71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 29 April – 4 May 2025

The Winners of the 27th MuVi Award

The Award Ceremony took place on Saturday, 3 May 2025, 10 pm CEST, at the Lichtburg Filmpalast, Elsässer Str. 26, 46045 Oberhausen.

Twelve German music video productions were selected from over 231 submissions for the 27th MuVi Award of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Two jury prizes and an audience prize worth a total of 3,500 euros were awarded on 3 May 2025.

The Jury:
Lin Htet Aung, filmmaker, Myanmar
Xenia Lesniewski, visual artist, Austria
Jo Zimmermann, musician, illustrator, Germany

1st Prize

worth 2,000 euros

K-BOB STAR (Cardi B)
Hansol Kim
Germany/South Korea 2024, 3‘01‘‘, colour

Statement:

Hansol Kim‘s K-BOB STAR is a precise and playful investigation into the intersections between different generations, the role of women in the K-Pop industry and carework. Working with several generations of women, particularly her grandmother, she creates a multigenerational narrative that subtly undermines traditional notions of age and gender. Employing a pared-down, poignant combination of video and text, as well as ironic references – for example to kimchi as a cultural signifier – Kim questions issues of appropriation and cultural identity. The result is a fresh, idiosyncratic work whose aesthetic otherness and performative eccentricity open new visual spaces of female emancipation.

2nd Prize

worth 1,000 euros

Quand le grenier aura pris feu (Anadol & Marie Klock)
Utku Önal
Germany/France 2025, 6‘13‘‘, colour

Statement:

With Quand le grenier aura pris feux, Utku Önal has designed a poetic, multi-layered work that plays with surrealist nuances and at the same time refuses to be categorized. Image and sound complement each other in irritating and at the same time subtle ways, between daydream and nightmare, between tenderness and distress. Watching it inevitably raises the question: How was this made? The use of AI is not displayed as a spectacle but as a quiet, almost casual performance that re-explores the relationship between human, machine and representation. The result is an enigmatic, idiosyncratic work that eludes any clear definition – which is precisely how its power unfolds.

MuVi Online Audience Award

chosen by online vote on www.muvipreis.de and worth 500 euros

looking @ ghosts (die hunde x prozpera)
Jeremias Heppeler
Germany/Japan 2024, 5‘07‘‘, colour

The MuVi Partners 2025:

3sat, 3sat.de
Byte.FM, www.byte.fm
kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop, kaput-mag.com
kultur.west, www.kulturwest.de
netpoint media, www.netpoint-media.de

Oberhausen, 3 May 2025

Press contact: Sabine Niewalda, phone +49 (0)208 825-3073, niewalda@kurzfilmtage.de