Award Winners 2007
The final chapter of the 23rd Hamburg International ShortFilmFestival: Award Winners. All in all, you can call it a happy end. The audience survived the summer heat in the cinemas, the festival staff finally finished counting rating cards and the jury members are still talking to one another. And some lucky film-makers won their share of the total prize money of more than 30.000,- euros. So, what else is there to say? See you all again next year!
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Jury: Anna Berger, Erik Hemmendorf, Philip Ilson, Carol Mansour, Veton Nurkollari
International Competition Jury Award
Endowed with 3.000,- euros
Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat)
Radu Jude, Romania 2006
Fiction, 23:20 min
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Jury statement: To continue the father-and-son theme, we chose as the winning film a slice of life from 21st century Europe, a million miles from our own hi-tech worlds of TV-on-demand and X-Box games, where a broken black & white television is at the centre of a young boy’s life. The image of a father and son tramping across a muddy field in the morning half-light while carrying the family television sums up the simplicity of the drama from this basic premise.
François-Ode-Award
Endowed with 1.500,- euros
Bare
Santana Issar, India 2006
Documentary, 11 min
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Jury statement: By using only telephone conversations and old home movies, Santana Issar has created an intimate and unsentimental family drama about a father’s alcholism from a daughter’s point of view. The jury was moved by the honesty of the characters’ reasoning about past and future, family and responsibilities. The François-Ode-Award 2007 goes to the documentary Bare by Santana Issar.
Special Mentions
La Leçon de Guitare (The Guitar Lesson)
Martin Rit, France 2006
Fiction, 17:42 min
Jury statement: At least one member of the jury has a love of French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, and his song “Laeititia“ is at the centre of this drama of subtle nuances and embarrasments – THE GUITAR LESSON.
Soft
Simon Ellis, England 2006
Fiction, 14:06 min
Jury statement: A Special Mention goes to a powerful piece of film summing up the UK zeitgeist of hoodies, happy-slapping and gang culture, while giving us a truthful character-driven drama of a son’s dissappointment with his Father – SOFT by Simon Ellis.
Škoda-Audience Award
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1.500,- euros sponsored by Škoda
This year the Audience Award will be shared ex aequo (750,- euros each):
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La Leçon de Guitare (The Guitar Lesson)
Martin Rit, France 2006
Fiction, 17:42 min
Soft
Simon Ellis, England 2006
Fiction, 14:06 min
NOBUDGET COMPETITION
Jury: Oliver Baumgarten, Peter van Hoof, Dana Levy
Jury Award NoBudget Competition
Endowed with 2.000,- euros
This is My Land
Ben Rivers, England 2006
Documentary, 14:00 min
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Jury statement: This film is a poetic humanistic portrait which serves as a window into another pace of living. The film’s soundtrack is just as precise and beautifully crafted as ist imagery.
The NoBudget Jury Award goes to „This is My Land“ by Ben Rivers
Special Mention
Hairlady
David Birdsell, Canada/USA 2006
Experimental Fiction, 8:12 min
Jury statement: A man’s necessity of getting groomed: this repetitive and every-day business is told in an extremely dynamic loop, reduced more and more by elliptic editing. While the Sandman accompanies you to sleep, he Hairlady takes you to shave. We give a Special Mention to David Birdsell for his film „Hairlady“
Audience Award NoBudget Competition
Endowed with 1.500,- euros
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Trotzdem Danke (Thanks Anyway)
Mischa Leinkauf & Matthias Wermke, Germany 2006
Experimental, 6:30 min
GERMAN COMPETITIONS
Jury: Filomeno Fusco, Christiane Müller-Lobeck, Markus Prasse
Pilsner Urquell Innovation Award
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Endowed with 2.000,- euros sponsored by Pilsner Urquell
Die gute Lage (In a Good Position)
Nancy Brandt, Germany 2006
Documentary, 13:36 min
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Jury statement: Through its surprisingly clear concept and through its consistently applied simple aesthetic means, this unusual documentary tells the story of a council estate. At the same time, the film grants us a glance of the sensitive multicultural microcosm of its inhabitants and the animosities between them. “In a Good Position” achieves this with consistence, a down-to-earth perspective and without being schoolmasterly.
Special Mention in the German Competition
Beckenrand (Poolside)
Michael Koch, Germany/Switzerland 2006
Fiction, 19:35 min
Jury statement: This film compellingly and sublty builds up suspense in beautifully composed images. The film’s setting, an open-air swimming pool, is ingeniously staged through sparse dialogue and excellent acting from the entire cast.
Natural American Spirit Audience Award
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Endowed with 1.500,- euros sponsored by Natural American Spirit
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Hilda & Karl
Toke Constantin Hebbeln, Germany 2006
Fiction, 13 min
Jury Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
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Endowed with 2.000,- euros sponosered by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
Wie ich ein freier Reisebegleiter wurde (How I Became a Freelance Travel Guide)
Jan Peters, Germany 2007
Docu-Fiction, 15:37 min
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Jury statement: This beautifully absurd film on precarious working conditions in Germany impressed the jury with its individual and unconventional style. The filmmaker effortlessly combines the diverse genres of drama, documentary and experimental film. The result is a successful satire, which not only exaggerates the new realities of work, but also examines them seriously and thoroughly.
Special Mention in the Hamburg Competition
NachtSchatten (NightShade)
Sabine Höpfner, Germany 2007
Experimental Animation, 7:40 min
Jury statement: With her outstanding composition of images and sound, this experimental work takes the viewer further and further into the video artist's very own artificial universe. In this new cosmos, mundane physical and biological phenomena are heightened, and the viewer is enabled to experience them anew in a most fascinating way.
