Neisse film festival

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The Neisse Film Festival ( abbreviation NFF) has been held every year since 2004 in the German-Polish-Czech border triangle . The program of this film festival will show German, Polish, Czech and other Eastern European contemporary and historical films , documentaries and short films.

history

The Neisse Film Festival emerged in 2004 from the film club movement. It was founded by the main organizer of the festival, the Kunstbauerkino Großhennersdorf in cooperation with the Varšava cinema in Liberec in the Czech Republic and the Polish DKF Klaps in Jelenia Góra . The founders of the Neisse Film Festival are therefore rooted in a European country corner that, due to its history, finds it difficult to find each other. The festival, according to the founding idea, aims to bring the inhabitants of the border region closer to one another through the medium of film. In the first year of the festival, 800 viewers saw 41 films; In 2019 there were 7,500 viewers and around 120 films in 22 venues in 12 locations in the three countries.

program

The Neisse Film Festival is the only film festival in Germany that shows a cross-border program in three countries at the same time. In addition to the competition for feature films, short films and documentaries, special film series and an extensive supporting program with readings, exhibitions, concerts and other events are also presented.

Competitions and Prizes

Feature film competition

Nine current feature films, three each from Germany , Poland and the Czech Republic , are competing for the main prize . As a rule, they are works by young directors.

  • 2004 - Andrzej Jakimowski , "Zmruż oczy" (PL)
  • 2005 - Jacek Filipiak "Zerwany" (PL)
  • 2006 - Emily Atef "Mollys Way" (D / PL)
  • 2007 - Pepe Planitzer "AlleAlle" (D)
  • 2008 - Andrzej Jakimowski "Sztuczki" (PL)
  • 2009 - Michaela Pavlátová "Děti noci" (CZ)
  • 2010 - Xawery Żuławski "Wojna polsko-ruska" (PL)
  • 2011 - Verena Freytag "Abgebrannt" (D)
  • 2012 - Olmo Omerzu "Příliš mladá noc" (CZ)
  • 2013 - Małgorzata Szumowska "W imię" (PL)
  • 2014 - Juraj Lehotský "Zázrak" (SK / CZ)
  • 2015 - Ivan Ostrochovský "Koza" (SK / CZ)
  • 2016 - Piotr Chrzan "Klezmer" (PL)
  • 2017 - Tereza Nvotová "Špína" (SK / CZ)
  • 2018 - Juraj Lehotský "Nina" (SK / CZ)
  • 2019 - Susanne Heinrich " The melancholy girl " (D)

Best acting performance

  • 2010 Nepomuc by Kornmann and Alexander Frank Zieglarski in "18 images / sec" by Tobias Greber (D)
  • 2011 Mohammed Aslan and Lorenz Hader in "Half Portions" by Martin Busker (D)
  • 2012 Judit Bárdos in "Dom" by Zuzana Liová (SK / CZ)
  • 2013 Andrzej Chyra in "W imię" by Małgorzata Szumowska (PL)
  • 2014 Dawid Ogrodnik in "Chce się żyć" by Maciej Pieprzyca (PL)
  • 2015 Klaudia Dudová in "Cesta ven" by Petr Václav (CZ / FRA)
  • 2016 Alena Mihulová in "Domácí péče" by Slávek Horák (CZ / SK)
  • 2017 Vanessa Szamuhelová in "Pátá loď" by Iveta Grófová (SK / CZ)
  • 2018 Barbara Auer in "Vacuum" by Christina Repond (CH / D)
  • 2019 Jacek Braciak in "Córka trenera" by Łukasz Grzegorzek (PL)

Best production design

  • 2015 Tom Hornig "Kafkas - The Building" by Alexander Freydank (D)
  • 2016 Janina Schimmelbauer and Fabian Reber "24 weeks" by Anne Zohra Berrached (D)
  • 2017 Milan Býček "Masaryk" by Julius Ševčík (CZ / SK)
  • 2018 Radosław Zielonka "Cicha noc" by Piotr Domalewski (PL)
  • 2019 Jagna Dobesz "Fuga" (Escape) by Agnieszka Smoczyńska (PL / CZ / SE)

Best script

Short film competition

For the first time in 2009, the Neisse Film Festival hosted a German-Polish-Czech short film competition, which continues the regional tradition of the Görlitzer Dreiland Film Festival, which took place in Görlitz / Zgorzelec from 2002 to 2008 and stopped its event activities for personnel reasons.

  • 2009 - David Nawrath "What remains" (D)
  • 2010 - Matthias Vogel and Thomas Oberlies "Work for All" (D)
  • 2011 - Daniel Rübesam "Skotos" (D)
  • 2012 - Anselm Belser "Felix" (D)
  • 2013 - Dietrich Brüggemann "One Shot" (D)
  • 2014 - Clemens Roth "The blooming life" (D)
  • 2015 - Martin-Christopher Bode "A good story" (D)
  • 2016 - Tomasz Protokowicz "Dawno temu na Śląsku" (PL)
  • 2017 - Oliver Beaujard "Fleur" (CZ)
  • 2018 - Nathalie Lamb "Him & Her" (D)
  • 2019 - Michał Hytroś "Siostry" (Sisters) (PL)

Documentary Award

From the beginning, the festival dedicated a film series to documentary film. This genre has gained in importance over the years: Since 2012, a documentary film has been awarded that tells its story with respect and commitment and that is particularly distinctive in terms of both content and film language.

