http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/ Braunschweig International Film Festival - News en http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/ 18 16 Braunschweig International Film Festival - News TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:54:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/internationales-filmfest-braunschweig-bewegt-sich-in-der-3-dimension/ No other subject is currently moving the cinematic world more than 3D. The buzz revolving the third... No other subject is currently moving the cinematic world more than 3D. The buzz revolving the third dimension is enormous.  Therefore the 24^th Braunschweig International Film Festival (November 9^th - 14^th, 2010) puts the special focus "On the Future of Cinema – Film and Space in 3D“. In cooperation with the Institute of Media Research of the Braunschweig School of Art the festival has invited renowned speakers to discuss the history, future, technology and aesthetics of 3D cinema with numerous filmic examples. Film historian and director of the Munich film museum Stefan Droessler takes a look back. His overview of the history of 3-D cinema goes back to the beginnings of optical illusions and  showcases rare, historic film material in 3D. “Extended cinematography – 3D cinema or the dissolution of images?”, German film critic legend Georg Seesslen and Markus Metz address this question on their “tour d’horizon” on the future of cinema. Producer Michael Wolff (fact + film, Bremen) reports on the technical challenges of 3-D pictures for documentaries. Accompanied by director Nikolai Vialkowitsch, he presents his production “The Eye 3D”, the first 3-D documentary shot in Germany. Their subjects are the world’s most powerful optical telescope and the people working with it. “The Eye 3D” is a journey to Chile's Atacama Desert – and to the depths of the Universe. Producer Reinhard Kloss of Constantin Film and Holger Tappe (Ambient Entertainment, Hannover), responsible for the 3-D animation, take the German animated film “Animals United” to Braunschweig’s screens. Erich Kaestner’s children’s classic is due to be released this autumn. Both productions, “Animals United” as well as “The Eye 3D”, are funded by nordmedia. Further presentations will be announced soon on www.filmfest-braunschweig.de]]> Festival 2010 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:54:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/heimspiel-mit-hanna-und-hurt/ The 23rd Braunschweig international film festival startet with a true home match: “66/67 – Fairplay...
With a world premiere Hanna Schygulla returned to the filmfest. In 2007 she had received the festival’s “European Actors Award”. Then she has announced to invest the prize money in a camera and return to Braunschweig with her film. She kept her promise, and presented her directing debut at the sold out Universum cinema. Her first film “Alicia Bustamante” is a documentary, a portray of her Cuban friend and actress.
This year’s »EUROPEAN ACTORS AWARD« went to British actor John Hurt (69), who was honoured for extraordinary acting career and merits for European cinema. Jens Meurer, Hurt’s friend and producer of his film "Shooting dogs" held a very personal and humourous laudation.
The audience award »THE HEINRICH« for European debut and second films went to Italy. “The Clown” by director Marco Pontecorvo (Beta Film) took home the prize money of 10 000 Euro. On behalf of the director actress Evita Ciri accepted the prize statue. Half of the sum goes to a German distributor who decides to bring the film to the screens.
The young jury of the French-German Youth Award »KINEMA« voted for the brilliant disturbing Danish-French film “Sois Sage” by Juliette Garcias (Trust Nordisk). The jury lauded the "artistically sophisticated film" for its sensative approach of a difficult topic.
