• Best Documentary: Hi, A.I. by Isa Willinger
 • Audience Award: CONGO CALLING by Stephan Hilpert
 • Best Score in a documentary by Jonathan Ritzel for LET THE BELL RING 

For 40 years, the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival has been dedicated to the presentation and promotion of young German-language films. With its focus exclusively on works by new talents from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, the Max Ophüls Prize is regarded as the most important young film festival in the German-speaking world.

LineUp of German productions and co-productions competition documentary

• LAST YEAR IN UTOPIA | LETZTES JAHR IN UTOPIA by Jana M. Keuchel/Katharina Knust, P: Werkleitz Gesellschaft e. V.
• THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN by Alexander Hick, P: HFF-Hochschule für Fersehen und Film
• CONGO CALLING by Stephan Hilpert, P: HFF Munich winner of AUDIENCE AWARD
• HELMUT BERGER, MY MOTHER AND I  |  HELMUT BERGER, MEINE MUTTER UND ICH by Valesca Peters P: Kobalt Productions GmbH
• LET THE BELL RING by Christin Freitag, P: DFFB - Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (winner of) BEST SCORE IN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY  for composer Jonathan Ritzel.
• Hi, A.I. by Isa Willinger, P: Kloos&Co. Medien GmbH  (winner of) BEST DOCUMENTARY PRIZE
• PLAYLAND USA by Benjamin Schindler, P: zeitgebilde Filmproduktion & Hübner/Wallenfels
• ESTÁ TODO BIEN - IT'S ALL GOOD by Tuki Jencquel, WS: MagnetfilmGmbH
• THE CANDIDATES | DIE KANDIDATEN by Michael Schwarz P: nachtschwärmerfilm
• DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE AND IF IT DOES, WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG? | MACHT DAS ALLES EINEN SINN? – UND WENN JA, WARUM DAUERT ES SOLANGE? by Andreas Wilcke, P: weltfilm GmbH
• MY BROTHER IS A DANCER | MEIN BRUDER KANN TANZEN by Felicitas Sonvilla, P: HORSE&FRUITS, HFF Munich

MOP-Shortlist

• SOMMER IM GARTEN by Nora Mazurek
• EL PESO DEL ORO – The Weight of Gold | – Das Gewicht des Goldes by Yves Itzek & Milos Zmiejewski, coP: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
• A PLACE IN THE SUN – 110 YEARS AFTER THE GENOCIDE | PLATZ AN DER SONNE – 110 JAHRE NACH DEM VÖLKERMORD by Christian Zipfel, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF &  Deutsche Filmakademie
• WALL CALLS | MAUERRUFE by Katharina Bintz, P: Katharina Bintz, HFBK Hamburg
• WE WILL SURVIVE by Nele Dehnenkamp, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
• REGIMES by Maja Tschumi, P: Academy of Media Arts Cologne, FILMGERBEREI
• TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

and

• THE BITTER AND THE SWEET by Ann Sophie Lindström
• JOMI'S SPHERE OF ACTION by Sebastian Voltmer
• CREDO by DIE REDNER & Gordian Arneth

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