Hamburg Film Festival

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The Hamburg Film Festival is an annual film festival in Hamburg . In eleven fixed sections and with other topics that change every year, it shows around 130 films as world premieres, European premieres or German premieres every autumn. The program spectrum ranges from cinematic arthouse films to television films to innovative mainstream cinema.

As a platform for cultural exchange and dialogue within the film industry and with cinema fans, the majority of the films are presented personally by filmmakers in Hamburg. Numerous supporting events accompany the film screenings. The total annual number of visitors is around 40,000.

The festival under the direction of Albert Wiederspiel celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017.

history

There were various film events in Hamburg as early as the 1950s. For example the Hamburg Film Festival , Film Weeks or the Cinema Days . These were organized and hosted by the Hamburg film industry together with various German distribution companies.

In 1968 some young filmmakers got together to organize the 1st Hamburg Film Show. A weekend that went down in the history of young German film as a film happening.

In the 1970s, several art house cinemas from all over Germany founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino e. V. (AG Kino) based in Hamburg. The working group has been hosting the Hamburg Kinotage since 1974 .

In 1979, well-known filmmakers from Munich, among them Hark Bohm , Werner Herzog , Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders , turned in the so-called Hamburg Declaration against the foreign determination of German film by committees, institutions and interest groups. At the same time they initiated the film festival of the filmmakers .

On October 29, 1979, an association of Hamburg filmmakers founded the Hamburger Filmbüro e. V. From 1986 the Hamburg film office organized the highly regarded European Low Budget Film Forum , in which many then unknown directors such as Derek Jarman , Stephen Frears and Lars von Trier took part.

The Low Budget Film Forum and the Kinotage joined forces towards the end of 1991 to join forces and use the increasingly scarce public funds in a more sensible way . Among the founding members were u. a. the AG Kino eV and the Hamburger Filmbüro e. V. The organization of the Hamburg Film Festival was decided together. In 1992 the Hamburg Film Festival took place for the first time under the direction of Rosemarie Schatter .

Two years later she was replaced by film producer Gerhard von Halem as festival director. The Hamburg Festival was - despite certain references to the earlier events - something completely different. The main focus was still on the topics of young cinema or independent films , but the atmosphere around the Hamburg Film Festival was increasingly shaped by the glitz and glamor of big stars.

In 1995 Josef Wutz took over the management of the festival. Under his influence, the festival was continuously expanded and established itself far beyond Hamburg's borders. In addition, the festival from then on also offered Hamburg television productions their own section within the festival program. The so-called new media also received a presentation and discussion platform at the Hamburg Film Festival.

In 2003 Albert Wiederspiel became director of the Hamburg Film Festival . Since then, the range of international films has been steadily expanded. In 2012 the Hamburg Film Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary and presented 148 films from 44 countries in seven different cinemas. In addition, a richly illustrated book was published in September 2012 with stories and anecdotes about stars and starlets, films and guests, cinemas and audiences during 20 years of the Hamburg Film Festival.

Sections

The festival program consists of the following sections:

  • Freihafen : German-European co-productions are competing for the “Hamburg Producer Award for European Cinema Co-productions”.
  • Veto! : Since 2015, the documentaries and feature films in this section for political film at the Hamburg Film Festival have not been satisfied with a first glance. They look a second and third time and provide insights that ordinary news pictures do not give.
  • Voilà! : Voilà! presents feature films from either France or French-speaking regions.
  • Vitrina : The showcase for current film productions from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries shows an excerpt from the cinematic work of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.
  • Asia Express : Throws fascinating, fresh and unusual glimpses into the most diverse Asian film cultures and enriches common ideas of the Asian film space with a few surprising facets.
  • Eurovisual : This section presents the greatest audience successes from various European countries.
  • Transatlantic : Transatlantic is the section for North American cinema. It spans the USA from New York via Pittsburgh to Minnesota and South Dakota and encloses English-speaking Canada.
  • Hamburger Filmschau : Since 2015, the Hamburg Film Festival has presented the lively and diverse filmmaking industry from Hamburg. Films produced in and from Hamburg will be shown.
  • Great freedom : Films from Germany with an appetite for new topics and narratives. As a special program within the section: productions made in Hamburg in the "Hamburger Filmschau".
  • Kaleidoscope : Offers multi-layered insights into current filmmaking from different countries and continents. In focus: images of people in different cultures and political situations.
  • Televisions : TV with format. Current German television productions are presented under the title Televisionen , the majority of which are world premieres.
  • MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival : Children's and Youth Section MICHEL shows German and international feature films and animated films in original version, which will eingesprochen live in German in the cinema hall.

