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Vienna Shorts (formerly known as VIS Vienna Independent Shorts) is an international short film festival held annually in May in Vienna. It is the largest short film festival in Austria.[1]
History
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Vienna Shorts was first held in 2004 under the name VIS Vienna Independent Shorts. The festival originated from several Viennese student and short-film initiatives, including HomeMovieCorner, Fenster zum Hof and My Perfect TV, which had joined forces in 2003 to organize the first edition. The 2004 festival was held across several Viennese arthouse venues and presented 125 short films.[2] Later accounts described the first edition as a student initiative held in several Viennese arthouse cinemas under the name Vienna Independent Shorts.[3]
The festival has been organized by the non-profit association Independent Cinema, which was founded in 2003. According to the association's compliance guidelines, Independent Cinema was established to present independent films and promote emerging talent, and has organized the annual Vienna Shorts festival since 2004.[4] In its early years, the festival expanded from a local short-film initiative into a recurring international event, adding international competitions, Austrian programmes, retrospectives, guest programmes and special screenings.
The 2008 edition opened at Vienna's Gartenbaukino with the world premiere of the Austrian-Swiss anthology film Eleven Minutes, produced on the occasion of UEFA Euro 2008. Around 1,100 guests attended the opening.[5] During the following years, the festival continued to broaden its programme and its international orientation, presenting short fiction, documentary film, animation, avant-garde film, music videos, retrospectives and special events.
During the 2010s, the festival increasingly professionalized and expanded its international role. It became part of international short-film networks and gained qualification status for several major film awards, including the Austrian Film Awards in 2012, the Academy Awards in 2016 and the European Film Awards in 2018.[6] The industry publication Talking Shorts has described Vienna Shorts as one of the yearly events for the European short-film industry and as an EFA-, BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying festival.[7]
The festival later adopted the shorter name Vienna Shorts / VIENNA SHORTS, while retaining the earlier abbreviation VIS in some contexts. Its programme usually takes place in late May or early June and includes several hundred short films from Austria and abroad, alongside competitions, special programmes, industry events, talks and public screenings.[8]
In 2025, the festival held its 22nd edition. That year also marked a change in leadership: Karin Ginzel took over commercial management, while longtime artistic director Daniel Hadenius-Ebner announced his departure and handed over artistic direction to film scholar and curator Max Bergmann.[3] The festival's own archive states that Hadenius-Ebner stepped down after 22 years with the festival and 15 years at its head.[9]
The 23rd edition of Vienna Shorts was scheduled for 26 to 31 May 2026. The festival reported receiving around 5,800 submissions from 130 countries for that edition.[8]
Award winners
[edit]| Award winners 2005 | |
| Golden Shorts – Audience Award | Stefan Wolner (Austria): Balls |
| Award winners 2006 | |
| Golden Shorts – Audience Award | Alexis Ferrebeuf (France): Mort à l’écran |
| DocuZone Austria Short Film Award | Markus Oberndorfer (Austria): Untitled_in_Case_No_1 |
| diemelange Short Film Award | Björn Kämmerer (Austria): Escalator |
| Award winners 2007 | |
| Golden Shorts – Short Film Award of the City of Vienna | Marc Schaus (Belgium): Quelque chose en O |
| ray Audience Award | Astrid Rieger (Germany): Apple On a Tree / Mammal |
| 3 Short Film Awards | Johanna Moder (Austria): Her mit dem schönen Leben SI.SI. Klocker (Austria): Laura. Was Sie schon immer über Telefonsex wissen wollten |
| Award winners 2008 | |
| Golden Shorts – Short Film Award of the City of Vienna | Alina Rudnitskaya (Russia): Kak stat stervoi (Vixen Academy) |
