11mm
11mm is an international film festival that was founded in 2004 and takes place every spring in Berlin . It is organized by the Berlin football culture association Brot und Spiele e. V. and with the support of the German Football Association's cultural foundation (DFB). The current feature films , documentaries and short films that deal with football are presented . The festival is a public festival with world premieres, European premieres and German premieres and is an important meeting point for film and football culture enthusiasts.
history
The 11mm football film festival was held for the first time in 2004, making it the first film festival worldwide with this thematic focus.
The founding of the festival goes back to the original members of the sports culture association Brot und Spiele eV following an initiative by Birger Schmidt . Their aim was to make football- related cultural phenomena accessible to a wide audience and to popularize them. The word creation 11mm comes from the club member Stefan Krankenhagen and combines the number 11 (eleven for soccer team and penalty kick colloquially for penalty ) with a format (such as 8 mm film or 35 mm film ).
To the present day, 11mm is the only film festival in Germany that focuses on “socially relevant and artistically valuable football films”. The artistic direction has been with three people since 2005: Andreas Leimbach, Birger Schmidt and Christoph Gabler.
It takes place every year on five days in spring, during which time around seventy current national and international fiction, documentary and short films are presented. The festival is presented by the German Football Association's cultural foundation. Retrospectives, specials and a series of topics that change every year are dedicated to important events or personalities in football and certain genres of football film history. The program spectrum ranges from cinematic arthouse films to television films to innovative mainstream cinema. The majority of the films are presented personally by the filmmakers. Discussions with footballers, coaches, referees and football officials as well as exhibitions and concerts are part of the supporting program.
In 2007, 11mm moved from the Central Kino to the Babylon cinema in Berlin-Mitte, and the international short film competition 11mm shortkicks, curated by Christoph Gabler, has been on the program since then. The extensive children's and youth program 11minimeter has existed since 2015 and a section for new productions in series form since 2018.
With the support of the festival sponsor British Council Germany, nine films were shown in the first year, all of them from Great Britain. Film historical works such as the oldest football feature film in the world, Harry the footballer, from 1911, The Eleven Devils , The King of the Center Forward (each 1927, with live chamber music accompaniment), The Arsenal Stadium Mystery , The Big Game and Two Halves in the Hell were performed in the following years. The restored film version of “Futebol Total” from 1974 had its world premiere at 11mm, the Brazilian Canal 100 productions from the late 1960s had their European premieres and Goal! The World Cup, the official film documentary for WM 66, its German premiere 50 years after its premiere.
One of the special events of the film festival was the video installation by Berlin filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki , “Deep Play”, in which he looked back at the 2006 World Cup final with a separate look through twelve cameras, the presentation of the pornographic soccer film Cicciolina e Moana “Mondiali” with live synchronization by actor Maxim Mehmet , the film “We are the champions - Sepp Maier's 1990 World Cup video diary”, which was put together for the festival in 2012 together with former national goalkeeper Sepp Maier . The King's Football Youngest Trabant, a lost short film from 1968, which won the "shortkicks" title in 2010 after its world premiere and pays homages to the Dutch director Johan Kramer and the football player and coach Johan Cruyff .
In the retrospective "Football in the GDR" (2009), the stories of enthusiasm for football in the eastern part of the country were told, under the title "Football and Power" (2018) the traces that football has left in politics and politics in football were traced as well as in the special series "Women in Football" (2019), the worlds of players, coaches, female fans and club managers and the confrontation with traditional values and role models are presented. Other focal points of the festival were the series of nations for the World and European Championships in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, Poland, Ukraine, Brazil, France and Russia.
