Duisburg Film Week

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The Duisburger Filmwoche is a festival and discussion forum for documentary film . It has been taking place in its form every November in Duisburg since 1978, the second year of its existence . Since then, the Duisburg Film Week has concentrated on current documentaries from German productions, and since 1990 also on productions from Switzerland and Austria. The term documentary film is broadly defined and allows border crossings and “hybrid forms”.

The film week is organized by the city of Duisburg with the support of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW . Three main, one sponsorship and one audience award with a total value of 23,000 euros will be awarded.

It has always been unique to the Duisburg Film Week that the film screenings are followed by detailed panel discussions, which are recorded and archived by journalists and film scholars. These minutes often led to arguments and heated debates beyond the actual festival period.

history

Logo of the Duisburg Film Week until 2018

The Duisburger Filmwoche goes back to an initiative of the Duisburger filmforum , which organized the film information days together with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the early 1970s .

The first Duisburg Film Week took place from March 28 to April 3, 1977 and, as an annual meeting in November, developed into a discussion forum for artistic documentary films in the Federal Republic of Germany in the following years. In addition, there has been a documentary film program for children since 2002 with “Ganz nah dran!” As part of the Duisburg Film Week, which has been under the label “ doxs! “Launched as Germany's oldest festival for documentary films for children and young people.

Werner Ružička directed the Duisburg Film Week from 1985 to 2018 . From 2019 Gudrun Sommer , founder and previously head of the children and youth section of the festival, and Christian Koch will jointly take over overall management.

A selection committee, which includes experienced filmmakers, film scholars, television editors and critics in addition to the festival management, compiles the weekly program for the festival from the submissions. A unique selling point is that there are no parallel screenings. Since 2019 the festival management is no longer part of the selection committee.

Duisburg protocols

Cover sheet “Duisburg Protocols”, 1982

At the Duisburg Film Week, about 60 minutes are available after each film, during which the audience can talk about what they have seen together with the filmmakers , cameramen , editors , editors and other participants. The discussions do not take place in the cinema, as in the case of question and answer sessions that are usual for film festivals, but in a separate room in the festival center and follow a classic panel discussion in style and form . These are moderated alternately by the members of the selection committee and specially invited guests.

Discussion minutes are created by young journalists and film scholars, which open up a further spectrum of reception and contribute to the continuation of the history of German-language documentary film. The protocols have developed in the form of initially pure verbal protocols to memory protocols as "personally colored assessments of the public reaction to the films, and the filmmaker to the (relative) public" and now offer space for personal, sometimes provocative comments.

“To be honest, I had expected that Karmakar, like last year, could break off the panel discussion angrily due to the lack of interesting questions for him. In place of the minutes of the discussion that did not run, one would have had to come up with something artistic to fill the gap - haikus, as Torsten Alisch suggested. "

- Diana Ebster : Discussion Protocol No. 11 (PDF; 49 kB). In: DUISBURGER PROTOKOLLE 2004, Duisburger Filmwoche, 2004.

All protocols are copied and distributed among the festival guests during the festival, usually on the following day. The originals are archived at the same time. Since 2011 there has also been a complete digital and publicly accessible archive of all protocols since 1978 under the name Protokult , which was brought to life by the author Sven Ilgner.

The Duisburg Protocols also included numerous debates (such as the “Kreimeier-Wildenhahn” dispute over forms) that began in Duisburg and had an impact far beyond.

motto

Since 1987, the Duisburg Film Week has been held under an annually changing motto. The aim is to shift the focus from the films as such to their “historical-social, political and aesthetic context”.

