Film Festival Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (spelling since 2016: FILMKUNSTFEST MV ; previously: filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or filmkunstfest MV ) is a film festival that has been held in Schwerin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania every year since 1991 (until 2007 as Filmkunstfest Schwerin ). With 18,500 visitors a year, it is considered the largest public festival in the new federal states .
Organizers and venues
The Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been the successor to the FilmKunstFest Schwerin since 2007 , which was brought to life by North German filmmakers in 1991. It is now being organized by the non-profit Filmland MV gGmbH. It takes place in the first week of May of the year in the state capital Schwerin . The main venue is the Schwerin Capitol cinema . Other events such as concerts, readings or exhibitions can be found among others. a. in the Schweriner Höfe, in the Schleswig-Holstein-Haus , in the State Museum Schwerin , the Schwerin Cathedral , the E-Werk , the socio-cultural center "Der Speicher", the Stadtkrug and in the wheelhouse.
Honorary award from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival
The Golden Ox (alluding to the coat of arms of Mecklenburg) is the FILMKUNSTFEST MV's honorary prize, awarded for outstanding contributions to national film culture. Previous winners:
- 2002: Frank Beyer
- 2003: Mario Adorf
- 2004: Götz George
- 2005: Senta Berger and Michael Verhoeven
- 2006: Bruno Ganz
- 2007: Hannelore Elsner
- 2008: Klaus Maria Brandauer
- 2009: Michael Ballhaus
- 2010: Manfred Krug
- 2011: Katrin Sass
- 2012: Otto Sander
- 2013: Michael Gwisdek
- 2014: Hanna Schygulla
- 2015: Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- 2016: Christine Schorn
- 2017: Iris Berben
- 2018: Henry Hübchen
- 2019: Katharina Thalbach
Juries
Feature film competition
- 2010: Michael Ballhaus , Wolfgang Kohlhaase , Christoph Hein , Helke Misselwitz , Hannelore Elsner
- 2011: Thomas Koebner , Linda Söffker , Franz Müller , Gerhard Midding , Jan Henrik Stahlberg
- 2012: Renate Krößner , Maria Schrader , Ulrich Matthes , Jan Schomburg , Rudolf Worschech ( epd Film )
- 2013: Sheri Hagen , Sarah-Judith Mettke , Hinnerk Schönemann , Ludwig Trepte , Patrick Seyboth ( epd film )
- 2014: Maria Dragus , Michael Kind , Claudia Lenssen, Heide Schwochow , Björn Vosgerau, Jörg Höhne
- 2015: Ulrike Krumbiegel , Heike Makatsch , Peter Rommel , Hans-Christian Schmid , Rainer Simon
- 2016: Sabine Boss , Inka Friedrich , Christine Haupt, Wolfgang Kohlhaase , Julia Jäger
- 2017: Annett Renneberg , Heike Parplies , Wolfgang Winkler , Lutz Seiler , Christian Schwochow
- 2018: Mascha Schilinski , Monika Schindler , Marie-Lou Sellem , Victoria Trauttmansdorff , Dito Tsintsadze
- 2019: Anna Thalbach , Susanne Hopf (production designer), Wolfgang Fischer , Jutta Hoffmann , Hansjörg Weißbrich
Jury of the German-language film criticism in the FIPRESCI (feature film competition)
- 2011: Irene Genhart, Frank-Burkhard Habel , Gunnar Landsgesell
- 2012: Beat Glur (journalist), Hans Christian Leitich (film critic), Ingrid Beerbaum (freelance journalist, film critic)
- 2013: Sonia Lazslo, Wilfried Hippen, Rolf Breiner
- 2014: Carola Fischer, Erika Richter , Thomas Taborsky
- 2015: Rolf-Ruediger Hamacher, Christine Deriaz, Achim Hättich
- 2016: Reinhard Kleber, Hans Christian Leitich, Georges Wyrsch
- 2017: Peter Holdener, Sabina Zeithammer, Andreas Wirwalski
- 2018: Dinara Maglakelidze, Frank-Burkhard Habel, Marian Wilhelm
- 2019: Teresa Vena, Susanne Gottlieb, Radovan Holub
Short film jury
- 2011: Stefan Kurt , Alice Dwyer , Jeanette Würl , Dirk Lütter , Ulrike Vahl
- 2012: Jule Böwe , Winfried Glatzeder , André Hennicke , Sven Taddicken , Christian Granderath
- 2013: Luisa Sappelt, Charly Hübner , Heinz Herrmanns, Wolfgang Winkler , Thorsten Merten
- 2014: Mo Asumang , Bettina Blümner , Jutta Wille
- 2015: Thomas Bartels, Philipp Döring , Stephanie Stremler
- 2016: Sung-Hyung Cho , Bernd-Günther Nahm, Karsten Wiese
- 2017: Odine Johne , Susanne Bormann , Alexander Lahl
- 2018: Juliane Ebner , Gisa Flake , Simon Ostermann
