International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

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The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival takes place annually in November in the two cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg .

The film festival , founded in Mannheim in 1952, is a meeting of auteur cinema and high-quality foreign films. The neighboring city of Heidelberg has been the second location since 1994. The focus of the festival is on the discovery and promotion of young talent - mainly first and second works by young directors are shown. The “Grand Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg” honors talented young directors. In addition to the Berlinale and the Hof Film Festival, Mannheim-Heidelberg is one of Germany's most important film festivals and is among the top 40 worldwide.

In addition to the official program series, there has been the “Mannheim Meeting Place” since 2010, which continues the previous “Mannheim Meetings” co-production market in a new form, with the aim of supporting young filmmakers with the distribution and coproduction of new projects.

The 69th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival will take place from November 12 to 22, 2020.

history

At the suggestion of Mannheim's Lord Mayor Hermann Heimerich , the “Culture and Documentary Film Week” was held for the first time at the end of May 1952, under the direction of Kurt Joachim Fischer . The event quickly made a name for itself in the German film world and became the model for the “ International Short Film Festival ” in Oberhausen and the “ International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film ”.

The Critics' Prize of the World Organization of Film Critics, FIPRESCI, has been awarded in Mannheim since 1960.

From 1961 the festival was held as the “Mannheim International Film Week”.

In the mid-1980s, the film week got into an existence-threatening crisis when drastic savings were demanded (the subsidies were then still granted).

In 1991 it was renamed the “Internationales Film Festival Mannheim” and the festival director Michael Kötz , who was in office until 2019, took up his work. After renewed financial difficulties, the city of Heidelberg was won as a partner in 1994. Since then, the film week has taken place in both cities. In addition, the state of Baden-Württemberg began to become more involved.

In 1995 the “Exclusion List” was introduced, tightening the conditions of entry for films in the competition: The films must not have been screened in Germany , Cannes , Venice , Berlin , San Sebastian and other festivals.

In addition to the competition, the new section “International Discoveries” was established in 1996. The “project market”, which now also includes films from Europe, became an integral part of the festival. The planned meetings of filmmakers and (co- producers ) have been running since 1997 under the name “Mannheim Meetings”. There are only a few film markets of this kind in the world: Rotterdam , Pusan , New York .

The 50th anniversary of the festival was celebrated in 2001 with over 60,000 visitors and over 1,000 trade visitors.

In 2003, a special series with new German feature-length and short films drew attention to a new generation of filmmakers from Germany , including Christoph Hochhäusler with his full-length debut feature film Milchwald . The symposium "Arthouse is for Everyone" took place as part of the Mannheim Meetings . The “Mannheim Sales & Distribution Meetings” were successfully established as a new part of the Mannheim meetings.

The Festival of German Films was founded in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 2005 on the initiative of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.

Due to renovation work, the festival in 2007 did not take place in the Mannheim town hall , but on the Rheinterrassen in Mannheim. For the first time, the films were also shown with German subtitles . Short films were no longer shown.

In 2008 the "Film Culture Prize" was awarded for the first time. The undoped prize goes to institutions, companies and individuals who have continuously rendered services to film culture in Germany over the years.

"Life! But how? ”- This question shaped the program of the 61st Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 2012. Over 28 films from a total of 26 countries were presented. The program was supplemented by a special series dedicated to Krzysztof Kieślowski's work, among others . The 61st edition of the festival recorded 58,000 visitors and around 800 industry guests.

“Everyone has a story” - under this motto, the 62nd International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in 2013 took its audience to unknown countries - in 52 films from 27 countries. Once again, 60,000 visitors streamed into the festival cinemas. This includes all the cinema tickets sold, the cinema visits of around 600 accredited guests, the guests of honor, the hundreds of visits to children's films and the use of the digital library of the festival program by the specialist guests.

In 2014 the festival recorded around 60,000 film visits with around 50,000 tickets sold for 39 festival films with an average of 4,500 film visitors per day. Almost 5,000 participants put their questions to the directors at the 90 film talks. The highlights of the festival were the official opening in Heidelberg with the European premiere of Savina Dellicours All Cats are Gray , followed by the visit of director Uwe Janson at the beginning of the festival in Mannheim with his film Auf das Leben! as a preview before the cinema release. For the fifth time, the festival organized the Mannheim Meeting Place under the direction of Julek Kedzierski. The new Bürgersaal, which was converted into an ideal cinema for the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and, above all, for the “Oststadttheater”, met with enthusiasm among festival visitors because the film premieres can now be presented in an appropriate setting.

