The Filmpreis Köln, sponsored by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the City of Cologne, is endowed with 25,000 euros and this year went to the film director, screenwriter and former Minister of Culture of Haiti Raoul Peck.
The winners of the Film Award Cologne in recent years are:
2023 Justine Triet
2022 Michel Hazanavicius
2021 Sir Steve McQueen
2020 Dominik Graf
2019 Nicolas Winding Refn
2018 Luca Guadagnino
2017 Jane Campion
2016 Claire Denis
2015 Paolo Sorrentino
2014 Lars of Trier
2013 Harmony Korine
2012 François Ozone
2011 Tarsem Singh
2010 David Lynch
2009 Roman Polanski
2008 Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
2007 Paul Haggis
