Christmas Film Festival Award Winners

Christmas Film Festival Award Winners

6 International Short Films | 82min | OmeU

On Christmas Eve, the Christmas Film Festival presents a very special treat: All Audience Award winning films united in one festive programme. Their stories are as colourful as a plate of Christmas cookies: Wild romances in a morgue, talking Christmas carps, a lovingly run retirement home, an extraordinary citizens’ initiative and women who have to stand up to know-it-all men. It’s going to be a feast!
All films will be screened in original version with English subtitles.

Saturday, 24.12.2022 | 21:00 Uhr
Moviemento Cinema, Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin, Germany
11,- € /10,- € reduced/ 5,- € Berlin Pass
Box Office: +49 (0) 30 692 47 85

Surprise Film

(This short film answers an essential question about Christmas once and for all.)

Trauslā sirds / All my Dead

Astra Zoldnere | Dark Comedy | 14min | Latvia 2014 | OmeU
Two strangers meet on Christmas Eve in a peculiar environment: a morgue. Passionately, they try to manipulate each other. She wants him, but he just wants to vanish.
Audience Award 2016

Jak przyrządzić karpia? /
How to prepare a Christmas carp?

Jan Bujnowski | Comedy | 12min | Poland 2016 | OmeU
A little boy is trying to convince his parents that the carp, meant to become a traditional Christmas dish and temporarily kept in their bathtub, can talk with people.
Audience Award 2017

We will survive

Nele Dehnenkamp | Documentary | 29min | Germany 2018 | OmeU
The Julie Roger House is no ordinary retirement home – it’s unique in Germany. Here, seniors of all sexual orientation are offered more than just a home in old age.
Audience Award 2019

Hey Eindje

Merlijn Passier | Comedy | 11min | Netherlands 2020 | OmeU
Carolien discovers the possibilities of a long-forgotten invention stacked in an old box.
Audience Award 2021

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre

Ilja Rautsi | Horror, Comedy | 15min | Finland 2018 | OmeU
A woman desperatly struggles to survive a pack of men who just want to explain everything to her.
Audience Award 2018