Friedrichshafen Film Festival

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The Friedrichshafen Film Festival is a multi-day film festival that has been held annually since 2009 by the Friedrichshafen Cultural Office under the title “Now or Never” . There are short films (u a.. Experimental films and animated films as well) documentaries - sometimes films with Germany Premiere - shown were created by young directors from the German-speaking countries in the previous two years. Two prizes endowed with sums of money are awarded annually.

Contributions and procedure

The film festival is particularly attractive for young filmmakers. More than 300 films will be submitted for viewing. About fifteen short films will be shown under the heading “Short and Good” in three sections of five or six titles each and will be rated by the audience on voting slips. The weekend program also includes several long documentaries and a selection of short films for children.

All films are shown in the approximately 100-seat cinema of the Kiesel media company in k42 on the shores of Lake Constance . Directly afterwards, the individual filmmakers are often available for discussions with the audience.

Venue of the festival: The Kiesel cultural center in k42

At the film days at the beginning of March 2018, film expert Urs Spörri gave the keynote address for the ten-year anniversary of the film festival. In 2021, the 13th Film Days are expected to take place from February 25th to March 1st.

Awards and winners

Two prizes are awarded in the field of short films: an audience prize of € 500 (donated by the ZF Kunststiftung ) and, since 2016, a jury prize of € 1,500, which is donated by the City of Friedrichshafen and the Ministry of Science . The 2016 expert jury consisted of Senta van de Weetering, Lukas Baier, Bernhard Hentschel and Sebastian B. Voss.

In 2017 the work "Voicemail" by Erec Brehmer won both the audience and the jury award.

At the 11th Film Days in 2019, the expert jury consisted of the young filmmaker Erec Brehmer, the Swiss director Fabienne Hadorn, the freelance film scholar Rayd Khouliki and the journalist and member of the board of trustees of the House of Documentary Films in Stuttgart, Margrit Schreiber-Brunner. The animated documentary “Tracing Addai” directed by Esther Niemeier, which was already nominated for the Student Academy Awards 2018 in the category “Documentary (International Film Schools)”, won the jury prize endowed with 1,500 euros. In addition, “Facing Mecca”, the work of the young Swiss filmmaker Jan-Eric Mack and winner of the 2018 “Prix du Cinéma Suisse du Meilleur Court Métrage” as the best Swiss short film in 2018, received an award from the audience.

The jury award for 2020 went to a film by Jan Mocka and Ingo Monitor entitled Beyond the Tide , which is about the feelings of guilt and the grief of a nuclear family after a tragic accident. The 2020 audience award went to the seven-minute black and white short film Mall by Jerry Hoffmann , who studies film directing at the Hamburg Media School . The jury also praised the cinematic work of an Austrian director, Bernhard Wenger. His 13-minute film Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain was shot in one shot with a smartphone. The jury consisted of David Dybeck, Melanie Eisele, Rayd Khouloki and Margrit Schreiber-Brunner.

year Movie title Director price
2020 Beyond the tide Jan Mocka and Ingo Monitor Jury Prize
2020 Mall Jerry Hoffmann Audience award
2019 Tracing Addai Esther Niemeier Jury Prize
2019 Facing Mecca Jan-Eric Mack Audience award
2018 Pix Sophie Linnenbaum Jury Prize
2018 Waru Wote Katja Benrath Audience award
2017 Voicemail Erec Brehmer Jury Prize
2017 Voicemail Erec Brehmer Audience award
2016 balance Bernhard Wenger Jury Prize (first time)
2016 Sadakat Ilker Cakat Jury Prize (first time)
2016 The ferryman and his wife Johanna Huth Audience award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturbüro Friedrichshafen: Now or Never - Friedrichshafen Film Festival. 2018, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lydia Schäfer: Häfler Filmtage show a great mix . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . March 4, 2018 ( [1] [accessed October 27, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Kulturbüro Friedrichshafen: Opening of the Filmtage Friedrichshafen 2018. 2018, accessed on October 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kulturbüro Friedrichshafen: Now or never - Friedrichshafen Film Festival 2020. Accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Premiere: Jury Prize awarded . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . February 29, 2016 ( [2] [accessed October 27, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Erec Brehmer. In: IMDb. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Gudrun Schäfer-Burmeister: "Voicemail" wins short film awards . In: Südkurier . January 22, 2017 ( [3] [accessed October 27, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Harald Ruppert: "Five days of film fever in the pebble" . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . February 12, 2019 ( [4] [accessed March 18, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Esther Niemeier. In: firststeps.de. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Jan-Eric Mack. In: firststeps.de. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  11. ^ Friedrichshafen Film Festival. In: Kulturbüro Friedrichshafen. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Gudrun Schäfer-Burmeister: "Two prizes and a lot of praise for 14 short films" . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . February 24, 2019 ( [5] [accessed March 18, 2019]).
  13. ^ Beyond the Tide. In: IMDb. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Mall. In: crew united. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Bernhard Wenger. In: IMDb. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain. In: IMDb. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Jury and audience choose the best films . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . February 19, 2020 ( [6] [accessed February 20, 2020]).