In 2015, as in the previous year, almost 60,000 visitors filled the cinema halls during the festival. In Heidelberg, tents in the Heidelberg Castle Gardens were no longer temporary cinemas, but numerous films were shown at the new venue in the Heidelberg Südstadt, the Campbell Barracks . The presentation of the Master of Cinema Award to Olivier Assayas also marked the start of the festival in Mannheim. The 22 films in the International Competition of Newcomer Films impressed with their formal precision, acting class and a dramaturgically professional approach to their respective topic. The winner of the International Newcomer Films competition, Celso R. Garcia , received the Grand Newcomer Award 2015 for The Thin Yellow Line . In addition to numerous innovations such as the “World Cinema” series and the cooperation with “Enjoy Jazz”, the new series competition attracted attention. Known worldwide as a forum for the discovery of new directorial talent in the art house sector, the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival has set up a new, additional competition for creative and intelligent series dramas by highly talented newcomers from 2015 and awarded the New Creators Award 2015 to the series Occupied - Die Besatzung by Karianne Lund and Erik Skjoldbjærg.

Many directors who only later became famous have shown films here (often also debut works), including films by François Truffaut , Wim Wenders (1969), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1969 premiere of the film Katzelmacher ), Mike Leigh (1972), Patricio Guzmán ( 1973), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1974), Jim Jarmusch (1980), Lars von Trier , Atom Egoyan (1984), Bryan Singer (1993), Guillaume Nicloux (1994), Angela Schanelec , Martin Šulík (1995), Lou Ye (1996 ) Thomas Vinterberg , Rafi Pitts (1997), Derek Cianfrance (1998), Nicolas Winding-Refn , Luca Guadagnino (1999), Nabil Ayouch , Sarah Gavron (2000), Christian Ole Madsen (2001), Luis Ortega (2002), Felix Van Groeningen (2004) and Ramin Bahrani (2005). Guests or jury members included Fritz Lang (1964), Theodor W. Adorno , Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1965), Bernardo Bertolucci (1966), Werner Herzog (1969), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1964), Edgar Reitz (2008) and Olivier Assayas (2015) in Mannheim.

Festival management

Prices

The main prize of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival

An independent international jury awards the following prizes:

  • Grand Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg for the best feature film with a minimum length of 70 minutes.
  • Special Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg for the best unconventionally narrated feature film with a length of at least 70 minutes.
  • Special Achievement Award Mannheim-Heidelberg for a film with a length of at least 70 minutes or for an exceptional performance as an actor, author, director, etc. The prize can be awarded twice if required.
  • Honorable Mentions from the International Jury for a Notable Film with Outstanding Achievement in Acting, Cinematography, Music, Editing, etc.
  • New Creators Award Mannheim-Heidelberg since 2015 for the best creative and intelligent series that has not yet been broadcast.
  • The International Film Critics Award - awarded by the FIPRESCI jury to a film from the competition.
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - awarded by the Ecumenical Jury to a film from the competition.
  • Mannheim-Heidelberg audience award - freely voted by the audience.
  • Recommendation of the cinema operators - for a film from the competition that should be released in German cinemas.

Awards

  • With the Master of Cinema award , the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival honors directors who, as authors, have advanced the art of cinema in an artistically innovative and uncompromising manner; Cinema artists who have developed an auteur cinema with their own signature; Authors who create cinematic works of art against a cinema that everyone should understand without problems. Films that light up against mainstream cinema like marvels of poetic magic with reality ( Michael Kötz ). Authors' films that have the right to allow as much personality as possible, free from all patterns.
  • The New Master of Cinema award focuses on newcomers worldwide - with real premieres, mostly European premieres. The films are top-class: real directors, real discoveries.

Award winners

2019

  • Grand Newcomer Award - main prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg
    The Grizzlies by Miranda de Pencier, Canada
    On The Roof by Jiří Mádl , Czech Republic
  • Talent Award Mannheim-Heidelberg and Prize of the Film Critics
    Under The Turquoise Sky by Kentaro, Japan / Mongolia
  • Special Jury Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    End of Sentence by Elfar Adalsteins

2018

  • Grand Newcomer Award - main prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Orange Days by Arash Lahooti, ​​Iran
  • Talent Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    The Fireflies Are Gone by Sébastien Pilote, Canada
  • Special Jury Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Christian Malheiros in Socrates , Brazil
  • Special Mention:
    Vivian Wu in Dead Pigs , China
  • FIPRESCI Prize (International Film Critics' Prize)
    Orange Days by Arash Lahooti, ​​Iran
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    Orange Days by Arash Lahooti, ​​Iran
  • Recommendations from cinema operators
    The Fireflies Are Gone by Sébastien Pilote, Canada
    Tazzeka by Jean-Philippe Gaud, France / Morocco
    Orange Days by Arash Lahooti, ​​Iran
  • Audience Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Tazzeka by Jean-Philippe Gaud, France / Morocco

