5th edition|29 april - 04 may 2025
MIOB New Vision Award

The MIOB New Vision Award is dedicated to current European feature fiction films and documentaries that have already had a successful showing during at least one of the participating festivals and is aimed to achieve broader international recognition.

The award ceremony for the 5th edition will take place at the 22nd Crossing Europe Film Festival (29 april - 4 may 2025) in Linz, Austria.

With this award, our network members highlights European art house films with an outstanding cinematic approach and artistic handwriting, deserving wider international recognition. Beyond celebrating creativity, we also explores new ways of promoting European cinema in the digital age.

The winner will receive a cash prize of 3,000 euros and will be screened at MIOB network festivals.

Discover all about this year's jury and the nominated films:


➤ Meet the 5th edition jury

  • 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗪𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 (CH)
    Film programmer/curator, Consultant

  • 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗮 (PL)
    Journalist

  • 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 (GB/AT)
    Film Critic, Film Programmer

Learn more about the jury members here.


➤ Looking at the twelve films nominated by the MIOB network

Les Arcs Film Festival(France):

  • 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 – Directed by Rich PEPPIATT
  • 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 – Directed by Lilja INGOLFSDOTTIR

Trieste Film Festival (Italy):

  • 𝗧𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗰 – Directed by Saulė Bliuvaitė
  • 78 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 – Directed by Emilija Gašić

FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany):

Crossing Europe Film Festival(Austria):

  • 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗮𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮 – Directed by Paula Tomás Marques
  • 𝗦𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗸 – Directed by Justine Bauer

European Film Festival Scanorama (Lithuania):

  • 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝘄 - Directed by Louise Courvoisier
  • 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 - Directed by Oksana Karpovych

European Film Festival Palić (Serbia):

  • 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 - Directed by George Sikharulidze
  • 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - Directed by Bruno Anković

Learn more about the films here.