The jury of the short film music award »THE LEO«, worth 2 000 Euro, with film critic Andrea Dittgen, composer Christine Aufderhaar and journalist Sven Ahnert favoured “Mama” by director Géza M. Toth from Hungary.
As part of the ”music and film” programme, Braunschweig’s state orchestra presented a film concert of an early Edgar Wallace flick “The Squeaker” (1931) with a new score by composer Florian C. Reithner.
As a support programme the participants of the festival’s first film music work shop “Create your own score!“ presented their score to Axel Brötje’s short film “Kiss of the Scorpion”. In only four days the 20 teenagers aged 15-17 had composed, rehearsed and performed a complete new sound track instructed by composer Stephan von Bothmer.
The “Traffic Quintet” from Paris performed a selection of miniatures from classics of the Nouvelle-Vague arranged by French composer Alexandre Desplat. The Frenchman was honoured with a retrospective that combined works from the years 1996 like „Un héro très discret“ (director: Jacques Audiard) to 2009 like his latest film „L’armée du crime“ (director: Robert Guédiguian).
Current Latin-American cinema stood in the focus of the “Vistas Latinas” programme, which also featured the 50th anniversary of the Cuban film institute ICAIC. Seven current productions, several premieres, gave an insight into how Latin-American directors view the world and themselves and impressed with new aethetic forms of expression. The programme combined so divers productions as the spiritual docu drama „El regalo de la Pachamama“ („The Gift of Pachamama“) by Toshifumi Matsushita from Bolivia, the highly decorated Peruvian-Argentinian coproduction „Dioses“ („Gods“) by Josué Méndez or „Sin Nombre“ by Cary Joji Fukunaga from Mexico. Direector Rafael Lara presented his „La Milagrosa“ („The Miraculous“), a tough thriller dealing with a kidnapping in the Columbian Civil War.
A special programme was devoted to the film institut ICAIC. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the filmfest and director Claudia von Alemann had put together a selection of current Cuban short and feature films . In the screening entitled „Cuba en cortos“, the two Cuban directors Susana Barriga and Sandra Gómez explained their short films „Patria“ and „El futuro es hoy“.
The „New German Film“ section featured Max Riemelt and his director Frieder Wittich with their new film „13 Semester“ vor. Florian Eichinger camme to Braunschweig with his „Bergfest“. The festival films that attracted the largest numbers of visitors were Fatih Akin’s „Soul Kitchen“, Woody Allen’s „Whatever works“ and the episode movie „New York, I love you“.
On six days the filmfest screened 165 long and short films. The screenings, film concerts, work shops and the photo exhibtion attracted a total of 22.000 visitors.]]> Festival Festival 2009 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:34:00 +0100 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/preistraeger-des-23-internationalen-filmfests-braunschweig/ The Italian film "The Clown" (original title „PA-RA-DA“) is the winner of the audience... "The Clown" (original title „PA-RA-DA“) is the winner of the audience award "The Heinrich" of the 23rd Braunschweig International Film Festival. „The Clown“ by director Marco Pontecorvo is based on the life of French street clown Miloud Oukili, who traveled to Bucharest in 1992 and founded a circus project for street children.
The prize money of € 10,000, sponsored by Volkswagen Financial Services AG, is equally divided between the director and a German distributor who decideds to release the film in Germany theatrically.