N ° Year / period motto
11 1987 We will see
12 1988 Time to see
13 1989 Pictures thinking
14th 1990 Going boundaries
15th 1991 Directing eyes
16 1992 Familiar discovery
17th 1993 Crisis eyes looks
18th 1994 A view from
19th 1995 Eye catcher
21st 1997 Appearance images
22nd 1998 Effects
23 01.11. - 07.11.1999 Depth | sharpening
24 06.11. - 11/12/2000 LOCATIONS
25th 05.11. - 11.11.2001 happy Birthday
26th 04.11. - 11/10/2002 _What's going on?
27 03.11. - 11/09/2003 really wrong
28 08.11. - 11/14/2004 MATERIAL
29 October 31 - 11/06/2005 Friends of reality
30th 06.11. - 11/12/2006 seeing is thinking
31 05.11. - 11/11/2007 where if not here
32 03.11. - 11/09/2008 a picture sleeps in all things
33 11/02 - 08.11.2009 KNOW THE SITUATION
34 01.11. - 07.11.2010 HORIZON
35 07.11. - 11/13/2011 fabrics
36 05.11. - 11.11.2012 ROOMS
37 04.11. - 11/10/2013 in the picture
38 03.11. - 11/09/2014 well interpreted
39 11/02 - 11/08/2015 EXITS
40 07.11. - 11/13/2016 it's time
41 06.11. - 11/12/2017 means of choice
42 05.11. - 11.11.2018 ACT
43 04.11. - 10.11.2019 Who suffocates where we breathe?

Awards and winners

Opening ceremony of the 39th Duisburg Film Week with Werner Ružička, Christina Kampmann u. a.

Prizes currently awarded

Arte Documentary Award

The Arte Documentary Film Prize for the best German documentary film has been awarded annually to productions from Germany since 1994 and to productions from Austria and Switzerland since 2008 and is nominated by an independent jury. From 2019 it is reserved for long productions. It is currently endowed with 6,000 euros by Arte .

Award winners
  • 1994 and saw what could be done (Stephan Sachs; D 1991–94)
  • 1995 Gratian (Thomas Ciulei; D 1995)
  • 1996 Poussières d'amour ( Werner Schroeter ; F / D 1996)
  • 1997 Wittstock, Wittstock ( Volker Koepp ; D 1997)
  • 1998 Pelym ( Andrzej Klamt , Ulrich Rydzewski; D 1998)
  • 1999 Mendel lives ( Hans-Dieter Grabe ; D 1999)
  • 2000 The Queen ( Werner Schroeter ; D 2000)
  • 2001 The Chinese market (Zoran Solomun, Vladimir Blazevski; D 2000)
  • 2002 sled give ( Erwin Michel Berger , Oleg Tcherny D 2002)
  • 2003 The helpers and the women (Karin Jurschick; D 2003)
  • 2004 Did Wolff von Amerongen commit bankruptcy crimes? ( Gerhard Friedl ; D 2004)
  • 2005 Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea ( Romuald Karmakar ; D 2005)
  • 2006 Il Palazzo ( Katharina Copony ; D / A 2006)
  • 2007 Michael Hamburger - An English poet from Germany (Frank Wierke; D 2007)
  • 2008 The Flower Bridge (Thomas Ciulei; D / RO 2008)
  • 2009 For comparison ( Harun Farocki ; D / A 2009)
  • 2010 On the marriage of the salamander to the green snake (René Frölke; D 2010)
  • 2011 But the word dog doesn't bark (Bernd Schoch; D 2011)
  • 2012 Gold Prize ( Sven Zellner , Chingunjav Borkhuu; D 2012)
  • 2013 Sieniawka (Marcin Malaszczak; D / PL 2013)
  • 2014 city ​​dweller ( Thomas Heise ; D 2014)
  • 2015 Zaplyv - The Swimmers (Kristina Paustian; D / HU / RU 2015)
  • 2016 average ( Philip Scheffner ; D 2016)
  • 2017 Atelier de conversation (Bernhard Braunstein; A / F / LI 2017)
  • 2018 Barstow, California ( Rainer Komers ; D / USA 2018)
  • 2019 Olanda (Bernd Schoch; D 2019)
Honorable Mention
  • 2014 Tower House (Karl-Heinz Klopf; D / J 2013)
  • 2019 Una Primavera (Valentina Primavera; A / D / I 2018)

3sat documentary film award

The 3sat documentary film prize for the best German-language documentary film has been awarded annually to productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1996 and nominated by an independent jury. From 2019 it is reserved for long productions. It is currently endowed with 6,000 euros by 3sat .