2017

  • Grand Newcomer Award - main prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg
    See you in Texas , Vito Palmieri, Italy
  • Special Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Wailings in the Forest , Bagane Fiola, Philippines
  • Special Achievement Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Sabit Kurmanbekov for Returnee , Kazakhstan
  • Honorable mentions
    Alejandro Andújar for The Watchman , Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil
    Shady Srour for the script for Holy Air , Israel
    Cezmi Baskin for Murtaza , Turkey
  • FIPRESCI Prize (International Film Critics' Prize):
    Zer by Kazim Öz, Turkey, Germany
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury :
    Life Beyond Me , Olivier Peyon , France, Uruguay
  • Special Mention:
    Returnee , Sabit Kurmabekov, Kazakhstan
  • Recommendations from cinema operators
    Holy Air from Shady Srour, Israel
    Origami by Patrick Demers , Canada
    While We Live by Mehdi Avaz, Denmark
  • Audience Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Life Beyond Me by Olivier Peyon, France, Uruguay
    Zer by Kazim Öz, Turkey, Germany

2016

  • Grand Newcomer Award - main prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Reseba - The Dark Wind , Hussain Hassan Ali , Iraq, Germany
  • Special Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Wedding Dance - Kasap Havasi , Cigdem Sezgin , Turkey
  • Special Achievement Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    to actress Rimma Zyubina , The Nest Of The Turtledove by Taras Tkachenko , Ukraine
    to the actor Majid Potki , Another Time by Nahid Hassanzadeh , Iran
  • Honorable mentions
    Train Driver's Diary by Milos Radovic , Serbia
  • FIPRESCI Prize (International Film Critics' Prize):
    To Keep The Light by Erica Fae , USA
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    The Nest Of The Turtledove by Taras Tkachenko , Ukraine
  • Special mention by the Ecumenical Jury:
    Train Driver's Diary by Milos Radovic , Serbia
  • Recommendations from cinema operators
    Calico Skies by Valerio Esposito , USA
    Moon Dogs by Philip John , Ireland
    Train Driver's Diary by Milos Radovic , Serbia
  • Audience Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Train Driver's Diary by Milos Radovic , Serbia
    Moon Dogs by Philip John , Ireland

2015

Olivier Assayas , winner of the “Master of Cinema” award at the 64th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
  • Grand Newcomer Award - main prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg
    The Thin Yellow Line , Celso R. Garcia , Mexico
  • Special Newcomer Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    12 Months in 1 Day , Margot Schaap , Netherlands
  • Special Achievement Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    to the director Rebecca Cremona , Simshar , Malta
  • Honorable mentions
    to Salvador del Solar for the script for Magallanes , Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Spain
    to Magnus Nordenhof Jønck for the cinematography in Bridgend , Great Britain, Denmark
  • Audience Award (International Competition Newcomer Films):
    Jeremy from Anwar Safa , Mexico
  • FIPRESCI Prize:
    12 Months in 1 Day Margot Schaap, Netherlands
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    Walking Distance by Alejandro Guzmán Álvarez, Mexico
  • Recommendations from cinema operators
    Home Care , Slavek Horak , Czech Republic
    Paradise Trips , Raf Reyntjens , Belgium
    Jeremy , Anwar Safa, Mexico
  • New Creators Award Mannheim-Heidelberg
    Occupied - The occupation of Karianne Lund and Erik Skjoldbjærg, Norway
  • Audience Award (International Series Competition)
    The Braun family from Manuel Meimberg and Uwe Urbas
  • Master of Cinema:
    Olivier Assayas

2014

Dimitry Rudakov, winner of the main prize “Newcomer of the Year” at the 63rd Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
  • Newcomer of the Year - Main Prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg:
    23 Segundos (23 Seconds) , Dimitry Rudakov , Uruguay
  • Special price from Mannheim-Heidelberg:
    Nabat , Elchin Musaoglu , Azerbaijan
  • Special prize of the international jury:
    A Despedida (Farewell) , Marcelo Galvao , Brazil
  • Audience Award:
    Ghadi , Amin Dora , Lebanon
  • FIPRESCI Prize:
    Nabat , Elchin Musaoglu, Azerbaijan
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury :
    Nabat , Elchin Musaoglu, Azerbaijan
  • Recommendations from cinema operators:
    Patrick's Day , Terry McMahon , Ireland
    In the Corsswind , Martti Helde, Estonia
  • New Master of Cinema:
    Geoffrey Enthoven