- 2019: Thelma Buabeng , Britta Strampe (producer), Matthias Sahli (director)
Documentary film jury (competition has existed since 2014)
- 2014: Malou Berlin , Leopold Grün , Ralf Schenk
- 2015: Simon Baumann , Dr. Martin Blaney, Volker Koepp
- 2016: Tatiana Brandrup, Winfried Junge , Thomas Plenert
- 2017: Grit Lemke, Helke Misselwitz , Britta Wauer
- 2018: Voxi Bärenklau , Pepe Danquart , Luise Makarov
- 2019: Sophie Maintingneux ( cinematographer ), Marita Stocker (director, screenwriter) and Arman T. Riahi
Feature film competition
After the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in Saarbrücken, the FILMKUNSTFEST MV in Schwerin is considered one of the most important young talent festivals in Germany. In the feature film competition ten productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland compete for the main prize Flying Ox and seven other awards. The prizes are awarded:
Main prize The Flying Ox
The flying ox is the main prize at the FILMKUNSTFEST MV feature film competition. It was donated by the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until 2016. The prize has been donated by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Chancellery since 2017. The award has been endowed with 10,000 euros since 2012. The fiction film competition with current productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, together with the competitions for documentaries and short films, is at the center of the festival.
Award winners since 1997:
- 1997: Helke Misselwitz for Engelchen
- 1998: Andreas Dresen for Get Out of Your Skin
- 1999: Andreas Dresen for Nachtgestalten
- 2000: Franziska Buch for Disappear from Here
- 2001: Esther Gronenborn for 99 euros Balkan Rhapsody
- 2002: Ulrich Köhler for Bungalow
- 2003: Anne Wild for My First Miracle
- 2004: Michael Sturminger for son of a bitch
- 2005: Esther Gronenborn leaves for Adil
- 2006: Benjamin Heisenberg for Sleepers
- 2007: Barbara Albert for traps
- 2008: Götz Spielmann for revenge
- 2009: Arash T. Riahi for A Moment of Freedom
- 2010: Franz Müller for the love of children
- 2011: Jan Schomburg for Über uns das All
- 2012: Hans-Christian Schmid for what remains
- 2013: Friederike Jehn for Outside is summer
- 2014: Umut Dağ for cracks in concrete
- 2015: Sabine Boss for Der Goalie bin ig
- 2016: Barbara Eder for Thank You for Bombing
- 2017: Mascha Schilinski for The Daughter
- 2018: Wolfgang Fischer for Styx
- 2019: Nora Fingscheidt for system sprinkler
NDR director award
Donated by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Award winners since 2007:
- 2007: Oliver Rihs for Black Sheep
- 2008: Stefan Jäger for Hello Goodbye
- 2009: Arash T. Riahi for A Moment of Freedom
- 2010: Jasmila Žbanić for Paradise Between Us (Na Putu)
- 2011: Christine Repond for Silberwald
- 2012: Sarah-Judith Mettke for Transpapa
- 2013: Stephan Lacant for Freier Fall
- 2014: Men Lareida for Viktoria - A Tale of Grace and Greed
- 2015: Karim Patwa for drifting
- 2016: Anne Zohra Berrached for 24 weeks
- 2017: Adrian Goiginger for The Best of All Worlds
- 2018: Milko Lazarov for Nanouk
- 2019: Marie Kreutzer for The Ground Under Your Feet
Young Talent Award
Donated by the DEFA Foundation . Award winners since 2007:
- 2007: Ann-Kristin Reyels for hunting dogs
- 2008: Brigitte Maria Bertele for night before her eyes
- 2009: Almut Getto for Very Close to You
- 2010: Dietrich Brüggemann for Renn, if you can
- 2011: Andreas Kannengießer for Forget Your End
- 2012: Awarded in the documentary film competition
- 2013: Aron Lehmann for Kohlhaas or the proportionality of the means
- 2014: Anna Hofmann for POKA - means bye in Russian
- 2015: Andreas Pieper for added time
- 2016: Carl Gerber , Anne Zohra Berrached for the script of 24 weeks
- 2017: Mia Spengler for Back for Good
- 2018: Julian Pörksen for Whatever Happens Next
- 2019: Nora Fingscheidt for system sprinkler
Audience award
Donated by the Schweriner Volkszeitung (SVZ). Award winners since 2007:
- 2007: Bernd Böhlich for you are not alone
- 2008: Christian Schwochow for Novemberkind
- 2009: Andreas Kleinert for house and child
- 2010: Damir Lukačević for transfer
- 2011: Anna Justice for The Lost Time
- 2012: Bernd Böhlich for To the horizon, then left!
