In the past , additionally those awards were bestowed : Every year , the '' Sehsüchte Focus '' announces a geographical or socio-cultural topic that takes the center stage of the festival and thus invites to discover it in new and different manners . 2003 was overshadowed by 9/11 related topics . With a view to the Chinese Cinema 2005 the Focus series was established in the festival program . Under the Motto “ Sehsüchte in Gold Fever ” the student festival 2006 devoted itself to Russian Cinema . 2009 then , the view was directed to the Indian subcontinent , 2010 South Africa was in the focus , 2011 the Turkey . In 2012 , for the first time , Sehsüchte Focus did not pivot on a specific region anymore but with “ Sustainability ” on a concept . In the year of 2013 , the students put “ Excess ” in the center and during the Sehsüchte Festival 2014 everything turned to “ Transit ” . With the focus theme “ Echo ” in 2014 Sehsüchte bethought itself in its function as an audience festival and enhanced the exchange between filmmakers and their public . 2016 the motto „ S.P.A.C.E. “ was elected and fitting to this the new competition category “ Genre Film ” was established . The overall topic of 2017 's festival program will be called “ surfaces ”
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