| ray Audience Award | Radu Jude (Romania): Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat) |
| Hoanzl Audience Awards | Umut Dağ (Austria): Todesnachrichten Katharina Swoboda (Austria): Transition |
| Hubert Sielecki Prize | Michael Wirthig (Austria): Inside 1014 |
| Award winners 2009 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Asitha Ameresekere (UK): 14 |
| ray Audience Award | Sasha Pirker (Austria): Angelica Fuentes, The Schindler House |
| Hoanzl Audience Award | Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont (France): Manon sur le bitume |
| Airbed Movie Award | Robert Pohle, Martin Hentze (Germany): Der Conny ihr Pony |
| Prix Très Chic | Carsten Strauch (Germany): Das grüne Schaf |
| Hubert Sielecki Prize | Adnan Popović (Austria): Walzerkönig |
| Award winners 2010 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Liza Johnson (USA): In the Air |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah (Chile): Lucía / Luis |
| Austrian Short Film Award | Lisa Weber (Austria): Kommt ein Sonnenstrahl in die Tiefkühlabteilung und weicht alles auf |
| LG Audience Award | Chris Niemeyer (Switzerland): Las Pelotas |
| Skip Audience Award | Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah (Chile): Lucía |
| ray Audience Award | Robert Cambrinus (Austria/UK): Commentary |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Inger Lise Hansen (Norway): Parallax |
| Airbed Movie Award | Katharine Pfiel, Marlene Rudy, Andreea Jebelean, Barbara Wilding, Volker Buchgraber, Dominik Hartl (Austria): Guitar String Marked Fingerprints |
| Prix Très Chic | Florian Juri (Austria): Zerebrale Dichotomie |
| Award winners 2011 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Nicolas Provost (Belgium): Stardust |
| ASIFA Austria Award | David O’Reilly (Germany): The External World |
| Austrian Short Film Award | Peter Tscherkassky (Austria): Coming Attractions |
| Citroën Audience Award | Rungano Nyoni (Zambia): Mwansa the Great |
| Skip Audience Award | David O’Reilly (Germany): The External World |
| ray Audience Award | Christoph Schwarz (Austria): Supercargo |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Annick Blanc (Canada): Au milieu de nulle part ailleurs |
| VAM New Talent Award | Christoph Schwarz (Austria): Supercargo |
| Airbed Movie Award | Susi Sie (Germany): Float |
| Prix Très Chic | Erik Eriksson, Rune Eriksson (Norway): Standup Comedy On Mars / Hand of God / Norwegian Shorts With No Ending: The 50 Years Anniversary of Annecy Int. Animation Festival Edition |
| Award winners 2012 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Jan Czarlewski (Poland/Switzerland): L’Ambassadeur & moi |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Ruth Lingford (UK/USA): Little Deaths |
| Austrian Short Film Award | Gabriele Mathes (Austria): Flaschenpost |
| Jameson Audience Award | Samuel Tilman (Belgium): Nuit blanche |
| Skip Audience Award | Marta Pajek (Poland): Sleepincord |
| ray Audience Award | Dinko Draganovic (Austria): Tatin Ponos |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Ruth Lingford (UK/USA): Little Deaths |
| VAM New Talent Award | Katharina Gruzei (Austria): Die Arbeiterinnen verlassen die Fabrik |
| Special Prize of the Vienna Film Academy | Patrick Vollrath (Austria): Dieser Film ist ein Zusammenschnitt von DV-Kassetten, die bei einer Online-Auktion versteigert wurden |
| Jury Prize Night of the Light | Eva Chytilek (Austria): Einbruch der Nacht |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Willi Kubica (Austria): Ein Fest der Kabel und Stecker |
| Airbed Movie Award | L’Ogre (France/USA): 70 Million |
| Prix Très Chic | Johannes Nyholm (Sweden): Las Palmas |
| Award winners 2013 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Fyzal Boulifa (Morocco/United Kingdom): The Curse |
| ray Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Robert Cambrinus (Austria): I can't cry much louder than this |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Don Hertzfeldt (USA): It's such a beautiful day |
| Artist-in-Residence Grant | Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize (France): Exland |
| ray Audience Award Animation Avantgarde | Joseph Pierce (United Kingdom): The Pub |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Karolina Glusiec (United Kingdom): Velocity |
