2024
- Best Regional Feature Film: Ellbogen (Director: Aslı Özarslan)
- Best Regional Short Film: Gaze in battle (Director: Ayla Pierrot Arendt)
- Newcomer Award of the Filmhaus Frankfurt: Die nackte Wahrheit (Director: Lena Grobusch)
- Audience Award: Frank Meyer (Director: Leonhard Hofmann, Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic)
- LICHTER VR 360 Storytelling Award: GANGA (Director: Carol Liu)
- LICHTER VR Interactive Storytelling Award: JFK Memento (Director: Chloé Rochereuil)
- LICHTER Art Award: Vanessa Nica Müller for her film Landen
- Jurypreis der Evangelischen Filmarbeit: Filmstunde_23 (Edgar Reitz, Jörg Adolph)
2023
- 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 Award of the Filmhaus Frankfurt: Zwischen uns beiden (Director: Benjamin Kessler)
- Audience Award: 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
- Jurypreis der Evangelischen Filmarbeit: 20.000 Species of Bees (Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)
2022
- 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: 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
2021
- 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
2020
- 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
2019
- 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
2018
- 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
2017
- 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
2016
- 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
2015
- 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
2014
- 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
2013
- 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
2012
- 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
2011
- 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
2010
- 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)
2009
- Best Regional Feature Film: Endstation der Sehnsüchte (Director: Sung-Hyung Cho)
- Best Regional Short Film: Adamsapfel (Director: Johannes Baptista Ludwig und Sascha Geerdts)
2008
- Best Regional Feature Film: Video Kings (Director: Daniel Acht und Ali Eckert)
- Best Regional Short Film: Der Jäger und der Bär (Director: Joachim Brandenberg)