Kinema - German-French Youth Award

Young people like to go to the cinema and talk about it. This everyday interest is taken up by the German-French youth prize KINEMA, which the 23rd Braunschweig International Film Festival is awarding for the 3rd time. Together with the Lower Saxony school cinema project Kinema , the German-French Youth Association and TV5MONDE the filmfest has developed a concept which enables young people from both countries to participate in an international festival. A jury of five young French and Germans between 16 and 23 will select an award-winner from six debut films.

The five jurors, three from Lower Saxony and two from Haute-Normandie, will be prepared for their work by film expert Anne Huet and by the german director Michael Hofmann. The following films will be shown: 13 SEMESTER, DRAUSSEN AM SEE and MENSCH KOTSCHIE from Germany; LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS, SOIS SAGE and JOUEUSE from France.






Head of Jury

Michael Hofmann


Born in 1961, he spent some years in Italy, the UK and Senegal, before he studied at the FEMIS school in Paris. He did commercials in 1988. He worked as an author in the film business and shooted several short films. In 1994/95 he had a fellowship in Munich's screenplay factory. His first film was DER STRAND VON TROUVILLE, the second SOPHIIIIE!, which was in the competition in Locarno and won the promotional award of german film in 2002 in the category of direction. In 2006 his 3rd film EDEN came to the cinemas and won at Rotterdam's Festival the audience price.




Supervision

Anne Huet


Director and film researcher. Head of the project L’EDEN CINÉMA supported by the French ministry for education. Expert on script writing. She has made several productions for the French station „La cinq“ and the cinema. After her debut JULIE MEYER she is working on her second made-for-cinema production RAMATUELLE. At the filmfest the colleague of Alain Beegala, leading expert on film education in schools, will run the two day training on „film in class“ for German and French teachers, hosted by the KINEMA project.




Die "Kinema"-Jury 2009

Anke Bludau 23 years old, Göttingen	Josephine Blume 22 years old, Hannover	Thomas Carrique 17 years old, Rouen	Lou Cecille 16 years old, Le Havre	Frauke Lahmsen 19 years old, Wunstorf

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