Peer Raben Music Award - Competition Screening

The Best Original Music Score in a Short Film will be awarded €1,500. Eight film scores from award-winning festival highlights of the international short film scene are nominated: "Abyssness," "ALARBA," "As I Was a Tree," "Bunnyhood" (Cannes La Cinéf), "Detlev," "INSTINCTS," "Woodland," and "Ordinary Life" (Berlinale Silver Bear 2025). The nominated guests will present their works!
Peer Raben Music Award - Competition Screening / Peer Raben Music Award - Wettbewerbsscreening
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Peer Raben Music Award - Competition Screening / Peer Raben Music Award - Wettbewerbsscreening

T he Best Original Music Score in a Short Film will be awarded €1,500. Eight film scores from award-winning festival highlights of the international short film scene are nominated: "Abyssness," "ALARBA," "As I Was a Tree," "Bunnyhood" (Cannes La Cinéf), "Detlev," "INSTINCTS," "Woodland," and "Ordinary Life" (Berlinale Silver Bear 2025). The nominated guests will present their works!

Host: André Feldhaus

The nominees:
• Victor Ardelean & Jiro Yoshioka ("Abyssness" directed by Jakob Arnu, Larissa Dold, Leonie Hecht, Moritz Hoffmann, Maximillian Otto, Theresa Rehe, Jonas Riedinger, Germany)
• Philip Domenico Calisto ("ALARBA" directed by Joshua Kantara, Germany)
• Marcus Sander ("As I Was a Tree" directed by Jalal Maghout, Germany/Syria)
• Marcin Mazurek ("Bunnyhood" directed by Mansi Maheshwari, United Kingdom)
• Clemens Gutjahr ("Detlev" directed by Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Germany)
• Louis Chenu ("INSTINCTS" directed by Lucie Cabon, France)
• Kengo Tokusashi ("ORDINARY LIFE" / “Futsu no seikatsu” directed by Mizushiri Yoriko, France/Japan)
• Lukas Stipar ("Woodland" directed by Vanessa Chu, Jim Obmann, Emil Pogolski, Germany)

With the purchase of a ticket for the screening of the short films nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award at 6:30 PM, you will also gain access to the See the Sound short film programme at 9:00 PM.