Performing Arts & Theatre section winners
Works created with complete technical and stylistic freedom are encouraged. Accepted forms include solo or ensemble performances, physical theater, immersive experiences, site-specific works, multimedia performances, dance-theater pieces, and interactive audience-driven acts. Submissions can integrate various formats and techniques, such as live video, projection mapping, sound design, live music, and digital or analog media.

Submissions may be provided as live recordings, videos (MP4, MOV), or detailed scripts and production plans. If the work requires specific staging elements, such as props, lighting setups, or interactive technology, this should be noted in the submission. The maximum duration for performances is 10 minutes for video submissions, while live works must fit within a 5x5 meter stage area with up to 3 meters in height for props and staging.
  • 2025
    1st Prize
    Rami Haddad (Lebanon) — "Surface of the Contemporary Body"

    2nd Prize
    Nora Pettersen (Denmark) — "Civic Imagination"

    3rd Prize
    Mikhail Radenko (Serbia) — "The Afterimage of Labor: Industrial Memory, Flesh, and the Language of Rust"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Aisha Rahman (South Africa) — "Between Tides and Tremor"
    Felix Arendt (Switzerland) — "The Soft Monument"
    Camila Soria (Mexico) — "Flowers for a Broken Climate"
  • 2024
    1st Prize
    Hugo Legrand (France) — "The Disobedient Line"

    2nd Prize
    Tara Osei (Ghana) — "Ritual Skin, Sacred Water, and the Contemporary Afterlife of Ancestral Form"

    3rd Prize
    Emil Sander (Finland) — "Northern Body"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Rina Choudhury (Bangladesh) — "Textile Memory, Flood, and Collective Repair"
    Oscar Linde (Ireland) — "The Ecology of Distance"
    Maya Ivanova (Bulgaria) — "A Posture for the End of Seasons"
  • 2023
    1st Prize
    Schmidt Eva-Maria (Germany) – "Greenhouse Reflections"

    2nd Prize
    Waldron Amelia (United Kingdom) – "Dusk Murano VI"

    3rd Prize
    Conti Giuseppe (Italy) – "Banca Nazionale"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Johansson Elin (Sweden) – "Veil of the Bride"
    Moretti Chiara (Italy) – "Forgotten Places"
    Krivoshein Maksim (Latvia) – "AIR 3.1"
  • 2022
    1st Prize
    Choi Jiwon (South Korea) – "Dreamscape"

    2nd Prize
    Markovic Teodora (Serbia) – "Serenading the Moon – Life’s Dream, Life’s End"

    3rd Prize
    Kato Hana (Japan) – "Inner Chamber"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Ricci Daniele (Italy) – "Vivid Dreamscape"
    Lombardi Giovanni (Italy) – "Echoes of Floyd – Terminal"
    Grimaldi Alessio (Italy) – "Journey of Souls II"
  • 2021
    1st Prize
    Bellini Angelo (Italy) – "Polyptych of Shadows"

    2nd Prize
    Nowak Julia (Poland) – "Cityscape Manhattan"

    3rd Prize
    Garcia Lucía (Spain) – "Soundtrack of a Journey 3"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Li Wei (China) – "Rhythm in Crimson"
    Nakamura Daiki (Japan) – "Duality"
    Wojcik Andrzej (Poland) – "Trial Run #03A"
  • 2020
    1st Prize
    Bellini Maria (Italy) – "Beneath the Surface"

    2nd Prize
    Cheng Wei (Taiwan) – "Striking Score"

    3rd Prize
    Chen Hao (China) – "Pressures of Today"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Liu Mei (China) – "Threads of Silk

  • 2019
    1st Prize
    Leroux Camille (France) – "Great Lake"

    2nd Prize
    Santos Adriano (Brazil) – "Chosen by the Divine"

    3rd Prize
    Bianchi Marco (Italy) – "Space #7421 and Space #7422, Series ‘There’s ROOM for Everyone"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Rossi Alessandro (Italy) – "Madness of the Fourth Kind (Beauty in its Essence)"
    Leclerc Camille (France) – "Fading – Day 1, Hour 16"
    Dubois Jacques (France) – "Concrete Bloom"
  • 2018
    1st Prize
    Ricci Matteo (Italy) – "Elsewhere #07 and Elsewhere #09"

    2nd Prize
    Yuan Wei (Taiwan) – "Microscopic Metropolis"

    3rd Prize
    Pavlova Nika (Czech Republic) – "Moon for Sale I and Moon for Sale II"

    PUBLIC VOTE WINNERS
    Aziz Sameer (Pakistan) – "Layered Horizons and To Be…"
    Moretti Sofia (Italy) – "States of Mind"
    Bellamy Zoe (Australia) – "Embrace of Shadows"