Filmfest München

The Munich Film Festival (proper spelling: Filmfest München ) is the second largest film festival in Germany. It is held annually in late June in Munich and is Germany's most important summer film festival. It presents feature films, documentaries and short films as well as television films in the international, European or German premiere. The 31st edition will take place from July 6, 2013 from June 28. Festival Director is Diana Iljine since 2012.

With more than 200 films on 18 screens and approximately 70,000 visitors, it is primarily a public festival. At the same time it serves to journalists and trade visitors as a meeting place for the film industry.

The film festival lasts for nine days. After the opening event in Mathäser movie palace, the festival plays at central venues along the film festival mile. In 2012, the Film Museum, CinemaxX, Gasteig and the RIO movie palace have been added to the ARRI cinema and the cinema of the HFF and so extend the Film Festival - mile up in the plastic area around the art galleries and in the university district. The Press and guest center of the Munich Film Festival is in Gasteig culture. Organizers of the festival is the Munich Film International GmbH weeks, which also hosts the autumn annual International Festival of Film Schools Munich. The partners are the State of Bavaria, the Bavarian capital Munich, the umbrella organization of the film industry ( SPIO ) and the Bayerische Rundfunk.

• 3.1 Encounter Film Festival
• 3.2 Animation Meeting

History

The Munich Film Festival 1983 was held for the first time. Eberhard Hauff, brother of the director Reinhard Hauff, the festival director until 2003. Was succeeded by Andreas Ströhl. According to the 29th edition of the festival in 2011 Diana Iljine took over the management.

The Munich Film Festival is the second largest film festival in Germany. In 2009, a new record for attendance was set up with around 73,500 tickets. Every year, more than 2,500 German and international media professionals from film, television and video industry as well as more than 600 journalists are accredited by the Munich Film Festival.

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The film festival offers an open program - from big premieres to the no-budget underground, from the dedicated movie up to the current political documentation. A special emphasis has traditionally been the promotion of young talents from all over the world. Attaches particular importance to Munich also drawing on the German filmmaker. Besides the traditional ranks of the festival program new thematic or regional focal points are also repeatedly setting. After a redesign of the series in 2012 are the current ranks of the Munich Film Festival:

Cinema Marketers

The ARRI competition for the best international film. A selection of international films is in the series Cinema Marketers competing for the ARRI Award, which is awarded by an international jury.

CineVision

The competition for the best international film talent. International directing talents compete in the series with their first or second films by the CineVision Award. A three-member expert jury selects the winners.

Spotlight

In the series spotlight great stories, great feelings, films with big name in front or behind the camera are shown since 2012. From some newspapers this new series was interpreted as a manifestation of a desire for more glitz and glamor.

International Independents

In the series International Independents, the festival presents young, innovative cinema from around the world since 2012 his audience. In this series, the American Independents go on for years many U.S. indie directors offered their first international platform - including Steven Soderbergh ( Schizopolis ), Jonathan Demme ( Stop Making Sense), Ethan and Joel Coen ( Blood Simple ), Allison Anders ( Border Radio ), Tom DiCillo ( Living in Oblivion ) and Richard Linklater ( Slacker ) - and were so become a figurehead of the Munich Film Festival. The aim is to contribute to the increasing globalization in the film industry into account and not to move into the center of viewing the production style of the country.

New German Cinema

Shown are only movies in German premiere. German directors such as Sönke Wortmann ( alone among women ), Rainer Kaufmann ( Talk of the Town ), Oskar Roehler (New Year countdown) and Marcus H. Rose Mueller ( who dies earlier, is dead longer) showed their films here for the first time. The Oscar - nominated films Beyond Silence by Caroline Link and The Story of the Weeping Camel by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni had their first performance in the series. Will be awarded in this series of the German Film.

New German TV

Premieres of selected television films will be shown in a separate section. The television games compete for the 25,000 euro Bernd- burgomaster - Television Award. The Series 2000 is emerged from the international TV series Top TV. In 2011, among other films by Rainer Kaufmann ( Blueberry, foehn An alpine thriller. ), Tim Trachte ( of which you want to know anything) and Dominik Graf - shown ( Police 110 Cassandras warning).

Tribute

The series pays homage combines all the movies, with whom the festival the work of individual artists draw extra attention. One can also find new documentaries dedicated to the cinema and its creators. For series tribute include: CineMerit, Tribute to ... and silent film. Even the formerly own set retrospective will continue as part of the tribute series since 2012. The retrospectives of well known directors and filmmakers included Sergio Leone (1986 ), Im Kwon- taek (1990 ), Lars von Trier ( 1991), Hal Hartley ( 1992), Nagisa Oshima (1992 ), Stanley Donen (1992 ), Nanni Moretti ( 1994), Michael Haneke (1994, 2009), Nelson Pereira ( 1995), Nicolas Roeg (1995 ), Robert Wise (1996 ), Ron Bass (1996 ), Roman Polanski (1999), Milos Forman (2000), Aki & Mika Kaurismäki (2004), Alan Parker ( 2004), Barry Levinson ( 2006), Mike Figgis (2006 ), Richard Linklater (2007 ), Werner Herzog ( 2007), Herbert Achternbusch and Julie Christie (2008 each ), Stephen Frears (2009), Ulrich Seidl (2010), Roy Andersson and John Malkovich (both 2011), Melanie Griffith ( 2012) and Alejandro Jodorowsky ( 2013).