- 2013: Bettina Blümner for Shard Park
- 2014: Edward Berger for Jack
- 2015: Kerstin Ahlrichs for taxi
- 2016: Anne Zohra Berrached for 24 weeks
- 2017: Adrian Goiginger for The Best of All Worlds
- 2018: Wolfgang Fischer for Styx
- 2019: Sherry Hormann for Just One Woman
Foundling price
"Findling" - Prize of the Landesverband Filmkommunikation e. V. of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The prize has been awarded at the festival since 1991. It includes u. a. a tour of the film and director through the cultural cinemas and film clubs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Prize winners from 1998 to 2013:
- 1998: Jan Ralske for Not a Lovesong
- 1999: Eoin Moore for Plus Minus Null
- 2000: Marcus Lauterbach for Despair
- 2001: Stefan Jäger for Birthday
- 2002: Karsten Laske for dog heads
- 2003: Hans-Christian Schmid for lights
- 2004: Till Endemann for moon landing
- 2005: Christian Petzold for ghosts
- 2006: Kirsi Marie Liimatainen for Sonja
- 2007: Jan Peters for How I became a freelance travel companion
- 2008: Jan Zabeil for What does the drop know about it
- 2009: Volker Schlecht for Germania Wurst
- 2010: Olga Petrova for Marivanna
- 2011: Florian Borkamp for Der Stift and his Sheriff
- 2012: Liv Scharbatke and Jörg Rambaum for Olgastraße 18
- 2013: Dietrich Brüggemann from One Shot
Award for the best performance
Donated by Sky Germany . Awarded from 2012 to 2015:
- 2012: Devid Striesow and Luisa Sappelt in Transpapa (price shared)
- 2013: Lina Wendel in Silvi
- 2014: Murathan Muslu in cracks in concrete
- 2015: Alice Dwyer in Ma Folie
Young Actor Award
Donated by Stadtwerke-Schwerin . Awarded since 2008:
- 2008: Anna Maria Mühe in Novemberkind
- 2009: Ludwig Trepte in Part of me
- 2010: Jacob Matschenz in Until the Blood - Brothers on Probation
- 2011: Jasna Fritzi Bauer in A Tick Different
- 2012: Alina Levshin in Warrior
- 2013: Maria Victoria Dragus in Outside is summer
- 2014: Odine Johne in Nordland
- 2015: Jana McKinnon in Beautiful Girl
- 2016: Hussein Eliraqui in Meteor Street
- 2017: Kim Riedle in Back for Good
- 2018: Mala Emde and Anton Spieker for 303
- 2019: Valerie Pachner for The Ground Under Your Feet
CineStar
Donated by the CineStar Group / Greater Union GmbH & Co. KG. Awarded from 2008 to 2013.
- 2008: Bernd Böhlich for Der Mond and other lovers
- 2009: Almut Getto for Very Close to You
- 2010: Dietrich Brüggemann for Renn, if you can
- 2011: Marc Bauder for Das System - Understanding everything means forgiving everything
- 2012: Bernd Böhlich for To the horizon, then left!
