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The head of doxs !, Gudrun Sommer, opens the program as part of the 39th Duisburg Film Week , 2015

doxs! documentary films for children and young people is an initiative that is dedicated to documentary film culture for young people. The doxs! kino is Germany's oldest festival for documentary films for children and young people. It has been held annually since 2002 as part of the Duisburg Film Week and is sponsored by the City of Duisburg . doxs! also receives funding from the Filmstiftung NRW , the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fsf (voluntary self-regulation of television). In addition, doxs! Year-round national and international media education projects in schools and in public institutions.

development

In 2002, the Duisburger Filmwoche initiated a documentary film program for children for the first time in cooperation with the Filmothek der Jugend NRW eV and the Documentary Film Initiative (dfi) under the motto “Very close!” . The focus was on documentaries that deal with the world of children and focus on their focus. As a result, the first small documentary film series for children between the ages of six and ten could be presented as an alternative to everyday television fiction .

In 2004 the children's program was renamed. A new, more concise name was found: doxs! - 'do' (for documentary film ) and 'xs' (for the smallest clothing size ) form the label . Another new feature was the introduction of a country focus, which was established in the following years. In addition to German films, selected Dutch productions found their way onto the screen. In the following year, contributions from Poland , the Czech Republic , Estonia and Hungary were presented. As a new target group, young people (films from the age of 14) also moved into the focus of the festival.

In 2007, a special doxs! Cinema program was put together with films from the GDR . Nine documentary films for children and young people from DEFA were intended to bring young people closer to contemporary life and everyday life using historical film material. Other country priorities of the program were Denmark (2006), France (2008), Sweden (2009) and Great Britain (2011).

2011 celebrated doxs! its tenth anniversary and was able to receive over 1000 visitors in Duisburg. To mark the milestone , with the support of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , a prize for the European competition was announced and awarded for the first time - in addition to the sections for elementary school children and the section for experimental documentary film "paradoxs!": The "Big Flap".

2016 welcomed doxs! 3100 guests for the 15th anniversary at the various venues. The ECFA Documentary Award was presented for the first time, which is sponsored by the ECFA (European Children's Film Association) and doxs! was launched. The international jury awarded the ECFA Documentary Award 2016 to Erlend E. Mo and his festival contribution Tanz für das Leben (NO / SE / DK 2015). In 2017 the ECFA Documentary Award went to the Norwegian director Robin Jensen for his film Det trygge huset / The Refuge (NO 2016). In 2018 the ECFA Documentary Award was given to Bakar Cherkezishivili for his film Apollo Javakheti (GE 2017). Cassandra Offenberg from the Netherlands received the award in 2019 for her film Champ (NL 2019).

Under the claim doxs! ruhr, the festival has expanded its venues beyond Duisburg. In 2013 a selection of the program for elementary and secondary schools was shown in cinemas in Bochum and Dortmund; in 2014, Essen and Dinslaken were added as additional locations. The organizers counted around 2500 children, young people and adults in 2014. Since 2015, Gelsenkirchen has been one of the six festival locations that have meanwhile become. In 2017 Moers came as another doxs! Ruhr city. Bottrop was also won as a new venue in 2018.

On November 10, 2018, a € 9,900 working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for artistic documentary film for children and young people was announced for the first time as part of the award ceremony of the Duisburg Film Week. The award is made annually by the Filmbüro Nordrhein-Westfalen in cooperation with doxs! organized.

Since 2019, the € 6,000 film prize for the best foreign language children's documentary has been presented every two years by doxs! forgive. All non-German-language films in the festival program that are aimed at an audience between the ages of six and 14 are nominated. Prize giver is the self. Cultural Foundation - Annelie and Wilfried Stascheit. Reetta Huhtanen from Finland was the first to receive the coveted award for her film Aatos and the world (FI / BE / DE 2019).

Big mouth - film award for political documentary for children and young people

Prize partner Yasemin Şamdereli (left) at the doxs! -Festival 2012 in the Duisburg cinema on Dellplatz

The film prize “Grosse Klappe” ( original spelling: GROSSE KLAPPE ) is intended to honor productions that particularly promote the aesthetic and political discussion of documentary film . Invited to participate are documentary productions from Germany and Europe which, according to the call for proposals, “take up and address the world of young people with imagination and intelligence”. Documentary observations are just as welcome as mixed experimental forms. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros for directing work. The big flap has been donated by the Federal Agency for Civic Education since 2011 . The winning films will be published by the partner method film in a version specially prepared for school lessons, subtitled in German and accompanying material on DVD.

