| Diagonale Awards Editing 2026 |

| BEST ARTISTIC EDITING FOR A FEATURE FILM |
| of the aea – Austrian Film Editing Association |

Anna Garncarczyk
Teresas Körper

Jury Statement:
The bodies of a mother afflicted by back pain and her daughter meet, touch, and respond to one another. By carefully orchestrating this encounter, the editing invites us, in a playful way, to trace the physicality between generations. Just as the daughter can sometimes answer her mother only through dance, the editing too follows a precisely constructed, dreamlike logic.

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| BEST ARTISTIC EDITING FOR A DOCUMENTARY FILM |
| of the aea – Austrian Film Editing Association |

Bettina Blickwede
Mit Ästen bis zum Himmel

Jury Statement:
At the center here are children — their abilities, their delight in play, and their urge to make the world their own. In their shared energy, joy in life is multiplied and a bridge is built to the audience.The editing achieves something remarkable: it makes palpable just how much of this experience lies in rhythm. It places the specific perception of people with visual impairments at the center and translates acoustic and spatial orientation into a visual language. While the institution remains discreetly in the background, the editing allows us to immerse ourselves deeply in a world we have neither heard nor seen in quite this way before.

Jury Feature Film:
Ulrike Müller (Casting Director, DE)
Ivan Salatić (Director & Screenwriter, ME)
Cyril Schäublin (Director & Screenwriter, CH)*

Jury Documentary Film:
Susanna Guggenberger (Producer & Festival Director, AT/CH)
Jan Künemund (Cultural Journalist & Curator, DE)
Carmen Trocker (Director & Curator, IT)

*Cyril Schäublin stepped in at short notice for Faraz Fesharaki (director & cinematographer, DE/IR), who unfortunately cannot attend the Diagonale due to the current situation in Iran.