After this short interruption, students of the study program Audiovisual Media Sciences revived the film fest in 1995 under the name Sehsüchte.
The organizers’ aim is to provide a platform to young international filmmakers and to enhance the exchange of ideas among themselves, with media and film professionals as well as with the broader audience.
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.
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.
When the HFF celebrated its 50-year existence in 2004, the Retrospective was established as a look back on the student films which were produced during this half a century.
In 2009 the Retrospective succeeded in establishing itself through a monographic show of Andreas Dresen in the light of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Instead, everything turned on the question how filmmakers in the past and the present developed and enhanced innovative forms of film-making.
This award, including a prize money of 1.000 Euros acknowledges event organizers in the areas science, research, economy and culture who render outstanding services in realizing congresses and conferences in Potsdam as an ambassador of the provincial capital.
"„The intercultural exchange among young film makers and visitors, the diverse film programs as well as the numerous parallel events are all part of the concept that makes Sehsüchte so unique.”„… a supporting program, with which its cordial atmosphere and diversity does not leave any wishes unfulfilled.“„One strength is that each year the festival reinvents itself.”