In 2011 the first prize went to Fabio Caramaschi for his film Solo andata, il viaggo di un Tuareg / One Way, A Tuareg Journey (IT 2010).

In 2012, director Shaheen Dill-Riaz got the big mouth for his festival contribution Der Vorführer (DE 2012) from the series Fremde Kinder ( ZDF / 3sat ).

In 2013 Britta Wandaogo received an award in Duisburg for her documentary Crocodiles Without Saddle (D 2012).

In 2014 the semi-documentary short film How do you like my hair? (NO 2013) by the director Emilie Blichfeldt Die Große Klappe.

In 2015, the youth jury chose the winning film Mama works in the West - A Childhood in Poland (NO / PL / DE 2014) by Åse Svenheim Drivenes.

In 2016 Christian Cerami won the film award for political education with his documentary Black Sheep (GB 2015).

In 2017 the youth jury awarded Florian Baron the big mouth for his film Joe Boots (DE 2017).

In 2018, Obon (DE 2018) was awarded the big mouthpiece by André Hörmann and Anna "Samo" Bergmann.

In 2019 the filmmaker Diana Cam Van Nguyen received the big mouth for her film Spolu sami (CZ 2018). The youth jury Dazwischen Elsa (DE 2019) from Katharina Pethke and Christoph Rohrscheidt received an honorable mention .

Projects

Since 2005 doxs! also projects that convey media skills through practical experience in working with film. This includes curating European film festivals in order to reach a large number of young people and bring them closer to documentary film, but also media education work in schools, with which the media competence of children is promoted.

doxs! on tour

With a selected documentary film program, doxs! annually at national and international film festivals . Under the motto 'If you can't come to me - I'll come to you!' tries doxs! on tour to meet a large number of young film enthusiasts. Beyond the borders of Duisburg was doxs! on tour so far at various festivals (here is a selection):

doxs! school

Using documentaries, doxs! school has been active in media education at schools since 2004. Thanks to funding from the Ministry for Schools, Youth and Children in North Rhine-Westphalia and in cooperation with the Association for Child Aid and Youth Work Duisburg eV, the collaboration was intensified.

With the help of trained moderators, elementary media education and film education takes place in all school types and age groups. Films are watched together with the students and the content and form are worked out. It will be discussed how films are made, what are the differences between documentary and feature film , how reality can be represented and certain cinematic effects can trigger very specific effects; All of this with the declared aim of continuously promoting children's media competence. The individual projects vary depending on the age of the pupils, the type of school and the type of project and are discussed individually with the school. There are also special offers for teacher training. In all doxs! In school projects, however, seeing and interpreting images forms the basis for media education work - learning to read images with images.

One focus of media education activities is inclusive film education. With the project “We show it all!” Doxs! targeted at schoolchildren with special needs and develops formats that, based on the strengths of the young people, open up documentary film receptively and in a practical manner. For example, pupils with a visual impairment create their own audio descriptions (“young filmmakers”).

doxs! dok you

Doxs has been advertising since 2002 ! documentary films for children and young people about hearing and seeing. At the same time, there has been a lack of awareness of the child and youth-oriented film industry for this important genre since that time. In 2008, in cooperation with the dfi documentary film initiative in Filmbüro NW, the initiatory power to make a difference was found for the first time. The idea: to make documentary films tangible and feasible for young people. Schoolchildren from all over North Rhine-Westphalia were able to become narrators and protagonists of their own stories in collaboration with professional filmmakers from all over Germany. The cinematic ambition of dok you is a documentary for and with children and not just about children. The first six dok you films premiered at the Duisburg Film Week 2009 and 2010:

Yellow & Pink (D 2009) (Direction: Alexandra Schröder)
Herr Rücker (D 2009) (Director: Anna Wahle)
Ednas Tag (D 2009) (Direction: Bernd Sahling)
Nick & Tim (D 2009) (Director: Bettina Braun )
2x wiser (D 2010) (Director: Piet Eekman )
Eiki - maybe to Japan (D 2010) (Director: Susanne Mi-Son Quester )

