Student Award

Since September 2026, the Student Award has been known as the DOK.spotlights megaherz Award and is presented here. This page, which still bears the old name ‘Student Award’, will no longer be updated.

The Student Award presents outstanding documentary films by students of German-speaking film schools and academies. The films are nominated for the megaherz Student Award, endowed with 3,000 euros.

The Student Award 2026

megaherz Student Award 2026

The films of this year’s Student Award at a glance

Two programs, one experience: The focus on looking beyond borders

Film students from the HFF Munich and the EsCine Ciudad de México present their documentary works.

 

Participating film schools

We present the participating film schools of the Student Award.

The previous award-winning films of the megaherz Student Award

2026

WAS AN EMPFINDSAMKEIT BLEIBT
Director: Daniela Magnani Hüller 

 

2025

WOMAN/MOTHER
Director: Klara Harden

 

2024

HAUSNUMMER NULL
Director: Lilith Kugler

 

2023

BORDER CONVERSATIONS
Director: Jonathan Brunner

 

2022

PUSHING BOUNDARIES
Director: Lesia Kordonets

 

2021

THE CASE YOU
Director: Alison Kuhn

 

2020

REGELN AM BAND, BEI HOHER GESCHWINDIGKEIT  
Director: Yulia Lokshina

 

2019

IN SEARCH...
Director: Beryl Magoko

 

2018

SAND UND BLUT
Directors: Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel

 

2017

PER SONG
Director: Shuchang Xie

2016

LA FIN D’HOMÈRE
Director: Zahra Vargas (Megaherz Filmschulpreis)