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Oberhausen
‘Mikres Meres’ by Kostas Macheras won the INTERFILM Jury Prize, whilst ‘Eastern Elegy’ by Aleksandr Sokurov won the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen at the 42nd West German Short Film Festival in 1996. Inge Kirsner and Heike Kühn report on the festival. At the church reception, director Matthias Müller spoke on ‘The Cinema of Difference – On the Situation of the Experimental Short Film’.
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Berlin
"Ladybird, Ladybird" by Ken Loach won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlinale 1994. The Prize in the Forum was awarded to "The Strategy of the Snail" by Sergio Cabrera from Colombia.
Awards
Current issues
Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.