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Sehsuchten is an international student film festival . It takes place every spring in the media city of Babelsberg in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam .
history
From 1972 on, the FDJ -Studentenfilmtage of the University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg (HFF) were held on the DEFA site in Babelsberg , but these were discontinued after the fall of the Wall . After a short break, the 1995 film festival was renewed by students of the Audiovisual Media Studies course under the name Sehs Bäumen. Today, the “Media Studies” master’s course is in charge of the organization and is supported by the “Digital Media Culture” bachelor’s course and other courses.
festival
Every year over 100 short and feature films in the categories of feature, documentary, genre and animation films as well as music videos and children's films are shown. The program always includes numerous films from home and abroad in Europe. In 2018 the program included projects from 30 countries. A jury made up of prominent filmmakers and film experts awards prizes for the best works in the respective categories.
The aim of the festival organizers is to offer young international filmmakers a forum for their films and stories as well as to promote exchange among themselves as well as with professionals from the film and media industry and the audience. The latter in particular underlines that Sehsuchten is always a public event with close contact between viewers and filmmakers. Every year up to 5000 film enthusiasts, trade visitors and journalists come to the multi-day festival. The cinemas of the Film University and the fx.center on the premises of Studio Babelsberg , the world's oldest large-scale film studio, serve as venues within the media city of Babelsberg . Since 2017, the festival has been dedicating a showcase to each of the partner universities from abroad.
competition
The international competition is divided into the areas of "Feature Film", "Short Feature Film", "Documentary Film", " Genre Film", "Animation", "Music Video", "Production", "Future: Kids" and "Future: Teens" for which the respective films are nominated. In principle, the jury does not judge the films according to predetermined criteria - aesthetics, narration and originality play decisive roles. The “Production” section is an exception. This is where the management and financing of the film production are assessed.
While an expert jury or a jury of children and young people selects the winner in all competition sections, the 2017 Music Video Prize is awarded as an audience prize.
In contrast to the other categories, “Writing Addiction” is an exclusively German-language competition. The work of authors and project developers is honored in the categories “Script Award” and “Pitch” and the most promising project is honored. Writing skills, dramaturgical design and ingenuity are primarily decisive, the feasibility can be secondary.
The following prizes have also been awarded in the past:
- Prize against Exclusion (2003-2005, 2008-2010)
- Innovation Award (2003-2005)
- Editing Award (2003–2005, 2008–2015)
- Camera Prize (2005, 2008–2010, 2012, 2013)
- German Young Talent Award (2005, 2008, 2009)
- Acting Award (2008, 2010–2012, 2014, 2015)
- Focus Dialog Prize (2008–2010, 2012, 2013)
- Start-Up Prize (2010)
- Sound Prize (2015)
motto
Every year, the Sehsuchten focus moves a geographical or socio-cultural topic into the center of the festival in order to draw greater attention to it, to discover it in a new and different way. 2003 was completely overshadowed by September 11th , with the USA, the Middle East and war being the focus. In 2005, the focus series was finally firmly established in the program with a focus on Chinese cinema . The student film festival was dedicated to Russian cinema under the motto “Sehsuchten im Goldrusch”. In 2009 the focus was on the Indian subcontinent, in 2010 South Africa and in 2011 Turkey as a country in focus. In 2012, for the first time, it was not about a region, but rather a term with “sustainability”. In 2013, the students focused on “excess” and at the Sehsuchten Festival 2014 everything revolved around “transit”. In 2015, Sehs Bäumen reflected on its function as a public festival with the focus topic "Echo" in order to strengthen the exchange between filmmakers and the audience. The motto “SPACE” was selected for 2016 and the new competition category “Genre Film” was created to match. The umbrella term for the film and supporting program of the 2017 festival was “surfaces”. In 2018 it was "metamorphosis" and in 2019 the films will be presented under the motto "explore:".
Retrospective
When the HFF celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004, the retrospective was introduced as a review of student films made during this period. In 2009 the retrospective was able to establish itself with the retrospective and work exhibition on Andreas Dresen against the background of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2010 this historical film series was dedicated to the work of Hans-Christian Schmid . In 2011, Sehsuchten showed several films by Wim Wenders , including his work Pina in 3D, and in 2012 the retrospective was dedicated to two filmmakers who, at first glance, could not be more different: the German director, writer and producer Doris Dörrie and the German splatter specialist, author and film critic Jörg Buttgereit . In 2013 the concept of the retrospective will be re-examined and a playful futurospective will be added. For the first time, the focus was not on the retrospective of a specific artist, but on how filmmakers in the past and present have developed and advanced innovative forms of filmmaking.
