Preisträger*innen Tricky Women Tricky Realities 2026

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INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB

Goldene Filmrolle der Maria Lassnig

dotiert mit 10.000 Euro, zur Verfügung gestellt von der Maria Lassnig Stiftung

WATER GIRL (FR/NL/PT 2025) VON Sandra Desmazières

Water Girl

This film is a visually stunning and intricate portrait of a woman's life. A multi-layered narrative gently pulls us through the stages of her life, from youth to old age, as memories of love and the sea intertwine. In this world, nature and a strong community of women become not only sources of consolation, but also of resilience. — Marta Pajek, Lea Vidaković & Vina Yun (Jury des Internationalen Wettbewerbs)

Tricky Women Tricky Realities preis

dotiert mit 4.000 Euro, zur Verfügung gestellt von der VdFS - Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden

WINTER IN MARCH (AM/BE/EE/FR 2025) Von Natalia Mirzoyan

A psychologically nuanced and authentic story of a journey that becomes a study of helplessness, guilt, and fear. Using thread and textile, this animated documentary creates a world that gradually falls apart alongside its spiritually broken characters. This anti-war film reveals the enduring consequences of authoritarian politics. — Marta Pajek, Lea Vidaković & Vina Yun (Jury des Internationalen Wettbewerbs)

MQ Artist-in-Residence preis

Arbeitsstipendium des Artist-in-Residence Programms des MQ im Wert von 2.600 Euro

MOTHER’S CHILD (NL 2024) VON Naomi Noir

Mother's Child

Care work is largely feminized labor — though essential to society, it remains undervalued and largely invisible. Through distinctive, unsettling imagery and absurd dialogue, the film highlights the urgency of the issue and exposes the structural violence of bureaucratic hurdles. In doing so, the film reveals how inadequate care systems devalue women’s labor and place those who rely on care at risk of harm and discrimination. — Marta Pajek, Lea Vidaković & Vina Yun (Jury des Internationalen Wettbewerbs)

Grand Post PREIS

Voucher über 2.000 Euro, zur Verfügung gestellt von The Grand Post – Audio & Picture Post Production

MIS-ANGEL (UK 2025) von Wyatt Carson

A raw yet tender portrait of a fleeting relationship that explores questions of love and identity. Using an expressive, seemingly naïve visual style, the film reflects on how we can learn to love ourselves when the most personal aspects of life become politically and socially contested. — Marta Pajek, Lea Vidaković & Vina Yun (Jury des Internationalen Wettbewerbs)

spezielle erwähnung der jury des Internationalen wettbewerbs

DOG ALONE (PT 2025) von Marta Reis Andrade

Brilliant design reflects the overlap of the inner and outer worlds in this atmospheric tale of solitude and reconnection. The paths of a woman and a stray dog begin to mirror one another, their shared solitude unfolding into a yearning sense of companionship. The film explores unexpected ways closeness can take shape. — Marta Pajek, Lea Vidaković & Vina Yun (Jury des Internationalen Wettbewerbs)

Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski publikumspreis

im Internationalen Wettbewerb, dotiert mit 1.000 Euro

PARADAÏZ (CA 2025) von Matea Radic

Paradaïz

UP & COMING WETTBEWERB

Up and Coming Tricky Women Tricky Realities preis

dotiert mit 1.000 Euro zur Verfügung gestellt von Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski

BALCONADA (BG/FR 2025) von Iva Tokmakchieva

This film choreographs time, space, and characters within its setting to tell the story. The striking colours and design are captivating. — Ani Antonova, Mary Martins & Jayne Pilling (Up & Coming Wettbewerb Jury)

spezielle erwähnung der Up & Coming jury

PEBBLE TO PEBBLE (FR 2025) by Charlotte Annereau

The special mention goes to Charlotte Annereau for PEBBLE TO PEBBLE, for an original and intriguing idea that conveys the drama with humour, emotion, and continuously surprises us. — Ani Antonova, Mary Martins & Jayne Pilling (Up & Coming Wettbewerb Jury)

Up and Coming publikumspreis

LIQUOR (DE 2025) von Yi-Chen Huang

AUSTRIAN PANORAMA

Austrian Panorama preis

dotiert mit 1.000 Euro, zur Verfügung gestellt von der VAM – Verwertungsgesellschaft für audiovisuelle Medien

MEETING POINT WALL – WE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO EACH OTHER (AT 2025) von Regine Kafeder

Tricky women navigate virtual realities at Regine Kafeder’s MEETING POINT WALL - WE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO EACH OTHER. The very Viennese film harnesses animations’ expressive potential to reveal a kaleidoscopic, over-saturated, and over-stimulated zeitgeist reverberating across generations. Figures appear weighed down by forms of domination that are not always visible or tangible, which Kafeder’s animation playfully renders perceptible without the familiar doom and gloom. The film captures a tricky world mediated by images. Without shaming women, it critiques technocratic interventions in our relationships with ourselves and each other. MEETING POINT WALL is hectic, filled with diverse expressions of identity without claiming the characters' subjectivity. Accelerating rhythm and layered superimposition evoke the algorithm's gamified, gravitational pull into the absurd. The title suggests we have nothing to say to each other, but Kafeder has a lot to say to us. — Amanda Barbour, Mara Chavez & Madi Piller (Austrian Panorama Jury)

Spezielle erwähnung der Austrian Panorama Jury

YARN OVER (AT/UK 2024) von Veronika Wielach

We would like to award a special mention to Veronika Wielach’s YARN OVER. Here, the medium is the message. Textiles tell a tender story about a lonely, elderly man joining a local knitting group. In equal parts elegant and affective, the journey from isolation to community reveals how feminist care and solidarity benefits everyone. — Amanda Barbour, Mara Chavez & Madi Piller (Austrian Panorama Jury)

Austrian Panorama Audience Award

CHALLENGES OF A SOLITARY MIND (AT 2025) von Astrid Rothaug

Hubert Sielecki preis

dotiert mit 500 Euro für einen österreichischen Animationsfilm

MEETING POINT WALL – WE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO EACH OTHER (AT 2025) von Regine Kafeder

On a gray wall, figures move like those we know from hieroglyphs on ancient walls—only colorful, with cell phones, in vibrant hues, appearing to me as a dance with hip swings and joyful collective activity! Known and unknown artists perform in a fascinating sequence of controlled movements set to powerful music. — Hubert Sielecki

VIRTUAL REALITY WETTBEWERB

Lumine Award fÜr DIE BestE VIrtual reality Arbeit

im Wert von 500 Euro, zur Verfügung gestellt von Lumine Projections

THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN (AU 2025) VON Isobel Knowles und Van Sowerwine

This experience oscillates between abstraction and a concrete confrontation with loss. Personal objects such as furniture, photos, LPs, etc are transformed, through photogrammetry—which can only ever create an incomplete representation of reality—into symbols of the memories that are all that remain of the former home. In this way, the team of Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine uses virtual reality in a compelling manner to make the lost objects visible. Both the aesthetics and the narration make people’s experiences of loss tangible in an emphatic way. The story remains very close to the actual stories of the people and is poignant without dramatizing. Alongside moving stories, there are contemplative moments in which viewers can go on their own search for clues. In this way, the narrative leaves room for personal reflection, bridging the gap between the personal level and global contexts. — Gerda Leopold, Sonja Prlić & Janine Scheer-Erb (Virtual Reality Wettbewerb Jury)