- 2013: Bettina Blümner for Shard Park
Award for the best music and sound design
Donated by Studio Mitte, Berlin. Awarded since 2009:
- 2009: Jan Henrik Stahlberg and Marcus Mittermeier for Short Cut to Hollywood
- 2010: Reinhold Heil and the sound studio DIE BASISberlin for Bis zum Blut - Brothers on Probation , director: Oliver Kienle
- 2011: Benno Belke for Mein Prinz. My king. , Director: Ciril Braem Tscheligi
- 2012: How to Live by David Schalko
- 2013: not awarded
- 2014: Cornelius Schwehr for the time of the cannibals
- 2015: Christoph de la Chevallerie, Katharina Grischkowski (sound design) & Johannes Repka (music) for Schmitke
- 2016: Tobias Nölle (director), Tom Huber, Beat Jegen (music) and Peter Bräker (sound design) for Aloys
- 2017: Mascha Schilinski (director) for The Daughter
- 2018: Uwe Dresch and Andre Zimmermann (sound design) and Tobias Fleig (film mix) for Styx
- 2019: Dominik Leube and Oscar Stiebitz (sound design), Corinna Zink and Jonathan Schorr (sound) and John Gürtler (music) for system sprinkler
Prize of the jury of the German-language film criticism in FIPRESCI
Awarded since 2011:
- 2011: Dirk Lütter for training
- 2012: Sarah-Judith Mettke for Transpapa
- 2013: Bettina Blümner for Shard Park
- 2014: Ester Amrami for Elsewhere
- 2015: Štepán Altrichter for Schmitke
- 2016: Barbara Eder for Thank You for Bombing
- 2017: Mia Spengler for Back for Good
- 2018: Thomas Stuber for In den Gänge
- 2019: Nora Fingscheidt for system sprinkler
Script award
Donated by Weinhandel Höglinger. Awarded only in 2009:
- 2009: Wolfgang Kohlhaase for house and child
Short film competition
Twenty films (previously: ten) from German-speaking countries have been competing in the short film competition since 2014:
Main prize of the state capital Schwerin
Previous winners:
- 2007: Michael Dreher for Fair Trade
- 2008: Susann Schimk for encounter
- 2009: Andrzej Król for Birthday
- 2010: Bernadette Knoller for Mein Mallorca
- 2011: Eva Becker for n gschichtn
- 2012: Leonie Krippendorff for Streuner and Liv Scharbatke and Jörg Rambaum for Olgastraße 18 (price shared)
- 2013: Barbara Marheineke for Green Gold
- 2014: Philipp Döring for Can still come
- 2015: Karsten Wiesel for Hochbrücke Brunsbüttel and Christophe Saber for Discipline
- 2016: Volker Schlecht and Alexander Lahl for Kaputt
- 2017: Sophie Linnenbaum for PIX
- 2018: Matthias Sahli for intervention in a bank
- 2019: Hannah Dörr for Midas or The Black Canvas
Award for the best composition
Awarded by Artia Nova Film from 2010 to 2012:
- 2010: Jakob Süß for Faustschlag , director: Malte Ollroge
- 2011: Falko Lachmund for Rausch , director: Verena Jahnke
- 2012: Alexander Griesser for Kursdorf , director: Michael Schwarz
Documentary film competition
Grand Prize
Donated by Sparkasse Mecklenburg-Schwerin, awarded for the first time in 2014:
- 2014: Simon Baumann for For example Suberg
- 2015: Tatiana Brandrup for Cinema: A public affair
- 2016: Stefan Eberlein for Parchim International and Sung-Hyung Cho for My Brothers and Sisters in the North
- 2017: Luise Makarov for dear me,
- 2018: Marita Stocker for Farewell Yellow Sea
- 2019: Christin Freitag for Let the Bell Ring
Prize for the best image design in the documentary film competition
Donated by Sparkasee Mecklenburg-Schwerin, awarded for the first time in 2018:
- 2018: Talal Khoury for Taste of Cement - The Taste of Cement (Director: Ziad Kalthoum )
- 2019: Daniel Samer for Congo Calling
Audience award
Donated by RPV Regionalpaket Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, awarded from 2009 to 2013:
- 2009: Britta Wauer for Gerdas Schweigen
- 2010: Meike Materne for Katharina Joachim - called Thalbach
- 2011: Dieter Schumann for Wadan's World
- 2012: Andreas Dresen for Mr. Wichmann from the third row
- 2013: Malou Berlin for After the Fire
Young Talent Award
Donated by the DEFA Foundation . 2012 awarded in the documentary film competition:
- 2012: Marten Persiel for This Ain't California
Children's and youth film series
The Leo
Awarded by a jury for children and young people, donated in 2013 by Sparkasse Mecklenburg-Schwerin and donated by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth since 2015:
- 2013: Doll of Sebastian Kutzli
- 2015: About a Girl by Mark Monheim
- 2016: Offline - Life is not a bonus level from Florian Schnell
- 2017: May bug fly by Mirjam Unger
- 2018: LOMO - The Language of Many Others by Julia Langhof
- 2019: Cleo by Erik Schmitt
Other prizes outside the film series
Film Residence Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Scholarship for scriptwriting
Awarded as a scholarship since 2010 in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Lukas , Ahrenshoop
- 2010: Ulrike Vahl
- 2011: Sven Taddicken
- 2012: Stefan Stabenow
- 2013: Alexandra Schmidt
- 2015: Jochen Alexander Freydank
Diversity award
Awarded since 2012 in cooperation with the initiative "We. Success needs diversity"
- 2012: David Wnendt for Warrior
- 2013: Malou Berlin for After the Fire
- 2014: Mo Asumang for The Aryans
- 2015: Burhan Qurbani for We are young. We are strong.
