Filmfest Hamburg

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Filmfest Hamburg is the third largest film festival in Germany (after the Berlin International Film Festival[1] and Filmfest München[2]) and shows national and international feature and documentary films in ten permanent and several annually-changing sections. The range of the program stretches from art house films to innovative mainstream cinema, presenting the first feature films of young unknown directors together with films by internationally established directors. In 2012 more than 40.000 people attended 250 screenings of 148 films.[3]

Academy Award winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood,[4] Jodie Foster,[5] Christoph Waltz,[6] Atom Egoyan,[7] Julian Schnabel[8] and Tilda Swinton,[9] Dogma-founder Lars von Trier,[10] award winning director Kim Ki-duk[11] and German directors such as Wim Wenders,[12] Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and Tom Tykwer attended the festival in the past.

Since 2003 Albert Wiederspiel has been the director of the festival. The 22nd edition of Filmfest Hamburg runs from 25 September until 4 October 2014.

Festival program

The program of Filmfest Hamburg is composed of the following ten permanent sections:

  • Agenda – is considered to be an overview of the world cinema.
  • Three Colors Green – draws attention to environmental topics.
  • Northern Lights – puts the focus on local filmmaking in Northern Germany.
  • Voilà! – comprises films from French speaking countries.
  • Vitrina – comprises films from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.
  • Asia Express – showcases films from all parts of Asia.
  • Eurovisuell – comprises the box office hits from other European countries.
  • Deluxe – is a restrospective that puts its focus each year on a different country`s cinematographic development (so far Turkey, Austria, Finland, Belgium, Portugal, New Zealand, Argentina, Iceland and Canada’s ‘Belle Province’ Québec).
  • 16:9 – shows German TV productions on the big screen.
  • Michel Kinder und Jugend Filmfest – is the section for children and youths in cooperation with LUCAS Children Filmfestival from Frankfurt.[13]

Awards

Douglas-Sirk-Award

This award is presented annually since 1995 to a personality who has made outstanding achievements within film culture and film industry. It receives its name from director Douglas Sirk, born in Hamburg as Detlef Sierck.

Hamburg Film Critic Award

The Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is awarding this prize at Filmfest Hamburg for the first time in 2013. Films aspiring to provide a political message are competing for the prize money of 5,000 euros.

TV Producer Award

This award for German TV production companies is endowed with 30.000 € provided by Hamburg's Ministry of Culture.

  • 2006: BurkertBareiss (Producer: Gloria Burkert and Andreas Bareiss) for "Ich wollte nicht töten", Germany. Directed by: Dagmar Hirtz
  • 2007: magnolia Filmproduktion (Producer: Babette Schröder) for "Kuckuckszeit", Germany. Directed by: Johannes Fabrick
  • 2008: Bavaria Fernsehproduktion (Producer: Astrid Kahmke) for "Machen wir’s auf Finnisch", Germany. Directed by Marco Petry
  • 2009: Bremedia Filmproduktion GmbH (Producer: Claudia Schröder) for "Mörder auf Amrum]]", Germany. Directed by: Markus Imboden
  • 2010: Wüste Film (Producer: Ralph Schwingel / Stefan Schubert) for "Etwas Besseres als den Tod", Germany. Directed by: Nicole Weegmann
  • 2011: d.i.e. film GmbH (Producer: Ulrich Aselmann) for "Tödlicher Rausch", Germany. Directed by: Johannes Fabrick
  • 2012: Aspekt Telefilm-Produktion GmbH (Producer: Claudia Schröder) for "Mörderische Jagd", Germany. Directed by: Markus Imboden
  • 2013: --

Montblanc Script Award

Endowed with 10.000 € sponsored by Hamburg based company Montblanc. The award is granted as part of the "Northern Lights" section to a fiction or documentary film either produced or set in Hamburg or Schleswig-Holstein.

  • 2007: Jan Hinrik Drevs for "Underdogs", Germany
  • 2008: Srdjan Vuletic for "It’s Hard to Be Nice", Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany
  • 2009: Xiaolu Guo for "She, a Chinese", Great Britain/China/France/Germany
  • 2010: Henrik Peschel for "Pete the Heat", Germany
  • 2011: Marnie Blok for "Simon and the Oaks", Germany
  • 2012: Kim Fupz Aakeson for "Mercy", Germany/Netherlands
  • 2013: Katrin Gebbe for "Nothing Bad Can Happen", Germany

Art Cinema Award

The Art Cinema Award was established by the Conféderation Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai (CICAE). Films that have a German distributor can be nominated. Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein is contributing 5,000 € to the award in support of PR measures by the German distributor.

