Biberach Film Festival
The Biberach Film Festival takes place every year on the first weekend in November in Biberach an der Riss . At the event, also known as the “Family Reunion of German Filmmakers”, filmmakers present their latest works to their colleagues and the audience.
The festival was founded in 1979 by Adrian Kutter , who was also the artistic director and is one of the well-known personalities in the German cinema and film business. In September 2003 the association Biberacher Filmfestspiele eV was founded, which has organized the festival since then and supports its director in the increasingly extensive organizational tasks. The first chairman of the association is Tobias Meinhold, the second chairman of Biberach's Lord Mayor is Norbert Zeidler . At the end of the 40th edition in 2018, Adrian Kutter gave up the management and his wife Helga Reichert was appointed as acting representative. In February 2019, Helga Reichert was elected director of the festival by the members of the Biberacher Film Festival.
On the last day of the festival there will be a gala with awards ceremony. The main prize, the Golden Beaver , has been endowed with 5,000 euros since 2003. The Docubiber and Debut Beaver prizes, each endowed with 3,000 euros , the short film beaver endowed with 2,000 euros, and the public beaver endowed with 1,000 euros are also awarded . Since 2008, a student beaver endowed with 1,000 euros has been awarded by a jury of students from Biberach. In addition, since 2009 the supposedly best TV film shown in Biberach has been awarded the TV beaver . This is endowed with 3,000 euros by the producer Hans W. Geißendörfer . The remaining prize money is provided by the city of Biberach and u. a. the Kreissparkasse Biberach , EnBW , and Liebherr . The remaining prize money is provided by the Film Commission (Ulm region) and the Biberach advertising association .
Starting in 2018, the Siegfried Kracauer Prize , endowed with € 3,000 for “Best Film Review”, will be awarded annually with the Lünen Kinofest .
Since 2004, the BIFF (Biberacher Independent Film Festival) has taken place parallel to the film festival at irregular intervals - as in 2005 and 2008 . This is not an offshoot of the Biberach Film Festival, but an independent festival for short films.
Award winners
1986-1989
1986
- Prize winner: Concert for the right hand by Michael Bartlett
1987
- Prize winner: Kite food from Jan Schütte
1988
- Prize winner: Martha Jellneck from Kai Wessel
1989
- Prize winner: Georg Elser - One from Germany by Klaus-Maria Brandauer
1990-1999
1990
- Prize winners: Miracle by Leopold Huber and Winckelmanns Reisen by Jan Schütte
1991
- Prize winner: In the circle of lovers by Hermine Huntgeburth
1992
- Prize winner: Shadow of Fear by Konstantin A. Schmidt
1993
- Prize winner: The cinema narrator by Bernhard Sinkel
1994
- Prize winners: Burning Life by Peter Welz and Silent Love by Josh Broeker
1995
- Prize winner: After five in the jungle by Hans-Christian Schmid
1996
- CICAE Prize: Beyond Silence by Caroline Link
- Special mention by the international jury: The fishing war by Klaus Gietinger
- Young Talent Award: Who's Afraid of Santa Claus? by Annette Ernst
- Audience Award: Beyond Silence by Caroline Link
1997
- Prize of the CICAE: Migratory birds ... Once to Inari by Peter Lichtefeld
- Special mention by the international jury: Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz by Julian Benedikt
- Young talent award: Martin - the first time by Markus Herling
- Audience Award: Comedian Harmonists by Joseph Vilsmaier
1998
- CICAE Prize: The Hour of Light by Stijn Coninx
- Special Mention by the International Jury: Yara by Yılmaz Arslan
- Young talent award: Se non mi vuoi by Miriam Pucitta
- Audience award: Three gentlemen from Nikolaus Leytner
1999
- CICAE Prize: A Song of Love and Death - Gloomy Sunday by Rolf Schübel and Snow on New Year's Eve by Thorsten Schmidt
- Young talent award: Il Rubin by Carlos Alvarez Vela
- Audience award: three Chinese with the double bass by Klaus Krämer
2000-2009
2000
- Prize of the CICAE: Gripsholm by Xavier Koller
- Honorable Mention of the CICAE: A handful of grass by Roland Suso Richter
- Young Talent Award: I will carry you on my hands from Ian Dilthey
- Audience award: Gran Paradiso by Miguel Alexandre
2001
- Prize of the international jury: As far as your feet can take from Hardy Martins
- Special mention by the international jury: Engel & Joe by Vanessa Jopp
- Audience Award: As Far As Your Feet Can Take by Hardy Martins
- Young talent award : Rohat by Juliane Hohl
- Honorable Mention: My Brother the Vampire by Sven Taddicken