Award winners
Honorable Mention
  • 2019 Dreams of Spaces (Matthias Lintner; D 2019)

Prize from the city of Duisburg

The price of Duisburg goes from the award of the city of Duisburg produced and will be awarded annually from 2019 to short and medium productions up to 65 minutes and nominated by an independent, specially refurbished jury also about the Carte Blanche decides. It is currently endowed with 5,000 euros by the city ​​of Duisburg .

Award winners
  • 2019 Un cuento sin ti (Michael Fetter Nathansky; D 2019)
Honorable Mention
  • 2019 Meat Weeks (Joachim Iseni; A 2019)

Country’s Carte Blanche Prize for Young Talent

The Carte Blanche Young Talent Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia was nominated annually from 2013 to 2018 by two members of the two documentary film prize juries, and from 2019 by the jury of the City of Duisburg Prize . It is currently endowed with 5,000 euros by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia . The Carte Blanche is expressly not going to award an existing film; instead, the prize money is intended to flow into the next project of the award-winning filmmaker.

Award winners
  • 2013 Assessment (Mischa Hedinger; CH 2013)
  • 2014 This is where the prize spoke (Sabrina Jäger; D 2014)
  • 2015 Tell me Mnemosyne (Lisa Sperling; D / GR 2015)
  • 2016 paradise! Paradise! (Kurdwin Ayub; A 2016)
  • 2017 Spielfeld (Kristina Schranz, Caroline Spreitzenbart; D 2017)
  • 2018 aggregate (Marie Wilke; D 2018)
  • 2019 Una Primavera (Valentina Primavera; A / D / I 2018)
Honorable Mention
  • 2019 HAMBI - The fight for the Hambach Forest (Lukas Reiter; D 2019)

Audience award from the Rheinische Post

The Rheinische Post audience award has been nominated annually since 2001 by a jury of Rheinische Post readers. It is currently endowed with 1,000 euros by the Rheinische Post .

Award winners

Previously awarded prizes

German Film Critics' Prize

The German Film Critics' Prize for the best documentary film of the year has been awarded since 1980 and is nominated by the Working Group of Film Journalists . From 1987 to 1993 it was awarded at the Duisburg Film Week.

When making the nomination, the jury did not only consider the documentaries presented at the Duisburg Film Week, but all productions from the past year. So it happened once that a film that was rejected in Duisburg was awarded.

Award winners

Award of the Association of German Film Critics

The sponsorship award of the Association of German Film Critics in the documentary film section was first awarded at the Duisburg Film Week in 1994. It was endowed until 1998 and, at the recommendation of the jury, was awarded the City of Duisburg Prize in 2000 .

Award winners
  • 1996 Isolator II (Martin Zawadzki; D 1996)
  • 1998 Controlled Demolition ( Jörg Siepmann ; D / GB 1997)
  • 1999 Divina Obsesion (Volko Kamensky; D 1999)

Documentary film award from the Goethe Institute

The Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize was nominated for the first time by a Goethe-Institut jury in 2003 and awarded at the Duisburg Film Week. Since 2011, the selection and award ceremony has taken place as part of DOK Leipzig .

Award winners
  • 2003 You are responsible for the swing (Margarete Fuchs; D 2003)
  • 2004 Did Wolff von Amerongen commit bankruptcy crimes? ( Gerhard Friedl ; D 2004)
  • 2005 My Brother - We'll Meet Again ( Thomas Heise ; D 2005)
  • 2006 The Unbreakable ( Dominik Wessely ; D 2006)
  • 2007 The Halfmoon Files ( Philip Scheffner ; D 2007)
  • 2008 Dead freed me for the last time (Beate Middeke; D 2008)
  • 2009 Shanghai Fiction (Julia Albrecht, Busso von Müller; D 2008)
  • 2010 How To Make A Book With Steidl (Gereon Wetzel, Jörg Adolph ; D 2010)
Honorable Mention
  • 2009 The measure (Maik Bialk; D 2009)
  • 2010 Come on the devil ( Mareille Klein , Julie Kreuzer; D 2010)

Sponsorship award from the city of Duisburg

The promotion award of the city of Duisburg emerged from the promotion award of the Association of German Film Critics and was nominated annually from 2000 to 2018 by two members of the two documentary film award juries. It was endowed with 5,000 euros by the City of Duisburg and was transferred to the City of Duisburg Prize for short and medium-length films in 2019 .