Winner of the French-German Youth Award KINEMA is the Danish-French production "Sois sage" (international title "Be Good"). Director Juliette Garcias shot an intense character study of a young woman, who can not detach herself from her first love. Presided by director Michael Hofmann, a jury of five young adults aged 17 to 22 selected the winner who receives a 35mm print with German subtitles.

The short film music award "The Leo" goes to the Hungarian film "Mama" by director Géza M Toth and composer/sound designer Attila Pacsay. Members of the jury were Andrea Dittgen, president of the German film critics association, film journalist Sven Ahnert and composer Christine Aufderhaar. The prize money of 2.000 Euro, donated by the foundation Braunschweiger Land, is equally divided between the director and the composer.
Quote from the jury’s statement: “The acoustic design takes over a mayor part of the story telling, so that a an organic work of direction, sound design and composition sensibly balanced evolves.“

British actor John Hurt will receive the festival’s main award, the "European Actors Award" for or his outstanding artistic achievements and and his contribution to European cinema. The prize money of 10.000 Euro is donated by Volkswagen Financial Services AG.

The award ceremony will be take place today, Sunday, November 15th, in the Large Hall of the State Theatre Braunschweig. During the six festival days 165 long and short films were screened. 22.000 visitors experienced film screenings, film concerts, workshops and a photo exhibition. The Award winning films: Audience award THE HEINRICH
„The Clown“
Italy 2008
Director: Marco Pontecorvo
Script: Maco Pontecorvo, Roberto Tiraboschi
Camera: Vincenzo Carpineta
Editor: Alessio Doglione
Music: Andre Guerra
Actors: Jalil Lespert, Evita Ciri, Gabi Rauta
Production: Ute Leonhardt, Marco Valerio Pugini
Distribution: Beta Film
100 min., 35mm, colour, original with German subtitles French-German Youth Award KINEMA "Sois sage" (Be Good)
France/Danemark 2008
Director & script: Juliette Garcias
Camera: Julien HirschEditor: Catherine Vilpoux
Music: Kasper Windig, Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Schubert
Actors: Anaïs Demoustier, Bruno Todeschini, Nade Dieu
Production: Slot Machine
Distribution: Trust Nordisk
91 min., 35mm, colour, original with subtitles The statement of the jury:
"This was not an easy choice! The competition was strong and with each of the six films it became clear that we would have to to through long disussions. However we have good arguments to award the KINEMA prize to the director of "Sois sage" (Be Good), Juliette Garcias.
All possibilities of film design – image and sound – have been made use of. Thereby the film has acquired a depressing atmosphere, that leads the viewer to doubt. We liked this effect especially. The topic of the film – incest, extreme pain and a strange tenderness – is delicate but nonetheless addressed in very sensible manner. It is a film that impresses and that one can be annoyed by at the same time.The film creates space for personal questions and interpretations and has made his mark on us. It is not only a film that conveys its topic in a sensible manner, but at the same time an artistically refined film that convinced us."

French version:
"On ne peut pas dire que le choix fût évident, la compétition fut très rude et, à mesure que nous avons vu les six films, nous savions de moins en moins comment on allait s’en sortir ! Nous avons cependant toutes nos raisons pour remettre le prix KINEMA à la réalisatrice du film « Sois Sage », Juliette Garcias. Toutes les ressources cinématographiques que le film peut offrir – images et son - ont été exploitées à leur paroxysme. Cela a conféré au film une atmosphère extrêmement oppressante, ce qui nous a particulièrement plu, car le spectateur est livré à ses incertitudes. Le thème du film - l’inceste, une extrême douleur et une étrange tendresse – est très délicat mais traité de manière très fine. C’est un film fort, dérangeant, qui laisse place à beaucoup de questionnements et d’interprétations personnelles. Il nous a beaucoup marqués. En plus d’être un film si subtil dans son propos, c’est aussi un film artistiquement très puissant et qui a donc conquis le jury KINEMA."

The jury: Anke Bludau, Josephine Blume, Thomas Carrique, Lou Cecille, Claudia Kück   Kurzfilm-Musikpreis DER LEO
„Mama“
Hungary 2009
Director: Géza M Toth
Music: Attila Pacsay,Sound design: Imre Madacsi
Camera: Mátyás Erdély
Sound: Imre Madacsi
Actress: Orsolya Török-Illyés
10:00 min., 35mm, colour, no dialogue The complete jury statement:
On the roof of a high building a young woman hangs up the washing, on piece after the other. With each piece she pushest he line a little further – at the same time the neighbouring buildings in the background follow – until she reaches the beginning of the line. The entire scene is shot with fixed camera but moves nonetheless – just like in the tricks in the silent movies.

Starting with a loud city street atmossphere with honking horns, street cars, crying babies, talking people, telephone rings and other every day life sounds a rhythmic structure emerges. The more we dive into the young woman’s world, the more the rhythmically aggressive sounds disappear. Slowly a world opens where melodiousness comes to the foreground. Everytime the woman reaches the end of the line, a short moment of silence occurs. Until sounds such as the woman’s heavy breathing and the street sounds return. We have come full circle. The varied concept of music, sound design and atmosphere is consistent an dwell structured. The acoustic design takes over a mayor part of the story telling, so that a an organic work of direction, sound design and composition sensibly balanced evolves. The jury: Sven Ahnert, Chrstine Aufderhaar, Andrea Dittgen]]> Festival 2009 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:50:00 +0100 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/23-internationales-filmfest-braunschweig-gibt-programm-bekannt/ Inaugural film "66/67 – Fairplay war gestern" (66/67 – Fairplay was yesterday) +++...
The 23^rd International Braunschweig Film Festival (November 10^th-15^th, 2009) is starting with a real home match: the Film Festival is opening with  Carsten Ludwig’s and Jan-Christoph Glaser’s film “66/67 – Fairplay war yesterday“. The film with Fabian Hinrichs (“Sophie Scholl“) and Christoph Bach (“Dutschke“) relates of the friendship between six Eintracht Braunschweig fans and was filmed in Braunschweig in the summer of 2008.



