Titel Kino 1/2002 - German Cinema

Julian Nida-Rümelin & the nominees
(photo © Christoph Assmann)
Eva Marel Jura, left
(photo © Christoph Assmann)
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German Short Film Award 2001
The German Short Film Award 2001 in Gold and Silver
was presented by State Minister Julian Nida-Rümelin on
10 November 2001 at the ”Filmkunsthaus Babylon“ in Berlin.
The television presenter and singer Kim Fisher moderated
the event. The Film Prizes in Gold are each endowed with
DM 60,000 and the Film Prizes in Silver with DM 40,000 each.
Eva Marel Jura was awarded the Film Prize in Gold in the
category of Short Films Under Seven Minutes for her film Cut
Away, made in cooperation with the Academy of Television
& Film Munich (HFF/M). The Film Prize in Gold in the category
of Short Films
Between Seven &
Fifteen Minutes went
to Idil Üner for
the film Die
Liebenden vom
Hotel Osman, a
Peter Stockhaus
Film production.
The Film Prize in
Silver for Short Films
Under Seven
Minutes was awarded
to Wahlverwandtschaften,
a
Nils Loof Film
production, while
the Film Prize in
Silver for Short Films Between Seven & Fifteen minutes went
to Su Turhan for Gone Underground, a Gone
Underground and Getpix Film production.
Idil Üner
(photo © Christoph Assmann)
A total of eight films were nominated for the German
Short Film Award 2001. All nominated filmmakers received
a monetary prize of DM 25,000 for the preparation, development
and realization of a new film. Also nominated
were: Gleisarbeiter, a Patrick Lambertz production in
cooperation with the ”Konrad Wolf“ Academy of Film &
Television; Nass, a Lounge Entertainment production
in cooperation with the HFF/M; Schneckentraum, a
Wiedemann & Berg Film production in cooperation
with the HFF/M; and Taschenorgan, a Carsten
Strauch production in cooperation with the Academy of
Art & Design in Offenbach.
After the awards ceremony, all eight nominated short films
went on a tour of over 100 cinemas throughout Germany.
Further information about the tour dates may be found at:
www.kurzfilmpreisunterwegs.org.
Information about the German Short Film Award
is available at: www.deutscherkurzfilmpreis.de or
www.filmfoerderung-bkm.de.
NRW and Poland
Tom Tykwer opens the Berlin International Film
Festival this year – with a film from Krzysztof
Kieslowski. The script for Heaven originated from the
Polish director and actor, who died in 1996. The film, coproduced
by X Filme and Miramax and funded by the
Filmstiftung NRW, was shot in, among other places,
North Rhine-Westphalia. The relations between North
Rhine-Westphalia and Poland are just as varied as the stories
from Kieslowski and Tykwer. And to intensify this
relationship, Filmstiftung NRW managing director
Michael Schmid-Ospach traveled to Poland in the fall
of 2001. Following an invitation from festival director Stefan
Laudyn, he not only visited the ”German Day“ at the
Warsaw Film Festival, but also met with Polish filmmakers,
like Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi. "The
Polish producers were amazed at the possibilities there are for
international co-productions in North Rhine-Westphalia, and
as a result, we were able to bring home a few projects, including
a Günter Grass-adaptation" said Schmid-Ospach,
satisfied with the trip’s results. There are also plans in the area
of schooling and training. Schmid-Ospach discussed the
possibility of a cooperation between the International Film
School Cologne and Wajda’s soon-to-be-opened new film
school in Warsaw.
Kino 1/2002
Scene from ”Die Reise“,
Johanna Wokalek, Agnieszka Piwowarska