The two Ecumenical Juries in Oberhausen awarded their prizes to the Lebanese film "Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely" by Panos Aprahamian (International Competition) and to "37" by Meshy Koplevitch from Israel (International Online Competition) . The Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen went to "Weathering Heights" by Hannah Wiker Wikström (Sweden), the Online Grand Prize to "Ava mocoi, os gêmeos" by Luiza Calagian and Vinicius Toro (Cuba/Brazil) The Ecumenical Online Jury also awarded a Commendation to "Blink in the Desert" by Shinobu Soejima (Japan). The Ecumenical Jury's recommendation for a film in the Children and Youth Film Competition went to "Titan" by Valéry Carnoy (France). "Weathering Heights" also won the FIPRESCI Prize of the Jury of International Film Critics.
As in the previous year, the festival was held in two parts - an online section (29.4.-3.5.) and an on-site festival (4.5.-9.5.). Accordingly, there were two international competitions - the international online competition with 6 programmes and the international on-site competition with 8 programmes. Both competitions were observed and judged by an Ecumenical Jury of three members each.