Award ceremonies and winners

The following prizes will be awarded at the Hamburg Film Festival:

Douglas Sirk Prize

Named after the filmmaker Douglas Sirk , who was born in Hamburg , this undoped prize is awarded every year to a personality who has made a name for himself in film culture and the film industry. The prize is a crystal designed by the Hamburg designer Georg Plum. In 2005, the prize was awarded to a company for the first time, not to a person. It concerns the film production company "Zentropa" from Denmark , whose founder is among others the director Lars von Trier .

Previous winners

Hamburg producer award for German television productions

As in previous years, this award (previously: TV Producer Award) will be awarded at the Hamburg Film Festival in the TV section Televisionen - Television with Format (until 2017 section 16: 9 ). Ten to twelve German television films are nominated for this. The producer of the winning film will receive 25,000 euros. The prize money has been donated by the VFF, the collecting society of film and television producers mbH, since 2014.

Previous winners

Hamburg producer award for European cinema co-productions

The Hamburg producer award for European cinema co-productions has been awarded in the Freihafen section since 2014 . German-European co-productions are shown here. The German co-producer of the winning film will receive 25,000 euros, which will be made available by the Hamburg cultural authority. The foreign co-producer of the same winning film will receive cinema grading worth around 15,000 euros from the Hamburg post-production company Optical Art .

Previous winners

Hamburg producer award for German cinema productions

The Hamburg producer award for German cinema productions will be awarded from 2018 in the new section Große Freiheit - Films from Germany . The producer of the winning film will receive 25,000 euros. The prize money is provided by the Culture and Media Authority.

Previous winners

Film Review Award

Film critics and culture editors from German news magazines, online media, radio stations and daily newspapers award the prize to a film from the program that is characterized by an original perspective. In 2018, the Film Critics' Award replaced the Hamburg Film Critics Award, which had been awarded since 2004.

Previous winners

The political film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung has been awarding this prize at the Hamburg Film Festival since 2013. Films of the section Veto! who are characterized by a political claim compete for the prize money of 5,000 euros. The best directorial work is awarded.

Previous winners

Change of view film award

The Blickwechsel Film Prize was donated by the Federal Foreign Office in 2017 and has prize money of 10,000 euros. The award is given to filmmakers who work across national and cultural borders in other countries and make films, regardless of whether they had to leave their home country involuntarily or who make films outside of their home country for artistic or private reasons. An international jury awards the prize to one of up to twelve cross-section nominated films.

Previous winners

Art Cinema Award

In 2008, the Art Cinema Award established in 1969 by the international association of film art theaters (CICAE) was also presented in Hamburg for the first time. The jury consists of three cinema operators. All films that have a German distributor are nominated. The association's large network supports the distribution of the winning film across Europe. The Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funding is supporting the award with a sum of 5,000 euros, thereby promoting PR measures for German distributors.

Previous winners

NDR Young Talent Award

In 2012 the NDR Young Talent Award replaced Die Elfe , which had been awarded since 2008. "With the NDR Young Talent Award, we want to encourage young directors to continue producing high-quality films in the future," says Lutz Marmor, director of the NDR, explaining his commitment. The young talent award is endowed with 5,000 euros.