2002
- International jury prize: Solino by Fatih Akın
- Special mention by the international jury: Bellaria by Douglas Wolfsperger
- Special mention by the international jury: Love the Hard Way by Peter Sehr
- Audience Award: Big Girls Don't Cry by Maria von Heland
- Young talent award: Mr. Tomascheck's plan by Ralf Westhoff
2003
- Golden beaver: Luther by Eric Till
- Audience award: Eiderdiebe by Robert Schwentke
- Avid Young Talent Award: Vida! Fragments of a memory from Winfried Oelsner and claustrophobia from Heike Schober
- Honorable Mention: Hierankl by Hans Steinbichler
2004
- Golden Beaver: The ninth day by Volker Schlöndorff
- Audience award: Baby, you're mine by Anette Ernst
- Avid Young Talent Award: Camera Obscura by Benjamin Eicher
- Honorable mention: My brother is a dog owned by Uwe Timm
- Honorable Mention: Basta - red wine or being dead by Pepe Danquart
- Honorable Mention: Two weeks in Argentina by Holger Haase
2005
- Goldener Biber: A very common Jew by Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Special mention by the jury: Another League from Buket Alakuş
- Audience Award: Charlotte and Her Men by Dirk Kummer
- Documentary film award (awarded for the first time): Have you ever been in love with me? by Douglas Wolfsperger
- Avid Nachwuchsförderpreis: The boxer of Catharina Deus
- Honorable Mention: Heroes in Wellington Boots by Hagen Winterhoff
- Ehrenbiber: Harry Baer
2006
- Golden Beaver: Four minutes by Chris Kraus
- Honorable Mention: Silent Longing - Warchild by Christian Wagner
- Docubiber: Tiger by Pawel M. Starost
- Honorable Mention: It got off to a good start by Susanna Salonen
- Debut beaver: Ping-pong by Matthias Luthardt
- Short film beaver: Big city robbers by Arne Ahrens
- Public beaver: Four minutes by Chris Kraus
- Special mention for outstanding acting achievements: Fabian Busch
- Honorary Beaver: Vadim Glowna
2007
- Goldener Biber: For the unknown dog from Benjamin Reding and Dominik Reding
- Docubiber: I want you - encounters with Hilde Domin from Anna Dittges
- Beaver debut: blind flight of Ben von Grafenstein (Honorable Mention: Seven days Sunday by Niels Laupert )
- Short film beaver : Milan by Michaela Kezele (Special Mention: One Summer by Steffi Niederzoll)
- Public beaver: Nothing but ghosts from Martin Gypkens
2008
- Golden Beaver: What If Death Do Us Part? by Ulrike Grote
- Docubiber: Stumbling block by Dörte Franke
- Debut beaver: November child from Christian Schwochow
- Short film beaver : The clarification of a matter by Sören Hüper and Christian Prettin (Honorable Mention: What does the drop know about it by Jan Zabeil)
- Public Beaver: What If Death Do Us Part? by Ulrike Grote
- School beaver: Force majeure from Lars-Henning Jung (Special Mention: Everything for my father from Dror Zahavi )
2009
- Golden Beaver: The love of Franz Müller's children
- TV beaver: defenseless by René Heisig
- Docubiber: Soul Birds by Thomas Riedelsheimer
- Debut beaver: Outside at the lake by Felix Fuchssteiner
- Short film beaver : Amoklove by Julia C. Kaiser
- Public beaver: Micha Lewinsky’s registrar
- School beaver: Outside by the lake by Felix Fuchssteiner
2010-2019
2010
- Golden Beaver: Poll by Chris Kraus
- Debut beaver: The song in me by Florian Cossen
- Audience beaver: My life off-screen by Oliver Haffner
- School beaver: Picco by Philip Koch
- Documentary film beaver: 7 or why I'm here by Antje Starost and Hans Helmut Grotjahn
- Short film beaver: It's me. Helmut by Nicolas Steiner
- TV Biber: The shared happiness of Thomas Freundner
- Ehrenbiber: Joseph Vilsmaier
2011
- Golden beaver: stop on the open track by Andreas Dresen
- Debut beaver: Summer in the country by Radek Wegrzyn
- Public beaver: Summer in the country by Radek Wegrzyn
- School beaver: ants go other ways by Catharina Deus
- Documentary beaver : Wader Wecker Vater Land by Rudi Gaul
- Short film beaver: 1000 grams by Tom Bewilogua
- TV beaver: It's not over from Franziska Meletzky
- Honorary beaver: Hans W. Geißendörfer
2012
- Golden Beaver: Two Lives by Georg Maas
- Debut beaver: The bridge on the Ibar by Michaela Kezele
- Public beaver: The bridge on the Ibar by Michaela Kezele
- Students Biber: guilt is always the others by Lars-Gunnar Lotz
- Documentary beaver : Mardi Gras.BB - A Silent Rockumentary by Jonas Grosch
- Short film beaver: A moment in me by David Lorenz
- TV Beaver: Father, our will be done by Robert Ralston
2013
- Golden Beaver: 45 minutes to Ramallah by Ali Samadi Ahadi
- Debut beaver: Mystery Cache by Philipp Dettmer
- Public beaver: 45 minutes to Ramallah by Ali Samadi Ahadi
- School beaver: Free from Bernd Fischerauer