Audience Award of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
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Endowed with 1.500,- euros sponsored by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
Wie ich ein freier Reisebegleiter wurde (How I Became a Freelance Travel Guide)
Jan Peters, Germany 2007
Docu-Fiction, 15:37 min
THREE-MINUTE-QUICKIE COMPETITION
Endowed with 1.000,- euros
Topic 2007: "Heimat" (Home)
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Heimarbeit (Homework)
Fabian Möhrke, Germany 2005
Experimental Documentary, 1:47 min
MO&FRIESE CHILDREN'S SHORTFILMFESTIVAL
The 9th Mo&Friese Children’s ShortFilmFestival, has ended the 10th of June with its award ceremony in the zeise cinema. Next to the "High Five" Competition, two prices have been awarded: the Friese-Award for the films of the programmes 4+ and 6+ and the Mo-Award for the films of the programmes 9+ and 12+. Both one are worth 1250 Euro.
Friese-Award (Children jury 8-10 years)
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Endowed with 1.250,- euros sponsored by Springer Bio-Backwerk
Lille Mand (Small Man)
Esben Tonnesen, Denmark 2006
Fiction, 13:00 min
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Jury statement: We chose the film “Lille Mand” from Denmark because we really liked the idea behind it. Mathias’enquiries into what girls are like
are hilariously depicted. We were also very impressed with the surprise ending.
Special Mention
The Silence between us
Katie O'Neill, Australia, 2006
Fiction, 7:14 min
Jury statement: The film "The silence between us" from Australia recieves a special mention. We were very fascinated by this sad, but beautiful about a mother and her daughter who are both hearing impaired. We really liked that you could see, how a child deals with such circumstances.
Mo-Award (Children Jury 11-13 years)
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Endowed with 1.250,- euros sponsored by GEOlino - Das Erlebnisheft
The Wrong Trainers
Kez Margrie, England 2006
Computeranimation, 15:00 min
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Jury statement: Ours was a very tough decision to make because we had initially shortlisted a number of films for this award. In the end, we decided to award the Mo Prize to the makers of the documentary „The Wrong Trainers.“ We were very fascinated by this film and found it very enlightening and insightful. It is lovingly done and the soundtrack matches the documentary well. It was also very interesting to see how different children deal with their life situations.
High Five! Competition
Topic 2007: My Dreamjob
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1st prize
Mein Traumberuf – Jugendfilm e.V. Hamburg (My dream job)
Luis Arndt, Vincent Delius, Mirco Erichsen, Sebastian Pinzke, Oliver Zurhelle, Germany 2006
Fiction, 6:10 min
2nd prize
Traumberuf: Türsteher (My dream job: Bouncer)
Wildis Streng, Germany 2007
Fiction, 5:30 min
3rd prize
Carl der Postmann (Carl the post man)
Thomas Fischer, Germany 2007
Animation, 7:29 min
arte-Short Film Award
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6.000.- euros (Acquisition of the film and broadcast as part of arte's short film programme)
Mammal
Astrid Rieger, Germany 2006
Fiction, 7:25 min
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Jury statement: Through intelligent editing, the filmmaker takes us to a world in which reality and fantasy constantly alternate. This change of narrative levels reflects a relationship between a mother and her son and the development of this relationship. The actors’ contained interpretation of their characters as well as the absence of dialogue serve to highlight the films’ subject.
ZDFdokukanal-Award
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Jury: Angelika Hoffmann, Andrea Windisch
2.000,- euros (Acquisition of the film and boradcast on ZDFdokukanal)
Die gute Lage (In a Good Position)
Nancy Brandt, Germany 2006
Documentary, 13:36 min
Jury statement: In her documentary, filmmaker Nancy Brandt grants us some unusual glances into the living rooms of a Munich council estate. We are shown a multicultural society whose members have one main thing in common: they share the same roof over their heads. The camera’s circular movement creates a stark contrast to the still lives the estate’s inhabitants form.
The film’s plot, cinematography, editing and montage combine to form a highly successful and multi-faceted snapshot which manages to capture the entire microcosm of a tower block in just 13 minutes of film.
MUSIC in SHORTS Awards
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Jury: Ricardo Cortez, Corinna Dästner, Andrea Rothaug
The MUSIC in SHORTS Award national and international are sponsored by the GEMA Foundation presented by RockCity Hamburg e.V..
MUSIC in SHORTS Award International
Endowed with 2.000,- euros
i
Luke Losey, England 2006
Experimental, 1:30 min
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Jury statement: “i” by Luke Losey is a film in which images and sound literally see eye to eye. Only the sounds and noises created by sound designer Tim Harrison enable the audience to enter the film’s associative spaces. The film playfully conjures up a combination of assumed key stimuli and an atmospheric sound collage.
MUSIC in SHORTS Award National
Endowed with 2.000,- euros
Osmotic
Jan Verbeek, Germany/South-Korea 2006
Experimental Documentary, 3:03 min
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Jury statement: Jan Verbeek, who is both the director and the composer of the winning film, manages to give the soundtrack its own voice on several levels. While the sondtrack adds a character of equal importance to the film’s imagery, the cross fading and combination with the original sound adds another interesting aspect to its narrative: the alternation between the two levels of sound masterfully stages the parking attendant’s dancing conduction, which oscilllates between a dreamlike irreality and an almost documentary wakefulness.
