The Ecumenical Jury awarded their prize of 1500 € to the dance film "NoirBLUE" by Ana Pi and gave a Commendation to "amelina" by Rubén Guzmán from Argentina. The Grand Prix of the City of Oberhausen went to "I Got My Things and Left" by the Rwandan-born director Philbert Aimé Mbubazi Sharangabo. The Main Prize of the International Festival Jury was awarded to "ZOMBIES", directed by the Congolese-Belgian rapper Bajoli. The jury of the International Association of Film Critics (Fipresci) awarded their prize to "Student Bodies" by Ho Rui An from Singapore.
The Ecumenical Jury's distribution recommendation for a film from the Children's and Youth Film Competition was presented to "La gita" (The School Trip, Italy 2018) by Salvatore Allocca.
On May 1, 2019, the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen opened. Over the following days, the festival presented more than 500 films, including 139 in the five competition sections (International Competition, German Competition, NRW Competition, MuVi Prize and Children's and Youth Film Competition.) The Ecumenical Jury awards a prize in the International Competition and a recommendation for a film from the Children's and Youth Film Competition.
The section "Theme" with the title "The Language of Temptation" was dedicated to trailers as short film genre, both in their commercial form and in their artistic appropriation by individual filmmakers. In the section "Profiles" the festival presented the short films by Aleksandr Sokurov from the years 1980-1996 in six programs, as well as his six-and-a-half-hour documentary "Duchovnye golosa" (Spiritual Voices) about a Russian military base on the northern border of Afghanistan in 1995. Further programs of the the section were dedicated to Filipino filmmaker Kiri Dalena, Japanese Kayako Oki and Greek Eva Stefani.
Link: Festival-Website