Unlimited Hope 2026 | Day 4

The awards ceremony will take place in the presence of the UNLIMITED HOPE jury, the YOUNG RUHRPOTT AWARD jury, festival director Caroline Nokel, the director of the BERG INSTITUTE, Joaquín González Ibáñez, and Verena Schäffer (Alliance 90/The Greens), Minister for Children, Young People, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration in North Rhine-Westphalia Verena Schäffer (Alliance 90/The Greens), the awards ceremony will take place. Prizes totalling €9,000 will be awarded across five categories.

This will be followed by screenings of the winning films from UNLIMITED HOPE 2026 and the YOUNG RUHRPOTT AWARD.

Winning films of the YOUNG RUHRPOTT AWARD:

• from 2.00 pm at the Fritz Bauer Library

Winning films from UNLIMITED HOPE:

• from 2.00 pm in the Great Hall

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