The main festival prize, the “European Actors Award“, goes to the British actor, John Hurt. The award, worth 10,0000 euros, for outstanding acting performances and contributions to European film culture has been contributed by the main sponsor of the Film Festival, Volkswagen Financial Services AG. In honour of Hurt, the Film Festival is showing a retrospective of, amongst others, Michael Radford’s “1984“, the film biography “An Englishman in New York“ from 2009, Hurt’s first big success, “The Naked Civil Servant“ (1975), and David Lynch’s “Elephant Man“. The award speech will be held by Jens Meurer (Egoli Tossell) who produced “Shooting Dogs“ with John Hurt in the main role in 2005.



The competitors for the Audience Award for European Debut and Second Films, “Der Heinrich“ were selected from over 90 submitted films. The ten films from nine countries – amongst them several German first films – are the Oscar candidate “Bad day to go fishing“ by Alvaro Brechner (Spain/Uruguay, 2009), “Bollywood Hero“ by Diederik van Rooijen (Netherlands 2009), “The Father of my Children“ by Mia Hansen- Løve (France/Germany 2009), “Night of the Fighter“ by Dushan Gligorov (Russia 2009), “Mensch Kotschie“ by Norbert Baumgarten (Germany 2009), “Be Good“ by Juliette Garcias (France/Denmark 2009), “The Clown“ by Marco Pontecorvo (Italy 2008), “The Wish Tree“ by Liina Paakspuu (Estonia 2008), the football film, excitingly starring Michael Sheen, “The Damned United“ by Tom Hooper (Great Britain 2009) and “Wrong Rosary“ by Mahmut Fazil Ciskun (Turkey 2009).
The prize money of 10,000 euros, donated by Volkswagen Financial Services AG, goes half to the director(s) and half to the film distributors. The German video subtitling is sponsored by Titelbild, Berlin.



For the third time the German-French Youth Prize KINEMA will be awarded by a jury of four. Under the chairmanship of director Michael Hofmann (“Sophiiiie!”), the young jurors will choose the award-winner from six German and French language debut and second films: “13 Semester” by Frieder Wittich, “Draußen am See” (“Out at the Lake”) by Felix Fuchssteiner, “Mensch Kotschie” by Norbert Baumgarten, “Le père de mes enfants” (“The Father of my Children”) by Mia Hansen-Løve, “Sois sage” (“Be Good”) by Juliette Garcias and “Joueuse” (“The Chess-player”) by Caroline Bottaro.



20 contributions are competing for the Short Film Music Award “Der Leo”, with prize money of 2000 euros. The jury of four is made up of film composer Christine Aufderhaar (“Die Entdeckung der Currywurst” / “The Discovery of the Curry Sausage”), director Marco Mittelstaedt (“Im nächsten Leben” / “In the Next Life”) and the two film journalists, Andrea Dittgen and Sven Ahnert. The Stiftung Braunschweiger Land has sponsored the award.



Star guest of the category “Music and Film“ is the composer Alexandre Desplat, who is just as successful in Hollywood as in France. A seven-part retrospective is dedicated to the Frenchman, twice nominated  for an Oscar, amongst others, with his new film “L’armée du crime” by Robert Guédiguian which had its premiere in Cannes this year and the new film by Stephen Frears, “Cheri”, with Michelle Pfeiffer.



For the French “Traffic Quintet” he specifically composed interpretations of well-known Nouvelle Vague films. The film concert “Nouvelles Vagues” in the “Kleines Haus” of the State Theater takes place in cooperation with the Braunschweig State Orchestra. In the “Music Master Class” film music expert, Siegfried Tesche, with the help of film extracts, will talk to Alexandre Desplat about his method of working.



