International Film Festival Oldenburg

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The Internationale Filmfest Oldenburg (Oldenburg International Film Festival) is a German festival for independent film productions. It has been held annually over five days in the second week of September in Oldenburg since 1994 . The focus of the festival is on German and American productions, which make up more than half of the program. Around 50 films and around 20 short films will be shown. There are also special series, tributes and retrospectives in honor of exceptional filmmakers and actors on the program.

In 2015 the festival was voted one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker Magazine.

timeline

Film festival director Torsten Neumann (2016)

The Oldenburg International Film Festival was founded in 1994 by Torsten Neumann and Thorsten Ritter with the aim of establishing an unconventional and innovative festival. In 1998 Thorsten Ritter left the festival; since then Torsten Neumann has been managing the festival as festival director and program manager in one.

The main sponsor of the festival is the Oldenburgische Landesbank , the premium sponsor is EWE AG . The main sponsors of the festival are nordmedia - Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen / Bremen mbH and the city ​​of Oldenburg .

Tributes and retrospectives

The Oldenburg International Film Festival has been honoring international and national filmmakers and actors with tributes and retrospectives since the beginning.

Retrospectives from previous years

Tributes from the past few years

Awards and winners

German Independence Award - Best German Film

The German Independence Award - Best German Film, endowed with 8,000 euros, has been presented at the Oldenburg International Film Festival since 2004. The film award, which is exclusively dedicated to independent filmmaking in Germany, is awarded by an international jury of five. The price went on

The award has not been awarded since 2014 due to the limited budget.

German Independence Award - audience award

With the German Independence Award, the best contribution from the independent series has been honored by the audience since 1998. The prize has been endowed with 4,000 euros since 2009. Prize winners were

German Independence Award - Best Short Film

The German Independence Award - Best Short Film is the youngest award from the Oldenburg International Film Festival. It is awarded by a national jury. The winners were:

German Independence Award - Honorary Prize

Otto Sprenger Prize

In 2007 and 2008 the Otto Sprenger Prize for the best film by a young North German filmmaker was awarded at the Oldenburg International Film Festival. In 2007 it went to the film For the Unknown Dog by the brothers Benjamin Reding and Dominik Reding and in 2008 to Emily Atef for the film The Stranger in Me .

Seymour Cassel Award

The award for outstanding acting performance was presented for the first time in 2012.

OLB Walk of Fame

Nicolas Cage during the awarding of his star at the OLB Walk of Fame (2016)

As part of the festival, film stars present since 2007 have been honored on the OLB Walk of Fame .

Every year this is ceremoniously expanded with another stone slab.

literature

  • Kathrin Oertel: Film festivals: New distribution channels for independent film - using the example of the Oldenburg International Film Festival . Diploma thesis, University of Klagenfurt 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2015 - MovieMaker Magazine. September 2, 2015, Retrieved September 18, 2016 (American English).
  2. ^ Being Torsten Neumann. September 9, 2015, accessed July 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg | OLB Walk of Fame. In: www.filmfest-oldenburg.de. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .