Munich Film Festival
The Munich Film Festival ( spelling : FILMFEST MÜNCHEN ) is one of the largest film festivals in Germany. It takes place every year at the end of June in Munich and is Germany's most important summer film festival. It presents feature films , documentaries and short films as well as television films in international, European or German premieres. The 38th edition was originally planned for the period June 25 to July 4, 2020, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
General
With more than 180 films on over 18 screens and around 80,000 visitors, it is primarily a public festival. At the same time, it serves as a meeting place for the film industry for film journalists and trade visitors.
The film festival lasts ten days. After the opening event in the Mathäser-Filmpalast , the festival takes place at central locations throughout Munich. In addition to the Filmmuseum , Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor , Gloria Palast, Theatiner Film, the City Kinos, the Gasteig and the RIO Filmpalast in downtown Munich, the festival area includes the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), the ARRI-Kino and the Münchner Freiheit cinemas all the way to Schwabing . The press and guest center of the Munich Film Festival is in the Gasteig cultural center. The festival is organized by Internationale Münchner Filmwochen GmbH , which also organizes the International Festival of Munich Film Schools (Filmschoolfest Munich) , which takes place every autumn . The shareholders are the Free State of Bavaria , the City of Munich, the leading organization of the film industry (SPIO) and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .
Diana Iljine has been the festival director since 2012 .
history
The Munich Film Festival was held for the first time in 1983. Eberhard Hauff , brother of the director Reinhard Hauff , directed the festival until 2003. He was followed by Andreas Ströhl . After the 29th edition of the festival in 2011 Diana Iljine took over the management.
After the Berlinale, the Munich Film Festival is the second largest international film festival in Germany in terms of visitor numbers. In 2015, a visitor record was set with around 81,000 tickets, which is still being held.
Every year, over 2,500 German and international media professionals from the film, television and video industries as well as more than 600 journalists are accredited at the Munich Film Festival.
The film festival planned for 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Instead, the Munich Pop-up Film Festival will take place in the drive - in cinema from July 15 to the end of August 2020 , with one premiere each week, including In Berlin no orange tree grows , Faking Bullshit and Hello Again - One Day Forever .
Rows
The film festival offers an open program - from big premieres to no-budget - Underground , the dedicated movie up to the current political documentation. A special focus is traditionally the promotion of young talent from all over the world. Munich also attaches particular importance to German filmmakers. In addition to the traditional series of the festival program, new thematic or regional focal points are always set. After a redesign of the series in 2012, the current series of the Munich Film Festival are:
CineMasters competition
The competition for the best international film. A selection of international films competes in the CineMasters competition series for the ARRI / OSRAM Award , which is awarded by an international jury.
CineVision competition
The competition for the best international young film. International talented directors compete in the series with their first or second films for the CineVision Award. A three-person jury of experts selects the winner.
CineCoPro competition
The competition for the best international co-production with German participation.
Spotlight
Since 2012, the Spotlight series has been showing big stories, big emotions, films with big names in front of or behind the camera. Some newspapers interpreted this new series as a manifestation of a striving for more glamor and glamor.
International Independents
As part of the International Independents series , the festival has been presenting young, innovative cinema from all over the world to its audience since 2012. In this series, the American Independents , who for years provided many US indie directors with their first international platform - including Steven Soderbergh ( Schizopolis ), Jonathan Demme ( Stop Making Sense ), Ethan and Joel Coen ( Blood Simple - A Murderous Night ) rise. , Allison Anders ( Border Radio ), Tom DiCillo ( Living in Oblivion ) and Richard Linklater ( Slacker ) - and thus became a figurehead of the Munich Film Festival. The aim is to take account of the increasing globalization in the film industry and to focus on the production style, not the country.
New German cinema
Only German films will be shown for the first time. German directors like Florian Eichinger ( The Hands of My Mother ), Sönke Wortmann ( Alone Among Women ), Rainer Kaufmann ( talk of the town ), Oskar Roehler ( New Year's Eve Countdown ) and Marcus H. Rosenmüller ( Who dies earlier is dead longer ) showed their films here for first time. The Oscar-nominated films Beyond the Silence by Caroline Link and The Story of the Weeping Camel by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni also premiered in the series. The New German Cinema Prize is awarded in this series .
