What a Berli\u00adnale! We are incred\u00adi\u00adbly proud of our stu\u00addents and alum\u00adni who pre\u00adsent\u00aded so many great films in almost all sec\u00adtions of the fes\u00adti\u00adval. In only 10 days, 14 of their films were shown 60 times on the cin\u00ade\u00adma screens of Germany\u2019s capital\u2014and there were award win\u00adners!<\/p>\n
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Sara Sum\u00adma, Miri\u00adam Bliese, and Simona Kostova\u2014three tal\u00adent\u00aded women direc\u00adtors from the DFFB cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded their fea\u00adture films\u2019 respec\u00adtive world and Ger\u00adman pre\u00admieres at the Berli\u00adnale. While Sara Sum\u00adma enjoyed a suc\u00adcess\u00adful world pre\u00admiere in Forum with GLI ULTIMI A VEDERLI VIVERE, Miri\u00adam Bliese\u2019s DIE EINZELTEILE DER LIEBE was pre\u00adsent\u00aded to the audi\u00adence for the first time in Per\u00adspek\u00adtive Deutsches Kino. DREISSIG by Simona Kos\u00adto\u00adva received its Ger\u00adman pre\u00admiere at the Berli\u00adnale and\u2014winner of this year\u2019s Max Oph\u00fcls Prize\u2014DAS MELANCHOLISCHE M\u00c4DCHEN by Susanne Hein\u00adrich made a guest appear\u00adance in Per\u00adspek\u00adtive Deutsches Kino.
\nWe wish our tal\u00adent\u00aded direc\u00adtors con\u00adtin\u00adued suc\u00adcess!<\/p>\n
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We warm\u00adly con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adlate our alum\u00adna Angela Schan\u00adelec who won the Sil\u00adver Bear for Best Direc\u00adtor<\/strong>. With ICH WAR ZU HAUSE, ABER the Berlin direc\u00adtor took part in the Berli\u00adnale com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion for the first time and impressed the inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal jury with ele\u00adments of the Berlin School\u2014a film with long, spa\u00adcious takes, and silence.<\/p>\n Con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions also go out to the team of SYSTEMSPRENGER, espe\u00adcial\u00adly to direc\u00adtor Nora Fin\u00adgschei\u00addt and DFFB alum\u00adnus and pro\u00adduc\u00ader Jonas Wey\u00adde\u00admann, who were award\u00aded the Sil\u00adver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize<\/strong> by the jury. The prize has been award\u00aded since 1987 to com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion fea\u00adture films that pro\u00advide new per\u00adspec\u00adtives on the art of film\u00admak\u00ading. The prize was named after the first direc\u00adtor of the fes\u00adti\u00adval Alfred Bauer. SYSTEMSPRENGER also received the Berlin\u00ader Mor\u00adgen\u00adpost Read\u00aders\u2019 Jury Prize.<\/p>\n Addi\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly, the Com\u00adpass-Per\u00adspek\u00adtive-Award<\/strong>, endowed with \u20ac5,000, was giv\u00aden to a film with DFFB par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion. We con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adlate BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree, who worked on the film with DFFB alum\u00adna and cin\u00ade\u00admatog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Siri Klug, for receiv\u00ading the award for the best film from the cur\u00adrent pro\u00adgramme of Per\u00adspek\u00adtive Deutsches Kino.<\/p>\n We also con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adlate DFFB grad\u00adu\u00adate Ana-Feli\u00adcia Scutel\u00adnicu, who was award\u00aded the Kom\u00adpagnon-Fel\u00adlow\u00adship<\/strong> for her treat\u00adment TRANSIT TIMES. The prize, joint\u00adly giv\u00aden by Berli\u00adnale Tal\u00adents and Per\u00adspek\u00adtive Deutsches Kino, offers a fel\u00adlow\u00adship of \u20ac5,000 for inde\u00adpen\u00addent script and project devel\u00adop\u00adment, a men\u00adtor\u00ading pro\u00adgramme to strength\u00aden the director\u2019s cre\u00adative vision, as well as coach\u00ading to improve net\u00adwork\u00ading with\u00adin the indus\u00adtry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A DFFB grad\u00adu\u00adate was award\u00aded a cov\u00adet\u00aded prize dur\u00ading the Berlin Critic\u2019s Week\u2014for her extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary work on HAGAZUSSA, our grad\u00adu\u00adate and cin\u00ade\u00admatog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Mariel Baque\u00adiro received the prize for Best Cam\u00adera<\/strong> giv\u00aden by <\/p>\n Anoth\u00ader rea\u00adson to cel\u00ade\u00adbrate: DFFB alum\u00adnus Julian Radl\u00admaier was award\u00aded the Gold\u00aden Lola 2019 for the best unfilmed script<\/strong> for his treat\u00adment BLUTSAUGER. The prize, endowed with \u20ac10,000, was pre\u00adsent\u00aded at the recep\u00adtion of the Ver\u00adband Deutsch\u00ader Drehbuchau\u00adtoren (VDD) by Moni\u00adka Gr\u00fct\u00adters, the Fed\u00ader\u00adal Gov\u00adern\u00adment Com\u00admis\u00adsion\u00ader for Cul\u00adture and Media.<\/p>\n Wow! Con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions to all stu\u00addents and alum\u00adni on being invit\u00aded to par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate in the fes\u00adti\u00adval and espe\u00adcial\u00adly to the prizewin\u00adners! We are look\u00ading for\u00adward to the next sea\u00adson and can only add one thing: Keep up the good work!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a Berli\u00adnale! We are incred\u00adi\u00adbly proud of our stu\u00addents and alum\u00adni who pre\u00adsent\u00aded so many great films in almost all sec\u00adtions of the fes\u00adti\u00adval. In only 10 days, 14 of their films were shown 60 times on the cin\u00ade\u00adma screens of Germany\u2019s capital\u2014and there were award win\u00adners! 4 films screened in Forum or Per\u00adspek\u00adtive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":15138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHAGAZUSSA cel\u00ade\u00adbrates suc\u00adcess dur\u00ading the Berlin Critic\u2019s Week<\/h2>\n
\nthe Ger\u00adman Film Crit\u00adics Asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion. We would like to con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adlate HAGAZUSSA on win\u00adning this award, anoth\u00ader prize to add to its col\u00adlec\u00adtion after the film received the FIRST STEPS AWARDS 2018.<\/p>\nJulian Radlmeier brings home the Gold\u00aden Lola for the best unfilmed script<\/h2>\n