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Award Winners Kurzfilm Festival (Short Film Festival) Hamburg 2023
by the KinoCritics

Hamburger Short Film Award (Hamburger Kurzfilmpreis)

ALPHA KINGS, director: Enrique Pedráza-Botero and Faye Tsakas, United States, 2022 

WILD FLOWERS, director: Karla Crnčević, Croatia, Spain 2022

Deframed Award (Deframed Preis)

NEIGHBOUR ABDI, director: Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands 2022

ECFA Award (European Children's Film Association short film candidate for the European Film awards)

I CAN SEE THE SUN BUT I CAN’T FEEL IT YET, director: Joseph Wilson,

UK 2023

SPECIAL MENTION: WILL YOU LOOK AT ME, director: Shuli Huang, China 2022

GERMAN COMPETITION JURY Award (Deutscher Wettbewerb)

FAREWELL RECORDING FOR AN OBSERVER OF AN UNKNOWN TIME AND PLACE, director: Rita Macedo, Germany 2023

SPECIAL COMPETITION GERMAN COMPETITION 

SLOW DOWN THE FALL, director: Camille Tricaud and Franziska Unger, Germany 2023

TRIPLE AXEL AUDIENCE AWARD (Dreifacher Axel Wettbewerb)

THE TERMINATOR, director: Simon Ellis, UK 2023

ARTE Award

THE ALTAR, director: Moe Myat May Zarchi, Myanmar 2022

AUDIENCE AWARD (Publikumspreis)

LEILA director: Fariba Haidari, Sweden 2023

Award Winners Mo&Friese Junges Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2023

Friese Award

PEBBLE HILL, director: Marjolaine Perreten, Belgium, France, Switzerland 2022

Special Mention: TO BE SISTERS, director: Anne-Sophie Gousset and Clément Céard, France 2022

Mo Award

P.D.O. (PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN), director: Samy Sidali, France 2022

Special Mention: BUZZ, director: Andrew Brand and Bryn Chainey, UK 2022

Neon Award

OASIS, director: Justine Martin, Canada 2022

Special Mention: TERRA MATER director: Kantarama Gahigiri, Rwanda 2023

Nominated for the ECFA-Jury Award (European Children's Film Association short film candidate for the European Film awards)

THE TRUTH ABOUT ALVERT, THE LAST DODO, director: Nathan Clement, Switzerland, France 2022