| Austrian Short Film Award | Ulrike Putzer, Matthias van Baaren (Austria): Hände zum Himmel |
| Youth Jury Award | Ulrike Kofler (Austria): Wir fliegen |
| VAM New Talent Award | Kurdwin Ayub (Austria): Familienurlaub |
| ray Audience Award Austrian Competition | Ulrike Kofler (Austria): Wir fliegen |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Daniel Moshel (Austria): Metube: August sings Carmen ’Habanera’ (music: August Schram) |
| Audience Award International Music Video | Alma Har'el (Israel): Fjögur Píanó (music: Sigur Rós) |
| Jury Prize Night of the Light | Reinhold Bidner, Georg Hobmeier (Austria): Impulse |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Gabriel Tempea (Austria): Joghurt mit Wachs |
| Prix Très Chic | Marion Pfaus (Germany): Das Wodka-Tagebuch |
| Award winners 2014 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Aniela Gabryel (Poland): Leciec, nie leciec (To fly or not to fly) |
| Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Guido Hendrikx (Netherlands): Escort |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Michel Klöfkorn (Germany): x-x-xx--x--gewobenes Papier |
| Artist-in-Residence Grant | Atsushi Wada (Japan): Anomalies |
| Audience Award Animation Avantgarde | Réka Bucsi (Hungary): Symphony no.42 |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Jennifer Reeder (USA): A Million Miles Away |
| Austrian Short Film Award | Christiana Perschon (Austria): Noema |
| Youth Jury Award | Christiana Perschon (Austria): Noema |
| VAM New Talent Award | Iris Blauensteiner (Austria): Schwitzen |
| ray Audience Award Austrian Competition | Christiana Perschon (Austria): Noema |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Antonin B. Pevny (Austria): Maschin (music: Bilderbuch) |
| Audience Award International Music Video | Carl Roosens, Noémie Marsily (Belgium): Our Lights (music: BRNS) |
| Best Student Film | Peter Brunner (Austria): Milchzähne |
| Jury Prize Night of the Light | Lena Weiss (Austria): Gatos de luz |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Lena Weiss (Austria): Gatos de luz |
| Prix Très Chic | Adrian Thiessen (Canada): The Auteurs of Christmas |
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| Award winners 2015 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Fabian Kaiser (Switzerland): De Schnuuf (The Breath) |
| Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Morgan Knibbe (Netherlands): Shipwreck |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Rainer Kohlberger (Austria): Moon Blink |
| Artist-in-Residence Grant | Peter Millard (United Kingdom): Fruit Fruit |
| Audience Award Animation Avantgarde | Don Hertzfeldt (USA): World of Tomorrow |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Konstantina Kotzamani (Greece): Washingtonia |
| Austrian Short Film Award | Sebastian Brameshuber (Austria): Of Stains, Scrap & Tires |
| Youth Jury Award | Christoph Rainer (Austria): Pitter Patter Goes My Heart |
| VAM New Talent Award | Jola Wieczorek (Austria): List do Polski (Letter to Poland) |
| Audience Award Austrian Competition | Christoph Schwarz (Austria): Beingwhale |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Stephanie Winter (Austria): Tristes Déserts - A robots tale (music: August feat. Austrian Apparel) |
| Audience Award International Music Video | Hiro Murai (Japan): Never Catch me (music: Flying Lotus) |
| Jury Prize Night of the Light | Nicola von Leffern, Jakob Carl Sauer (Austria): Mafi Kharaba |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Georg Blume, Anna Hawliczek (Austria): Iguana Imperialista |
| Prix Très Chic | Ernst Palicek (Austria): Summer in Wien (prod.By 08) |
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| Award winners 2016 | |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Fiction) | Sélim Azzazi (France): Ennemis intérieurs |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Animation) | Karl Lemieux, David Bryant (Canada): Quiet Zone |
| Vienna Short Film Award – International | Mahdi Fleifel (Denmark, Palestine): A Man Returned |
| Vienna Short Film Award – National | Maria Luz Olivares Capelle (Argentina, Austria): Wald der Echos |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Siegfried A. Fruhauf (Austria): Vintage Print |
| Artist-in-Residence Grant | Céline Devaux (France): Le repas dominical |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Alexandra Gerbaulet (Germany): Schicht |
| Youth Jury Award | Paul Wenninger (Austria): Uncanny Valley |
| New Talent Award | Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger (Austria): Desert Bloom |
| Audience Award Austrian Competition | Armin Thalhammer (Austria): Cerro Ricco The Silver Mountain |
| Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Daina Oniunas-Pusić (Croatia): Zvjerka |
| Audience Award Animation Avantgarde | Céline Devaux (France): Le repas dominical |
| International Music Video Competition | TAKOM, Daito Manabe and MIKIKO (USA, Japan): Cold Stares (music: Nosaj Thing feat. Chance the Rapper + The O’My’s) |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Florian Pochlatko (Austria): God of Ghosts/Nu Renegade (music: Zebra Katz x DJ Leila) |
| Audience Award International Music Video | Ian Pons Jewell (UK): Deep Down Low (music: Valentino Khan) |
| Jury Prize Night of the Light | Lisbeth Kovacic (Austria): #theircatsaswell |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Michał Błaszczyk (Poland): How my Grandma went electric |
| Prix Très Chic | Daniel Moshel (Austria): MeTube2: August Sings Carmina Burana |
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| Award winners 2017 | |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Fiction) | Gabriel Abrantes (France, United Kingdom, Portugal): A Brief History of Princess X |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Animation) | David O’Reilly (Ireland, United States): Everything |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Documentary) | Patrick Bresnan (United States): The Rabbit Hunt |
| Vienna Short Film Award – International | Patrick Bresnan (United States): The Rabbit Hunt |
| Vienna Short Film Award – National | Veronika Schubert (Austria): In erster Linie |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Steven Woloshen (Canada): Casino |
| Artist-in-Residence Grant | Boris Labbé (Spain): Orogenesis |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Maite Alberdi & Giedre Žickyte (Chile, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania): Yo no soy de aqui |
| Youth Jury Award | Paul Ploberger (Austria): Bier & Calippo |
| New Talent Award | Sara Kern (Croatia, Slovenia, Austria): Srecno, Orlo! (Viel Glück, Orlo!) |
| Audience Award | Nagahisa Makoto (Japan): And So We Put Goldfish In the Pool |
| International Music Video Competition | Guillaume & Jonathan Alric (France): Territory (music: The Blaze) |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Florian Kindlinger & Peter Kutin (Austria): BulletProof (music: VENTIL) |
| Prix Très Chic | Alexander Gratzer (Austria): Im Wohnzimmer |
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| Award winners 2018 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Diogo Baldaia (Portugal): Miragem Meus Putos (Mirage My Bros) |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Nikita Diakur (Germany): Ugly |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klenger (Austria): Operation Jane Walk |
| Vienna Short Film Award – International Music Video Award | Tommy Cash (Estonia): Pussy Money Weed-Tommy Cash |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Austrian Music Video Award | Patryk Senwicki (Austria): Frizzle Frizz-KIDS N CATS |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Best VR/360° Film / Artist-in-Residence Grant | Alla Kovgan (Finland): Devil's Lungs |
| Jury Prize – Short Fiction Film | Jeremy Comte (Canada): Fauve |
| Jury Prize – Short Documentary Film | Ryan McKenna (Canada): Voces del Secuestro (Voices Of Kidnapping) |
| Jury Prize – Animated Film | Nikita Diakur (Germany): Ugly |
| Special Prize – Best Female Director (endowed by the Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation) | Amanda Nell Eu (Malaysia): Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It's Easier To Raise Cattle) |
| Special Prize – Award for an Outstanding Achievement / Artist-in-Residence Grant | Maria Molina (Netherlands): Digital Trauma (And The Crystal Image) |
