Preisträger 2023

Wir freuen uns sehr, hiermit die Preisträger:innen des 39. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg zu verkünden!

INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB

Jury: Nawar Al Qassimi, Patrick Holzapfel, Adina Pintilie, Emilie Poirier, Yulia Serdyukova

HAMBURGER KURZFILMPREIS:

Enrique Pedráza-Botero, Faye Tsakas - Alpha Kings

Jury Statement: "We would like to give the main award ex aequo to a film that depicts emptiness without artifice in a very new contemporary setting. The filmmakers are bringing us into the world of online financial domination without judgment while maintaining a healthy and critical distance from their protagonists. Through online videos, live streams and hand-held camera moments, themes like sexuality, hyper masculinity, erotic labor, power dynamics and gender performativity are addressed in a very agile and delicate way. The Best Short Film of the competition goes to Alpha Kings : an observational film that skilfully presents the dichotomy between the Masters and their subs in their transactional relationship and the loneliness in the everyday life of some American teenagers."

Karla Crncevic - Wild Flowers

Jury Statement: "We would like to give the main award ex aequo to a film that touched us with a dialogue between a daughter and a father about a video he recorded thirty years ago documenting the traces of war at the family’s house. What seems rather simple at first sight opens up different layers of memories, both personal and collective, as well as a longing for family and home, all overlapping like the petals of the eponymous flower. In a time in which the violence and scars of wars seem to swallow every hope, the film makes us realize that the appearance of beautiful flowers growing out of ruins on an old videotape can mean the world."

DEFRAMED PREIS:

Douwe Dijkstra - Neighbour Abdi

Jury Statement: "We would like to give the Deframed award to Neighbour Abdi, a film that presents a harsh reality in a unique and unconventional way. In this film, producer Douwe and Abdi work together to recreate scenes from Abdi’s hometown of Mogadishu. The film takes us from the studio to the ruined city showing us the process of making, collaboration, memory and trust between the two individuals. An omnipresent green screen appears and disappears as we move through the film; a reminder of the trauma that we carry with us as individuals."

HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:

Joseph Wilson - I can see the sun but I can’t feel it yet

Jury Statement: "In the spirit of Hamburg Short Film Festival's core curatorial concept - to acknowledge and support unconventional and thought-provoking works, which challenge the boundaries of cinema as a medium, our nomination for the European Film Awards goes to a conceptual and performative tour de force, an irreverent celebration of freedom - both the freedom to decide over our bodies, identities and loves, and that of cinema as the language of our deepest longings and shadows. Shifting unpredictably, and sensuously, between memory and dream, pain and breathtaking beauty, incisive satire and raging poetry, the film is a wild and life-affirming tribute to the queer body’s power and beauty. To paraphrase the filmmaker “a monument to youth and love within us”. The European Film Academies Short film nominee is “I Can See The Sun, But I cannot feel it yet”, by Joseph Wilson."

LOBENDE ERWÄHNUNG:

Shuli Huang - Will you look at me

Jury Statement: "??There are many different ways to deal with prejudices and the wounds they cause. This film shows how oppressive systems hurt all sides of this vicious circle. While a son turns to his mother in search of recognition and acceptance, healing is hardly possible, but shared pain and mutual compassion create a space where love persists against all odds. The special mention of the competition goes to a film that explores the complexities of family connections in a way that is both strikingly intimate – and universally human: Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang."

DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB

Jury: Clara Helbig, Dani Rosenberg, Ulrich Ziemons

DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB JURYPREIS:

Rita Macedo - Farewell recording for an observer of an unknown time and place

Jury Statement: "Set in the liminal wetland space between the real and the virtual, this film is a highly inventive sci-fi eco-dystopia. Touching on planetary collapse and the outsourcing of intelligence, the director zooms into urgent issues of the now and sculpts an equally seductive and menacing vision that functions as a warning at crossroads."

DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB LOBENDE ERWÄHNUNG:

Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger - Slow down the fall

Jury Statement: “This intimate drama, virtuously staged against the backdrop of an imposing landscape, questions the sacrifices we are prepared to make for personal success – whether in life or in sports. A cinematic tour de force, that at its core is a search for truth."

DREIFACHER AXEL WETTBEWERB:

Simon Ellis - The Terminator

Der Publikumspreis wird von der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung unterstützt.

ARTE AWARD:

Moe Myat May Zarchi - The Altar

Der ARTE-Kurzfilmpreis besteht aus dem Ankauf eines Filmes (bis zu 6.000 Euro) durch ARTE, den deutsch-französischen Kultursender, und wird wettbewerbsübergreifend verliehen. Der prämierte Film wird bei ARTE im Kurzfilmmagazin »Kurzschluss« ausgestrahlt.
Jury-Statement: "Eine geflüsterte Erzählung legt sich über schwarz-weiße Bilder, die nach und nach von Animationen kolonisiert werden. Die Erzählerin spricht über die Macht, die sie über eine Ameise ausübt, die in einem Waschbecken gefangen ist: Soll sie ertränkt werden oder nicht? Die Erzählung verlässt dann das Intime und nimmt eine sozio-politische Wendung: Was wäre, wenn wir alle Ameisen wären? Für seine gewagte und zerbrechliche Konstruktion, für die Universalität seiner Aussage geht der arte-Preis an The Altar."

PUBLIKUMSPREIS:

Fariba Haidari - Leila

Der Publikumspreis, dotiert mit 1.500 Euro, geht wettbewerbsübergreifend an einen Film aus dem Internationalen oder Deutschen Wettbewerb.

MO&FRIESE JUNGES KURZFILM FESTIVAL:

Friese-Preis: Marjolaine Perreten – Pebble Hill , lobende Erwähnung: Anne-Sophie Gousset – To be sisters
Mo-Preis: Samy Sidali – P.D.O., lobende Erwähnung: Andrew Brand – Buzz
Neon-Preis: Justine Martin – Oasis, lobende Erwähnung: Kantarama Gahigiri – Terra Mater

Nominierung ECFA Kurzfilm Preis: Nathan Clement – The truth about Alvert, the last Dodo