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The DaHome Award is a special award and is presented by our jury to an international short film that deals with the topic of „Heimat“ in an outstanding way.
Home is not a place. Home is a feeling, made up of many small nuances: habits, familiar faces, the sound of a door closing in the same way every time, or a smell that greets us at a certain time of day or season when we step outside our front door. Home is what shapes us long before we begin to think about where we want our lives to go. The film we are honoring today takes us exactly there. Into a world that could hardly be more quiet and unassuming—and precisely for that reason carries such powerful impact. We encounter people who find themselves at a moment in life that many know well: the moment when one’s surroundings, one’s home, suddenly begin to change. Friends start to take different paths, and the routines of everyday life begin to falter. And while all of this is happening, one person remains behind, trying to understand what is actually going on. The film The Last People observes these situations with remarkable honesty. Nothing is excessive, and nothing explains itself too loudly. Precisely because of that, every decision, every glance, every change resonates even more strongly. The film does not present a romanticized image of rural life. Instead, it shows an unfiltered fragment of lived reality—a feeling of growing up in the provinces that is at once quiet, demanding, and deeply human. That is exactly why this film lingers for so long after it ends. Because it reminds us that home does not always have to be beautiful in order to be home. Home can be gray. Confining. Sometimes even painful. And yet it remains the place where our stories begin—and where we learn who we are. We thank you for this impressive film and congratulate The Last People on receiving the DaHome Award at the Landshut Short Film Festival 2026.
