The Ousmane Sembène Films for Development Award film prize is to be awarded for the fifth time at the ZIFF 2013 to films on development policy issues. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH is the main sponsor of the Prize along with ZIFF. The prize is awarded to films that take a particular look at topics of development cooperation. It carries prize money worth US $5,000 designed to help the winner in his or her future filmmaking career.