- Documentary Beaver : Anatomy of Leaving by Serban Oliver Tataru
- Short film beaver: I still have resurrection from Jan-Gerrit Seyler
- TV beaver: Take good care of him by Johannes Fabrick
- Ehrenbiber: Edgar Reitz
2014
- Golden beaver: a gift from the gods by Oliver Haffner
- Debut Beaver: Los Angeles by Damien John Harper
- Public beaver: Be my Baby by Christina Schiewe
- School beaver: Be my Baby by Christina Schiewe
- Documentary beaver : Reunion with Brundibar by Douglas Wolfsperger
- Short film beaver: Julia Finkernagel's fountain woman
- TV beaver: Country crime - The woman with a shoe by Michael Glawogger
- Ehrenbiber: Reinhard Hauff
2015
- Golden Beaver: God of Happiness by Dito Tsintsadze
- Debut beaver : Wanja by Carolina Hellsgard
- Public Beaver: Night of Fear by Gabriela Zerhau
- School beaver: In Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt's cobweb house
- Documentary beaver : A Man Can Make a Difference by Ullabritt Horn
- Kurzfilmbiber: He and She by Marco Gadge
- TV Biber: suburban rockers of Martina Plura
- Ehrenbiber: Klaus Maria Brandauer
2016
- Golden Beavers: enclave of Goran Radovanovic
- Debut beaver : Dinky Sinky by Mareille Klein
- Public Beaver: The Middle of the World by Jakob M. Erwa
- School beaver: Zazy from MX Oberg
- Documentary beaver : Beer Brothers by Michael Chauvistré and Miriam Pucitta
- Short film beaver : Emily must wait by Christian Wittmoser
- TV beaver: Country thriller - Dragon Maiden by Catalina Molina
- Special mention by the feature film jury: The hands of my mother by Florian Eichinger
2017
- Golden Beaver: Foreign daughter of Stephan Lacant
- Debut beaver: Back for Good by Mia Spengler
- Public beaver : Snow blind by Arto Sebastian
- School beaver: Back for Good by Mia Spengler
- Documentary beaver : Algo mio - Argentina's stolen children by Jenny Hellmann and Regina Mennig
- Short film beaver : Watu Wote - All of us by Katja Benrath
- TV Biber: The white lie by Marie Kreutzer
- Medium length film (less than 60 minutes): Nadryw by Katja Ginnow
2018
- Ehrenbiber: Werner Herzog
- Golden Beaver: Once Again by Kanwal Sethi
- Debut beaver: lost by Felix Hassenfratz
- Biber audience: Out of Philipp Hirsch
- School beaver: Sarah plays a werewolf by Katharina Wyss
- Documentary beaver: Scala Adieu - Gone in diapers by Douglas Wolfsperger
- Short film beaver: The visit of Christian Werner
- TV beaver: are you happy? by Max Zähle
- Medium length film (less than 60 minutes): Proxima-B by Stefan Bürkner
- Beaver for the best script: Smash my heart by Alexandra Makarova
2019
- Golden Beaver: In the no man's land by Florian Aigner
- Debut beaver : head burst from Savaş Ceviz
- Public beaver: My end. Your beginning. by Mariko Minoguchi
- School beaver: coup by Sven O. Hill
- Documentary beaver : In Search… by Beryl Magoko
- Short film beaver: Alternatives by Benjamin Kramme
- TV beaver: Gentlemen from Dirk Kummer
- Medium length film: Sleep well. You also. by Christian Knie
- Special “Adrian” award: Michael Hammon for Zwingli
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Founder of the Biberach Film Festival gives up directorship . Article dated November 5, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
- ↑ The new director wants to rejuvenate the film festival audience . Article dated February 19, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019.
- ↑ BIFF website , accessed on January 8, 2010
- ↑ Biberach Film Festival ends with a record number of visitors. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. Retrieved November 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Carina is the Biberach's favorite baby. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. November 3, 2014, accessed November 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Golden Beaver goes to "God of Happiness". In: Schwäbische Zeitung. November 8, 2015, accessed November 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Gerd Mägerle: Golden beaver for the German-Serbian film "Enclave". In: schwaebische.de. November 9, 2015, accessed November 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Record attendance at the film festival . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017.
- ↑ Werner Herzog receives honorary award in Biberach . Article dated September 24, 2018, accessed September 25, 2018.
- ↑ These are the winners of the 40th Biberach Film Festival . Article dated November 4, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
- ↑ Biber awarded: These are the winners of the Biberach Film Festival ( Memento from November 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive )