First Prize at the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival! SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN receives the Encounters / Al Jazeera Best Documentary Award for the best international documentary at the Johannesburg and Cape Town based festival.

At the 22nd Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films – Die Brücke, director Steffi Niederzoll receives the Special Award for SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN. The award ceremony, held by the Bernhard Wicki Gedächtnis Fonds e.V., annually honours outstanding artistic works.

Grand Prize for SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN: At the Italian Biografilm Festival, the film wins the Best Film Award in the international competition.

LONELY OAKS wins the Focus Future Award of the 33rd International Filmfest Emden-Norderney. The recently introduced award honours a film that addresses issues of environmental and climate protection, ecological problem scenarios and future-oriented topics.

SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN wins the Amnesty International Poland Award at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.

The date is set! On June 17th LONELY OAKS will have its international premiere at the Sheffield DocFest in England. The film will be screened there as part of the International First Feature Competition. We are very grateful for the invitation and are looking forward to the reactions of the international audience.

LONELY OAKS wins two awards at the 32nd FILMKUNSTFEST MV. The film receives the award for the best documentary film of the competition and Carina Neubohn and Steffen Meyn are honoured with the award for the best cinematography of the documentary film competition.

This year’s Roman Brodmann Prize goes to SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN. The prize, which is awarded annually by the Haus des Dokumentarfilms, recognises an outstanding work of investigative and socially relevant documentary film.