NDR Young Talent Award

In 2012 the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) sponsored the NDR Young Talent Award with a prize money of 5,000 €.

  • 2008: "Johnny Mad Dog", France. Written and directed by: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
  • 2009: "Before my Eyes", Turkey. Written and directed by: Miraz Bezar
  • 2010: "Oldboys", Denmark. Written and directed by: Nikolaj Steen
  • 2011: "Avé", Bulgaria. Written and directed by: Konstantin Bojanov
  • 2012: "Germania", Argentina. Written and directed by: Maximiliano Schonfeld
  • 2013: "Short Term 12", USA. Written and directed by: Destin Cretton

Häagen-Dazs Audience Award

  • 2004: "Dog Nail Clipper", Finland. Written and directed by: Markku Pölönen
  • 2005: "Adams Äpfel", Denmark. Written and directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen
  • 2008: "Willkommen bei den Sch’tis", France. Written and directed by: Dany Boon
  • 2009: "Meet the Elisabeths", France. Directed by: Lucien Jean-Baptiste
  • 2010: "Oldboys", Denmark. Written and directed by: Nikolaj Steen
  • 2011: "King of Devil's Island", Norway. Directed by: Marius Holst
  • 2012: "This Life", Denmark. Directed by: Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis
  • 2013: "The Brats", France. Written and directed by: Anthony Marciano

Michel Award presented by Michel Kinder und Jugend Filmfest (part of Filmfest Hamburg)

The Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and the Rolner Stiftung fund this award since 2013 with prize money of 5,000 €. A jury made up of children selects the children's and youth films for this international competition.

  • 2003: "Das geheimnisvolle Fräulein C.", Canada. Directed by: Richard Ciupka
  • 2004: "Station 4", Spain. Directed by: Antonio Mercero
  • 2005: "Der Schatz der weißen Falken", Germany. Written and directed by: Christian Zübert
  • 2006: "Don", Netherlands. Written and directed by: Arend Steenbergen
  • 2007 "Rot wie der Himmel", Italy. Directed by: Cristiano Bortone
  • 2008 "Hey Hey, hier Esther Blueburger", Australia. Written and directed by: Cathy Randall
  • 2009 "Glowing Stars", Sweden. Directed by: Lisa Siewe
  • 2010: "Spork", USA. Directed by: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
  • 2011: "Ways to Live Forever", Great Britain/Spain. Written and directed by: Gustavo Ron
  • 2012: "Stay!", Netherlands. Directed by: Lourens Blok
  • 2013: "Felix", South Africa. Directed by: Roberta Durrant

Former Awards

Foreign Press Award

References

  1. ↑ Berlinale
  2. ↑ Filmfest München
  3. ↑ "More visitors at Filmfest Hamburg". Die Welt. Retrieved 2012-10-08. 
  4. ↑ "Clint Eastwood receives 'Douglas-Sirk-Preis' in Hamburg". www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de. 
  5. ↑ "Jodie Foster receives 'Douglas-Sirk-Preis' at Filmfest Hamburg". imdb. 
  6. ↑ "Filmfest Hamburg 2007: Highlight of second week". Hamburger Morgenpost. Retrieved 2007-09-30. 
  7. ↑ "Atom Egoyan to be honored in Hamburg". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-09-08. 
  8. ↑ "Julian Schnabel receives Douglas Sirk Award". Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved 2010-08-24. 
  9. ↑ "Tilda Swinton receives Douglas Sirk Award". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2013-11-12. 
  10. ↑ "Hamburg Film Festival's screens movies from 30 countries". Der Stern. Retrieved 2005-09-08. 
  11. ↑ "Kim Ki-duk to Receive Hamburg Film Festival's Douglas Sirk Award". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-08-24. 
  12. ↑ "Filmfest Hamburg 2004 awards seven prizes". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2004-09-30. 
  13. ↑ Lucas Filmfestival

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