In 2020, 11mm was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opening films
| year | Movie | Director (s) | Country, possibly first performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best | Mary McGuckian | Great Britain, German premiere |
| 2005 | Fimp, the kid | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| 2006 | Peladao - Eleven friends and a queen | Jörn Schoppe | Germany, world premiere |
| 2007 | Fan Demanium | Matthias Visser | Germany, world premiere |
| 2008 | Maradona - La mano de Dios | Marco Risi | Italy, German premiere |
| 2009 | 11mm - Potpourri: Football in the GDR | 11mm in-house production | Germany, world premiere |
| 2010 | Togo | Pierre Morath & Nicolas Peart | Switzerland, German premiere |
| 2011 | Tom meets Zizou | Alyosha pause | Germany world premiere |
| 2012 | We are the champions - Sepp Maier's 1990 World Cup video diary | Sepp Maier | Germany, world premiere |
| 2013 | 11mm - Special: 50 years of the Bundesliga | 11mm in-house production | Germany, world premiere |
| 2014 | Union for life | Frank Marten Pfeiffer & Rouven Rech | Germany, world premiere |
| 2015 | Messi | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain, German premiere |
| 2016 | Goal! The World Cup | Ross Devenish & Abidin Dino | Great Britain, German premiere |
| 2017 | Jökullinn Logar: Like a volcano | Saevar Gudmunsson | Iceland |
| 2018 | The Workers Cup | Adam Sobel | United States |
| 2019 | Nossa Chape | Michael Zimbalist & Jeff Zimbalist | United States |
Film awards / competitions
Three film prizes are awarded at 11mm: the audience award “Goldene Elf”, the prize determined by a jury for “the best football film of the year” and “shortkicks”, a prize for the best football short film of the year selected by a second jury. The prizes will be awarded at a gala on the last evening of the film days.
The "Golden 11"
| year | Movie | Director (s) | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Other Final | Johan Kramer | Netherlands |
| 2006 | Les Yeux dans les bleus | Stéphane Meunier | France |
| 2007 | Fan Demanium | Matthias Visser | Germany |
| 2008 | The best women in the world | Britta Becker | Germany |
| 2009 | Maradona by Kusturica | Emir Kusturica | Serbia |
| 2010 | (ex aequo) Eisern united and Hoffenheim - life is not a home game | Andreas Graefenstein and Rouven Rech & Frank Pfeiffer | Germany |
| 2011 | Master vs. master | Johannes Grebert | Germany |
| 2012 | The Other Chelsea: A Story from Donetsk | Jakob Preuss | Germany |
| 2013 | Il Mundial dimenticato / The Lost World Cup | Lorenzo Garzello & Filippo Macelloni | Italy |
| 2014 | Fortuna's legends | Lars Pape & Holger Schürmann | Germany |
| 2015 | Una Meravigliosa Stagione Fallimentare / A wonderful bankruptcy season | Mario Bucci | Italy |
| 2016 | Duel | Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali | Germany |
| 2017 | Salomon Kalou: L'Elephant | Angel Chow-Toun | France |
| 2018 | The double 1977/78 | Frank Steffan | Germany |
| 2019 | Aragh-e-Sard | Soheil Beiraghi | Iran |
Jury award 11mm shortkicks
| year | Movie | Director (s) | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Flemish Fields | Hans van der Meer | Netherlands |
| 2008 | The tiger in Munich | Andreas Leimbach | Germany |
| 2009 | Eight | Stephen Daldry | Great Britain |
| 2010 | The king's football youngest Trabant | Walter G. Pulse | Germany |
| 2011 | The Ball | Katja Roberts | Great Britain |
| 2012 | L'equip petit | Roger Gomez & Dani Resines | Spain |
| 2013 | (ex aequo) My Circumcision and The Whistle | Arne Ahrens and Grzegorz Zariczny | Germany and Poland |
| 2014 | I love hooligans | Jan-Dirk Bouw | Netherlands |
| 2015 | In the splendor of this happiness | Sven Schrader & Riccardo Wolff | Germany |
| 2016 | Sur la touche | Hortense Gélinet | France |
| 2017 | Domingo | Raúl López Echeverría | Mexico |
| 2018 | En la boca | Matteo Gariglio | Switzerland |
