The Public Bath - a very funny French film in the style of Mr. Bean. The attendant falls in love, while we watch a wonderful array of misfits interact in the waiting area. This won Best Film of the Festival. Director: Georges Spicas.

Dr. Frank Dietrich (known in the UK for A-wiwiwi) and Bernhard Hausberger. They jointly made Gigantomanie - a study of enormous strip-mining processes in Germany. It took Best Austrian Entry Award.

V. Sarah Gurevick is another French director and her tale To Be Or Not To Be places a young coloured girl in a dilemma. To get a job in Paris should she try to pass as white?

Love and Stuff - a futuristic tale of a taxidermist who stuffs the bodies of recently deceased people. He falls in love but she is dying ... Touching and clever. Directed by Sorrel Ahlfeld and Nadja K. Rutkowski (USA).

ABCD by Federico Sarafin from Argentina shows four very different people living in neighbouring flats, whose lives interact in a farcical way at the point when they accidentally join in the spontaneous protest which really did change the Argentine government.

Sleep, Negrito by Hector Gavira is another winner from Argentina. The moving story reveals the depths of honest poverty as widower and small son try to survive with dignity.

The title of The Whole Universe refers to a cheap encyclopedia which is  sold to the Arab families in a Paris slum. It is a film about childhood, families and hope. Director Fabrice Benchaouche.

Barbara and Bernhard Zimmermann received a Goden Bear for their latest biography of a literary figure: My Father, Charles Dickens. Barbara plays the writer's youngest daughter remembering her father.

In How I Walked on the Moon by Samuel Jadok a young Arab immigrant and tells how France mounted a moon expedition. The result is a wonderful paradoy of bureacracy and French eccentricity.

Martin Le Gall directed this French farce, Fireman, Save My Play!  Backstage in a theatre, when an actor goes missing the theatre fireman has to step in to save the day.

Strings of Life by Mino Croce  and Guido Wilhelm is a study of a puppet theatre company. It has won awards all over the world.

The English Method by Sarah Levy and Eric Mahe sends up all things English in the guise of a crash course in the language and culture.

Imagine a one-take filmed dialogue, moving through a flat with the characters, where half-way through the lines spoken by him become hers and vice-versa. That is the witty Once Upon A Time There Was A King by Massimilliano Mauceri and Stefano Cioni.

The Naiade by Marco Baumhof and Maria Nitsche is a dance drama shot with fluid camera movements, like this bird's eye view.

Two tense friends wait for the postman whose message will mean the death of one of their men. Human selfishness wars with their mutual support. The Telegram was  directed by Coralie Fargeat from France.

Rasmus Greiner from Germany (above) made Blind Flight - a simple love story beautifully told. The flight is of a paper aeroplane.

The Blue Rose - or Alice in Kitschland by Manfred Pilsz and Team MRG was a school production which assembled every aspect of kitsch from tv shows and music to the very film styles they used.

How do you face death without having said farewell to those you love?  In Fragile by H. Baroua, M. Polle and S. Goldau the heroine is granted one extra day to say goodbye.

Not a still from the film this time ... this is Bernhard Hausberger perched on a ladder at ceiling height to photograph the festival workers when they came on stage to receive their well-earned applause.  Bernhard seems to live with a camera in his hand - still or video. At one point he screened hundreds of pictures taken at the festival over the years. He is a teacher, though when he finds time to work I cannot imagine.