In a further film concert, the Braunschweig State Theatre is putting on a rerun of Carl Lamac’s early sound film “Der Zinker“ from 1931. “Der Zinker” is based on Edgar Wallace’s novel called “The Squeaker”. Florian Reithner composed the music and allowed himself to be inspired by the popular music of the era between the wars.
The participants of the Workshop “Create your own score!” are playing in the supporting programme of the concert in the “Neue Oberschule”. Under the directing of the composer Stephan von Bothmer, they will be putting on their own self-composed music which they have only worked on for four days. The workshop takes place in the rooms of the Music Academy and is sponsored by the Stiftung Pruesse.



With the category “Vistas Latinas“, the Film Festival draws our attention to contemporary Latin-American cinema. Seven current productions, including several premieres, give an insight into the directors’ views of life and impress us with new aesthetic forms of expression. “Corazón del tiempo“ (“Heart of Time“) by Alberto Cortés from Mexico tells of a conflict in the mountains of Chiapas by means of a love story. “Dioses” (“Gods”) by Joué Méndez, a Peruvian-Argentine co-production, comes to Braunschweig with the premature praise of 35 festival awards.



The spiritual documentary drama “El regalo de la Pachamama” (“The Gift of Pachamama”) by Toshifumi Matsushita takes us to the native inhabitants of Bolivia. “La Milagrosa” (“The Miraculous”), by Rafael Lara, relates of an abduction in the Columbian civil war. The story of a housekeeper is told in “La Nana” (“The Maid”) by Sebastián Silva from Chile and Mexico. “Sin Nombre” from Mexico is Cary Joji Fukanaga’s film about a person who drops out of a Mexican gang.

A special focus in this film category has been put on the ICAIC, the Cuban Film Institute, on the occasion of its 50^th anniversary. Five feature films and six short films make up the film series supervised by the film-maker and lecturer, Claudia von Alemann, in which doyens like Enrique Pineda Barnet with “La Anunciacíon” (“The Annunciation”) and young talents like Susana Barriga Rodrígues with “Patria” are represented.



The Film Festival is also showing the first directing work of actress Hanna Schygulla. The winner of the first “European Actors Award” had announced in 2007 that she would invest her prize money in a camera in order to make a film. Now she comes back to Braunschweig with a film homage to her Cuban friend, the actress Alicia Bustamante.



With 15 films from 10 countries, the series “New International Cinema“shows a world-embracing programme. “The Orange Girl” by Eva Dahr comes from Norway. The Film Festival shows the German premiere of the Chinese award-winning (in San Sebastian) anti-war film “City of Life and Death” by Chuan Lu about the massacre of Nanjing in 1937 which shows the brutal events in a very different light to the German production “John Rabe”. “Departures” by Yojiro Takitaaus comes from Japan and was awarded the Oscar for the best foreign film.



The candidate for the next foreign Oscar is the Norwegian production “Max Manus” by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning. In the Maguerite-Duras filming, “The Sea Wall”, by the Cambodian Rithy Panh, Isabelle Huppert plays the leading role. In “8”, eight internationally renowned directors, from Jane Campion to Wim Wenders, think about how to bring about the development goals of halving world poverty by the year 2015 which were formulated by 191 countries of the world in the year 2000.



Also in this category are the two New York films: “Whatever works”, the new Woody Allen film as well as “New York, I love you”, the teamwork of eleven filmmakers, including actor stars like Andy Garcia, Natalie Portman and “Europa” award-winner, John Hurt, as well as directors like Shekhar Kapur and Fatih Akin.



The Hamburg Fatih Akin is also in the category “New German Films” with his newest film “Soul Kitchen” with Moritz Bleibtreu in the leading role. In addition, the following are also represented in the new German films: Florian Eichinger’s “Bergfest” (“Mountain Party”), Jessica Hausner’s “Lourdes” with Sylvie Testud, “This is Love” by Matthias Glasner, with Corinna Harfouch and Jürgen Vogel.



The Film Festival continues the exchange with Haute-Normandie which has been going since 2002 with a programme of four short films from the Lower Saxony partner region.



