The hybrid desktop essay Kotas Emas (Golden Island) by Indonesian director Arief Budiman won the main prize in the International Competition Fiction & Documentary, thereby also qualifying for the Oscars in the Documentary category. "The film offers a tender and pacifist approach to post-colonialism, military conflict and exploitation, told from the honest and charming perspective of a friendship," the jury explained. Through the interweaving of personal memories, political imagination and historical archive footage, Budiman explores the complexity of colonial heritage in Indonesia.

The Jury Prize for Best Cinematography was awarded to Mauricio Reyes for Pacífico (Daniel Duque). The jury was won over by the impressively experimental visual approach that goes beyond conventional imagery and creates a trance-like flow of mental and physically tangible images.

The Honorable Mention went to TRACE by French filmmaker Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine, a mysterious film poem about memory, loss and redemption.

The Audience Award went to Abortion Party by Julia Mellen.

News 30.5.2026