The retrospective disappeared from the festival program in 2015 and 2016 before it will be brought back in 2017. The reason for this was the wish of the master’s students of the Media Studies course to involve fellow students from neighboring courses more closely in the festival organization. Since 2017, the retrospective has been curated independently by students in the “Film Cultural Heritage” master’s course.
Jurors
The winning films in the individual competition categories are selected by their own specialist juries. Each year, these juries are composed of experienced filmmakers and experts from the media industry.
Selection (from 2001)
| year | Jurors | section |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Hannes Jaenicke | motion pictures
documentary Animation film production |
| 2002 |
Dani Levy
Sabrina Wanie Mathias Schwerbrock Bettina Gries |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script |
| 2003 | Conny Walther
Jochen Ehmann |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script |
| 2004 |
Axel Prahl
Sandra Jakisch Gabor Steisinger Wenka from Mikulicz |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script |
| 2005 |
Ulrich Matthes
Leszek Dawid Alexander Thies Sabine Holtgreve |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script Music video |
| 2006 |
Sven Budelmann
Raimund Krumme Gabriel Hageni |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script focus |
| 2007 | ||
| 2008 | ||
| 2009 | Oli Weiss
Fursy Teyssier Janine Jackowski Manzar Sehbai |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production Music video focus |
| 2010 |
Fred Kelemen
Michel Sounvignier Jürgen Seidler |
motion pictures
documentary production script Music video focus |
| 2011 | Peter R. Adam | motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script Pitch Music video focus |
| 2012 |
Nora Tschirner
Stefan Gieren |
motion pictures
documentary Animation film production script Music video focus |
| 2013 |
Marc Rothemund
Sol Bondy |
motion pictures
Short film documentary production Animation film Music video |
| 2014 |
Dominic Raacke
Marcus Winterbauer Alexander Wadouh Jörg Winger Christian Larson Phillip-Müller Dorn |
motion pictures
Short film documentary Animation film production script Pitch Music video focus |
| 2015 |
Henriette Confurius
Antje Boehmert Sandra Schiessl Tanja Ziegler Gunther Eschke Niels Münter Lajos Wienkamp-Marques |
motion pictures
Short film documentary Animation film production script Music video Sound |
| 2016 | Frederic Jaeger
Frauke Sandig Kerstin Meyer-Beetz Victor Orozco Ramirez Marion Bott |
motion pictures
Short film documentary Short documentary Animation film production script Pitch Music video |
Reviews and awards
On the evening of November 17, 2010, Sehsuchten was awarded the Potsdam Congress Prize in the category of "regularly recurring events". The prize, endowed with prize money of 1000 euros, honors organizers from the fields of science, research, business and culture who have made a name for themselves as ambassadors for the state capital of Potsdam in holding meetings and congresses in Potsdam.
"The prizes are just as impressive as the members of the juries."
"The intercultural exchange between young filmmakers, guests and the audience, a varied film program and numerous parallel events are part of the concept that makes sehsuchten so unique."
"... a supporting program with a warm atmosphere and variety that leaves nothing to be desired."
"A strength that the festival reinvents itself every year"
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History | Sehsüchte In: sehsuechte.de , accessed on 19 December 2018th
- ↑ Review issue Sehsuchten 2018 In: sehsuechte.de , accessed December 19, 2018 (PDF; 12.1 MB)
- ↑ a b c sehsuchten 2003 award winners ( Memento from January 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c sehsuchten 2004 prices ( Memento from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e Desires 2005 ( Memento from December 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f sehsuchte 2008 - the largest international student film festival in Europe ( Memento from November 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e Desires 2009 ( Memento from September 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f Sehsuchten 2010 | Festival | Prices ( Memento from June 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b themed portal: And the sehs Bäumen award goes to ....! | Media | Press release 2011 ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Prices - Sehsuchten 2012 ( Memento from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Festival - Sehsuchten 2013 ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b The winners of the student film festival Sehsuchten 2014. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ berliner filmfestivals »Sehsuchten 2015 - The winners have been announced! In: berliner-filmfestivals.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Dave Lojek says: berliner filmfestivals »44th Sehsuchten: The largest student film festival in Europe at the Potsdam Film University“ Konrad Wolf ”. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Congress Prize 2010 | WIS Science Days in the Potsdam Education Forum. In: www.wis-potsdam.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ sehsuchten wins congress award . kino-potsdam.de; accessed November 28, 2010
- ↑ Sehsuchten start with a party mood . baf-berlin.de; accessed November 28, 2010
- ↑ Generation perplexed . pnn.de; accessed September 20, 2016