44th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Founded in 1952 in Mannheim as „Culture and Documentary Film Week“ and becoming the „International Film Wekk Mannheim in 1961, the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg got its current shape in 1994. Since 1963 Evangelical and Catholic juries award their prizes, being united to an Ecumenical Jury in 1995.