Award winners
The 11mm Festival awards four prizes: the Young Jury Prize (since 2025), the Grand Jury Prize (since 2018), the Audience Award The Golden 11 (since 2005), and the award for the best soccer short film of the year, the 11mm Shortkicks Award (since 2007).
Young Jury Award
2026
Sapir
by Liran Atzmor (ISR)
2025
Girls can’t kick it
by Torsten Körner (DE)
Grand Jury Prize
2026
Rise & Fall of 1860 München
by Lennard Bedford-Strohm (Germany)
Sapir
by Liran Atzmor (ISR)
2025
Copa ’71
by James Erskine / Rachel Eamsay (UK)
2022
Tala’Vision
by Murad Abu Eisheh (DE/JO)
2020
Diego Maradona
by Asif Kapadia (UK)
2019
Nossa Chape
by Michael Zimbalist / Jeff Zimbalist (USA)
2018
Men in the Arena
by J.R. Biersmith (USA)
The Golden 11
2026
360 Pieces
by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (SE)
2025
As Primeras
by Adriana Yañez (BRA)
2022
All of Tofe travels to Kiel
by Paul Gredig (Germany)
2020
The Miracle of Taipei
by John David Seidler (Germany)
2019
Aragh-e-Sard
by Soheil Beiraghi (IRN)
2018
The Double 1977–78
by Frank Steffan (Germany)
2017
Salomon Kalou: The Elephant
by Angel Chow-Toun (FRA)
2016
Two-man team
by Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali (DE)
2015
Una Meravigliosa Stagione Fallimentare / A Wonderful Season of Bankruptcies
by Mario Bucci (IT)
2014
Fortuna’s Legends
by Lars Pape / Holger Schürmann (Germany)
2013
Il Mundial dimenticato / The Lost World Cup
by Lorenzo Garzello / Filippo Macelloni (IT)
2012
The Other Chelsea: A Story from Donetsk
by Jakob Preuss (DE)
2011
Champion vs. Champion
by Johannes Grebert (DE)
2010
(tied) Eisern Vereint and Hoffenheim – Life Isn’t a Home Game
by Andreas Gräfenstein / Rouven Rech / Frank Pfeiffer (DE)
2009
Maradona by Kusturica
by Emir Kusturica (SRB)
2008
The Best Women in the World
by Britta Becker (Germany)
2007
Fan Demanium
by Matthias Visser (DE)
2006
Eyes on the Blues
by Stéphane Meunier (FRA)
2005
The Other Final
by Johan Kramer (NE)
11mm Shortkicks Award
2026
Kutte
by Sylvie Hohlbaum (Germany)
2025
Girls Move Mountains
by Anna Huix (ES)
2023
Foul
by Rune Denstad Langlo (NOR)
2022
Leo
by Moein Rooholamini (IRN)
2020
Maradona’s Legs (Ijrain Maradona)
by Firas Khoury (PS, DE)
2019
Nefta Football Club
by Yves Piat (FR)
2018
On the palate
by Matteo Gariglio (CH)
2017
Domingo
by Raúl López EcheverrÃa (MEX)
2016
On the Sidelines
by Hortense Gélinet (FR)
2015
In the glow of this happiness
by Sven Schrader / Riccardo Wolff (DE)
2014
I Love Hooligans
by Jan-Dirk Bouw (NL)
2013
(tied) *My Circumcision* and *The Whistle*
by Arne Ahrens and Grzegorz Zariczny (Germany and Poland)
2012
The Little Team
by Roger Gomez / Dani Resines (ES)
2011
The Ball
by Katja Roberts (UK)
2010
The King of Football’s Youngest Satellite
by Walter G. Puls (Germany)
2009
Eight
by Stephen Daldry (UK)
2008
The Tiger in Munich
by Andreas Leimbach (Germany)
2007
Flemish Fields
by Hans van der Meer (NL)