Previous winners

Commerzbank audience award

The viewers use a voting slip to decide which of the films in the Eurovisual section should be awarded the prize. The audience award is endowed with 5,000 euros and has been donated by Commerzbank since 2015 .

Previous winners

MICHEL film award

The film prize of the children and youth section has been awarded since 2003. Initially as Emil , from 2004 as MICHEL , it has been awarded by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation since 2013 (since 2017 together with the Ian and Barbara Karan Foundation). The prize money for the best children's and youth film is 5,000 euros. A children and youth jury will choose their favorite from all the films shown in the international competition from the MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival.

Previous winners

No longer awarded prizes

Montblanc Screenplay Award

Together with the Hamburg-based company Montblanc , the Hamburg Film Festival awarded the Montblanc Script Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros . The prize was awarded among the feature films in the Northern Lights section . This section presented films in which “Northern Lights” and the North play a role and / or which were shot in the North.

Foreign Press Award

For the first time in 2009, four representatives of the Association of Foreign Press in Germany (VAP eV) presented their own prize, the Foreign Press Award . The Foreign Press Award was presented for the last time in 2012.

Supporting program

The Bundesverband Schauspiel (BFFS) has been organizing the interview series Klappe auf! As part of the film festival since 2012 . The focus of the series of talks is on the collaboration between actors and directors . Topics are: equal pay , diversity , gender issues, working conditions, minimum wages , film funding policy and the decline in fees . Furthermore, it is about cultural-political issues and the reflection on the possibilities, the responsibility and the importance of German cinema in the present. The series of interviews is mentioned annually in no. 3 of the Hamburg trade journal aufblende of the corporation Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein in terms of the program and bilingual.

Previous participants have included Christian Alvart , Lars Kraume , Lars Becker , Theresa von Eltz, Cate Shortland , Hendrik Handloegten , Marc Brummund , Andre Erkau , Katrin Gebbe , Monika Treut , Sherry Hormann , Christian Zübert , Stephan Rick , Lars Jessen and Johannes Fabrick .

In 2012 and 2013, the BFFS published the videos in the series. In 2014, all interviews were recorded in cooperation with SAE Hamburg and published online by Spiegel TV . 2015 shut up! cooperates with the Media Academy Hamburg.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patricia Batlle on ndr.de: Frauenpower at the Filmfest Hamburg ( memento from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from October 6, 2015 (accessed on October 7, 2015)
  2. ↑ Program Filmfest Hamburg
  3. ↑ a b c Hamburg's First Mayor presented the Hamburg Producer Award 2018 as part of the film festival . Article dated October 4, 2018, accessed October 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j prices . Filmfest Hamburg Nachrichten of October 5, 2019, accessed on October 7, 2019.
  5. ^ A b Filmfest Hamburg: Documentary about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate . Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  6. ^ Website Filmfest Hamburg , accessed August 26, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Film Festival ends with a prize for "Little Tickles" | NDR.de - Culture - Film - Festivals . Article dated October 6, 2018, accessed October 6, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b c Website Filmfest Hamburg , Filmfestpreise, accessed October 12, 2018
  9. ↑ See the brief description in the program of the Hamburg Film Festival .
  10. ^ Federal Association of Acting Website. Retrieved June 10, 2016 .
  11. ↑ tbauer: flap open ! BFFS talk series at the Hamburg Film Festival. In: www.castmag.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Volker Behrens and Karolin Jacquemain: Hamburg celebrates and awards two new film prizes. In: www.abendblatt.de. Retrieved May 24, 2016 .
  13. ↑ short cuts . In: fade in . Volume 13, No. 3 . Hamburg 2013, p. 22 ( online [PDF]).
  14. ↑ All videos OPEN FLAP. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Spiegel TV | Trade fair blog from SAE Institute. (No longer available online.) In: www.saemesseblog.de. Archived from the original on May 24, 2016 ; accessed on May 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saemesseblog.de