Award winners
  • 2000 dirt eater (Branwen Okpako; D 2000)
  • 2001 After that it should have been nice (Karin Jurschick; D 2001)
  • 2002 Tehran 1380 (Solmaz Shahbazi, Tirdad Zolghadr; D / IR 2002)
  • 2003 My Life Part 2 (Angelika Levi; D 2003)
  • 2004 Wilhelm the Shepherd (Josie Rücker; D 2004)
  • 2005 Slide Guitar Ride (Bernd Schoch; D 2005) and Children of the Sleeping District (Korinna Kraus, Janna Ji Wonders; D 2005)
  • 2006 Balkan Champion (Réka Kincses; D 2006)
  • 2007 The Halfmoon Files ( Philip Scheffner ; D 2007)
  • 2008 predetermined breaking point ( Eva Stotz ; D 2008)
  • 2009 snow edges (Nele Wohlatz; D 2009)
  • 2010 Mr. Berner and the Wolokolamsker Chaussee ( Serpil Turhan ; D 2010) and Auf Teufel komm raus (Mareille Klein, Julie Kreuzer; D 2010)
  • 2011 Anna Pavlova lives in Berlin (Theo Solnik; D 2011)
  • 2012 Turtle Rage (Pary El-Qalqili; D 2012)
  • 2013 Ricardo Bär (Nele Wohlatz, Gerardo Naumann; RA 2013)
  • 2014 Pădurea e ca Muntele, vezi? (Didier Guillain, Christiane Schmidt; D / RO 2014)
  • 2015 Ice Girl (Lin Sternal; D 2015)
  • 2016 Mirr (Mehdi Nahebi; CH 2016)
  • 2017 Spineless Kingdom (Max Singer; D 2017)
  • 2018 The functionary (Andreas Goldstein; D 2018)

See also

  • Doxs - documentaries for children and young people

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Werner Ruzicka: Time to see and talk . ( duisburger-filmwoche.de [ Rich Text Format ; 23 kB ; accessed on October 12, 2013]).
  2. ↑ Awards and nominated films. Self-presentation. Duisburg Film Week, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans Helmut Prinzler: Chronicle, 1895-2004 . In: Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, Hans Helmut Prinzler (Hrsg.): History of German film . 2nd Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2004 ( filmportal.de [accessed February 2, 2015]).
  4. ^ Kulturmanagement Network (ed.): New documentary film festival for children and young people . ( Kulturmanagement.net [PDF; 272 kB ; accessed on August 17, 2013]).
  5. ^ Hannah Pilarczyk: Duisburger Filmwoche: The long summer of the documentary film. In: Spiegel Online. November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Peter Klucken: New management for the festival: Double leadership is now in charge of the Duisburg Film Week. In: RP Online. March 27, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  7. ^ Silvia Hallensleben: Duisburg Film Week: Magical Maloche. In: Tagesspiegel. November 10, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ New selection committee appointed. Festival announcement. Duisburg Film Week, June 25, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Duisburg protocult . In: Sennhauser's film blog . November 6, 2011 ( sennhausersfilmblog.ch [accessed October 16, 2013]).
  10. ↑ [1] Interviews with documentary filmmakers: In the stream of the unpredictable. A conversation between Michael Girke and Klaus Wildenhahn , Michael Girke, 2010. Accessed October 16, 2013.
  11. ↑ Festival archive . Duisburg Film Week, accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  12. ↑ a b c d e New price for the short and medium-length film. Festival announcement. Duisburg Film Week, August 30, 2019, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  13. ^ "Carte Blanche" - the new award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the promotion of young talent. Festival announcement. Duisburg Film Week, October 30, 2013, accessed on October 30, 2013 .
  14. ^ The winners of the 23rd Duisburg Film Week 1999. Festival announcement. Duisburger Filmwoche, October 12, 2013, accessed on October 12, 2013 .
  15. ^ Film, television, radio. Self-presentation. Goethe-Institut, accessed on November 10, 2019 .