Student Award

“Human beings are human insofar as they bear witness to the inhuman.” This sentence by Giorgio Agamben indicates how the films in the programme of the Student Award 2018 can be watched. Not only the news of the war atrocities that reach us on a daily feed prove the inhuman, but also the little matters of daily life. This is found in the conditions that define us and the relationships that we are in. Also in our needs to this world like our ideals, our ambitions and our obsessions. Sometimes the inhuman is reflected by forgetting or not wanting to see things. Using films to take a closer look and to report is the students’
means of counteracting. The films portray bitter stories and moreover prove the feather light line, the personal and the peculiar side of life in the world that we live in. All films in the section are nominated for the Megaherz Student Award, worth 3,000 Euros. The jury consists exclusively of students from the participating film schools.