In the Austrian Competition, Mo Harawe’s film Will My Parents Come to See Me won the Austrian Short Film Award as well as qualifications for the Academy Award, the European Film Award and the Austrian Film Award. Harawe returned to his native Somalia for the drama about a young man who meets a policewoman shortly before execution and, according to the jury, created “a formidable miniature about a country scarred by violence that sticks in our memory.” The Jury Prize was awarded to the touching animation In The Upper Room by Alexander Gratzer, while Hollywood by Leni Gruber and Alex Reinberg received an Honorable Mention and Breeze by Anna Lehner got the Youth Jury Prize. The ORF.at Audience Award for films under twelve minutes went to Invisible Hands by Lia Sudermann and Simon Nagy. Click here to read the jury statements.

Thanks to the prize sponsors: VDFS Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden, VAM Verwertungsgesellschaft für audiovisuelle Medien GmbH, viennaFX & Blautöne, Arbeiterkammer Wien, ORF.at

News 30.5.2022