endowed with<\/p>\n
\u20ac 2.000 \u2014 donated by Helmut Marko Hotels<\/strong><\/p>\n \u20ac 1.000 \u2014 donated by Sestra Store<\/strong><\/p>\n \u20ac 1.000 \u2014 donated by Steirisches Siedlungswerk (STWS)<\/strong><\/p>\n and a voucher for The prize money will be awarded to the director of the film, the voucher to the producer of the film. Austrian short fiction films of the Diagonale \u201926 competition with a length of up to 64 minutes are eligible for the Short Fiction Film Award.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n | FOR BEST SHORT FICTION FILM |<\/strong><\/p>\n Franz Quitt<\/strong> Jury Statement: Analog film material that breathes, lives, and feels alive functions here as a counterpoint to digital overstimulation and sterility. This is a film that moves us and celebrates movement itself, as empty streets and spaces are reclaimed through dance, thereby re-establishing a public sphere in which people genuinely care for one another. We hope that this film, which we watch in the cinema as a social, civic, and communal space, will continue on its path to inspire many more viewers toward this humanity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n\u20ac 2.000 \u2014 donated by The Grand Post \u2013 Post Production Houses<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nClosed for the Virus Break<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe award goes to a film that reminds us of a collective experience which, paradoxically, was shaped by isolation and separation. It is a film that is both loud and quietly observant, telling a story of individual emancipation and of the significance and resilience of human contact and social bonds emerging out of isolation. With a poetic visual language that is never intrusive and never serves merely as an aesthetic end in itself, the film translates the deeply human longing for physicality, touch, and connection into tactile, warm images.<\/p>\n