Filmfest Hamburg

FILMFEST HAMBURG
Hamburg International Film Festival
FILMFEST HAMBURG
LocationHamburg, Germany
Founded1991
Most recent2021
AwardsDouglas-Sirk-Award
Film titles110 in 2021
DirectorsAlbert Wiederspiel
Websitewww.filmfesthamburg.de

FILMFEST HAMBURG is an international film festival in Hamburg, the third-largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich). It shows national and international feature and documentary films in eleven 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 2017 more than 40,000 people attended 250 screenings of 141 films.[1]

Albert Wiederspiel has been the director of the festival since 2003.

History

FILMFEST HAMBURG had various predecessors dating from the 1950s through to the 1980s. It was founded in late 1991 and first held in 1992. Academy Award winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood,[2] Jodie Foster,[3] Christoph Waltz,[4] Atom Egoyan,[5] Julian Schnabel[6] and Tilda Swinton,[citation needed] Dogma-founder Lars von Trier,[7] award-winning director Kim Ki-duk[8] and German directors such as Wim Wenders,[9] Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and Tom Tykwer attended the festival in the past.

Festival program

The program of FILMFEST HAMBURG is composed of the following permanent sections:

  • Veto! – This section covers politically motivated film issues which are also awarded at the festival.
  • 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.
  • Transatlantic – shows contemporary English language-based North American cinema.
  • Kaleidoskop – is an overview of world cinema.
  • Hamburger Filmschau – dedicated to films by Hamburg-based filmmakers.
  • Große Freiheit – new German cinema.
  • Televisionen – shows German TV productions on the big screen.
  • MICHEL Kinder und Jugend Filmfest – is the section for children and adolescents.

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 Producers Award for German Cinema Productions

The Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions has been awarded in the new section Große Freiheit – Filme aus Deutschland since 2018. The producer of the winning film will receive 25,000 euros. The prize money will be provided by the Ministry of Culture and Media.

  • 2018: Das schönste Paar, Producers: Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy, Director: Sven Taddicken[11]
  • 2019: Pelican Blood, Producer: Verena Gräfe-Höft (Junafilm), Directed by: Katrin Gebbe[12]
  • 2021: Niemand ist bei den Kälbern, Producer: Jonas Weydemann, Jakob Weydemann (Weydemann Bros.), Hamburg, Directed by: Sabrina Sarabi

Hamburg Producers Award for European Cinema Co-Productions

The Hamburg Producers Award for European Cinema Co-Productions will be awarded to the films in the section Freihafen (Free Port) which will feature German-European co-productions

  • 2014: Lost in Karastan, German producers: Daniel Zuta, Brandstorm Entertainment AG; Georgian Co-Producer: Vladimer Katcharava, 20 Steps Production
  • 2015: One Floor Below, German producers: Christine Haupt and Alexander Ris, Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion GmbH; Romanian Co-Producer: Dragos Vilcu, Multi Media Est
  • 2016: Scarred Hearts, German producers: Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Komplizen Film; Romanian Co-Producer: Hi Film Productions
  • 2017: Arrhythmia, German producers: Eva Blondiau, Color of May; Russian Co-Producers: CTB Film Company, Mars Media Entertainment; Finnish Co-Producers: Don Films, Post Control
  • 2018: Sibel, German Co-Producer: Michael Eckelt (Riva Film, Hamburg) / Cinema-Grading: Les Films du Tambour, Paris
  • 2019: You Will Die at Twenty (Sudan, Egypt, Norway, France, Germany); Producer: Michael Henrichs (Die Gesellschaft DGS, Cologne), Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala[12]
  • 2021: Lingui (France, Chad, Germany, Belgium); German co-producer Melanie Andernach (Made in Germany Filmproduktion) / Cinema grading: pilifilms, Paris, Directed by: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Hamburg Producers Award for German Television Productions (formerly: TV Producers' Award)

This award for German TV productions is endowed with €25.000 provided by VFF, Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH.

Critics' Choice 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.

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 .

Commerzbank Audience Award

The audience gets to decide by public vote which of the competing films in the Eurovisuell section is their favorite and receives a prize money of €5,000, donated by the Commerzbank.

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 [de], 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
  • 2014: The Contest, Denmark. Directed by: Martin Miehe-Renard
  • 2015: Little Gangster, Netherlands. Directed by: Arne Toonen
  • 2016: Fanny's Journey, France/Belgium. Directed by: Lola Doillon
  • 2017: 1:54, Canada. Directed by: Yan England
  • 2018: Supa Modo, Kenya. Directed by: Likarion Wainaina
  • 2019: Psychobitch (Norway), Directed by: Martin Lund[12]
  • 2021: 'The Ape Star', Sweden, Norway, Denmark. Directed by: Linda Hambäck

Sichtwechsel Film Award

Since 2017, the German Foreign Office honors directors who create films across national and cultural borders with a prize money of €10,000 .

  • 2017: "The Future Perfect", Germany/Argentina. Directed by: Nele Wohlatz.
  • 2017: "Amin", France. Directed by: Philippe Faucon
  • 2019: Dark Suns, Directed by: Julien Élie[12]
  • 2021: 'Olga', Switzerland. Directed by: Elie Grappe

Former Awards

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.

Foreign Press Award

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