The Caligari Film Prize has been awarded annually at the Berlinale since 1986 to a film from the programme of the International Forum of Young Cinema. Since 2024, the prize has been sponsored by the Bundesverband kommunale Filmarbeit and the streaming platform filmfriend. The initiator of the award is Heiner Roß (* 1942), who was managing director of the former Friends of the German Cinematheque in Berlin from 1963 to 1979 and director of the municipal cinema Metropolis Kino in Hamburg from 1979 to 2006. The prize honours a thematically and stylistically innovative film from the International Forum of New Cinema. This compilation includes other films by the following former Caligari Film Prize winners: Béla Tarr (for “Sátántangó”, 1994) Nuri Bilge Ceylan (for “Kasaba - The Small Town”, 1998) Anja Salomonowitz (for "It Happened Just Before", 2007) Sion Sono (for “Love Exposure”, 2009) Emin Alper (for “Tepenin Ardı”, 2012) Thomas Heise (for “Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit”, 2019) Narges Kalhor (for “Shahid”, 2024) For legal reasons, not all films are available in all countries.