14/03/2016 - The Berlinale Forum title has won the Grand Diagonale Prize for a Feature Film at the Austrian festival

Director Ruth Beckermann accepting her award for The Dreamed Ones (© Diagonale/Pelekanos)

The 2016 Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film took place from 8-13 March in Graz. The main award, the Grand Diagonale Prize for a Feature Film, worth €21,000, went to Ruth Beckermann's The Dreamed Ones [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], which world-premiered in the Berlinale's Forum section earlier this year. The film's editor, Dieter Pichler, also won the Best Editing Award for a Fiction Film (worth €3,000).

Sigmund Steiner's Three Farmers and a Son (Holz Erde Fleisch) picked up the Grand Diagonale Prize for a Documentary Film (worth €21,000), and Antoinette Zwirchmayr received the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema (€9,000) for the 19-minute Josef – Täterprofil meines Vaters. 

The Best Actress Award (worth €3,000) went to Ursula Strauss for her role in Mirjam Unger's Fly Away Home [+see also:
trailer
film profile], while Erwin Steinhauer won the Best Actor Award (€3,000) for his performance in Barbara Eder's Thank You for Bombing [+see also:
trailer
film profile]. 

The full list of winners is below: 

Grand Diagonale Prize for a Feature Film
The Dreamed Ones [+see also:
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trailer
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Grand Diagonale Prize for a Documentary Film
Three Farmers and a Son (Holz Erde Fleisch) – Sigmund Steiner

Best Editing for a Fiction Film
Dieter Pichler – The Dreamed Ones

Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema
Josef – Täterprofil meines Vaters – Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Best Actress
Ursula Strauss – Fly Away Home [+see also:
trailer
film profile]

Best Actor
Erwin Steinhauer – Thank You for Bombing [+see also:
trailer
film profile]

Best Short Fiction Film
Wald der Echos – Maria Luz Olivares Capelle

Best Short Documentary Film
Zuhause ist kein Ort – Clara Trischler

Special Mention
Eigensinn und Ansichtssachen – Miriam Raggam and Brigitta Freigassner

Best Young Talent Film
Unmensch – Jasmin Baumgartner 

Best Cinematography for a Fiction Film
Gerald Kerkletz – WINWIN [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Daniel Hoesl
film profile] 

Best Cinematography for a Documentary Film
Kurdwin Ayub – Paradise! Paradise!

Best Editor
Andreas Horvath – Helmut Berger, Actor

Best Sound Design for a Fiction Film
Charlie Campagna – Los Feliz

Best Sound Design for a Documentary Film
Selma Doborac – Those Shocking Shaking Days [+see also:
trailer
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Best Production Design
Laura Weiss – WINWIN

Best Costume Design
Alexandra Trumer – Jack [+see also:
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Audience Award
Kinders – the Riahi Brothers 

Award for Innovative Production Services
Lotus Film – Thank You for Bombing
Golden Girls Filmproduktion – One of Us [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stephan Richter
film profile]