Braunschweig International Film Festival

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The Braunschweig International Film Festival (until 2018 International Film Festival Braunschweig ) was first held in 1987 and is the oldest regularly held Film Festival of Lower Saxony . In 2018 it had 27,500 visitors. The carrier is the Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig e. V.

Every year at the end of October or beginning of November the audience festival shows short and feature films of all genres . The focus of the program is on current European productions and film music. The venues include the “Astor Filmtheater”, the “Universum Filmtheater” and the Braunschweig State Theater .

In 2018 the festival showed 110 feature films in various series as well as around 160 short films.

history

In 1987 the film festival was founded by 20 university students, film class graduates and members of the "Filmkoop". The reason was the dissatisfaction with the range of films on offer at the time.

Rows

Since 2001, the film festival has presented the work of well-known film composers as part of the “Film & Music” series. The series includes silent film concerts as well as live-to-projection concerts with the Braunschweig State Orchestra , often with musical premieres. Guests in the series were Edward Artemiev , Antoine Duhamel , Zbigniew Preisner , Craig Armstrong , Carl Davis , Michael Nyman , Alexandre Desplat , Shigeru Umebayashi , Fall On Your Sword , Ludovic Bource , Niki Reiser , Marcel Barsotti , Jean-Michel Bernard and Jan AP Kaczmarek

Since 2016 the festival has been awarding the “White Lions”, a lifetime achievement prize for film composers, in this series. So far, the award winners have been Patrick Doyle and Irmin Schmidt .

The “Music & Film” section also includes the “Sound on Screen - Festival Edition” series with current music documentaries. Since 2018, the festival has brought together all film music events under the label "FxM Film meets Music - Das Filmmusikfestival".

The other rows:

  • international arthouse films in the "New International Cinema"
  • “Prime Time”, a preview of popular films about to be released in theaters
  • new German productions in the series "New German Films"
  • "... at midnight", an annually changing genre film series
  • “Green Horizons” with films about sustainability
  • "Heimspiel" with films by Braunschweig filmmakers, productions that were shot in Braunschweig or have another Braunschweig connection
  • numerous short film programs
  • Programs of the film class of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts (HBK) and the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

In addition, there is an annually changing series with cooperation partners such as the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig .

Competitions and Prizes

The Braunschweig International Film Festival awards ten prizes: with a total value of 58,500 euros.

  1. The European acting award "Die Europa", for an actor / actress who has made an outstanding contribution to European film culture through outstanding artistic achievements. The award has been given since 2007. It is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded with a bronze statuette. The winners so far are:
  2. The audience award "Der Heinrich", for debut and second works by European directors (prize money 10,000 euros)
  3. The “Volkswagen Financial Services Film Award”, a jury award for the best debut or second film in the competition series, is endowed with 10,000 euros
  4. “Queerer Filmpreis Niedersachsen” (since 2017), endowed with 5,000 euros, funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality as part of the campaign “For sexual and gender diversity * in Lower Saxony”.
  5. “Green Horizons Award” for the best film on the topic of sustainability, endowed with 2,500 euros
  6. the women's film award "Die TILDA", endowed with 5,000 euros, by 70 women from Braunschweig (first awarded in 2019)
  7. the “Braunschweiger Filmpreis” for the best young actor, endowed with 3,000 euros
  8. The “Heimspiel Prize” - for the best film in the “Heimspiel” series, endowed with 1,000 euros, sponsored by Volkswagen Financial Services
  9. The German-French film prize "KINEMA", endowed with 2,000 euros, for the best German and French-language debut or second film, awarded by a youth jury
  10. “The White Lion”, a lifetime achievement award for a film composer, undoped
  11. (Until 2014) The short film music prize "Leo", prize for the best combination of image and sound in a short film (prize money 2,000 euros)

literature

  • Stefan Vockrodt, Hans Roland Nuß, Edgar Merkel: From the “living photographs” to the multiplex. Braunschweig's cinemas from 1896 to the present day. Zelter, Braunschweig 1997.
  • Internationales filmfest Braunschweig e. V .: Science / Fiction. From the canvas to the laboratory. Köhler & Lippmann Medien GmbH, Braunschweig 2007.
  • Internationales filmfest Braunschweig e. V., Volker Kufahl (Ed.): Can a video game make you cry? Film and Games - A Confrontation. Braunschweig 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c self-portrait , accessed December 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Braunschweig is the film capital for six days. at ndr.de, accessed on December 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Prizes and winners. filmfest-braunschweig.de, accessed on November 15, 2018
  4. ↑ a b New prize at the Braunschweig International Film Festival: the Tilda. professional-production.de, accessed on October 16, 2019
  5. ^ Goldene Europa www.filmfest.braunschweig.de, accessed on November 15, 2018