Fiction Feature Competition: Special Jury Prize for Directing
GREAT FREEDOM (GROSSE FREIHEIT) by Sebastian Meise (AT/DE, Rohfilm Productions)

Future/ Now Competition: Mark Urman Award for Fiction Filmmaking
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (WAS SEHEN WIR, WENN WIR ZUM HIMMEL SCHAUEN?) by Alexandre Koberidze (DE/GE, German Film and Television Academy Berlin DFFB)

New Jersey Short Film Special Jury Prize of the Montclair Storyteller Award
DON'T GO TELLIN' YOUR MOMMA by Topaz Jones, rubberband (US/DE/FR/IT, BWGTBLD)