The prices of the 42nd Filmfest Munich are awarded. Arte can particularly look forward to the award in the category CinecoPro Award, the highest-dot price of the Munich Film Festival, which goes to the film and poeta of Simón Mesa Soto and thus to its German co-producer: inside Katharina Bergfeld and Heino Deckert von ma.ja.de.
The new German cinema 2025, which was already awarded on Friday evening Christina Tournatzés for her film “Karla“As the best director. Yvonne Görlach has won for the film in the” Best Screenplay “category and the Bavaria fiction mentoring program.
Sentimental Value from Joachim Trier wins the Audience Award International.
Excellent films and jury foundations in detail:
Cinecro Award to the German co-producer: Inside Katharina Bergfeld and Heino Deckert von ma.ja.de.
A poet
Feature film by Simón Mesa Soto
Germany/Colombia/Sweden 2024, 120 min.
ZDF/ART, DAS KLEIN
MIT: Ubeimar Ríos, Rebeca Andrade, Guillermo Cardona, Humberto Restrepo, Alisson Correa
Die Jury:
If you feel called to create art, how can you afford to get artists: in becoming in? In a world that does not make it easy for people to take this path, the compromises and fight begin here. The winning film shows how to master this struggle with compassion, excellent staging and humor when discussing great ideas, while at the same time it is gently disclosed by European perspectives and expectations. The co -production of this film was certainly not easy, but we had the impression that the partnership was very dynamic and alleviated many of the challenges. This is the type of co -production we want to recognize, and the jury is excited to do what the producers will do in the near future.
This year’s CinecoPro Award in the amount of 100,000 euros from Simón Mesa Soto, a Colombian-Swedish-German co-production, awards this year’s CinecoPro Award. “
Promotion Prize New German Cinema 2025 Director (Christina Tournatzés)
Promotion Prize New German cinema 2025 screenplay (Yvonne Görlach)
KARLA
Feature film by Christina Tournatzés
Screenplay: Yvonne Görlach
Deutschland 2024
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With: Elise Krieps, Rainer Bock, Imogen Kogge, Torben Liebrecht, Katharina Schüttler
Best direction: Christina Tournatzés for KARLA
Die Jury:
“With her first feature film director, Christina Tournatzés To the unspeakable and the insufficient. And yet she manages to find words and pictures with remarkable sensitivity and pronounced narrative flair – and to oppose the darkest abyss of courage and humanity.
Christina Tournatzés relies on the power of the cinema that is in KARLA Often from the dropout and projection – and precisely because of this, the audience from the first attitude to the end is both emotionally and morally caught up.
In doing so, it is orchestrated and conducts all cinematic means with impressive precision – from acting to a cut to a subtle and always sensitive visual language. Apparently casual reflections in a car plate, stairwells that arise like abysses, lightning of a photo apparatus and voices from the next room – this and many other grandiose narrative ideas make Karla a big film that points out that it is the work of a debutant.
Karla is a film that has been reverberating for a long time – staged with cinematic intelligence, a big heart and a deep admiration for his heroine. An admiration that is transferred to the audience.
For this outstanding director’s performance, we give the prize for the best direction to Christina Tournatzés. Congratulations!”
Best script: Yvonne Görlach for KARLA
Die Jury:
“Based on a true story Yvonne Götlarach The story of Karla, a 12-year-old girl who bravely stands against all conventions and a society or a world dominated by men, accuses and fights for justice.
With great narrative intuition without using common patterns, the author treats this story and her figure with a lot of respect and empathy.
She takes time, saves, does not illustrate, is never kitsch, indicates and leaves a lot away, which is not said, but takes place in our imagination and moves us all the more.
The secondary characters are also divided and lovingly stubbornly drawn.
“Sometimes you only need an island, a person, a street, a moment to survive,” quotes the figure of Imogen Kogge once Mascha Kaleko.
A script that trusts his characters. That relies on the power of silence. And what remains unspoken and hesitates for a long time.
For this impressive clarity, the courage to restraint and great emotional precision, the script price matters: KARLA.”
Audience Award International
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Feature film by Joachim Trier
Norway/Germany/Sweden/Denmark/France 2025, 135 min.
ZDF/ARTE, COMPLIZEN MOVIE, MER MOVIE, EYE EYE PICTURES, LUMEN, COMPLIZEN FILM, Zentropa
MIT: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lileaas, Anders Danielsen Lie
Arte congratulates warmly!