At this year's German Short Film Award Ceremony, FORTSCHRITT IM TAL DER AHNUNGSLOSEN (Progress in the Valley of the People Who Don't Know) by Florian Kunert has received the special award for medium length films. The award is endowed with 20.000 Euros which are given to the director and the producers Stefan Gieren and Sarah Schreiner in order to develop a a new film project.

FORTSCHRITT IM TAL DER AHNUNGSLOSEN premiered as part of the Forum programme earlier this year.