kinokino Audience Award 2025 – sponsored by BR and 3sat
You voted on the festival films!
With the kinokino Audience Award – donated by BR and 3sat, you – the festival audience – could cast your vote on this year's festival films at DOK.fest München 2025. The name giver and media partner of the Audience Award is kinokino – Das Filmmagazin im Bayerischen Rundfunk | 3sat. The award is endowed with 2,000 euros, donated by BR, 3sat and DOK.fest München. Votes were cast from Wednesday, 7 May up to and including Thursday, 15 May 2024, with the final counting taking place on 16 May.
The winning film
The winner of the kinokino Publikumspreis is WRITING HAWA (Afghanistan, France, Netherlands, Qatar 2024, Najiba Noori & Rasul Noori, 84 min.):
When the Taliban regains power in Afghanistan, Najiba picks up the pieces of her film portrait of her mother in exile. Through Hawa’s story, we follow the wave of emancipation that had swept across the land. Though this now lies in tatters, women like Hawa will not relinquish what they have taught themselves: “To act changes everything.”
WRITING HAWA can be seen three more times at the Munich venues (please click on the respective link for purchasing tickets):
Fr, 16 May, 8.30 p.m. at Gasteig HP8 – Projektor
Sat, 17 May, 7.30 p.m. at Amerikahaus (following the Main Award Ceremony)
Sun, 18 May, 6.00 p.m. at Neues Maxim
Award Ceremony
The winning film will be honoured at the main award ceremony on Saturday, 17 May 2025 at 7.30 p.m. at Amerikahaus and then shown as the closing film of the festival.
Shortlist
During the festival we will publish the shortlist here daily.
As of: 16 May 2025
1st place: WRITING HAWA
2nd place: PRIMADONNA OR NOTHING
3rd place: DAS FAST NORMALE LEBEN
4th place: PING PONG PARADISE
5th place: YUMI - THE WHOLE WORLD
6th place: AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT
7th place: AZZA
8th place: BOALÂNDIA
9th place: MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
10th place: ENDLICH UNSTERBLICH
Which films are nominated?
All current feature-length films shown in the regular film programme of DOK.fest München 2025 are nominated for the kinokino Audience Award – donated by BR and 3sat. Excluded are: the short films of the short film reel DOK.fest SHORTS, the films we show in our retrospective section, the DOK.series, the films at the award ceremonies and the film screenings on 16, 17 and 18 May.
How does the voting work?
The audience vote will be carried out digitally for the first time this year – via QR code after the end of each film screening on site. After you have seen a film in one of the Munich cinemas, you can vote on the film directly afterwards within one hour using the QR code on the screen. If you have any technical problems, our volunteers and cinema staff will be happy to help you on site. Voting @home is no longer possible.
We would like to thank our award donor:
Award-winning films of the last few years:
2024: JENSEITS VON SCHULD by Katharina Köster and Katrin Nemec
2023: KRISTOS, THE LAST CHILD by Giulia Amati
2022: GIRL GANG by Susanne Regina Meures
2021: HE'S MY BROTHER by Cille Hannibal and Christine Hanberg
2020: THE EUPHORIA OF BEING by Réka Szabó
2019: ANOTHER REALITY by Noël Dernesch and Olli Waldhauer
2018: TACKLING LIFE by Johannes List
2017: MISS KIET'S CHILDREN by Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
2016: PARCHIM INTERNATIONAL by Stefan Eberlein and Manuel Fenn
