At the Indian Film Festival in Stuttgart, feature, short and documentary films compete for six prizes: the German Stars of India. With the kind support of our award sponsors, the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart is awarding prizes with a total value of 7,500 euros. For the 20th edition of the festival, the German Star of India will again be awarded in the category of TV Commercials / advertising films.

The winners in the categories of Best Feature, Short, Documentary and Advertising Film are selected by an expert jury, usually made up of three people.

With the Director’s Vision Award, the Programme Committee honors directors who demonstrate extraordinary social or political commitment with their film contribution. The film category is irrelevant here.

At the Audience Award, it is the audience that matters: the audience’s favorite (or “crowd-pleaser”) is chosen from all the films shown at the festival. The viewers rate the festival contribution they have just watched directly after each film.