New German television
World premieres of selected television films are shown in a separate section. The television games compete for the Bernd Burgemeister television prize endowed with 25,000 euros . The series emerged in 2000 from the international TV series Top TV . Films by Rainer Kaufmann ( Blaubeerblau , Föhnlage. An Alpine Crime ), Tim Trachte (you don't want to know anything about that) , Michael Verhoeven (Let's Go!) And Dominik Graf ( Polizeiruf 110 - Cassandra's warning) were shown .
Homage
The series Hommage brings together all films with which the festival particularly highlights the work of individual artists. Here you can also find new documentaries dedicated to cinema and its makers. The Hommage series includes: CineMerit, Tribute to… and silent films. The previously separate series Retrospective has also been continued as part of the Hommage series since 2012 . The homages of well-known directors and filmmakers included Sergio Leone (1986), Im Kwon-taek (1990), Lars von Trier (1991), Hal Hartley (1992), Nagisa Ōshima (1992), Stanley Donen (1992), Nanni Moretti ( 1994), Michael Haneke (1994, 2009), Nelson Pereira (1995), Nicolas Roeg (1995), Robert Wise (1996), Ron Bass (1996), Roman Polański (1999), Miloš Forman (2000), Aki & Mika Kaurismäki (2004), Alan Parker (2004), Barry Levinson (2006), Mike Figgis (2006), Richard Linklater (2007), Werner Herzog (2007), Herbert Achternbusch and Julie Christie (both 2008), Stephen Frears (2009) , Ulrich Seidl (2010), Roy Andersson and John Malkovich (both 2011), Melanie Griffith (2012), Alejandro Jodorowsky (2013), Walter Hill , Klaus Lemke , Willy Bogner and Udo Kier (all 2014), Alexander Payne , Jean- Jacques Annaud and Rupert Everett (all 2015), Christian Petzold , Bahman Ghobadi and Ellen Burstyn (all 2016), Reinhard Hauff , Bryan Cranston and Sofia Coppola (all 2017), Emma Thompson , Ter ry Gilliam , Lucrecia Martel and Philip Gröning (all 2018), Antonio Banderas , Ralph Fiennes , Mads Brügger and Joon-ho Bong (all 2019).
Children's film festival
Feature films and short films will be shown, as well as documentaries for children from 4 years if possible. A children's film audience award will be presented.
Open air
On the piazza of the Gasteig festival center, nine films on an annually changing theme will be shown on nine evenings with free admission.
The International Program series (with directors such as Lars von Trier , Quentin Tarantino , Stephen Frears or Danny Boyle ), Nouveau Cinéma Français (with films by the original Nouvelle Vague directors ( Godard , Chabrol , Rivette , Rohmer ) and their successors (under other Tavernier , Chéreau , Leconte , Desplechin ); author films by young, still unknown filmmakers, but also examples of polar , the French police and gangster film) Visiones Latinas (with directors like Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel and Carlos Reygadas ) and focus Far East ( with films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul , Brillante Mendoza , Joon-ho Bong ) were included in the newly created series listed above from 2012 onwards.
Events
Encounter film festival
In 2009, in cooperation with the Munich Adult Education Center, a series on film education was introduced: Encounter Film Festival , at which the audience gets a look behind the scenes. During the festival week, outstanding German films and their makers will be presented on five mornings. For film fans an opportunity to experience the highlights of the festival inexpensively and in a relaxed atmosphere. What you always wanted to ask the filmmakers - anyone can do it here.
Animation meeting
The MedienCampus Bayern organizes a panel discussion every year and, in cooperation with filmtoolsConsult, the animation meeting at the Munich Film Festival, during which the latest developments in the animation industry are presented.
Filmmakers Live
Actors and directors will discuss with film fans after the film screenings in the daily Filmmakers Live event series in Gasteig.
Prizes and awards
The following prizes will be awarded at the Munich Film Festival:
- With the CineMerit Award , the Munich Film Festival has been honoring outstanding personalities in international filmmaking for their contributions to the art of film since 1997.
- The ARRI / OSRAM Award (until 2010 ARRI-Zeiss Award until 2012 ARRI Award ) worth 50,000 euros is awarded to the best foreign film. The decision is made by an independent jury of three. The award is donated by ARRI , since 2013 together with OSRAM Licht AG .
