Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films

Two German Films
win at Créteil
Maria Speth was awarded the main prize Jury Grand Prix
of the 23rd Festival International de Films de
Femmes in Créteil (Women’s Film Festival, 23.03. –
01.04.01) for her first feature film the days between (in
den tag hinein). The prize includes a money award of
approx. DM 7,500, the costs for a French subtitling and promotional
costs for the theatrical release.
The jury of the festival, which is regarded internationally as
one of the most important events of its kind, founded its
decision on ”the precise talent for observation of the director
and her actors, the intelligence and sensitivity of the general
message and the both beautiful, as well as daring, visual
composition of this first film“.
the days between (in den tag hinein), produced by
November Film, Berlin, in collaboration with ZDF
Kleines Fernsehspiel and HFF ”Konrad Wolf“, was
first shown in January at the Rotterdam Film Festival where it
received one of the three renowned ”Tiger Awards“.
The Audience Award of the Créteil festival – with a purse of
approx. DM 6,000 - went to Imogen Kimmel’s film
Secret Society. The story set in England about a group of
women who secretly train as sumo wrestlers received its premiere
at the Hof Film Days last October.
Scene from ”Kleine Fische“ (Next Generation 2001)
Scene from ”Wünsch Dir was“ (Next Generation 2001)
Kino news
Next Generation for the fourth
time in Cannes
The Export-Union of German Cinema will again be
presenting a selection of short films by German film students
under the Next Generation banner during the Cannes
Film Festival.
Eleven new films from nine German film and art academies
make up this year’s Next Generation lineup which will be
presented for the first time on the occasion of the Cannes
Film Festival on Sunday, 13th May, in the STAR Cinema.
The independent expert jury (Heinz Badewitz, Hof Film
Days; Astrid Kühl, Short Film Agency, and Nikolaj Nikitin,
”Der Schnitt“) compiled a multi-faceted program which is
marked by a pronounced stylistic will and technical skill:
Oberstube by Sebastian Winkels and Für Dich
Mein Herz by Johannes von Gwinner (both from HFF
”Konrad Wolf“); Endstation : Paradies by Jan Thüring
and Der Pilot by Oliver Seiter (both from the Baden-
Württemberg Film Academy); Quak by Wolfgang
Dinslage (Film Studies Dept., University of Hamburg); Dans
l’atelier du sculpteur by Richard Badé (Academy of
Media Arts, Cologne); Marie muss rennen by Konrad
Sattler (HFF Munich); Wünsch Dir was by Franziska
Stünkel (Hannover Polytechnic); Kleine Fische by
Holger Ernst (College of Art, Kassel); Das Taschenorgan
by Carsten Strauch (College for Design,
Offenbach); and by Romeo Grünfelder (College for
Fine Arts, Hamburg).
The program will also feature a special screening of Quiero
Ser by Florian Gallenberger (HFF Munich) who received
both the Honorary Foreign Student Award (”Student OSCAR“)
and – most recently – the Best Short Film OSCAR for his film.
Following the presentation in Cannes, which is also supported
by the six major regional film funds, Next Generation will
be shown, as in previous years, at the Festivals of German
Cinema which the Export-Union organizes in key cities of the
international film industry (2001: Rome, Madrid, Paris, London,
Los Angeles).
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Scene from ”Oberstube“ (Next Generation 2001)