The portrait of a graduate from the film class of the Braunschweig University of Art is dedicated this year to the filmmaker and head of Animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Gerd Gockell. ]]> Festival 2009 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:23:00 +0100 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/23-int-filmfest-braunschweig-gibt-wettbewerbsfilme-bekannt/ More than 90 productions have been send in for the HEINRICH, the filmfest's audience award for... HEINRICH, the filmfest's audience award for European debut and second films. But only ten can enter the competition.
The prize money of 10.000 Euro is sponsored by Volkswagen Financial Services AG and is equally devided between director and distribution. German subtitling of the participating films is supported by Titelbild, Berlin.
The prize will be awarded on November 15th in the Braunschweig state theatre's big hall. The ten films in competiotion are:


BAD DAY TO GO FISHING, Director: Alvaro Brechner, Spain/Uruguay 2009


BOLLYWOOD HERO, Director: Diederik Van Rooijen, Netherlands 2009


LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS, Director: Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany 2009


NIGHT OF THE FIGHTER, Director: Dushan Gligorov, Russia 2009


MENSCH KOTSCHIE, Director: Norbert Baumgarten, Germany 2009


BE GOOD (Sois sage), Director: Juliette Garcias, France/Danemark 2008


THE CLOWN (Pa-Ra-Da), Director: Marco Pontecorvo, Italy 2008


THE WISH TREE (Soovide Puu), Director: Liina Paakspuu, Estonia 2008


THE DAMNED UNITED, Director: Tom Hooper, GB 2009


WRONG ROSARY, Director: Mahmut Fazil Coskun, Turkey 2009

More about the films soon in our "programme" section.
]]> Festival 2009 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:12:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/filmfest-braunschweig-gibt-leo-jury-bekannt/ Film critic Andrea Dittgen, director Marco Mittelstaedt, and the film music journalist Sven Ahnert... Film critic Andrea Dittgen, director Marco Mittelstaedt, and the film music journalist Sven Ahnert as well as film music composer Christine Aufderhaar form the jury for the short film-music prize ‘Leo’ presented at the 23rd Braunschweig International film festival (10^th – 15^th November). They select the winner of the prize worth 2000€ from about 20 films taking part. The ‘Leo’, supported by the foundation Braunschweiger Land, will be awarded for the seventh time. The money goes in equal parts to the director and the film music or rather the sound design. The sculpture of the ‘Leo’ is awarded to the composer of the film music or to the sound designer. The prize-giving ceremony will take place at the Brunswick State Theatre on the 15^th of November. Andrea Dittgen, born in 1961, studied German, French and music sciences. PhD in 1989, 1986 to 1991 non-commercial work in films, film criticisms since 1986, from 1991 cultural editor of “Die Rheinpfalz”. Regular collaboration with the magazine “film-dienst”, publication on the director of silent films Franz Hofer (1999), collaboration on the yearbook “International Film Guide”, contributions to books and encyclopaedia. Since 2004 member of the board and manager of the Association of German Film Criticism. Christine Aufderhaar, born in 1972, studied classical piano at Lugano university. Then double studies in classical composition and composition of film music at the Berklee College of Music, Boston. She received grants and the Richard Levy Award for her compositions. In Hollywood she worked with composers like Alf Clausen (“The Simpsons”), Dan Foliart (“7^th Heaven”), and Jay Chattaway (“Star Trek”). 2204 -2008: lecturer for film music at the HFF Potsdam. She is a member of the German Academy for Film. Sven Ahnert, born in 1964. Author for the radio since 1993. Writes, speaks, and produces features, and writes reviews on the topics of film, music, literature, and film music. On the NDR he talks every week about the latest film music CDs. Sven Ahnert divides his interests between Pop, Rock, Avantgarde, German Popular Music, Classical Music, and Ambient Music. A long time ago he learned to appreciate film music which does not really sound like film music, e.g. “French Connection” by Don Ellis, or “Point Blank” by Johnny Mandels   Marco Mittelstaedt, born in Berlin (East) in 1972, 1992-1995 Training as a photographer at the Lette-Verein Berlin. 1996 – 2003 studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, section ‘Direction’ and ‘Screenplay’. Since 2004 he has worked as a freelance director and author, as well as doing work as assistant director, stills and media photographer, and as advisor on screenplays and location scout. Films: 1997 “Ein Tag zurück”, “uferlos” wins the Panorama-Short Film Prize of the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin in 1998. 2004 „Jena Paradies“, 2006 „Elbe“.]]