CineFest
cinefest - International Festival of German Film Heritage is an event in Hamburg by CineGraph - Hamburg Center for Film Research and Film Archive of the Federal Archives , Berlin. Parts of the film program will then also be shown in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Wiesbaden, Zurich and Udine / Gorizia.
The permanent partners are the Zeughaus-Kino in the German Historical Museum , Berlin, the Ponrepo cinema des nfa - Narodní filmový archiv , Prague, the Austrian Filmmuseum , Vienna, the Filmpodium Zurich and the Cinémathèque Suisse , Lausanne, and from 2010 the Film Forum , Udine / Gorizia, from 2011 the Murnau-Filmtheater in the Deutsches Filmhaus , Wiesbaden.
cinefest is the only film festival in Germany that combines a theme-oriented festival with a scientific congress and thus conveys the diverse facets of German film history to a broader public in a European context. Through the presentation of historical film material and the academic examination of aspects of media and contemporary history, the festival offers a forum for the rediscovery, discussion and appreciation of German film heritage .
The festival, which was held for the first time in November 2004, developed from the international film history congresses that CineGraph had organized every year in Hamburg since 1988. The film history congresses are still part of the cinefest and deepen the annual changing focus topics through lectures and discussions by international experts.
subjects
The topics of cinefest so far have been:
- 2004 - The German film comedy before 1945 (with a focus on Jewish comedians before and after 1933)
- 2005 - FilmEuropa Babylon. Multilingual versions of the 1930s in Europe
- 2006 - cast off! Maritime cinema in Germany and Europe 1912–1957
- 2007 - film in the heart of Europe. German-Czech Film Relations in the 20th Century
- 2008 - Everything in pieces! ...? Film production and propaganda in Europe 1940–1950
- 2009 - Shadow of War. Innovation and tradition in European cinema 1940–1950
- 2010 - cinema trans-alpino. German-Italian film relations
- 2011 - Europe's prairies and canyons. Western between Siberia and the Atlantic
- 2012 - Cold War and Film Spring. The cinema of the early 1960s
- 2013 - Prohibited! - Film censorship in Europe
- 2014 - Against? The public! - New ways in the documentary
- 2015 - people in the hotel. Cinematic encounters in limited spaces
- 2016 - Broken Language - Filmmakers and Writers of Exile
- 2017 - Between Revolution and Restoration - Culture and Politics 1789–1848 as reflected in the film
- 2018 - Masters of Weimar Cinema - Joe May and the Wandering Image
- 2019 - Dr. Strange or: Happiness comes from the clouds - film between political comedy and social satire
cinefest is supported by the Authority for Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, domestic and foreign institutions and sponsors.
Prices
As part of the opening of the festival, the Reinhold Schünzel Prize for services to German film heritage will be awarded.
The Reinhold Schünzel Prize received:
- 2004 Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, who was responsible for the film program for many years at the Goethe-Haus New York .
- 2005 Manfred Klaue, former director of the State Film Archive of the GDR and longstanding President of the FIAF , the international association of film archives.
- 2006 the Italian film historian Vittorio Martinelli (†).
- 2007 the film historian Gero Gandert , Berlin.
- 2008 Vladimír Opěla, Director of the NFA - Národní filmový archiv, Prague.
- 2009 the film journalist Volker Baer , Berlin.
- 2010 the film scholar Heide Schlüpmann , Frankfurt.
- 2011 Barton Byg, founder of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- 2012 the French film historian Bernard Eisenschitz , Paris.
- 2013 the film journalist Wolfram Schütte , Frankfurt.
- 2014 the film historian Horst Claus, Bristol.
- 2015 Vera Gyürey, former director of the Hungarian Film Archive, Budapest.
- 2016 the literary and film scholar Heike Klapdor, Berlin.
- 2017 the American film historian Lenny Borger, Paris.
- 2018 the German-American film historian and archivist Jan-Christopher Horak , Los Angeles.
- 2019 the Italian film historian and festival director Giovanni Spagnoletti, Rome.
The Willy Haas Prize is awarded to publications on German-language film and film in Germany. It is awarded by an international jury to one book and one DVD edition.