Leipzig University conducts an audience survey on the viewer structure of the festival. A number of findings:
Viewers are young (average of 30.3 years old), educated (over 80% had a university degree or were in the process of obtaining one at the time of the survey), "repeat offenders" (over 50% had attended at least once before) and gave "moderately positive" reviews of the film selection (average grade 2.5) and festival organisation (2.3).
The motif of the festival poster is a bare skull on which a world map is painted - it quickly advances to "cult" status.
The retrospective in collaboration with the Federal Archive/Film Archive Berlin is in honour of the recently deceased Erwin Leiser.
16,000 visitors view 254 films from 37 countries. The audience is particularly impressed by the Russian short film "Heute bauen wir ein Haus", in which workers laze around for 27 minutes and 50 seconds before presenting a new house in the final 10 seconds.
Golden Doves
BESSER UND BESSER (Switzerland, Alfredo Knuchel and Norbert Wiedmer)
SEGODNJA MY POSTROIM DOM (HEUTE BAUEN WIR EIN HAUS, Russia, Sergej Loznica and Marat Magambetov)
Silver Doves
WIR WÄREN SO GERNE HELDEN GEWESEN (FRG, Barbara Metselaar-Berthold)
Benz-Stipendium
AJIT (India, Arvind Sinha)