Student Award

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


Participating film schools

We present the participating film schools.

 

MEXICO, MONTREÁL AND MORE…

Students from Montréal, Mexico and Munich screen works from their semesters abroad.

 

CROSSING BORDERS: SIZILIEN

A television journalism project from HFF München. Sicily, 2024. Ten students and five projects.

 

The previous award-winning films of the megaherz Student Award

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)