  • 2012 - John Albert Jansen "End and Beginning" (NL)
  • 2013 - Thomas Grimm and Andreas Kossert "Platform 1 - Return to Flatow" (D)
  • 2014 - Marcel Wehn ​​" A Hell's Angel Among Brothers " (D)
  • 2015 - Hubertus Siegert " Beyond Punishment " (D)
  • 2016 - Wojciech Staroń "Bracia" (PL)
  • 2017 - Miroslav Janek "Normální autistický film" (CZ)
  • 2018 - Rosa Hannah Ziegler "Family Life" (D)
  • 2019 - Rafał Łysak "Miłość bezwarunkowa" (Unconditional Love) (PL)

Audience award

  • 2004 - Peter Calin Netzer "Maria" (RU, D, F)
  • 2005 - David Ondříček "Jedna ruka netleská" (CZ)
  • 2006 - Jan Martin Scharf "Truth or Dare" (D)
  • 2007 - Dan Wlodarczyk "Indián a sestřička" (CZ)
  • 2008 - Jiří Vejdělek "Václav" (CZ)
  • 2009 - Petr Zelenka "Karamazovi" (CZ / PL)
  • 2010 - Katarzyna Rosłaniec "Galerianki" (PL)
  • 2011 - Sibylle Schönemann , "Locked Time" (D)
  • 2012 - Annekatrin Hendel "Traitor to the Fatherland" (D)
  • 2013 - Ilian Metev "Sofia's last Ambulance" (BU / HR / D)
  • 2014 - Vinko Brešan “ God forbid! "(HR / RS)
  • 2015 - Tomasz Nuzban "For being alive" (PL) / Edgar Ortiz "Food to go" (CZ)
  • 2016 - Philipp Eichholtz "Luca dances quietly" (D) / Marco Gadge "He and you" (D)
  • 2017 - Jens Wischnewski " The Remains of My Life " (D) / Johannes Kürschner and Franz Müller "Simply The Worst" (D)
  • 2018 - Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander & Tamir Elterman "Muhi - Generally Temporary" (IL / D) / Radosław Dąbrowski "Wolka" (PL)
  • 2019 - Tomáš Pavlíček "Chata na prodej" (Weekend house for sale) (CZ)

Audience Award for Short Film

special price

The Filmverband Sachsen has been awarding a special prize to a feature, documentary or short film since 2011, which shows a special understanding of the cultural and ethnic differences and commonalities of the people in the region. The prize honors films that approach the respective other culture with respect and tolerance and pave the way for dialogue.

  • 2011 - Sabine Zimmer, Sandra Budesheimer "Little Poland - Berliner since ..." (D)
  • 2012 - Andrzej Klamt "The divided class" (D)
  • 2013 - Elke Weber-Moore " Doppelpass " (D)
  • 2014 - Lenka Šikulová "The glow behind the mountains" (D / CZ)
  • 2015 - Pavel Göbl "Sunrise Supervising" (CZ)
  • 2016 - Tanja Cummings "Line 41" (D)
  • 2017 - Michał Rosa "Szczęście świata" (PL)
  • 2018 - Grzegorz Szczepaniak "Najbrzydszy samochód świata" (PL)
  • 2019 - Rena Dumont "Honza má pech" (Hans im Pech) (CZ / D)

Film series

Retrospectives

In the retrospectives, the cinematic work of personalities or institutions such as DEFA is honored.

In 2014 Andreas Dresen received the honorary award of the Neisse Film Festival, which was awarded for the first time this year. The honorary award for life's work was given to the Polish director Dorota Kędzierzawska in 2015.

focus

Since 2013, the Neisse Film Festival has been dedicated to a topic that is of particular importance for all three countries. For example, in 2013 the minority of the Sinti and Roma, in 2014 Jewish life in Eastern Europe and in 2015 the topic of migration were the focus. The motto of the 13th edition of the NFF was “Minorities in Eastern Europe”, with a particular focus on the Sorbs minority in Lusatia . In 2017 the focus of the festival was on “The Power of Faith”. 50 years of 1968 were the occasion to focus on the events of 1968.

Tour through Eastern Europe

In addition to the respective focus, films from the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet republics will be shown as part of the festival.

DEFA series

The DEFA series with films from the GDR heritage is an integral part of the program . In 2012 the Neisse Film Festival was awarded the program prize of the DEFA Foundation .

Regionalia

This series picks up on the fact that the border triangle is not only a theme and motif for films, but also a production site, and summarizes current film events in the region.

Prize sculptures

Prize sculptures are the Neisse fish. They symbolize the freedom of the fish of the border river, which move without any barrier. In the early years the Neisse fish were made of wood and were created by the artist Michael Herbrig from Großhennersdorf. Since 2007 they have been the work of ceramic, metal and glass by the artist Andreas Kupfer from Strahwalde.

See also

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e The winners of the 16th Neisse Film Festival at a glance . Article dated May 11, 2019, accessed May 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ 11th Neisse Film Festival in the Dreiländerdreieck , film blog of the Berliner Arbeitskreis Film eV, May 6, 2014
  3. ↑ Neisse Film Festival with a prize for Andreas Dresen ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , mdr , August 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  4. ↑ Dorota Kedzierzawska on filmpolska.de
  5. ↑ Dreiländereck: Neisse Film Festival receives financial foundation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , mdr.de , May 5, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mdr.de  
  6. ↑ Peter Dehn: DEFA Foundation awards prizes ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Cameraman , November 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramann.de