| Film Awards | Diagonale 2025 |
As part of de Diagonale, Austria’s most highliy endowed film awards will be presented by international juryies at the 2025 edition, thereby honouring the many achievements associated with the production of a film. The Franz Grabner Prize, die Carl Mayer Screenplay Awards, the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards and the Kodak Analog Award are also traditionally awarded during the Festival of Austrian Film.
| AWARDS OVERVIEW |
The Grand Diagonale Acting Award for services to Austrian film culture goes to Inge Maux in 2025. The award ceremony took place as part of the opening nigth on March 27, 2025 in the Helmut List Halle.
More information here.
The Kodak Analogue Film Prize was presented at the Diagonale ‘25 on 28 March, more information here.
| Isabella Brunäcker for Sugarland |
The award ceremony for the Franz Grabner Prize 2025 took place on March 29, 2025, at the Diagonale Forum at Heimatsaal in the Volkskundemuseum.
Awarded in the category TV documentary film / TV series / web format:
| Lisa Marie Gotsche for Reclaim – Der Kampf um die Demokratie auf Tiktok |
Awarded in the category cinem documentary film:
| Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel for Mâine Mă Duc – Tomorrow I Leave |
More information here.
The award ceremony for the Carl Mayer Screenplay Awards 2025 took place on March 31, 2025, at the Diagonale Forum at Heimatsaal in the Volkskundemuseum.
Main Price:
| Wenn Fische Robben fressen | Treatment by Klemens Hufnagl
Sponsorship Price:
| Schorsch | Treatment von Stefan Soder
More information here.
The award ceremony for the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award 2025 will took place on March 31, 2025, at the Diagonale Forum at Heimatsaal in the Volkskundemuseum.
Main prize for the best screenplay for a feature-length cinema or television film | endowed with € 12,000
| The Village Next to Paradise | by Mo Harawe
Special Jury Prize for the best screenplay of a feature-length cinema or television film with particularly outstandingly treated aspects | endowed with € 7,000
| Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst | by Marie Luise Lehner
Award for the best screenplay for a short or medium-length feature film | endowed with € 3,000
| Preiswerte Lösungen für ein besseres Leben | by Leni Gruber und Alex Reinberg
More information here.
The award ceremony of the Diagonale Awards in 13 categories with a total endowment of over € 130,000 for 20 award winners took place on March 31, 2025 at Annenhof Kino.
Grand Diagonale Prize of the Province of Styria | Best Feature Film
| Mo Harawe | for The Village Next to Paradise
Grand Diagonale Prize of the Province of Styria | Best Documentary Film
| Lisa Polster | for Bürglkopf
Diagonale Prize Innovative Cinema of the City of Graz | Best Innovative Film, Experimental or Animated Film
| Michael Gülzow | for Der tote Winkel der Wahrnehmung
All award winners, categories and jury statements here.
The award marathon concluded on April 1, 2025, with the presentation of the Kleine Zeitung’s Diagonale Audience Award for the Most Popular Film of the Diagonale at the Schubertkino.
| Perla | by Alexandra Makarová
More information here.