Student Award 2019

Touchscreen is a word that can be understood as an invitation: Come on, Touch me! This apparently simple, ubiquitous tool connects us to the world. Yet there is a place where we do not touch the screen. Following unwritten rules, we take our seats, keep quiet and sur­render our emotions within the space and for the duration of the film that is about to start. Welcome to the cinema. The films submitted in 2019 for the Student Award made one thing clear: here is a generation that captures the screen with a fresh and radical take on the world. There are the epic dramas that transcend boundaries and the delicate observations that lead us to redefine the world in the small and the everyday. The screen becomes a laborato­ry: welcome to the cinema.