2013

  • Newcomer of the Year - Main Prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg:
    Melaza (Molasses) , Carlos Lechuga , Cuba, France, Panama
  • Special price from Mannheim-Heidelberg:
    Tangerines (Mandariinid) , Sasa Uruschadze , Estonia, Georgia
  • Special prize of the international jury:
    Ghaedeye Tasadof (Bending the Rules) , Behnam Behzadi , Iran
    Før Snøen Faller (Before Snowfall) , Hisham Zaman , Norway, Germany, Iraq
  • Special mention by the international jury:
    De Nieuwe Wereld (The New World) , Jaap van Heusden , The Netherlands
  • Audience Award:
    Tangerines (Mandariinid) , Sasa Uruschadze, Estonia, Georgia
  • FIPRESCI Prize:
    Drift , Benny Vandendriessche , Belgium
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    Hemma (Home) , Maxmilian Hult , Sweden, Iceland
  • Recommendations from cinema operators:
    Razredni sovražnik (Class Enemy) , Rok Biček , Slovenia
    Tangerines (Mandariinid) , Sasa Uruschadze, Estonia, Georgia
    Cyanure (Cyanide) , Séverine Cornamusaz , Switzerland, Canada
  • New Master of Cinema:
    Frédéric Fonteyne

2012

  • Newcomer of the Year - Main Prize from Mannheim-Heidelberg:
    Soote Payan (Final Whistle) , Niki Karimi , Iran
  • Special price in memory of Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
    Lycka Till Och ta Hand om Varandra (Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other) , Jens Sjögren , Sweden
  • Special prize of the international jury:
    Tiempos Menos Modernos (Not So Modern Times) , Simón Franco , Argentina
  • Special mention by the international jury:
    When Yesterday Comes , Hsiu-Chiung Chiang , Singing Chen , Wi-Ding Ho , Ko-Shang Shen , Taiwan
  • Audience Award:
    Now, Forager. A Film About Love and Fungi , Jason Cortlund , Julia Halperin , United States, Poland
  • FIPRESCI Prize:
    Seenelkäik (Mushrooming) , Toomas Hussar , Estonia
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    Le Sac de Farine (The Bag of Flour) , Kadija Leclere , Belgium, Morocco
  • Special mention by the Ecumenical Jury:
    W Sypialni (In a Bedroom) , Tomasz Wasilewski , Poland
  • Recommendations from cinema operators:
    La Niña (The Girl) , David Riker , United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
    Now, Forager. A Film About Love and Fungi , Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin, United States, Poland
    Silent City , Threes Anna , Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium

2011

2010

2009

2008

The jury chaired by Edgar Reitz selected the following winners:

2007

  • Mannheim-Heidelberg Grand Prix:
    Blodsband (Mirush, Mirush and his father) , Marius Holst , Norway
  • Special price in memory of Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
    Kremen (The Hard-Hearted) , Alexey Mizgirev , Russia
  • Special prize of the jury:
    Little Tricks (Sztuczki) , Andrzej Jakimowski , Poland
  • Audience Award:
    Desierto Sur (My Mother's Happiness) , Shawn Garry , Chile
  • FIPRESCI Prize:
    Yin Lichuan , Canada, for the film Gong Yuan (The Park, Happiness in the Park)
    Daniél Espinosa , Denmark, for the film Uden for Kaerligheden (Outside Love, The Muslim Woman and the Jew)
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    Daniel Espinosa, Denmark, for the film Uden for Kaerligheden (Outside Love, Die Muslimimin und der Jude)

2006

1979

1958

  • Mannheim film ducat for Arnold Fanck on the occasion of the XII. International film week

literature

  • Kurt Joachim Fischer : The German documentary is alive! In: Mannheimer Hefte. Issue 1, 1952, ZDB -ID 500808-6 , p. 18f.
  • International Film Week Mannheim (publisher): 25 years of the Mannheim Film Week. Mannheim 1976.
  • International Film Week Mannheim (publisher): 30 years of the Mannheim Film Week. Mannheim 1981.
  • Michael Kötz , Günter Minas: Zeitgeist with stubbornness. A film festival story. For the 50th birthday of the “Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival”. Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim 2001, ISBN 3-9808005-0-4 .
  • Sebastian Parzer: “Mannheim should not only rise up as a city of work…” The second term of office of Mannheim's Lord Mayor Hermann Heimerich (1949–1955). Publishing house Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-545-3 , pp. 160-166 (Mannheimer historical writings 1).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Mannheim Meeting Place. Retrieved November 13, 2013 .
  2. ^ Website of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival. Accessed July 31, 2018 (German).
  3. ^ The first Mannheim culture and documentary film week. (No longer available online.) Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; Retrieved November 13, 2013 . 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.iffmh.de
  4. ^ Marie-Dominique Wetzel: For the last time with Michael Kötz: The Mannheim International Film Festival Heidelberg. In: Swr.de . November 14, 2019, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg gets a new head . Article of March 27, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019.
  6. ^ Mannheim: Sascha Keilholz becomes the new director of the film festival . Article of March 27, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019.
  7. ^ Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg: Prizes have been awarded. In: rheinpfalz.de. November 24, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ The winners of the 67th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  9. ^ The winners of the 66th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Bieber: SS and Samurai - German-Japanese Cultural Relations 1933–1945 , ed. from the German Institute for Japanese Studies. Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8620-5043-7 , p. 1142

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