Two Gold­en Lolas for the DFFB at the Ger­man Short Film Awards 2025

Journal,

A fan­tas­tic night for the DFFB: At this year’s Ger­man Short Film Awards, two of our pro­duc­tions received a Gold­en Lola. GARNELIUS by Julia Ketel­hut won in the Medi­um-Length Film cat­e­go­ry, while MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER by Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadži­ja was award­ed Best Short Film up to 15 min­utes.

The jury praised GARNELIUS as a “dis­turbing­ly beau­ti­ful work” marked by emo­tion­al pre­ci­sion and calm inten­si­ty. MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER impressed with its ana­lyt­i­cal clar­i­ty, poet­ic inti­ma­cy, and strik­ing cin­e­matog­ra­phy.

ICEBERGS by Car­los Pereira was also nom­i­nat­ed – a recog­ni­tion that is already con­sid­ered a major achieve­ment and comes with a €15,000 nom­i­na­tion prize.

We warm­ly con­grat­u­late all film­mak­ers involved!

All nom­i­nat­ed and win­ning films will be screened across Ger­many next year as part of the KURZ.FILM.TOUR in munic­i­pal cin­e­mas — don’t miss out!