Jury Award of the International Competition, 3000 Euros

Sun Song
Joel Wanek, USA 2013, 15:00 min, Experimental

Jury statement: Beginning with a Sun Ra quote that says we should resist the forces that hold us back, ›Sun Song‹ by JoeWanek invites us to slow down whilst still moving. By distilling the basics of cinema the filmmaker lets us follow the sunlight shaping the world on a moving bus. The motionless passengers flicker in and out of a timeless space, portrayed with a delicate touch and rhythm.

Liberté-Audience Award (1500 Euros), presented by Gauloises, given to a short film from the International or the German Competition.

The Way
Max Ksjonda, Ukraine 2013, 21:06 min., Fiction

The jury award of the NoBudget competition, 2000 Euros

Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project
Jodie Mack, Great Britain 2013, 41:00 min., Experimental

Jury statement: Jodie Mack convinced us with her innovative and vibrant style that brings together her personal story with a larger moment in recent history. The obsessive exploration of her mother’s poster distribution business uncovers abandoned memories that fluctuate between high and low culture. The stop motion collage style manages to reimagine the medium of 16 mm film in a colourful, psychedelic and very personal manner, in effect destroying the old to make way for something new. All throughout the film its viewer is guided by an eccentric soundtrack, a joyful appropriation of the Pink Floyd album ›The Dark Side of the Moon‹.

The NoBudget Audience Award is worth 1500 Euros.

Dot Matrix
Richard Tuohy, Australia 2013, 16:53 min., Experimental

The Jury Award of the German competition is worth 2000 Euros.

Seven Times a Day We Complain About Our Fate and at Night We Get up to Avoid Our Dreams
Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen
Susann Maria Hempel, Germany 2014, 17:30 min., Experimental

Jury statement: The film with the long title ›Seven Times a Day We Complain About Our Fate and at Night We Get up to Avoid Our Dreams‹ by Susann Maria Hempel is our winner of this year’s German Competition. Based on an interview with an individual who describes being abused, the film interweaves sound and image in an virtuosic and increasingly unsettling way. Using speech, song and animation, the film builds up a little cabinet of horrors in which memory is set loose.

Jury: Anja Ellenberger, Omer Fast, Sabine Holtgreve

Jury Award of the Pilsner Urquell Hamburg Night, 1500 Euros

Presented by Pilsner Urquell

Timbre Line
Waldgrenze
Lina Paulsen, Germany 2014, 19:45 min., Documentary

Jury statement: The Pilsner Urquell Hamburg Nacht Prize is awarded to the film ›Waldgrenze‹ by Lina Paulsen. With modest means, the film tells a story of the Eilenrieder forest. A forest keeper describes an individual who has claimed this natural enclave in the middle of Hanover as his refuge. Eschewing psychological or moral judgments, the film opens up room for associations about urban and natural spaces and the question of individual will within ordered society.

Three Experts Turn Up The Heat
Drei Experten drehen auf
Volker Heymann, Deutschland 2013, 3:53 min., Fiction

Jury: Sabine Brantus & Barbara Häbe

The competition spanning ARTE Short Film Award will be awarded by a two member jury. The price consists of the purchase of the film by ARTE (for up to 6.000 euros), which will then be broadcast within its short film programme.

Cut
Matthias Müller and Christoph Giradet, Germany 2013, 12:53 min., Experimental

Jury statement: In this work, Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet perfect their art form of found footage collages. Cut/Wound, ever returning states of pain and emotions. – The eternal human condition.