From 2011 til 2019 the AOK Film Award was handed to the director of a feature film or documentary film that deals with a health-related subject in a creative way. This also includes the challenges posed by demographic developments and medical progress, treatment of the disabled and people in need of care, widespread diseases and mental illnesses, topics relating to health promotion and preventative medicine, as well as health policy questions and problems.
The AOK Film Award had a purse of € 5,000 provided by the AOK health insurance agency of Lower Saxony.
