endowed with<\/p>\n
\u20ac 3,000 each – donated by VdFS – the Film Industry’s Collecting Society<\/strong><\/p>\n The prize money is awarded to the cinematographer of the respective film. All feature-length Austrian fiction and documentary films from Diagonale ’26 competition will be considered for the award for Best Cinematography.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n | BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY FEATURE FILM | Johannes Hoss<\/strong> Jury Statement: and<\/p>\n | BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY DOCUMENTARY FILM | Stefan Neuberger<\/strong> Jury Statement: <\/p>\n
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\n| from the Association of Austrian Cinematographers AAC\u00a0|<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLicht, kein Licht<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nIn this film, the cinematography questions the reality it depicts in a way that is both unsettling and inquisitive. What we see becomes uncertain. The pathways and spaces of human routine are transformed into sites of tension, where meaning is constantly being renegotiated.<\/p>\n
\n| from the Association of Austrian Cinematographers AAC\u00a0|<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMit \u00c4sten bis zum Himmel<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe choice of framing is always precise: it allows us a sensuous access to a world experienced through touch, feeling, and perception. In doing so, the camera never tries to explain anything to us. On the one hand, it accompanies \u2014 and on the other, it does what is uniquely its own: it sees. In this way, it is capable of something the protagonists themselves cannot do. And yet this exchange becomes a sensitive interplay, in which limitations make closeness possible and, in turn, open up new insights for us.<\/p>\n