| 2019 | Nefta Football Club | Yves Piat | France |
Festival's own competitions
Jury award "the best football film of the year" (only awarded since 2018)
| year | Movie | Director (s) | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Men in the arena | JR Biersmith | United States |
| 2019 | Nossa Chape | Michael Zimbalist & Jeff Zimbalist | United States |
Jury members and guests (selection)
- Rudi Gutendorf , Buket Alakuş , Martin Sonneborn , Yves Eigenrauch , Sönke Wortmann , Sepp Maier , Ruud Gullit , Naldo , Adriana Altaras
- Jasmin Tabatabai , Marleen Lohse , Arne Friedrich , Thomas Gottschalk , Pierre Littbarski , Timo Hildebrand , Jari Litmanen , Marcel Schäfer
- Horst-Dieter Höttges , Sigfried Held , Max Lorenz, Thomas Berthold , Ariane Hingst , Valentin Stocker , Karl-Heinz Thielen , Nia Künzer
- Thomas Broich , Michael Preetz , Michael Kölmel , Fabian Lustenberger , Heribert Faßbender , Walter Eschweiler , Otto Pfister, Mike Hanke
- Ansgar Brinkmann , Ronnie Hellström , Frank Schöbel , Harald Hauswald , Herbert Fandel , Nadeshda Brennicke , Andreas Schmidt, Thomas Thieme
- Jörg Schüttauf , Rufus Beck , Marco Bode , Olaf Thon , Klaus Fischer, Hermann Gerland , Wolfgang Kleff , Axel Kruse , Ronny
- Helmut Schulte , Ewald Lienen , Uli Borowka , Peter Ducke , Moritz Rinke , Thees Uhlmann , Nick Howard , Anna F. , Didier Drogba
- Salomon Kalou , Heimir Hallgrímsson , Marion Brasch , Christopher Trimmel , Alfred Holighaus , Horst Evers , Hans-Erich Viet ,
- Henning Harnisch , Almuth Schult , Thorsten Merten
Partner festivals
- Rio de Janeiro / Brazil: Cinefoot
- Yokohama / Japan: Yokohama Football Film Festival
- Bilbao / Spain: Thinking Football Film Festival
- Barcelona / Spain: Offside Festival
- Amsterdam / Netherlands: Total Football Festival
- Copenhagen / Denmark: Shoot Festival
- Lagos / Nigeria: AFFF-African Football Film Festival
- Paris / France: La Lucarne
- Beijing / China: Goal China Football Film Festival
- Basel / Switzerland: Floodlight Football Film Festival
- St.Gallen / Switzerland: Football light games
- Lima / Peru: Festival Minuto 90
- New York / USA: Kicking and Screening
Festival's own competitions
- 2011 (occasion of the Women's World Cup)
- “The best women's soccer film of all time - the most beautiful thing in the world” - Tanja Bubbel, Germany
- 2013 (occasion anniversary 10 years 11mm)
- The best football documentary "of all time" - Maradona by Kusturica - Emir Kusturica, Serbia
- The best football movie of all time and fimping, the toddler - Bo Widerberg , Sweden
Publications
- Birger Schmidt, Jan Tilman Schwab: The round has to be square. In: Ten years of the DFB - Kulturstiftung. National DFB Cultural Foundation WM 2006, Frankfurt 2016, DNB 1152850237 , pp. 42–45 (dfb.de).
- Jan Tilman Schwab: Football in Film. Lexicon of football films. Munich 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Welle: dw.com Lights off, football film on: The festival “11mm”. 15 March 2013.
- ↑ arte.tv
- ↑ deutschlandfunkkultur.de
- ↑ jungle.world
- ↑ rasenfunk.de
- ↑ 1000interviews.com
- ↑ Football in the cinema seat The “Ballspotting” festival shows films from England. In: Der Tagesspiegel . 2004 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
- ↑ Everything about the well-rounded thing: Ballspotting in Central . In: The daily newspaper . 2004, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 23 ( taz.de ).
- ↑ Michael Sontheimer: Sepp Maier's World Cup videos from 1990: Wi arr se Schämpiens! In: Der Spiegel . Online ( spiegel.de )
- ↑ Michael Sontheimer: Football Film Festival: You have to be eleven actors. In: Der Spiegel. Online ( spiegel.de ).
- ↑ dw.com
- ↑ cinefoot.org
- ↑ 2020.yfff.org
- ↑ thinkingfootballfilmfestival.com
- ↑ offsidefest.com
- ↑ totalfootballfestival.com
- ↑ shootfestival.dk
- ↑ de-de.facebook.com
- ↑ lalucarne.fr
- ↑ facebook.com
- ↑ flutlichtfestival.ch
- ↑ fussballlichtspiele.ch
- ↑ de-de.facebook.com
- ↑ kickingandscreening.com