2014 realized doxs! for the first time a scholarship program within the dok you initiative. In the “doku.klasse” young people discuss documentary material with filmmakers that is submitted to ZDF / 3sat for the series “From 18!”. The project is carried out in cooperation with ZDF / 3sat, the Grimme Academy and the FSF Berlin. In 2016, Deutschlandradio Kultur was won as a new partner.

doc'mal

Building on this project, the website www.dokmal.de was created in collaboration with Planet Schule / WDR, which uses the six dok you films and other extras to make the documentary film understandable and tangible for children in all stages of its creation. Interested educators can contact doxs! Acquire qualified knowledge about the use of documentary film in lessons using the example of the internet portal dok'mal as part of teacher training. Further information and the dates for the WDR broadcast of the films and the supplementary programs can be found on the dokmal website.

doxs! young heroes

In cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Munich, the fifth anniversary of doxs! put together a DVD compilation that brings together a total of 26 European documentary films for children and young people. The films from ten different countries were subtitled in six languages ​​(German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian) by the Goethe-Institut and are offered by the Goethe-Institut for events worldwide. The five DVDs are supplemented by a program catalog and accompanying material. Junge Helden can be used separately through the Goethe-Institut and its partners for free use e.g. B. be requested at schools.

Forum for Film Education NRW

Via the forum

The Forum Filmbildung NRW is an initiative of five renowned film festivals in the Ruhr area , which offered various events on the topic of 'Festivals as film schools' as part of the RUHR.2010 Capital of Culture . doxs! and the IFFF Dortmund / Cologne directed the Forum Filmbildung on behalf of the following festivals in NRW:

Each of the five festivals has its own culture, specific themes and focuses. The Forum Filmbildung NRW, together with academic and educational partners, uses precisely these special features of the festivals to develop new types of film communication. The events are conceived from the respective festival culture and thus open up new perspectives on the medium of film. Practical work with film makes it tangible and tangible. In 2010, special attention was paid to two series of events, which were mainly aimed at teachers, educators and those interested in film.

The aim of the Forum Filmbildung NRW is to develop and present diverse types of film communication by referring to the various priorities of the festivals on certain genres, production contexts or aesthetics. In addition, it includes the discussion in order to support the knowledge about film and to make a contemporary artistic communication of film possible in the classroom.

The events

The series of “Erlebnisfortbildung Film” of the Forum Filmbildung NRW was aimed primarily at teachers and pedagogues who want to work practically with film. Here possibilities of film communication were shown and presented, which can be used in the classroom. The focus was on the connection to practice, supported by the collaboration with filmmakers, camerawomen and actors.

The second focus of the event was the international lecture series "Places of filmic knowledge: Film culture and film communication in the age of digital network communication", which took place in the 2010 summer semester in cooperation with the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Specialists in film studies and film curators, but also representatives of other academic disciplines such as philosophers and educators, gave lectures on the subject of film education. The focus was on exploring the places where knowledge is created and passed on through and about film, from internet forums to classrooms. For the event, Gudrun Sommer , Vinzenz Hediger and Oliver Fahle published the book “Places of filmic knowledge” at Schüren Verlag .

Besides, it was doxs! in January / February 2012 for the first time at the SchulKinoWochen presented by Forum Filmbildung NRW with the screening of two programs from festival films .

