Filmfest Hamburg Explained

FILMFEST HAMBURG
Logo Alt:FILMFEST HAMBURG
Location:Hamburg, Germany
Founded:1991
Awards:Douglas-Sirk-Award
Films:110 in 2021
Directors:Albert Wiederspiel
Last:2021
Website:www.filmfesthamburg.de

FILMFEST HAMBURG is an international film festival in Hamburg, the third-largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich). It shows national and international feature and documentary films in eleven sections. The range of the program stretches from art house films to innovative mainstream cinema, presenting the first feature films of young unknown directors together with films by internationally established directors. In 2017 more than 40,000 people attended 250 screenings of 141 films.[1]

Albert Wiederspiel has been the director of the festival since 2003.

History

FILMFEST HAMBURG had various predecessors dating from the 1950s through to the 1980s. It was founded in late 1991 and first held in 1992. Academy Award winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood,[2] Jodie Foster,[3] Christoph Waltz,[4] Atom Egoyan,[5] Julian Schnabel[6] and Tilda Swinton, Dogma-founder Lars von Trier,[7] award-winning director Kim Ki-duk[8] and German directors such as Wim Wenders,[9] Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and Tom Tykwer attended the festival in the past.

Festival program

The program of FILMFEST HAMBURG is composed of the following permanent sections:

Awards

Douglas Sirk Award

This award is presented annually since 1995 to a personality who has made outstanding achievements within film culture and film industry. It receives its name from director Douglas Sirk, born in Hamburg as Detlef Sierck.

Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions

The Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions has been awarded in the new section Große Freiheit – Filme aus Deutschland since 2018. The producer of the winning film will receive 25,000 euros. The prize money will be provided by the Ministry of Culture and Media.

Hamburg Producers Award for European Cinema Co-Productions

The Hamburg Producers Award for European Cinema Co-Productions will be awarded to the films in the section Freihafen (Free Port) which will feature German-European co-productions

Hamburg Producers Award for German Television Productions (formerly: TV Producers' Award)

This award for German TV productions is endowed with €25.000 provided by VFF, Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH.

Critics' Choice Award

The Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is awarding this prize at FILMFEST HAMBURG for the first time in 2013. Films aspiring to provide a political message are competing for the prize money of 5,000 euros.

Art Cinema Award

The Art Cinema Award was established by the Conféderation Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai (CICAE). Films that have a German distributor can be nominated. Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein is contributing €5,000 to the award in support of PR measures by the German distributor.

NDR Young Talent Award

In 2012 the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) sponsored the NDR Young Talent Award with a prize money of €5,000 .

Commerzbank Audience Award

The audience gets to decide by public vote which of the competing films in the Eurovisuell section is their favorite and receives a prize money of €5,000, donated by the Commerzbank.

MICHEL Award presented by MICHEL Kinder und Jugend Filmfest (part of FILMFEST HAMBURG)

The Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and the Rolner Stiftung fund this award since 2013 with prize money of €5,000 . A jury made up of children selects the children's and youth films for this international competition.

Sichtwechsel Film Award

Since 2017, the German Foreign Office honors directors who create films across national and cultural borders with a prize money of €10,000 .

Former Awards

Montblanc Script Award

Endowed with €10.000 sponsored by Hamburg-based company Montblanc. The award is granted as part of the "Northern Lights" section to a fiction or documentary film either produced or set in Hamburg or Schleswig-Holstein.

Foreign Press Award

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: More visitors at Filmfest Hamburg . 2012-10-08. Die Welt.
  2. Web site: Clint Eastwood receives 'Douglas-Sirk-Preis' in Hamburg. www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de. https://web.archive.org/web/20131112133903/http://www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de/813.html. 2013-11-12. dead.
  3. Web site: Jodie Foster receives 'Douglas-Sirk-Preis' at Filmfest Hamburg. IMDb.
  4. Web site: Filmfest Hamburg 2007: Highlight of second week. 2007-09-30. Hamburger Morgenpost.
  5. News: Atom Egoyan to be honored in Hamburg. 2008-09-08. The Hollywood Reporter. Bonnie J.. Gordon. 2008-09-08.
  6. Web site: Julian Schnabel receives Douglas Sirk Award. 2010-08-24. Hamburger Abendblatt.
  7. Web site: Hamburg Film Festival's screens movies from 30 countries. 2005-09-08. Der Stern.
  8. News: Kim Ki-duk to Receive Hamburg Film Festival's Douglas Sirk Award. 2012-08-24. The Hollywood Reporter. Scott. Roxborough. 2012-08-24.
  9. News: Filmfest Hamburg 2004 awards seven prizes . 2004-09-30. Der Spiegel. 30 September 2004 .
  10. Web site: Blaney. Martin. 2021-09-14. 'Great Freedom', 'Paris, 13th District' to bookend 2021 Filmfest Hamburg. 2021-09-18. Screen. en.
  11. https://www.hamburg.de/pressearchiv-fhh/11696904/filmfest-hamburger-produzentenpreis-2018-ueberreicht/ Hamburgs Erster Bürgermeister hat im Rahmen des Filmfestes Hamburger Produzentenpreis 2018 überreicht
  12. https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/de/news_media/2019/20191005_Preise.php Preise
  13. Web site: Hamburg Producer Award • FILMFEST HAMBURG.
  14. Web site: Closing Film, Award Ceremony & Balance Sheet • FILMFEST HAMBURG. 18 May 2023.
  15. Web site: Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege • FILMFEST HAMBURG . 2023-11-09 . FILMFEST HAMBURG . en-US.

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