Caligari Film Award

Every year since 1986, the Caligari Film Prize has been awarded to a film from the program of the Berlinale Forum . The prize is donated by the Federal Association of Communal Film Work and the film magazine Filmdienst . It is named after the classic German film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari .

The initiator of the award is Heiner Roß (* 1942), from 1963 to 1979 managing director of the then Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and from 1979 to 2006 director of the municipal cinema Metropolis Kino in Hamburg. The prize honors a thematically and stylistically innovative film by the International Forum of New Cinema (since 2006 a section of the film festival as the Berlinale Forum ).

International Forum of Young Cinema

The forum was founded as an independent film festival that has been taking place parallel to the Berlinale since 1971 . Today it is organized as the “Berlinale Forum” by the Arsenal (Film Institute) under its own responsibility. In it, the film is "defended as an artistic form of expression against the drawing of boundaries and categorizations". His aim is to “maintain the cinema as a field of experimentation and to strengthen developments that have yet to find a wider public”. The term “the young film” is to be understood today in the sense of “the new film”, in the founding years, which lasted at least until 1986, it was also intended as “young at heart”. The English name for the forum is accordingly today The International Forum of New Cinema .

The forum does not award any prizes itself, but five prizes (as of 2009) are awarded to films in the forum program by five independent juries. Juries that award their prizes on behalf of external organizations and institutions that are independent of the festival are considered independent. The Caligari Film Prize is considered the most prestigious of these independent jury awards.

jury

The three-member jury consists of the Federal Association of Communal Film Work and a representative of two representatives Filmdienst together.

price

The prize consists of a statuette , handcrafted from black slate, and a prize of 4,000 euros (as of 2010). Until 2009, half of the prize money went to the director and half to the future distributor of the award-winning film. Since 2010, the award has been used to invite the director to tour selected municipal cinemas (KoKi) with the award-winning film . The statuette was designed by the Cologne sculptor Gesina Liebe (* 1948 in Göttingen), who designs it every year and is financed by the Rheinischer Merkur publishing group . The award ceremony takes place on the last Friday of the festival in the Arsenal cinema in the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz .

Award winners

The year in which the award ceremony took place is listed.

In 1995 there were two winners.

year	title	German distribution title	German distribution	Director	country
2019	Home is a space made of time		GMfilms	Thomas Heise	Germany, Austria
2018	La casa lobo (The Wolf House)			Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
2017
2016
2015	Balikbayan # 1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III			Kidlat Tahimik	Philippines
2014	The great museum	The great museum		Johannes Holzhausen	Austria
2013	Helio Oiticica	Helio Oiticica	arsenal distribution	Cesar Oiticia Filhos	Brazil
2012	Tepenin Ardı	Tepenin ardi - Beyond the Hill	arsenal distribution	Emin Alper	Turkey / Greece
2011	The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye	The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye	arsenal distribution	Marie Losier	USA, France
2010	La bocca del lupo	La bocca del lupo	arsenal distribution	Pietro Marcello	Italy
2009	Ai No Mukidashi	Love exposure	Rapid Eye Movies	Sion Sono	Japan
2008	Tirador		no rental	Brilliant Mendoza	Philippines
2007	It happened just before that	It happened just before that	Film gallery 451	Anja Salomonowitz	Austria
2006	37 Uses for a Dead Sheep	37 ways to use a sheep	Piffl media	Ben Hopkins	Great Britain
2005	Niu Pi	Oxhide	arsenal distribution	Liu Jia Yin	China
2004	Dopo mezzanine	The second half of the night	Kairos film distribution	Davide Ferrario	Italy
2003	Salt	Salt	arsenal distribution	Bradley Rust Gray	Iceland / USA
2002	Un Día de Suerte	A lucky day	Kairos film distribution	Sandra Gugliotta	Argentina
2001	Crónica de un desayuno	Chronicle of a breakfast	arsenal distribution	Benjamin Cann	Mexico
2000	I Earini synaxis ton agrofylakon	The spring meeting of the field guards	Kairos film distribution	Dimos Avdeliodis	Greece
1999	Cattle Jew Levi	Cattle Jew Levi	Arsenal film distribution	Didi Danquart	Germany
1998	Kasaba	The small town	arsenal distribution	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey
1997	Nobody's business	Nobody's business		Alan Berliner	United States
1996	Charms incidents	Charms incidents	Ventura movie	Michael Kreihsl	Austria
1995	Madagascar	Madagascar		Fernando Pérez	Cuba
1995	Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter	Complaints from a dutiful daughter		Deborah Hoffmann	United States
1994	Sátántangó	Satan Tango		Béla Tarr	Hungary
1993	Anlian taohua yuan	The land of the peach blossom		Stan Lai	Taiwan
1992	Swoon	Swoon		Tom Kalin	United States
1991	All the Vermeers in New York	All the Vermeers in New York		Jon Jost	United States
1990	Untamagiru	Untamagiru		Go takamine	Japan
1989	Sama	The track		Néjia Ben Mabrouk	Tunisia
1988	Nagunenun gilesodo schizi annunda	The man with the three coffins		Lee Jang-ho	Korea
1987	Yuki yukite shingun	Forward, Army of God!		Kazuo Hara	Japan
1986	Shoah	Shoah	arsenal distribution DVD: Absolutely media	Claude Lanzmann	France

Web links

• Forum homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Film award on the BkF website
2. ^ Photographic documentation by Gesina Liebe ( memento from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB) about the creation of the prize statuette