International Film Festival Freiburg

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The Festival International de Films de Friborg ( FIFF , German  International Film Festival Freiburg ) was founded in 1980. The aim of the festival is to promote understanding between cultures, in particular between those of the so-called North and South, with the help of film, as well as promoting the distribution of outstanding films and making films accessible to the public that rarely find their way to the cinema in Europe . He gives preference to works that encourage reflection and dialogue. The film festival has been held annually in March in Freiburg since 1986 .

Both documentaries and feature films are admitted to the competition. Additional parallel sections provide thematic film blocks (e.g. "genre cinema") with artistic works from all corners of the world. Several prizes are awarded in cooperation with partners, including the main “ Regard d'or ” prize. The cinema program is supplemented by supporting events such as the FIFF forum for industry representatives and filmmakers. With Planète Cinéma, the film festival also offers pupils and students a school program specially designed for children and young people.

history

Magda Bossy, secretary in western Switzerland at Helvetas , wanted to create something original to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the organization in western Switzerland. She, who comes from Egypt herself, was convinced that films are an excellent medium for showing cultural riches: and so she wanted to give the floor to filmmakers from the south. From November to December 1980, seven 16mm films from Asia, Africa and Latin America (including Antonio das Mortes by the Brazilian Glauber Rocha and Baara by Souleimane Cissé ) were shown in the film clubs of Friborg, Lausanne, Geneva and La Chaux-de-Fonds , Bienne, Sitten, Neuchâtel and Delsberg shown. The young festival therefore had a decentralized character and took place across western Switzerland. Its success, which varied from city to city, spoke in favor of a second edition. The 2nd FIFF ran under the name Festival de films du Tiers-Monde, although the organizers preferred to speak of a “Circuit de films du Tiers-Monde” (i.e. a course). In 1992 as the “Festival de Films de Friborg” (the addition “Third World” was deleted in 1990), the festival became more and more professional, with Martial Knaebel as artistic director and two new employees. In autumn 1992 the festival received international recognition from UNESCO : the label of the “World Decade for Cultural Development”. For the first time all filmmakers were invited. The event set an example and added the word “international” to its name in 1998. The Grand Prix of the now “Festival International de Films de Friborg” (FIFF) (German: Internationales Filmfestival Freiburg) became the Regard d'or, which the Freiburg sculptor Jean-Jacques Hofstetter gave an original form. In 2001, the Taiwanese Edward Yang's film Yi Yi , who won the Regard d'or, went down in history as one of the greatest hits outside the festival. It was shown in premiere at the FIFF. In 2007, the French Edouard Waintrop became the festival's new artistic director. With him, the FIFF opened up to genre cinema . His successor, Thierry Jobin , used the opening introduced by Edouard Waintrop to give the parallel sections a clearer name with names that recur year after year. In 2015, a new record was set with 40,000 visitors.

Official selection

The official section includes the international competition with 10 to 13 non-European and non-American films, as well as three short film programs. The feature films compete for the Regard d'or , the main prize of the FIFF.

Sections

Genre cinema

Decrypted

  • 2012 The Image of Islam in the Occident
  • 2013 Not child's play for little people
  • 2014 wrestling with the crisis
  • 2015 Can you laugh at anything?
  • 2016 And the woman created the cinema

Diaspora

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saglini, Lorenza: Festival international de films de Friborg (FIFF): genèse, évolution et rayonnement international (1980-2000) . Ed .: University of Friborg [Switzerland]. 2006.
  2. ↑ Charlotte Bouchez, Nicolas Brulhart: Faire l'histoire du FIFF, questions de méthode pour un objet instable. In: Décadrages . October 10, 2011, p. 102-111 ( decadrages.revues.org ).
  3. ↑ Record: Over 40,000 fans made a pilgrimage to the Freiburg Film Festival. In: watson.ch. Retrieved April 1, 2016 .