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Jonathan Brunner, Winner of the ZF Short Film Award 2026 © Anjuna Hartmann

03/2026 Film

Jonathan Brunner wins the ZF Short Film Award 2026 with From Ecuador With Love

For his nine‑minute documentary From Ecuador With Love, Jonathan Brunner receives the ZF Short Film Award, endowed with 15,000 euros. The Audience Award of the ZF Art Foundation, worth 1,000 euros, goes to Masha Mollenhauer for the short film The Good Woman.

02/2026 Film

Twelve short films in competition for the ZF Short Film Award 2026

The 17th Filmtage Friedrichshafen, organized by the Cultural Office of Friedrichshafen, will once again present numerous award‑winning and remarkable short and documentary films by emerging filmmakers. The highlight of the festival is the competition for the ZF Short Film Award 2026.

Image and Power. Zooming into Zeppelin Photography, 2025, Installation view Christelle Oyiri, Sky is the Limit, 2025, supported by RE-SEARCH. The ZF Fellowship for Artists 2025 © Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Photo Markus Tretter

06/2025 Fine Arts

Sky is the Limit by Christelle Oyiri is made possible through the new ZF Fellowship RE-SEARCH.

RE-SEARCH, the first ZF Fellowship awarded by the ZF Art Foundation, will go to Christelle Oyiri in 2025. It enables the French artist to engage with the Zeppelin Archive and develop the work Sky is the Limit for the exhibition Image and Power. Zooming into Zeppelin Photography. In Sky is the Limit, Oyiri explores how information and spectacle have become inseparably intertwined, using the Hindenburg disaster (1937) and the September 11 attacks (2001) as case studies. For the artist, these aviation catastrophes symbolize an era of emotionally charged imagery, where the boundaries between reality and media staging begin to blur.

Christelle Oyiri, RE-SEARCH. ZF Fellowship 2025, Image and Power: Christelle Oyiri © Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen

03/2025 Fine Arts

RE-SEARCH, the new Fellowship for Artists of the ZF Art Foundation, goes to Christelle Oyiri in 2025

In 2025, on the occasion of its 35th anniversary, the ZF Art Foundation will transition from the Residency for Artists to the ZF Research Fellowship.

Gabriel Grosclaude, winner of the ZF Short Film Award 2025 © Gabriel Grosclaude

03/2025 Film

Gabriel Grosclaude wins the highly endowed ZF Short Film Award 2025 with LUX CARNE.

Swiss director Gabriel Grosclaude receives the 15,000 euros ZF Short Film Award for his eighteen-minute environmental thriller LUX CARNE. The Audience Award of the ZF Art Foundation, worth 1,000 euros, goes to Linus von Stumberg for his short film SYNCOPE.

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