| Special Prize – Best Newcomer | Michaela Taschek (Austria): Doppelgänger |
| Special Prize – Keep It Short Award | Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber, Stephan Lager (Austria): Ingwer Gegen Alles |
| Special Prize – VIS Art Scholars EFA 18 | Duncan Cowles, Ross Hogg |
| Audience Award – VIS Audience Award | Benoît Grimalt (France): Retour à Genoa (Back To Genoa City) |
| Audience Award – ORF.at Audience Award | Fabian Lang (Austria): Supernaked |
| bgcolor=#f0f0f0 | Audience Award – Prix Très Chic | Puppie Krammer (Austria): Lolana-Rising |
| Award winners 2019[10][11] | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Phạm Ngọc Lân (Vietnam): Một Khu Đất Tốt (Blessed Land) |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Martina Scarpelli (Italy): Egg |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Nicole Foelsterl (Austria): Eigentlich vergangen |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Austrian Music Video Award | Anja Plaschg and Ioan Gavriel for Italy & (This Is) Water by Soap&Skin |
| Special Prize – Best Female Director (endowed by the Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation) | Nicole Foelsterl (Austria): Eigentlich vergangen |
| Audience Award – VIS Audience Award | Martina Scarpelli (Italy): Egg |
| Audience Award – ORF.at Audience Award | Alexander Gratzer (Austria): Apfelmus |
| bgcolor=#f0f0f0 | Audience Award – Prix Très Chic | Anna Mantzaris (Norway): Enough |
| Vimeo Staff Pick Award | Ross Hogg (UK): 4:3 |
| Youth Jury Award | Bernhard Wenger (Austria): Guy proposes to his girlfriend on a mountain |
| Special Mention – International Competition – Fiction & Documentary | Alice Fargier: Retour au Pays des Merveilles (Back to Wonderland) |
| Special Mention – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde | Sophie Koko Gate: Slug Life |
| Special Mention – Austrian Competition | Siegmund Skalar: Hörmanns (Hoermanns) |
| Special Mention – Austrian Music Video Award | Rupert Höller: Wannabe – Leyya |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Fiction & Documentary | Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold (USA): Black Bus Stop |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde | Shen Jie (China): Splash |
| Jury Prize – Austrian Competition | Grzegorz Kielawski, Alexander Bayer: Nuit |
| Award winners 2021[12] | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Gorana Jovanović for Armadila |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Katharina Huber for Der natürliche Tod der Maus |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Jyoti Mistry for Cause of Death |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Austrian Music Video Award | Lorenz Uhl for Brumm Brumm by Yunko x Oehl feat. Autodrom |
| Special Prize – Best Female Director (endowed by the Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation) | Katharina Huber for Der natürliche Tod der Maus |
| Audience Award – VIS Audience Award | Geoffroy de Crécy for Empty Places |
| Audience Award – ORF.at Audience Award | Nigel Gavus and İlkin Beste Çırak for Letters from a Window |
| bgcolor=#f0f0f0 | Audience Award – Prix Très Chic | Ivan Li for Fruit |
| Youth Jury Award | Mo Harawe for Life on the Horn |
| Youth Jury Special Mention | Christoph Schwarz for Civilization |
| Special Mention – International Competition – Fiction & Documentary | Sebastian Mulder for Naya – Der Wald hat tausend Augen |
| Special Mention – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde | Tina Frank for Frozen Jumper |
| Special Mention – Austrian Competition | Karin Ferrari for m h y t n i x |
| Special Mention – Austrian Music Video Award | Lena Kuzmich for Lost Islands – Tony Renaissance |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Fiction & Documentary | Thelyia Petraki for Bella |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde | Yann Chapotel for Inside |
| Jury Prize – Austrian Competition | Michael Heindl for Spring Will Not Be Televised |
| Award winners 2022[13] | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Majid Al-Remaihi for And Then They Burn the Sea |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Atsushi Wada for Bird in the Peninsula |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Mo Harawe for Will My Parents Come To See Me |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Austrian Music Video Award | Matthew Gerges for Make Me Cry by On Bells |
