Five Lakes Film Festival

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Five Lakes Film Festival
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General information
place Gauting, Starnberg, Weßling, Seefeld (Upper Bavaria)
genre Movie
organizer Matthias Helwig / wide screen cinemas
Period 2008-2020
Website www.fsff.de
Visitor numbers
2019 approx. 21,000
2014 approx. 17,000
2008 approx. 6,500
Previous venues
until 2017 Gauting, Starnberg, Weßling, Seefeld (Upper Bavaria), Herrsching, Tutzing

The International Five Lakes Film Festival , or FSFF for short , is an annual film festival in the Five Lakes Region , southwest of Munich . At the end of August / beginning of September, the most important film festival in southern Germany after Munich and Hof , both premieres and previews will be shown in the areas of feature films , documentaries and short films , focusing on art house with a focus on Central Europe . The venues are Gauting , Starnberg , Seefeld (Upper Bavaria) and Weßling . It starts with the open air cinema directly on the lake from the end of July to mid-August on Lake Starnberg and Lake Wörth . The 14th Five Lakes Film Festival will take place from August 26th to September 9th, 2020.

Story and concept

With over 150 feature films, documentaries and short films not yet shown in cinemas and over 300 screenings, the Five Lakes Film Festival (FSFF) has become one of the largest film festivals in southern Germany over the years. It takes place on 14 screens at the locations of the five-lake region southwest of Munich in Starnberg , Seefeld , Herrsching (until 2017), Wörthsee and Weßling . Gauting was also the venue for the first time in 2017 .

The festival was founded in 2007 by festival director Matthias Helwig and took place annually on twelve days in late July / early August until 2017. Since 2015, the festival has opened its main competition, the Five Lakes Film Prize, to films from all over the world. The focus so far has been on the latest feature films and documentaries from the region in Central Europe, especially from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol (DACHS countries). Since 2011, the FSFF has been the film festival with the most Swiss films outside of Switzerland with over 20 productions from Switzerland.

The FSFF offers a competition for the best feature film, the best screenplay, the best newcomer film, the best documentary, the best medium-length film, the best short film and important acting. In total, prizes and prize money worth approx. 20,000 euros will be awarded. The film award “Perspektive junges Kino” has existed since 2015 - here the best first or second films by directors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are awarded. The "Horizonte" film prize is awarded to the film that deals most with the dignified coexistence of society. In memory of the actress Hannelore Elsner , who died in April 2019, the Hannelore Elsner Prize for important acting was launched in June 2019. Top-class juries select the respective winner.

The program of the International Film Festival focuses on Central European film and is rounded off by new German and international productions, the invitation of a guest country and a retrospective, which is dedicated every year to an important film personality. In addition, the FSFF will present films from festivals around the world in an audience award competition, the winners of which will be awarded funding for a film copy. Open-air performances right on the banks of two lakes and a retrospective introduce the festival.

According to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, the nightly trip on the largest excursion boat on Lake Starnberg, MS Starnberg, is “one of the most beautiful film parties in the world”.

In 2019 the Five Lakes Film Festival counted around 21,000 visitors (in comparison: 19,000 visitors (2015), 17,000 visitors (2014), 14,000 visitors (2013), 13,000 visitors (2012), 12,000 visitors (2011), 10,000 visitors (2010), 8,000 visitors (2009), 6,500 visitors (2008)).

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The founder and current festival director is Matthias Helwig, owner of the Breitwand- Kino in Starnberg , Seefeld , Gauting and until 2018 in Herrsching . Since 1986, Helwig has received more than 100 awards for outstanding children's, documentary and annual film programs. In 1997 and 2013, his wide-screen cinema was named the best cinema in Germany and in 1998 the best cinema in Bavaria. In addition to other awards, Matthias Helwig received the Tassilopreis of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2008 for outstanding cultural work in the region.

profile

The FSFF is a public festival and focuses on the new German-language film from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It offers a competition for young German-language films, with new German and international films, with short and documentary films , children's and youth films as well as a retrospective , each dedicated to a personality in film history:

In addition to four different juries , the audience decides on the best short film, medium-length film and audience film of the year.
Guests at the festival so far have included: Michael Ballhaus , Oliver Berben , Senta Berger , Josef Bierbichler , Bettina Böhler , Fred Breinersdorfer , Henriette Confurius , Doris Dörrie , Hannelore Elsner , Aleksej Fedorchenko , Heino Ferch , Florian David Fitz , Friðrik Þór Friðriksson , Veith von Fürstenberg , Martina Gedeck , Dominik Graf , Klaus Händl , Corinna Harfouch , Micheil Kalatosischwili , Wolfgang Kohlhaase , Nicolette Krebitz , Thomas Kronthaler , Dani Levy , Oscar winner Caroline Link , Karl Markovics , Eva Mattes , Gordian Maugg , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Hanns -Christian Müller , Rosa von Praunheim , Edgar Reitz , Arash Riad , Giulio Ricciarelli , Marcus H. Rosenmüller , Marianne Sägebrecht , Peter Schamoni , Sebastian Schipper , Oscar winner Volker Schlöndorff , Gisela Schneeberger , Edgar Selge , Götz Spielmann , Hans Steinbichler , Istvàn Szabó , Ulrich Tukur , Tom Tykwer , Michael Verhoeven , Bertram Verhaag , Neele Vollmar , Konstantin Wecker , Wim Wenders , Ro nald Zehrfeld .

Film host country

Since 2013, the Five Lakes Film Festival has been inviting guest countries every year as a focus series for a special cultural exchange. Outstanding films are accompanied by directors and other filmmakers from the host country.

Sections and competitions

  • Five Lakes Film Prize: International feature films from Central Europe that have not yet been shown in the cinema compete for the main prize of the festival. An annually changing jury, made up of well-known filmmakers, industry representatives, journalists and representatives from public and social institutions, determines the winners of the award.
  • Perspective Young Cinema Film Prize : Admitted are feature films from German-speaking countries that have not yet been evaluated in the cinema and that are the first or second work by a filmmaker. An annually changing jury, made up of well-known filmmakers, industry representatives, journalists and representatives from public and social institutions, determines the winner. This young talent film award is intended to promote creativity, innovation and the commitment of filmmakers in dealing with their medium.
  • DACHS script award: a jury selects the winner for the best script from the best scripts and films of the past year from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol ( DACHS ). The award ceremony takes place as part of the reception of German scriptwriters in cooperation with the Association of German Scriptwriters .
  • Five Lakes Documentary Award : Documentary films from German-speaking countries that have not yet been screened in the cinema compete for the Documentary Award. An annually changing jury, made up of well-known filmmakers, industry representatives, journalists and representatives from public and social institutions, determines the winner.
  • Audience Award of the Five Lakes Film Festival: The audience determines the audience award from a selection from the Five Lakes Film Festival program.
  • Horizonte Film Prize : A jury selects an outstanding film from the Five Lakes Film Festival program, which is convincing due to its pronounced humanism, which particularly deserves peace, freedom, justice and the harmonious coexistence between humans, animals and nature, and these goals are more impressive Representing form in film.
  • The Golden Glowworm Short Film Award : An audience award, mostly for talent and university exercises by young directors, has been awarded since 2000.
  • Kurzfilmpreis Short-Plus-Award for the best film with a length between 20 and 60 minutes
  • New German and international films : premieres and previews of new German and international productions.

Award winners

Five Lakes Film Award

Perspective Young Cinema Film Award

DACHS script award

Five Lakes Documentary Award

Horizons film award

Short film award "The golden glow worm"

Short Plus Award

Video Art Price

Audience award

Hannelore-Elsner - Prize for significant acting

Young Generation Award (no longer awarded prize category)

The Five Lakes Children's and Youth Film Festival has existed as a separate festival since 2014 and always takes place in the week after the Bavarian autumn vacation in mid-November.

Script award (no longer awarded award category)

Five lakes sponsorship award for the best young film (award category no longer awarded)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Five Lakes Film Festival awards the Elsner Prize
  2. ^ Kino am Wasser Zeit Online, July 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ nn: Five Lakes Film Festival welcomes Volker Schlöndorff . In: Fünf Seen Filmfestival welcomes Volker Schlöndorff ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 21, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de
  4. ↑ DACHS script award awarded for the first time. Spotlight: Film, July 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ Teona Strugar Mitevska wins the Five Lakes Film Festival. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 12, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ T. Anlauf: Praise, thanks and emotions: March wins the Five Lakes Film Prize . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 169, 2009, p. 9.
  7. ↑ Jochen Müller: Nils Mohl wins DACHS script award. In: Blickpunkt: Film . September 9, 2019, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  8. ^ Five Lakes Film Festival: Script award for the film "303" . Article dated September 10, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018.
  9. ↑ DACHS script award awarded for the first time . Article dated August 31, 2017, accessed August 1, 2017.
  10. ^ Astrid Amelungse-Kurth: Five Lakes Film Festival: The fight for the golden glow worm. In: Merkur.de . September 11, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Hannelore Elsner Acting Prize goes to Nina Hoss. In: frankenpost.de. July 6, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Five Lakes Film Festival awards the Elsner Prize . Article dated June 3, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  13. ^ Hannelore Elsner Prize to Barbara Auer . Article dated June 13, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.