We proudly present the 2020 Vienna Science Film Festival winners:
It was a really thought decision for our judges and we wanted to say thank you to all the filmmakers who submitted so many movies. We wish you all the best in these thought time.

In the next few days we are going to fill the Official Selection category.

Symbology:

• – Online free to watch
• – Award winner
• – Genre prize winner
• – Special Mention

Official Selection:

• Bend or Break (USA, 3′) by Isaac Kerlow
• Digits of Pi (USA, 3′) by Tom Bessoir
• Reef Revolution (NZ, 9′) by Rebecca Pratt Best Climate Related Movie
• Secrets of the Universe (USA, 42′) by Stephen Low Best Physics Movie
• Smart Slime? (UK, 10′) by Juliette Martineau Best Biology Movie
• Stardust Odyssey (FRA, 2′) by Tibo Pinsard Best Science Movie (ex equo)
• The Burn (GER, 11′) by Johannes Walden Best Space Exploration Movie
• The Magnificent Mesopelagic (UK, 3′) by Mair Perkins Best Animation Movie
• The Other Side of Mars (FIN, 56′) by Minna Långström Best Technology Movie
• The World’s Coolest LEGO Set! (UK, 10′) by Joshua Chawner Best Science Movie (ex equo)

Finalists:

• Beyond Plastic (USA, 4′) by Christa Avampato
• Collections and Climate Change (AUS, 9′) by Jary Nemo
• Floating Forest (UK, 25′) by Rory Yeung
• Robocup – Robots can’t jump (UK/CAN, 21′) by Silvia Schmidt
• Searching For Light (UK, 53′) by Adam Donneky Best Astronomy Movie
• Stolen light (NL, 50′) by Peter Bosman Special Mention

Semi-Finalists:

• Autonomous Artifacts (GER, 68′) by Johannes Kohout, Janek Totaro
• A Long Walk To The Moon (USA, 47′) by Connie Tais
• A World Without NASA (CAN, 50′) by Daniel Oron
• Homo Sapiens : New Origins (FRA, 66′) by Olivier Julien Best History Movie
• Humboldt Epic Explorer (GER, 45′) by Tilman Remme
• If I Smiled At You (CAN, 14′) by Malte Schulz
• I-ris (NED, 2′) by Jesper Buijvoets
• Lifespan (UK, 22′) by Juliette Martineau
• Loop (POR, 10′) by Ricardo M. Leite
• Mood Atlas (IRL, 25′) by Mia Mullarkey
• Nieoczekiwane – Unexpected (POL, 9′) by Mateusz Buława
• Painted Ladies (UK, 10′) by Megan Brown
• Searching for Skylab: America’s Forgotten Triumph (UK, 98′) by Dwight Steven-Boniecki
• Standardized Synchronized (USA, 13′) by Kaisu Koski
• Stanley Plotkin: Pioneering the use of fetal cells to make rubella vaccine (USA, 20′) by Donald Rayne Mitchell Best Medicine Movie
• Supernature – Adhesion (FRA, 52′) by Frédéric Planchenault
• The Deep Manoeuvre (HUN, 26′) by Edit Babinszki, Gergely Balazs, Balazs Lerner
• Therese (CHE, 29′) by Fabiana Serpa
• Why Observe?: Land Cover (USA, 8′) by Elizabeth Wilk
• XX x XY (USA, 8′) by Dan Lloyd

Official Selection:

• Best Game Ever (HUN, 20′) by Kristóf Deák Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movie
• D-52 (HR, 6′) by Hrvoje Wächter
• Moment (CAN, 21′) by Geoffrey Uloth
• The Quiet (AUS, 10′) by Radheya Jegatheva Special Mention

Finalists:

• ETERNITY (UKR, 24′) by Anna Sobolevska Special Mention
• Help3 (FRA, 16′) by Janek Tarkowski
• I/O (USA, 6′) by Carl Hansen
• La Station (FRA/BEL, 14′) by Patrick Ridremont

Semi-Finalists:

• Blue Unnatural (ITA, 13′) by Marco Bolognesi
• Bodyman (Experience Required) (USA, 10′) by Ryan R. Browne
• Fire Extinguisher (SPA, 5′) by Rodrigo Sopeña Costales, Joana Solnado
• Gun Metal Max (GB, 11′) by Jonathan Brooks
• Moon Drops (SRB, 16′) by Yoram Ever-Hadani
• Potion: Dark Matter (USA, 5′) by Annie Maley
• Scenario (ITA, 15′) by Alex Avella, Alessandro De Leo
• Space Probe Passenger (POL, 15′) by Dominika Ożarowska
• The Computer Lab (Series) (USA, 22′) by Chris Moore

Official Selection:

• Greenland Caves Project (AUT, 5′) by Gina Moseley Best Austrian Climate Related Movie
• Thinking with the Hands (AUT, 10′) by Mersolis Schöne
• Wienerland (AUT, 68′) by Jan Woletz, Stefan Polasek Best Austrian Science / Sci-Fi Movie
• Wind of Changes (AUT, 16′) by Johannes Rass

Finalists:

• Space Dogs (AUT, 91′) by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter Best Austrian Space Movie
• TX-Reverse (AUT, 5′) by Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich Best Austrian VR Movie

Semi-Finalists:

• After Hours (AUT, 11′) by Christian Taferner
• Robocracy (AUT, 15′) by Juan Careagga de le Matta
• The Triple Benefit Principle (AUT, 15′) by Laura Skocek

Official Selection:

Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic we decided to postpone the screening of any VR Movie onto the next season, which hopefully is after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Finalists:

• A Fire at Chernobyl (DNK, 14′) by Ash Khatibi Special Mention
• Artists up close (360° 3D VR Series) (GER, 7′) by Walter Schönenbröcher Special Mention
• The room of Hermann (ITA, 9′) by Antonio Librera Best VR/3D Movie

Semi-Finalists:

• care(less) 2 (UK, 16′) by Lindsay Seers, Keith Sargent
• MACRO SHOOTING LIVE NATURE IN 3D (RUS, 10′) by Alexandr Melkumov Special Mention
• Verinnerung – VR (GER, 10′) by Alexander Flatau