- The CineVision Award , which Wild Bunch has been donating since 2014 (previously Senator Entertainment AG and DZ Bank ), is intended to provide active support to young directors from abroad. The prize, endowed with 12,000 euros, has been awarded at the Munich Film Festival since 2007. An independent jury awards a prize to a non-German film that is characterized by its innovative character and is supposed to break new grounds aesthetically. This is preferably the director's first or second feature film.
- With the CineCoPro Award , the Munich Film Festival honors the best German co-producer (s) in an international co-production.
- The New German Cinema Award , sponsored by DZ Bank , Bavaria Film and Bayerischer Rundfunk, is endowed with a total of 70,000 euros and is awarded in the categories of directing, screenwriting and acting (actress / actor).
- Bernd Burgemeister TV Award (formerly: VFF TV Movie Award): the award, donated by the VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduproduktion, is endowed with 25,000 euros. This honors outstanding German television films and their producers.
- At the Bayern 2 and SZ Audience Awards, visitors to the Munich Film Festival choose their favorite from the film festival program. The audience award was presented for the first time in 2004.
- Children's Film Festival Audience Award : the young visitors to the Munich Film Festival rate the films at the Children's Film Festival and choose their favorites for their own audience award.
- The One Future Prize of the ecumenically supported Interfilm Academy Munich honors films that deal ethically and aesthetically with the topic of an indivisible future for this world. The prize has been awarded every year since 1986 to a film from the entire program of the Munich Film Festival.
- The FIPRESCI Prize , awarded by the International Association of Film Critics , goes to the best film in the New German Cinema series.
In addition, the following will be awarded during the film festival:
- Peace Prize of German Films - The Bridge : the prize honors artistic works that build bridges and that are characterized by content and cinematic power. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.
- The white elephant : thechildren's media prize initiatedby the Medien-Club München eV honors productions that help promote the development of children and young people and contribute to improving and increasing the quality of the offers.
- 13th Street Shocking Short : The station 13th Street honors innovative directors and unconventional formats with this award. The winner will receive a backstage pass to Universal Studios , Hollywood.
- Treatment competition for documentary films / documentaries : the competition, which is sponsored by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Telepool GmbH Munich, aims to promote documentary filmmaking in Germany and German-speaking Europe. It is held annually as a competition in the category “cinema-compatible documentary film or television-compatible documentation” and has developed into one of the most important prizes in this genre (until 2014).
- The film holding company Tellux , supported by Catholic dioceses, awards the Fritz Gerlich Prize endowed with 10,000 euros during the film festival - the only Catholic film prize donated in memory of Fritz Gerlich - for contemporary feature or documentary films that courageously present a publicly discussed film Take up a topic that deals with resistance to intolerance and dictatorship, abuse of power, persecution and humiliation.
- Transmedia Prize : In 2014an ideas competition was held for the first timein the spirit of the journalist Fritz Gerlich (1883–1934). The academy for film and television dramaturgy TOP Talente eV, in cooperation with Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, honors ideas for the cross- or transmedial implementation of socially relevant topics.
- Look & Listen - Telepool-BR-Music-Award : The award is donated by Telepool (subsidiary of Bayerischer Rundfunk) and is endowed with 10,000 euros. The prize honors outstanding personalities in the field of film music (until 2014).
- The Tele 5 Award results from an online vote on the website of the television broadcaster Tele 5 among the nominated German films in the Filmfest program. It was awarded in 2011 and 2012.
- The FIPRESCI Prize from the International Association of Film Critics was first awarded at the Munich Film Festival in 2015 and goes to the best film in the New German Cinema series.
See also
International Documentary Film Festival Munich
Web links
Wikinews: Munich Film Festival - in the newsIndividual evidence
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- ↑ Sehnsucht Deutschland ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ Visitor record . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved July 6, 2015.
- ^ Bernhard Blöchl: Munich Film Festival: New ideas after Corona cancellation. In: sueddeutsche.de. June 26, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ More shine and fewer films for the 30th Munich Film Festival , Der Westen on April 3, 2012
- ↑ CineMerit Award - Munich Film Festival : CineMerit Award ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 12, 2013)
- ↑ Retrospectives: Mads Brügger and Joon-ho Bong . Press release of May 27, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019.
- ^ Fritz Gerlich Prize. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved October 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
