Award Winners of 30 Filmfest Dresden 2018

The winners of 30 FILMFEST DRESDEN have just been announced. We congratulate all winners and thank all our prize donors of FFDD18!

At the Awards Ceremony in the Kleines Haus of Staatsschauspiel Dresden this evening, a total of ten Golden Horsemen and four special prizes were awarded. The Indian director Amar Kaushik was delighted to receive two Golden Horseman trophies for his short fiction film "Aaba". Likewise, the director Jon Frickey, who lives in Hamburg, scooped up one of the special prizes, in addition to a Golden Horseman trophy. 69 animated and short fiction films from 29 countries were in the running for the prizes and awards this anniversary year. The 19-member juries chose the best short films, with the winners receiving prizemoney worth €67,000 in total. See all winning films here.

All of the prize-winning films are being screened in three programmes in the Filmtheater Schauburg and in the Programmkino Ost on Sunday, 22 April 2018. Find the complete programme here.