The annual SCORE Bernhard Wicki Award is a competition for extraordinary feature films and is decided on by audience vote. Our main award goes to the feature film with the highest audience rating in the competition.
The award itself was named after the great director Bernhard Wicki (1919-2000). With this award the Festival honours his services to German filmmaking as well as to the development of the Emden Film Festival in the years 1990 to 1999.
The SCORE Bernhard Wicki Award has a purse of € 10,000 provided by the SCORE GmbH.
Nominated Films:
100 Liters of Gold (FIN 2024) by Teemu Nikki Altweibersommer (A 2025) by Pia Hierzegger Bitter Gold (D/CHL/MEX/URY 2024) by Juan Olea Can I Get a Witness? (CAN 2024) by Ann Marie Fleming Divine Remedy (ISL/E 2024) by Thorkell Hardarson, Örn Marinó Arnarson Electric Child (CH/D/NL/PHL 2024) by Simon Jaquemet How To Make A Killing (F 2025) by Franck Dubosc Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes (D 2025) by Edgar Reitz Midas Man (UK 2024) by Joe Stephenson Mit Liebe und Chansons (F/CAN 2024) by Ken Scott My Father‘s Daughter (N/S/FIN 2024) by Egil Pedersen Never Alone (A/FIN/EST/D/S 2024) by Klaus Härö Norma Dorma (CH 2025) by Lorenz Suter Odd Fish (ISL 2024) by Snævar Sölvason Sharp Corner (CAN 2024) by Jason Buxton Skeet (CAN 2024) by Nik Sexton Tegendraads (NL 2024) by Ben Sombogaart That They May Face the Rising Sun (IRE/UK 2024) by Pat Collins The Good Sister (D/E 2025) by Sarah Miro Fischer Wilma will mehr (D 2024) by Maren-Kea Freese Wir glauben euch (B 2025) by Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys