Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2022
The 43rd Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival (FFMOP) took place from January 16th to 26th, 2022. The most important young film festival for Germany , Austria and Switzerland was under the direction of managing director Svenja Böttger and artistic director Oliver Baumgarten . The feature film Everything will Change by Marten Persiel , which is in competition, was selected as the opening film.
The main prizes in the four competitions were won by Moneyboys by CB Yi (Best Feature Film), Anima - My Father's Clothes by Uli Decker (Best Documentary Film), Unter den Welle by Veronika Hafner (Best Medium-Length Film) and Lullaby by Magdalena Chmielewska (Best Short Film) . .
background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the most important young film festival for Germany , Austria and Switzerland was based on a decentralized and hybrid concept, both on site in new cinemas in Saarbrücken and the "MOP uff de Schnerr" cinemas in Saarland and in Form of a limited streaming offer via the festival website. Compared to the previous year, a streamlined range of 81 long and short films was presented, including 49 competition films in the categories feature film , documentary film , medium-length film and short film . This premiere program was shown daily in cinemas and online. At the start of the festival, the cinema was operating in compliance with the 2G Plus rule , the obligation to wear a medical mask and limited room occupancy (seat distribution in a checkerboard pattern, with one free seat each). The 32 remaining films were presented exclusively online. A streaming platform developed for the last edition of the festival was used for this.
From January 10 to 16, 2022, at the start of sales during the blue week ( blue hour until 2020 ), focal points and highlights of the film program were presented on the streaming platform. At the same time, the MOP festival radio, in cooperation with the Saarländisches Rundfunk (SR), offered a web channel with interviews and news on festival events. The industry program MOP-Connect (formerly MOP-Industry ) was intended to network filmmakers and industry representatives with digital events.
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competitions and juries
The film festival held four competitions for feature films, documentaries, medium-length films and short films. Prizes were awarded by six juries in all competition categories.
The following juries decided on the prizes in 2022:
motion pictures
- Jury competition feature film:
- Beatrice Babin (film editor),
- Ayşe Polat (director),
- York-Fabian Raabe (director, award winner 2021),
- Frieder Schlaich (filmmaker),
- İdil Üner (actress and director)
- Screenplay Jury:
- Judith Angerbauer (screenwriter),
- Daniel Blum (Editor at ZDF ),
- Oliver Hottong (culture journalist at the Saarländisches Rundfunk )
- Acting Jury – Feature Film Competition:
- Ute Bergien (acting agent),
- Tim Garde (Acting Instructor),
- Martina Poel (actress)
- Ecumenical Jury – Feature Film Competition:
- Tom Damm (pastor, author and festival organizer),
- Sabrina Maas (Managing Director Family and Adult Education),
- Alexandra Palkowitsch (social ethicist, University of Vienna ),
- Wolf-Dieter Scheid (Lecturer for Film and Media)
- Film Criticism Jury – Feature Film Competition:
- Rolf-Rüdiger Hamacher (critic),
- Madeleine Hirsiger (critic),
- Günter Pscheider (moderator, screenwriter and film editor)
- German-French youth jury (in cooperation with the adult education center of the Saarbrücken regional association)
documentary
- Jury competition documentary:
- Melanie Andernach (film producer and author),
- Hannah von Hübbenet (film composer),
- Grit Lemke (writer and director)
- Film Critic Jury – Competition Documentary:
- Rolf-Rüdiger Hamacher (critic),
- Madeleine Hirsiger (critic),
- Günter Pscheider (moderator, screenwriter and film editor)
Medium length film and short film
- Jury competitions medium-length film and short film:
- Louise Helm (actress),
- Ivan Madeo (film producer),
- Elisa Mishto (Filmmaker and Screenwriter)
Best Feature Film
10 productions from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Spain and Taiwan with a minimum length of approx. 65 minutes were selected for the feature film competition :
Best Documentary
First , second and third works by young German-speaking directors with a length of 65 minutes or more could take part in the documentary film competition. Only premieres and German premieres were considered. A total of eight films competed for four prizes.
| movie title | directing | country |
|---|---|---|
| Anima - My father's clothes | Uli Decker | Germany |
| Coltan Fever: Connecting People |
Jan Christoph Gockel , TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo |
Germany, DR Congo, Austria |
|
The art of silence (L'art du silence) |
Maurizius Staerkle Drux | Switzerland, Germany |
| everyday heroines |
Camille Budin , Jela Hasler , Annie Gisler , Thaïs Odermatt , Wendy Pillonel , Anna Thommen |
Switzerland |
| Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon | Eliza Petkova | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Nest warmth – my grandfather, National Socialism and me | Eric Esser | Germany |
| Stories from the Sea | Jola Wieczorek | Austria |
| Four stars plus | Antje Schneider | Germany |
Best Medium Length Film
Productions with a length of approx. 25-65 minutes could take part in the medium-length film competition. Young German-speaking directors whose feature films were premieres and German premieres were able to take part. A total of eleven films competed for two prizes. The selection was divided into four programs.
Best Short Film
The short film competition aims to promote innovative tendencies of young German-speaking directors. Premieres and German premieres of short films with a length of up to approx. 25 minutes were permitted. A total of 20 short films were selected to compete for two awards. The jury for medium-length films awards the prizes.
program series
MOP Watchlist
A selection of the best young German-speaking films from the past production year is regularly presented in the series. Current works by former festival participants are also preferably shown. It is propagated by the festival as the most comprehensive annual show of young German-language film.
| movie title | directing | country | Actor / Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Journey of the Young Don - Diarios de Don Quixote | Walter jewelry | Germany, Peru | documentary |
| rogue trader | David Preute | Germany, Great Britain | Ankie Beilke , Paulo Aragao , Tom Bowen , Oleg Kricunova , Patrick Dewayne |
| closing flap | Nicholas Mehne | Germany | Pina Kühr , Anne Düe , Nikolaus Sternfeld , Andreas Berg , Daniel Zillmann |
| silent post | Florian Hoffman | Germany | Hadi Khanjanpour , Kristin Suckow , Aziz Capkurt , Jeanette Hain |
| Live Forever | Sinje Koehler | Germany | Homa Faghiri , Ina Maria Jaich , Janet Rothe , Natalia Rudziewicz , Thandi Sebe |
MOP shortlist
This series offered an insight into short film works by young German-speaking directors from film schools as well as independent productions. It was divided into the two programs MOP Shortlist: Doc and MOP Shortlist: Fiction .
Documentary Short Films (Doc)
| movie title | directing | country |
|---|---|---|
| single-handedly | Raphael Schanz | Germany |
| Year of the Crane | Tianlin Xu | Germany |
| obituary | Akın Şipal | Turkey, Germany |
| daughters |
Quynh Le Nguyen , Katharina Soon-Hi Thaler , Stella Deborah Traub |
Germany |
| Vibrations - Inner Music | Cadenza Zhao | Germany |
short films (fiction)
special programs
Short film program: Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris
The film festival has been cooperating with the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris for years. This is a one-year advanced training program for film production, financing, sales and marketing at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy . Short films from the program were shown.
| movie title | directing | country | Actor / Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 360° | Laura Chebar | France, Germany | Juliette Mabilat Thiam , Artemisia Toussaint , Celia Lebrument |
| course shadow | Alina Yklymova | Germany, France | Esther Zimmering , Felix Jonathan Jenkins , Zazie de Paris , Roman Roth , Josefin Feiler |
| The shy joy of work (L'insaisissable joie du travail) |
Miao Yu | France, Germany | Benjamin Bur , Marion Lubat |
| Of screws and birds | Vincent Dolinsek | Germany, France | Maja Lehrer , Katja Weitzenböck , Gábor Biedermann , Johann Stremlau |
| Solar eclipse (1 km à pied) |
Pierre Lazarus | France, Germany | Hadrien Heaulme , Stephane Hausauer |
| dignity preserver | Sandro Rados | Germany, France | Ines Miro , Elisabeth Görts , Heiko Senst , Ecaterina Dimitriu , Heinz-Jürgen Gross |
Kurz.Film.Tour – The German Short Film Award
The program presented a selection of short films that were awarded the German Short Film Prize last autumn or had been nominated.
| movie title | directing | country | Actor / Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disjointed | Clara Helbig | Germany | documentary |
| Comrade Tito, I inherit | Olga Kosanovic | Germany, Austria | documentary |
| Obervogelgesang |
Ferdinand Ehrhardt , Elias Weinberger |
Germany | animated film |
| One hundred steps |
Bárbara Wagner , Benjamin de Burca |
Germany, France | experimental film |
| Salidas | Michael Fetter Nathansky | Germany | Anna Castillo , Christiane "La Mona", Ñusta Kolter Irazoque , Ebla Sadek , Salvador Vega Carrasco "Rubin de la Ana" |
awards
At the 2022 festival, Max Ophüls prizes in 16 categories and prize money of 118,500 euros were awarded to the competition participants. The undoped "Max Ophüls Prize: Film Critics' Prize" was awarded for the first time for a feature film and a documentary film from the feature film competition. In addition to the 12 jury prizes, four audience prizes were also awarded. The award ceremony took place as a live stream on January 26, 2022.