| Special Prize – Best Female Director (endowed by the Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation) | Zou Jing for Lili Alone |
| Audience Award – ORF.at Audience Award | Lia Sudermann, Simon Nagy for Invisible Hands |
| Social Responsibility Award | Lia Sudermann, Simon Nagy for Invisible Hands |
| Youth Jury Award | Anna Lehner for Brise / Breeze |
| Special Mention – Austrian Competition | Leni Gruber, Alex Reinberg for Hollywood |
| Jury Prize – Best Newcomer – Austrian Competition | Alexander Gratzer for In The Upper Room |
| Special Mention – Austrian Music Video Award | Nenda Neururer for Borders |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde – Best Newcomer | Hannah Stragholz, Simon Steinhorst for Doom Cruise |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde – Special Mention | Marta Pajek for Impossible Figures and other stories I |
| Jury Prize – Best Visual and Sound Design | Adam Sillard, Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet for Goodbye Jérôme! / Au revoir Jérôme! |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Jay Rosenblatt for How Do You Measure a Year? |
| Award winners 2023[14] | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Stephen Lopez for Hito |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Ivana Bošnjak Volda and Thomas Johnson Volda for Sjeti se kako sam jahala bijelog konja (Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse) |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Viktoria Schmid for NYC RGB |
| Vienna Short Film Award – Austrian Music Video Award | Sabrina Norte for Painted Pain: W1ZE ft. Lukas Oscar |
| Audience Award | Rita Barbosa for 2ª Pessoa (2Nd Person) |
| Special Prize – Best Female Director (endowed by the Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation) | Anne Isensee for Intro |
| ORF-Topos Audience Award | Stefanie Weberhofer for Farbversuchsprogramm (Color Test Program) |
| Social Responsibility Award | Olga Kosanović for Land der Berge (Land of Mountains) |
| Youth Jury Award | Yana Eresina for Until I lie still |
| Youth Jury Special Mention | Tobias Pichler for Last (Heavy Load) |
| Jury Prize – Best Newcomer – Austrian Competition | Jasmin Baumgartner for Bye Bye, Bowser |
| Special Mention – Austrian Music Video Award | Clemens Niel for Toothpaste – Oh Alien |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Music Video | Rupert Höller for We Cry – ARAI |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde – Best Newcomer | Balázs Turai for Amok |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde – Special Mention | Ganaël Dumreicher for Kieslers Körper (Kiesler's Body) |
| Audience Award – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde | Stephen Irwin for World to Roam |
| Jury Prize – Best Cinematography | Francesca de Fusco for Incroci |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Pol De Plecker for Noisetrain |
| Special Jury Prize – Best Sound | Total Refusal for Hardly Working |
| Most Extraordinary Film | Anna Vasof for Issues with my other Half and Jan Soldat for The Act Of Dying |
| Award winners 2024 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Alejandro Alonso Estrella for La historia se escribe de noche |
| Jury Prize – Best Cinematography | Atsushi Hirai for Oyu |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Emmanuel Van der Auwera for White Cloud Sam Manacsa for Cross My Heart and Hope to Die Stavros Markoulakis for Pigeons Are Dying, When The City Is On Fire |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Film | Pavel Mozhar for Ungewollte Verwandtschaft |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Ulu Braun for Pacific Vein |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde – Best Newcomer | Matea Kovač for Y |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Maxime Corbeil-Perron for Visions |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Film | Flóra Anna Buda for 27 |
| Austrian Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Sarah Pech for Ich hab dich tanzen sehn |
| Jury Prize – Best Newcomer | Lidija-Rukiye Kumpas for Gül |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Lukas Marxt for Valley Pride |
| Youth Jury Award – Best Film | Josephine Jeltsch for Louanne & Thaïs |
| Youth Jury Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Sascha Vernik for Annoyance |
| ORF-Topos Audience Award | Sascha Vernik for Annoyance |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Clemens Niel for The Dream – Oh Alien |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Shahin Hefter for Cover Me in Silver – Lizki |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Music Video | Law Wallner, Felix Julius Pletzer for Spiegelverkehrt – Skofi |
| Social Responsibility Award | Franzis Kabisch for Getty Abortions |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Tolga Karaaslan for Memories of the Foreign |
| Special Prize – Best Sound Design | Sarah Pech for Ich hab dich tanzen sehn |
| Most Extraordinary Film | Hannah Mamalis for Baby Steps Tia Salisbury for Not Surgery Hours |
| Award winners 2025 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Maryam Tafakory for Razeh-del |
| Jury Prize – Best Cinematography | Samuel Suffren for Coeur Bleu / Blue Heart |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Miranda Pennell for Man number 4 |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Film | Simon Schneckenburger for Skin on Skin |
| Vienna Short Film Award – ASIFA Austria Award | Sasha Svirsky for Dull Spots of Greenish Colours |
| Jury Prize – International Competition – Animation Avantgarde – Special Artistic Achievement | Nicolas Brault for Mémoire entropique / Entropic Memory |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Katharina Pichler for Im Dickicht |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Film | Meejin Hong for Deluge |
| Austrian Short Film Award – Best Austrian Film | Amina Krami for Der Badeanzug / The Swimsuit |
| Jury Prize – Best Newcomer | Nicolás Pindeus for Die letzten Menschen / The Last People |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Susanna Flock, Jona Kleinlein, Adrian Jonas Haim for World at Stake |
| Youth Jury Award – Best Film | Simon Dallaserra, Iven Yorick Fenker for die kastanie / the chestnut |
| ORF-Topos Audience Award | Amina Krami for Der Badeanzug / The Swimsuit |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Kevin Thaliyath for NATEMU නටමු – KVSAL |
| Special Mention – Artistic Achievement | Ioan Gavriel, Anja Franziska Plaschg for Girl Loves Me – Soap&Skin |
| Audience Award – Most Popular Music Video | Clara Stern, Johannes Hoss for BrEaK iNtO yOuR hOu$e – Ikan Hyu feat. Drahthaus |
| Social Responsibility Award | Gabriele Neudecker for wedLOCK tradWIFE |
| Special Prize – Best Sound Design | Lukas Valenta Rinner for Ruletista |
| Most Extraordinary Film | Fridtjof Stensæth Josefsen, Morten Borgestad for Ball |
| Award winners 2026 | |
| Vienna Short Film Award | Arief Budiman for Kota Emas (Golden Island)[15] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Ikrath, Philipp (2005), Endabnehmerorientierte Marketingpolitik österreichischer Independent Filmfestivals. Diploma thesis, Vienna
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Martin Thomson: Kurzfilm-Cordoda Archived 2008-09-26 at the Wayback Machine in Schnitt – Das Filmmagazin (2008)
- ↑ "1. Vienna Shorts". Vienna Shorts. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Film Festival Vienna Shorts: New Edition, New Management". Vienna.at. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- ↑ "Who We Are and What We Stand For: Vienna Shorts Compliance Guidelines" (PDF). Vienna Shorts. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- ↑ Eröffnung des 5. Wiener Kurzfilmfestivals: Rund 1.100 Gäste on derstandard.at, May 19, 2008
- ↑ "Changing: Goodbye Daniel – and Thank You!". Vienna Shorts. 10 June 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- ↑ "Vienna Shorts". Talking Shorts. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Submissions". Vienna Shorts. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- ↑ "22. Vienna Shorts". Vienna Shorts. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
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