The following prizes are awarded by a jury or the winner is chosen by the audience:
International Competition
- Hamburg Short Film Award (EUR 3.000)
- François-Ode-Award (EUR 1.500)
- Audience Award (EUR 1.500)
NoBudget
- NoBudget Jury Award (EUR 2.000)
- NoBudget Audience Award (EUR 1.500)
German Competition
Hamburg Competition
Three-Minute Quickie (Topic 2008 Human Error)
- Audience Award (EUR 1.000)
Mo&Friese Children's ShortFilmFestival
- Friese Award (Children's jury award, programmes for 4-8 year-olds, sponsored by Springer Bio-Backwerk, EUR 1.250)
- Mo Award (Children's jury award, programmes for 9-14 years-olds, sponsored by GEOlino, EUR 1.250)
- In the High Five! (Topic 2008 My favourite place) competition 3 awards (EUR 600 in total, sponsored by GEOlino) will be arwarded
Cross-competition Awards
- arte Short Film Award (acquisition of screening rights and a broadcast in arte’s short film programme, EUR 6.000)
- ZDFdokukanal Award (acquisition of screening rights and a broadcast on ZDFdokukanal)
- MUSIC in a SHORTFILM Award from the GEMA foundation presented by RockCity Hamburg e.V (one national and one international award for the most innovative sound design, EUR 2.000 each)