The price categories at a glance:
Feature film competition
- Max Ophüls Prize: Best Feature Film (endowment: 36,000 euros) – Moneyboys – Director: CB Yi
- Max Ophüls Prize: Best Director (Film Prize of the Prime Minister of Saarland, endowed with 5500 euros) - Lorenz Merz ( Soul of a Beast )
- Max Ophüls Prize: Fritz Raff Screenplay Prize (endowment: 13,000 euros) – Moneyboys – Director: CB Yi
- Max Ophüls Prize: Audience Award Feature Film (endowment: 5000 euros) - Everything will Change - Director: Marten Persiel
- Max Ophüls Prize for the socially relevant film (donated by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and Deutschlandfunk Kultur , endowment: 5000 euros) - Ladybitch - Director: Paula Knüpling and Marina Prados
- Max Ophüls Prize: Prize of the Youth Jury (donated by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and State Agency for Civic Education Saarland , endowment: 2500 euros) - Cracks in the Foundation - Director: Genia Leis and Gerald Sommerauer
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (endowment: 2500 euros) – Moneyboys – Director: CB Yi
- Max Ophüls Prize: Film Critics' Prize (undated) – Soul of a Beast – Director: Lorenz Merz
Documentary Film Competition
- Max Ophüls Prize: Best Documentary Film (endowment: 7500 euros) - Anima - My Father's Clothes - Director: Uli Decker
- Max Ophüls Prize: Best music in a documentary film (endowment: 5000 euros) - Julia Kent (Stories from the Sea)
- Max Ophüls Prize: Audience Award Documentary (endowment: 5000 euros) - Anima - My Father's Clothes - Director: Uli Decker
- Max Ophüls Prize: Film Critics' Prize (undated) – Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon – Director: Eliza Petkova
Medium-length film competition
- Max Ophüls Prize: Best Medium-Length Film (endowment: 5000 euros) – Unter der Welle – Director: Veronika Hafner
- Max Ophüls Prize: Audience Award for Best Medium-Length Film (endowment: 5,000 euros) – Unter der Welle – Director: Veronika Hafner
Short film competition
- Max Ophüls Prize: Best Short Film (endowment: 5000 euros) - Lullaby - Director: Magdalena Chmielewska
- Max Ophüls Prize: Audience Award for Best Short Film (endowment: 5,000 euros) – Time X – Director: Simon Schneider
Best Young Actor
The Max Ophüls Prize for the best young actors was awarded across all sections, with two prizewinners being chosen (each endowed with 3,000 euros). The award was given by the acting jury. The jury members were free to decide whether to take leading and supporting roles or gender specifics into account. The nominations were announced before the festival began.
Prizewinner:
- Pablo Caprez ( Soul of a Beast ) - Feature Film Competition
- Julia Windischbauer ( Para:dies ) – Feature Film Competition
Nominations:
- Sidonie von Krosigk ( Under the Wave ) - Medium-length film competition
- Alexandra Schmid ( Breeze ) - Medium-length film competition
- Aram Tafreshian ( Spit ) - Medium Length Film Competition
- Malaya Stern Takeda (Spit) – Medium Length Film Competition
web links
- Official website (German, English)
- Official festival magazine (PDF; 15.2 MB) – ffmop.de
itemizations
- ↑ a b c Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, p. 9.
- ↑ a b The prizewinners 2022 . In: ffmop.de (accessed on January 26, 2022).
- ↑ a b Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, p. 7.
- ↑ 43rd Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize starts on Sunday . In: ffmop.de, January 14, 2022 (accessed on January 16, 2022).
- ↑ Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, p. 85.
- ↑ a b Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, p. 5.
- ↑ Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, pp. 22–25.
- ↑ Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, p. 33.
- ↑ Festival Magazine . (PDF; 15.2 MB) ffmop.de, p. 38, 46.
- ↑ Feature film competition . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ Documentary Competition . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ Medium-length film competition . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ Short film competition . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ Film Festival Magazine . (PDF; 16 MB) ffmop.de, p. 51.
- ↑ Program Series . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ MOP Shortlist . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ a b Special programs . ffmop.de; accessed January 6, 2022.
- ↑ Nominations Max Ophüls Prize: Best Young Actor . ffmop.de, January 6, 2022; accessed 7 January 2022.