The 20th First First Steps Awards will be pre\u00adsent\u00aded on Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 9, 2019, and the DFFB is delight\u00aded to have five nom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions for these cov\u00adet\u00aded awards:<\/p>\n
Direc\u00adtor Susanne Hein\u00adrich<\/strong>\u2019s fea\u00adture film DAS MELANCHOLISCHE M\u00c4DCHEN has been nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the best fea\u00adture-length film, which comes with a \u20ac25,000 prize.<\/p>\n Direc\u00adtor Lothar Her\u00adzog<\/strong>\u2019s fea\u00adture film 1986 has also been nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded in the same cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry.<\/p>\n Cin\u00ade\u00admatog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Agnesh Pakoz\u00addi<\/strong> is nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the MICHAEL BALLHAUS PRIZE, which comes with a \u20ac10,000 prize, for her work on DAS MELANCHOLISCHE M\u00c4DCHEN.<\/p>\n Pro\u00adduc\u00ader Romana Janik<\/strong> is nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the NO FEAR AWARD, which comes with a \u20ac10,000 prize, for her work on the film 1986.<\/p>\n And final\u00adly, Jacob Haupt\u00admann<\/strong>\u2019s screen\u00adplay ZEIT DER MONSTER is nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the FIRST STEPS SCREENPLAY PRIZE, which comes with a \u20ac10,000 prize.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DAS MELANCHOLISCHE M\u00c4DCHEN<\/p>\n A girl roams through the city look\u00ading for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young moth\u00aders who cel\u00ade\u00adbrate moth\u00ader\u00adhood reli\u00adgious\u00adly, goes home with an absti\u00adnent exis\u00adten\u00adtial\u00adist for whom sex is \u201cjust anoth\u00ader mar\u00adket\u201d, and waits for the end of cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn\u2019t make it beyond the first sen\u00adtence of the sec\u00adond chap\u00adter, and she finds no space between art gal\u00adleries, yoga stu\u00addios, and the beds of strangers. Instead of try\u00ading to fit in, she starts per\u00adceiv\u00ading her depres\u00adsion as a polit\u00adi\u00adcal issue. Through 15 of the girl\u2019s humor\u00adous encoun\u00adters, DAS MELANCHOLISCHE M\u00c4DCHEN, explores our post-mod\u00adern soci\u00adety between pre\u00adcar\u00adi\u00adty and self-mar\u00adket\u00ading, ser\u00adi\u00adal monogamy and neo-spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, dis\u00adil\u00adlu\u00adsion\u00adment and the pres\u00adsure to be hap\u00adpy. Susanne Heinrich\u2019s debut film brings togeth\u00ader pop and the\u00ado\u00adry, fem\u00adi\u00adnism and humour, and gives you tons of quotes you\u2019ll want to see on adver\u00adtis\u00ading bill\u00adboards in neon let\u00adters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1986<\/strong><\/p>\n Ele\u00adna is a stu\u00addent in Min\u00adsk, Belarus. She has a pas\u00adsion\u00adate but increas\u00ading\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult rela\u00adtion\u00adship with her boyfriend Vic\u00adtor. When her father is sud\u00adden\u00adly arrest\u00aded, she has to con\u00adtin\u00adue his ille\u00adgal busi\u00adness\u00ades. In order to make deals for him, she must repeat\u00aded\u00adly dri\u00adve into the \u2018for\u00adbid\u00adden zone\u2019 of Tch\u00ader\u00adnobyl. She is fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded by the zone\u2019s decep\u00adtive beauty\u2014but soon her life seems con\u00adt\u00ada\u00adm\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded by a destruc\u00adtive force\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ZEIT DER MONSTER<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s the sum\u00admer of 1914, just before the begin\u00adning of the First World War. Elsa (19), a nurse with a strict Calvin\u00adist upbring\u00ading, takes a posi\u00adtion in a remote hos\u00adpi\u00adtal ward in the Ger\u00adman colony of Cameroon. While the lead\u00ading physi\u00adcian Alexan\u00adder (37), with Elsa\u2019s help, rig\u00ador\u00adous\u00adly pur\u00adsues his research to cre\u00adate a drug against nar\u00adcolep\u00adsy, his wife Lydia (28) strug\u00adgles to find mean\u00ading in her life. When Elsa dis\u00adcov\u00aders sev\u00ader\u00adal poi\u00adsoned ani\u00admals in the infir\u00admary, the com\u00adman\u00adder of the near\u00adest police force begins to inves\u00adti\u00adgate the case with bru\u00adtal meth\u00adods. The irrup\u00adtion of vio\u00adlence caus\u00ades the already frag\u00adile struc\u00adture of the infir\u00admary to col\u00adlapse and brings repressed desires to the sur\u00adface, which plunges Elsa\u2019s ordered world view into chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 20th First First Steps Awards will be pre\u00adsent\u00aded on Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 9, 2019, and the DFFB is delight\u00aded to have five nom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions for these cov\u00adet\u00aded awards: Direc\u00adtor Susanne Hein\u00adrich\u2019s fea\u00adture film DAS MELANCHOLISCHE M\u00c4DCHEN has been nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the best fea\u00ad\u00adture-length film, which comes with a \u20ac25,000 prize. 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