Award winners
Main theme: Truth
This year's BEYOND Festival had the motto: ‘Truth between light and shadow’. Truth is the prerequisite for trust and social stability. It organises facts, creates standards and makes action reliable. Nevertheless, it is vulnerable: prejudices become entrenched through repetition, propaganda uses emotions instead of evidence, algorithms and AI generate images and voices that seem plausible but may be fictitious. Never before has the line between reality and fiction been as blurred as it is today. Our struggle for truth must therefore not remain theoretical; we must (once again) actively seek out the truth. The medium of film can make a valuable contribution to this – or tempt us to do the opposite. Here are the winners.