Festival of Austrian Film
Graz, March 12–17, 2013

The prize money is given to the director of the film.

All Austrian documentary films* up to a length of 60 minutes and presented in the Diagonale 2011 programme are eligible for the Diocese Graz-Seckau Prize.

* An Austrian film is defined according to the Diagonale rules as one where the director is an Austrian citizen and/or lives in Austria and/or one produced by an Austrian production company (majority Austrian financing, in the case of co-productions). Only films produced with minority Austrian financing by directors who do not live in Austria and/or are not Austrian citizens, as well as television productions which are not intended for commercial cinema release are excluded from competition.

 

Prize Best Short Documentary

by  Diocese of Graz-Seckau

Best Short Documentary Film

€ 4.000,– donated by Diocese of Graz-Seckau

Winner: Houchang Allahyari and Maziyar Moshtagh Gohary for Das persische Krokodil

Jury 2012
Julia Laggner (Filmmaker, AT)
Nicholas Martin (Film Critic Signis-Interfilm, AT)
Natalie Resch (Media Consultant Diocese Graz, AT)