Highest prize for ARTE co-production (PHOTO)
Strasbourg (ots) – The prizes of the 41st Munich Film Festival have been awarded. ARTE is particularly pleased about the award in the CineCoPro Award category, the Munich Film Festival’s most valuable prize, which went to the ZDF-ARTE co-production TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel and THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe, also one ZDF-ARTE co-production, was additionally recognized with an honorable mention. The CineCoPro Award honors German co-producers of international co-productions.
The New German Cinema 2024 SCRIPT Award, which was awarded on Friday evening, honored Aaron Arens and Lukas Loose for the ARTE co-production SONNENPLÄTZE (BR/ARTE, Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion, HFF Munich).
The ONE FUTURE PRIZE, awarded by the Inferfilm Academy, is dedicated to films that “deal ethically and aesthetically with the indivisible future of this world.” In 2024, the ONE FUTURE PRIZE goes to the documentary PETRA KELLY – ACT NOW by Doris Metz (RBB/BR/ARTE, Bildersturm Filmproduktion) and posthumously to Petra Kelly for her life’s work and her tireless socio-political commitment.
Award-winning films and jury statements in detail:
CineCoPro Award
CineCoPro Award to the German co-producer François Morisset
To a Land Unknown
By Mahdi Fleifel
Germany/Great Britain/Greece 2024
ZDF/ARTE, Inside Out Films, Nakba Filmworks, Salaud Morisset
Mit: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa, Mouataz Alshalton ua
Honorable mention for German co-producer Nicole Gerhards from NiKo Film.
The Village Next To Paradise
By Mo Harawe
Germany/France/Austria/Somalia 2024
ARTE/ZDF, Freibeuter Film, NiKo Film, Kazak Productions
Mit: Ahmed Ali Farah, Anab Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohamud Saleban ua
Jury (director Baran bo Odar, actress Leonie Benesch and producer Sol Bondy):
“We would like to thank Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner for their tireless efforts in bringing this great prize back to life. Thank you to the Free State of Bavaria and the FFF, because with this prize you recognize and support the work of the many German producers, that tell stories far from home and thus find an audience all over the world. In this competition we saw 10 wonderful, diverse films that represent the entire spectrum of international cinema.
And of these ten films, two particularly impressed us. Since we thought both films were great, but only one can win, it was important to us to honor one of them with a special mention. The special mention goes to: THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE. The film provides a sensitive insight into the life of a Somali patchwork family. With calm, haunting performances, this film touched and enlightened us in equal measure.
The CineCoPro Award goes to a film that has deeply moved and captivated us. He is a portrait of young, stranded men who, in their desperation, have to cross all boundaries in order to maintain their dream, their prospect of a safe life in Europe. We are taken into a world that is at once tender and cruel, relentlessly raw and heartbreakingly human – where characters can’t help but do the wrong thing. We were blown away by the precision and warmth of the game, the clearly told and captivating story and the outstanding artistic achievements of all departments. We are very pleased to present the CineCoPro Award to the producers of TO A LAND UNKNOWN to hand over. Congratulations!”
New German Cinema Promotion Award 2024
New German Cinema Promotion Award 2024 SCREENPLAY for Aaron Arens and Lukas Loose
Sun spots
By Aaron Arens
Screenplay: Aaron Arens/LukasLoose
Deutschland 2023
BR/ARTE, Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion, HFF Munich
With: Julia Windischbauer, Juliane Köhler, Niels Bormann, Jeremias Meyer, Jeremy Mockridge, Oscar Ortega Sánchez, Sotiria Loucopoulos and others
Jury (actor and director Denis Moschitto, director Mariko Minoguchi and producer Florian Koerner von Gustorf):
“When the family unintentionally gathers in the holiday home on Lanzarote and no one can escape, everything is brought to the table. The two authors manage to put those involved in full swing, but always portray them with the necessary respect.”
ONE-FUTURE-PREIS
Petra Kelly – Act now!
By Doris Metz
Deutschland 2024
RBB/BR/ARTE, iconoclasm film production
Jury (Interfilm Academy):
“With analytical and ethical expertise, the German director Doris Metz succeeds in creating a passionate documentary film about Petra Kelly, her life, her intense political work and her tragic fate from extensive archive material. It becomes clear how Petra Kelly has become a symbolic figure of German environmentalism. and peace movement in the 80s, a charismatic politician and visionary (1947-1992), who did not describe herself as a politician, but as a political person. Growing up in the 60s, she fought just as passionately as a student in Robert Kennedy’s campaign team She, back in Germany, at all political levels as an active member of citizens’ initiatives, as a co-founder of the Green Party, as a member of the Bundestag in Bonn, in peace demonstrations against the nuclear threat, as the winner of the alternative Nobel Prize in 1982. Doris Metz specifically allows contemporary witnesses to have their say comes and shows Petra Kelly as a global activist and fighter for human rights, justice, equality and non-violence and for the ecological movement. The filmic portrait of this strong-willed and passionate personality who wanted change shakes us up to civil disobedience and at the same time shamefully shows us as viewers what we as fellow human beings have missed and repressed out of convenience over the last few decades. The film should be shown and discussed everywhere in cinemas, schools, academies, churches, etc., because it manifests the topicality and modernity in the thinking of this great woman who rejected “politics as a business”, which is still rampant everywhere today. This film is a call and at the same time a program for a common, better future, also in the spirit of her last book “Thinking with the Heart – Texts for a Credible Future.”
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