38th European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
23-27 April 2025
Sunless Haven screened as part of the International Competition at the 38th European Media Arts Festival and received EMAF Award.
This year, 31 short films will be screened in the International Selection. The programme will present works by renowned and young artists from all over the world – many of them for the first time in Germany. […] In many of these works, we encounter gestures of protest and resistance against persistent injustice and social inequality. Some artists play with cinematic genres, especially with elements of horror and suspense, which might be a response to their unease with the present. Another central motif is the revisiting of personal and political histories in direct dialogue, but also in encounters with places and landscapes. More or less tamed nature – the garden, the park, the jungle – recurs as a historical backdrop, a personal anchor point, or a utopian blueprint for a different way of living together.
Selected by the programming team: Juan David González Monroy, Rita Macedo, Christina Stuhlberger and Clarissa Thieme who together with festival director Katrin Mundt selected the films for the festival and EMAF Award.
This year, for the first time, all 31 films screened will receive the EMAF Award. The prize money will be divided equally among the selected artists. The winners are:
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ben Balcom, George Clark, Theo Cuthand, Chloë Delanghe & Mattijs Driesen, Sam Drake, Eitan Efrat & Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Zachary Epcar, Kevin Jerome Everson, Laurence Favre, Maïder Fortuné, Daphné Hérétakis, Mina Heydari-Waite, Hyejin Jung, Ferney Iyokina Gittoma, Pranami Koch, Mónica Martins Nunes, Ella McConnell, Monica Panzarino, Franca Pape, Kanthy Peng, Martyna Ratnik, Jazmin Rojas Forero, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Silke Schönfeld, Lina Selander, Jonathan Seungjoon Lee, Micah Weber, Helena Wittmann, Crispin Yanisi and Else/Xun Zhang