> Festival 2009 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:34:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/filmfest-braunschweig-goes-europe/ European cinema has been high on the filmfest’s agenda for years. With the audience award... European cinema has been  high on the filmfest’s agenda for years. With the audience award „The Heinrich“, the „European Actors Award“ and the Franco-German youth award KINEMA three of the four festival awards are dedicated to European film making. An effort for European cinema that is well recognized by supporters this year. Already in 2002 filmfest together with the film foundation of Lower Saxony’s partner region Haute-Normandie, Pôle Image, startet the first film cultural exchange between Germany and France on a regional level. Since July the festival is part of the new KINEMA-REGIO project. The project aims at promoting the use of film in foreign language teaching. KINEMA-REGIO gives learners and teachers the possibility to enhance their language skills and their knowledge of the other country’s film culture. Altogether nine partners, from schools to film funding agencies of Lower Saxony and Haute-Normandy take part in the project. The funding is provided by the EU-programme for life-long learning „Comenius Regio“ for European cooperation of regions and communities. Since the late 90ies filmfest belongs to the few festivals supported by the EU MEDIA programme. Now, for the first time, filmfest was selected for a perennial funding. The so-called „framework partnership agreement“ runs over a period of three years. Filmfest will receive 42.000 Euro per year until 2012. „We have presented a very detailed concept for the next three years, and made clear where we want to improve our commitment for European cinema and its promotion. We are extremely glad that we have received this partnership. A funding of this scale and length of time means much more planning reliability and is a nice recognition of our efforts to foster European film”, says Volker Kufahl, artisitc director of Braunschweig International Film Festival.]]> Festival 2009 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/kinema-teilnehmer-gewinnen-in-cannes/ Every year in November at the award ceremony of Braunschweig International film festival the school... . The awarded critique can be found here. Hompage of the Semaine de la Critique on "Ordinary People".]]> Festival 2009 Mon, 25 May 2009 20:26:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/filmfest-gewinner-sammeln-weitere-preise/ Last weekend two films that have won awards in Braunschweig, have received more prizes at... „Skhizein“ by Jeremy Clapin, won the SWR audience award with a prize money of 6.000 EURO and received an honoury mention in the „Music for Animation“ competition. In 2006 director Chris Kraus won Braunschweig's audience award for European debut and second features "Der Heinrich" with „Vier Minuten“ (Four minutes). Last Sunday the prison drama with Hannah Herzsprung and Monika Bleibtreu in the leading roles convinced the audience of „IX. Wild Cinema Windhoek International Film Festival“ in Namibia. It was the film's last official festival participation. "Vier Minuten" has won 46 international awards, among others two Golden Lolas, four Bavarian Film Awards and the Main Prize of the Shanghai Film Festival in 2006. Braunschweig International Film Festival says "Congratulations!" to both film makers!]]> Festival 2009 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:20:00 +0200 http://www.filmfest-braunschweig.de/en/news/news_single/article/junge-filmfans-mit-franzoesischkenntnissen-gesucht/ Braunschweig International film festival is looking for 5 jurors for the French-German Youth Award... festival (November, 10-15). For the jury the filmfest is looking for five young film enthousiasts from Germany and France aged 16-23. Apart from their love for the cinema the candidates need sufficient language skills in the foreign language. In a short seminar at the start of the filmfest the candidates will be introduced to their task by an experienced film maker. Out of up to eight French and German debut feature films they will selected the winner. Deadline for applications August 31st. Travel expenses, accomodation and catering are provided by the filmfest. Info sheet and application form can be downloaded here: German info, German application, French info, French application. The KINEMA award has a number of prominent partners. Patron of the award is the French-German Cultural Council. Actress Hanna Schygulla supports the school cinema project KINEMA. The KINEMA award is supported by Land Lower Saxony, the French-German Youth Council, the Pôle Image Haute-Normandie and the Région Haute-Normandie. Homepage of the school cinema project KINEMA: www.kinema.fr]]> Festival 2009 Mon, 11 May 2009 18:23:00 +0200