Children's Film Festival

Shown feature films and short films, documentaries, if possible, for an age group between four and fourteen years. It is awarded a Children's Film Audience Award.

Open Air

On the Piazza of the festival center Gasteig seven films annually changing theme are shown with free admission to seven nights. The open-air series, 2011, for example, was titled cats.

The International Programme rows ( with directors such as Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Frears or Danny Boyle ), Nouveau Cinéma Français ( with films of the original Nouvelle Vague directors ( Godard, Chabrol, Rivette, Rohmer ) as well as their successors ( under other Tavernier, Chéreau, Leconte, Desplechin ); author films by young, still unknown directors, but also examples of the Arctic, the French police and gangster film ), Visiones Latinas ( with directors such as Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel and Carlos Reygadas ) and focus Far East ( with films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza, Joon- ho Bong ) went on from 2012 to the newly created, above rows.

Events

Encounter Film Festival

2009 a series of lectures was introduced to film formation in cooperation with the Munich Community College. 2010 arose from the series of lectures encounter Film Festival, where the audience gets a glimpse behind the scenes and was continued in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The series also introduced in 2010, " Film Festival in the morning " (Morning Movies) was continued until 2012.

Animation Meeting

The MedienCampus Bayern held each year by a panel discussion and in cooperation with film animation tools consult the meeting on the Munich Film Festival, during which the latest developments are presented in the animation industry.

Prizes and awards

At the Munich Film Festival the following prizes will be awarded:

• With the CineMerit Award Filmfest München honors since 1997 outstanding personalities of the international filmmaking for her contributions to the art of film.

• The ARRI / OSRAM Award ( to 2010 ARRI - ZEISS price by 2012 ARRI Award ), worth 50,000 euros will be awarded to the best foreign film. The decision is made by a three-member independent jury. Will be donated to the price of ARRI, since 2013 together with the OSRAM light AG.

• The CineVision Award, which since 2012 is donated by Senator Entertainment AG (formerly DZ Bank), should serve to help young directors from abroad actively. The prize of 12,000 Euro prize is awarded to the Munich Film Festival since 2007. An independent jury will award a non-German film, distinguished by its innovative character and aesthetic to go new ways. Preferably, these are the first or second feature film of the director.

• The Young German Cinema Award, sponsored by the DZ Bank, the Bavaria Film and Bayerischer Rundfunk, is endowed with 70,000 euros and is in the categories of direction, screenwriting and acting ( Actress / Actor ) awarded.

• Bernd burgomaster Television Award (formerly: VFF TV Movie Award ): The donated by the VFF collecting society, the film and television producers prize is worth 25,000 euros. This outstanding German television films and their producers are excellent.

• The Tele 5 Award emerges from an online vote on the website of the TV channel Tele 5 among the nominated movies of the German Film Festival program. He was awarded in 2011 and 2012.

• At Bayern 3 Audience Award, presented by the evening paper, the visitor choose the Filmfest München their favorites from the film festival program. The Audience Award was first awarded in 2004.

• Children's Film Festival Audience Award: the young visitors of the Munich Film Festival assess the films of the Children's Film Festival and vote for their favorite for a private audience award.

• The One Future Prize of the Ecumenical Inter -supported film Munich Academy honors films that deal ethically and aesthetically movie with the theme of an indivisible future for this world. The prize is awarded to a film from the entire program of the Munich Film Festival since 1986 every year.

In addition, as part of the film festival it will be awarded by:

• Bernhard Wicki Film Award - The Bridge - The Peace Prize of the German film pays tribute to artistic works that build bridges and which are characterized by content and cinematic power. The award is endowed with 10,000 euros.

• The white elephant: the association initiated by the Media Club Munich Children 's Media Award honors productions that will help promote the development of children and young people and contribute to the quality of the offers will be improved and increased.

• Shocking Shorts Award: the 13th Street station with this award from innovative directing talent and unconventional formats. The winner will receive a backstage pass to Universal Studios, Hollywood.

• Treatment competitions for documentary / documentation: the aligned sponsored by the Bavarian Radio and Tele Pool GmbH Munich Competition seeks to promote the documentary filmmaking in Germany and in German-speaking Europe. He is alternately " cinema documentary capable or suitable for television documentary" annually organizes a contest in the category and has become one of the most important prices in this genre.
• The information carried by Catholic dioceses film investment company Tellux awards annually in the Film Festival which is endowed with 10,000 euros Fritz Gerlich Award - the donated in memory of Fritz Gerlich only Catholic Film Award in Germany - for contemporary game or documentaries that a publicly debated in courageous manner pick up on the topic, which deals with resistance to intolerance and dictatorship, abuse of power, persecution and humiliation.