literature

  • Reinhard Kleber: The first children's doc market of the Duisburg Film Week. In: Children's and Youth Film Correspondence. Munich, No. 97, 2004.
  • Nikolaj Nikitin (Ed.): Focus on children's documentary film. In: Schnitt , Cologne, No. 44, 2006.
  • Gudrun Sommer: Is that supposed to be me? - Plea for the realization of documentary films for children and young people in television and cinema . In: Klaus-Dieter Felsmann (Ed.): 10. Buckower Media Talks. Media in the context of social self-understanding. Munich 2007, pp. 73-78.
  • Kinderkino München eV (Ed.): Doxs! cinema - 6th documentary film festival for children and young people in Duisburg. In: Children's and Youth Film Correspondence. Munich, No. 112, 2007.
  • Klaus-Dieter Felsmann: doxs! at the Duisburg Film Week 31. In: Children's and youth film correspondence. Munich, No. 113 - 1/2008.
  • Gudrun Sommer: The time of film is the cinema - the answer to the question why documentary film, film education and cinema belong together . In: Klaus-Dieter Felsmann (Ed.): 11th Buckower media talks. The recipient in the field of tension between time and media . Munich 2008, pp. 99-105.
  • Stefan Stiletto: Part of Life - Diversity of Topics in Children's Documentary Films . In: Environment issue in documentary film. www.kinofenster.de, November 2007.
  • Calle Overweg: You can't offer the film of social concern to children. In: Children's and Youth Film Correspondence. Munich, No. 118, 2009.
  • Gudrun Sommer: It takes two to tango. Program Steirischer Herbst , Graz, 2009. Excerpt: "[…] Arguing always takes two - this also applies to documentary films, which have always sought critical confrontation with fictional, experimental or supposedly unrealistic film strategies. The moral value of the documentary image was and is subject to doubts, […] "(to be found under: [12] ).
  • Gudrun Sommer: accomplices and passeurs. About the affinity of the documentary film to the way it is conveyed. In: Schnitt , Cologne, No. 58, 2010.
  • Steirischer Herbst (Ed.): Dox & shorts - Festival films on Styrian market tour. A film program for young people. Steirischer Herbst , Graz, 2010 (to be found under: [13] ).
  • Gudrun Sommer: Touché - About the art of documentary touch. Program Steirischer Herbst , Graz, 2010. Excerpt: "[...] Virtuosity always means asserting, negotiating, exceeding or undermining rules of the game and conventions - and so the virtuosity of documentary film art is a kind of duel [...]" (to be found under: [14] ).
  • Barbara Fischer-Rittmeyer, Gudrun Sommer: Analog? Digital? No matter? Festivals as learning spaces: The festival initiative 'RuhrForum Filmbildung In: FILM-DIENST, Dreipunktdrei Mediengesellschaft, Bonn, No. 24, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ doxs website! - doxs! movie theater. Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
  2. ↑ [1] (PDF; 272 kB) Interview in Kulturmanagement.net 2004. Retrieved on August 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Documentaries fascinate young people. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Leaflet with the concept of the “Große Klappe” award. (PDF; 913 kB) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  5. ^ [2] Press release from the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Retrieved July 3, 2013
  6. ↑ [3] Homepage Method Film. Retrieved August 17, 2013
  7. ^ [4] Website of the state media agency in North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
  8. ↑ Program from steirischer herbst 2010 “Touché! The art of documentary touch ”. Archived from the original on February 1, 2015 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 .
  9. ↑ [5] site Cinepänz Children's Film Festival in Cologne. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
  10. ^ [6] Goethe-Institut Lille, Veranstaltungen 2005. Retrieved on August 18, 2010.
  11. ↑ doxs! deluxe program catalog for the 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival. (No longer available online.) P. 99 , archived from the original on March 3, 2012 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 .
  12. ^ "Students on Montage" at Filmplus in Cologne
  13. ↑ [7] Website network inclusion with media. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  14. ^ [8] WDR website. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
  15. ↑ [9] website of doxs / dok you. Retrieved on April 20, 2011
  16. ^ Website of the Grimme Academy. Archived from the original on August 20, 2014 ; accessed on June 30, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Duisburg Film Festival doxs! on Deutschlandradio Kultur. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  18. ^ [10] WDR website. Retrieved April 20, 2011
  19. ↑ [11] Media information from the Goethe Institute, 2007. Special film. Accessed on August 18, 2010.
  20. ↑ site Ruhr2010.de - RuhrForum filming. Archived from the original on May 24, 2010 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 .
  21. ↑ International series of lectures: Places of filmic knowledge. Institute for Media Studies (ifm), Ruhr University Bochum, accessed on January 19, 2018 .
  22. ^ Gudrun Sommer, Vinzenz Hediger, Oliver Fahle (eds.): Places of filmic knowledge - film culture and film communication in the age of digital networks . 1st edition. Schüren, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89472-526-6 .