtual Reality Storytelling Competition: I, Philip (Director: Pierre Zandrowicz)
- LICHTER Art Award: Jakob Engel, Waiting for Record

Program
- The annual topic: Chaos
The 10th LICHTER Filmfest (2017) // Annual Topic: Truth

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: A Gravame – Das Stahlwerk, der Tod, Maria und die Mütter von Tamburi (Director: Peter Rippl)
- Best Regional Short Film: Über Druck (Director: Sebastian Binder und Fred Schirmer)
- Binding Audience Award: Ghostland (Director: Simon Stadler und Catenia Lermer)
- LICHTER International Feature Award: I am not Madame Bovary (Director: Feng Xiaogang)
- Virtual Reality Storytelling Competition: Sergeant James (Director: Alexandre Perez)
- LICHTER Art Award: Tobi Sauer, Simba in New York

Program
- The annual topic: Truth
The 9th LICHTER Filmfest (2016) // Annual Topic: Borders

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Meine Brüder und Schwestern im Norden (Director: Sung-Hyung Cho)
- Best Regional Short Film: In the Distance (Director: Florian Grolig)
- LICHTER International Feature Award: Les Sauteurs (Director: Abou Bakar Sidibé, Estephan Wagner und Moritz Siebert) und Masaan (Regie: Neeraj Ghaywan)
- Binding Audience Award: Auf einer Skala von 1-10 (Director: Katharina Uhland)
- LICHTER Art Award: James N. Kienitz Wilkins, B-Roll with Andre

Program
- The annual topic: Borders
The 8th LICHTER Filmfest (2015) // Annual Topic: Money

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Sin & Illy still alive (Director: Maria Hengg) und CONDUCT! Jede Bewegung zählt (Director: Götz Schauder)
- Best Regional Short Film: Ein bisschen Normalität (Director: Michael Schaff und Thomas Toth)
- Binding Audience Award: Carlo, Keep Swingin' (Director: Elizabeth Ok)
- LICHTER Courage-Prize: Gewobenes Papier (Director: Michel Klöfkorn)
- Lobende Erwähnungen: Gezeitentümpel (Director: Pablo Zinser), Warum ist der Tisch schräg!/Warum mag jeder Geld! (Director: Stefan Vogt), Sorrow (Director: Mikhail Svyatskiy) und Limit: S.O.S. (Director: Andrzej Klamt)
- LICHTER Art Award: Jonathan Van Essche, The Second of August

Program
- The annual topic: Money
The 7th LICHTER Filmfest (2014) // Annual Topic: Humor

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Erhobenen Hauptes (Director: Gruppe DocView)
- Best Regional Short Film: Bahar im Wunderland (Director: Behrooz Karamizade) und RE50 Richtung Wächtersbach (Director: Leslie Bauer)
- Binding Audience Award: The Scrapbox (Director: Daniel Herzog und Robin Wissel)
- LICHTER Art Award: Bertrand Flanet, Unmanned Distances

Program
- The annual Topic: Humor
The 6th LICHTER Filmfest (2013) // Annual Topic: City

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Im Land Dazwischen (Director: Melanie Gärtner)
- Best Regional Short Film: Misguided (Director: Lukas Rinker)
- LICHTER Publikumspreis: Die Meta-Morphose (Director: Daniel Siebert)
- Special Mention of the Jury: Wildwechsel (Director: Gunther Deller)
- LICHTER Art Award: John Skoog, Sent på Jorden

Program
- The annual topic: City
The 5th LICHTER Filmfest (2012) // Annual Topic: Revolution

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Babycall (Director: Pål Sletaune)
- Best Regional Short Film: Die alte Frau (Director: Ariane Mayer)
- LICHTER Art Award: Oliver Husain, Dear What's Your Face

Program
- The annual topic: Revolution
The 4th LICHTER Filmfest (2011)

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Im Alter von Ellen (Director: Pia Marais)
- Best Regional Short Film: N Gschichtn (Director: Eva Becker)
- Special Mention of the Jury: Die Allerletzten (Director: Otmar Hitzelberger)
- LICHTER Art Award: Luciana Lamothe, Caja Tarro Silla Marco

Program
The 3rd LICHTER Filmfest (2010)

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Das Schreiben und das Schweigen (Director: Carmen Tartarotti)
- Best Regional Short Film: T.R.A. (Director: Eva Becker)
- Special Mention of the Jury: Marivanna (Director: Olga Petrova) und Riverrun & Touchdown (Director: Gunter Deller)

Program
The 2nd LICHTER Filmfest (2009)

Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Endstation der Sehnsüchte (Director: Sung-Hyung Cho)
- Best Regional Short Film: Adamsapfel (Director: Johannes Baptista Ludwig und Sascha Geerdts)

Program
The 1st LICHTER Filmfest (2008)
Award Winners
- Best Regional Feature Film: Video Kings (Director: Daniel Acht und Ali Eckert)
- Best Regional Short Film: Der Jäger und der Bär (Director: Joachim Brandenberg)
