Flying ox
The flying ox is the main prize in the feature film competition at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival .
The sculpture consists of a winged ox figure on a film strip in a plexiglass stele. It comes from the Leipzig artist Hartmut Klopsch and has been awarded annually in May since 1991. The prize has been endowed with 10,000 euros since 2012.
The fiction film competition with current productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, together with the competitions for documentaries and short films, is at the center of the festival.
Award winners
- 1997: Helke Misselwitz , Engelchen
- 1998: Andreas Dresen , Get out of your skin
- 1999: Andreas Dresen , Nachtgestalten
- 2000: Franziska Buch , get out of here
- 2001: Esther Gronenborn , 99 euros Balkan Rhapsody
- 2002: Ulrich Köhler , bungalow
- 2003: Anne Wild , My first miracle
- 2004: Michael Sturminger , son of a bitch
- 2005: Esther Gronenborn , Adil leaves
- 2006: Benjamin Heisenberg , sleeper
- 2007: Barbara Albert , Fallen
- 2008: Götz Spielmann , revenge
- 2009: Arash T. Riahi , A Moment of Freedom
- 2010: Franz Müller , The love of children
- 2011: Jan Schomburg for Über uns das All
- 2012: Hans-Christian Schmid for what remains
- 2013: Friederike Jehn for Outside is summer
- 2014: Umut Dağ for cracks in concrete
- 2015: Sabine Boss for Der Goalie bin ig
- 2016: Barbara Eder for Thank You for Bombing
- 2017: Mascha Schilinski for The Daughter
- 2018: Wolfgang Fischer for Styx
- 2019: Nora Fingscheidt for system sprinkler