More film series
In the series Hommage , the honorary award winner is presented with a cross-section of his cinematic work.
The NDR special shows the media partner's latest productions as a preview.
Current film productions that were filmed in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are shown in the series “ Turned in MV” .
Cinema of the World - FIPRESCI Prize Winner presents international films that have received a prize from the International Association of Film Critics and Journalists FIPRESCI at other festivals .
The young wild in 2012 was a series in which unconventional German-language productions by young directors were shown.
Since 1996, the country series has featured a guest country with current films and classics. The following countries were host countries in the country series:
Film forum country series:
- 1996: Great Britain
- 1997: Spain
- 1998: Scandinavia
- 1999: Netherlands
- 2000: France
- 2001: Italy
- 2002: Poland
- 2003: Hungary
- 2004: Iceland
- 2005: Switzerland
- 2006: Portugal
Country series:
- 2007: Norway
- 2008: Austria
- 2009: USA
- 2010: Germany
- 2011: Israel
- 2012: Russia
- 2013: Great Britain
- 2014: Turkey
- 2015: France
- 2016: Belgium
- 2017: Denmark
- 2018: Georgia
- 2019: Ireland
Short film night
On the traditional short film night, which takes place in the socio-cultural center Speicher for most of the years , the audience award "Golden Moon" was awarded from 2007 to 2016.
- 1993: Thomas Struck for The Little Fart
- 1994: Rainer Matsutani for the Horror Clinic
- 1995: Uli Gaulke for Somewhere in Germany
- 1996: Katarina Peters for Mascha and Yellow
- 1997: Janek Rieke for Out of Sweden
- 1998: Manuel and Marian Piper for air and love
- 1999: Dylan De Jong for Johnny
- 2000: Wim Wenders for Alabama: 2000 Light Years
- 2001: Guenter Schulz for Face It
- 2002: Virgil Vildrich for Copy Shop
- 2003: Zoltan Blank for memories - The raven in the cage
- 2004: Henning Hesse for Rosenreigen
- 2005: Karl Heinz Lotz for bank robbery (working title)
- 2006: Martin Molter for beer | Bernd Scharfenberg for Satisfaction - denazification through blues
- 2007: Thomas Pönitz for Africa
- 2008: Marina Hartfelder for Das Spiel des Wahnsinns
- 2009: Frauke Thielecke for evening song
- 2010: Verena Fels for mobile
- 2011: Holger Löwe for rules of film art
- 2012: Christian Ricken for headlocks
- 2013: Sascha Quade for Meyer
- 2014: Johannes Kürschner, Franz Müller for Simply Clever
- 2015: Matthew VanDyke for Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution
- 2016: Marco Gadge for him and her
- 2017: Tomer Eshed for Our Wonderful Nature - The Common Chameleon
- 2018: Marco Gadge for Anyone
- 2019: Jannick Seeber for differences of opinion
- 2020: Anna Zhukovets for Im Glashaus
Forum of the Arts
The Forum der Künste (at times also the Werkstatt der Künste ), which corresponds to the respective country series, alludes to the connections between film and the other arts with exhibitions, readings, theater and concerts.
Festival newspaper
film! is a project of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Youth Media Association. V. The magazine accompanying the FILMKUNSTFEST MV is produced daily by young media makers during the festival.
Artistic Director
- 1991: Dieter Schumann
- 1991–1993, 1998: Ulrich Kavka (Head of Forum der Künste)
- 1992 – April 2010: Hasso Hartmann
- April – December 2010: Saskia Walker and Stefan Fichtner
- 2011 – May 2012: Stefan Fichtner
- June 2012–2013: Oliver Hübner
- since 2014: Volker Kufahl
Web links
- Website of the FILMKUNSTFEST MV
- Website of the organizer FILMLAND MV gGmbH
- Homepage of the free companion journal filmab! of the JMMV
Individual evidence
- ↑ 27th FILMKUNSTFEST MV: Mighty, mighty. May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
- ↑ a b The prizes of the 29th FILMKUNSTFEST MV have been awarded . Press release of May 5, 2019: accessed on May 10, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e The prizes of the 29th FILMKUNSTFEST MV have been awarded . Article dated May 4, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019.