We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 40th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Jury: Manuel Abramovich, Aboozar Amini, Flóra Anna Buda, Lucía Salas, Greta Snider
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€):
Kim Torres: The Moon Will Contain Us
Jury Statement: "We would like to award the main prize to a film that creates a true collaboration. Two generations meet, and by doing a film they form a community. This community decides to trace a memory, which could be also a memory of the future. By exploring sensitively a place and the ways everyone has to walk through it, and the details of this relationship, this film creates its own ways to do films, one that is imaginative, affective, and shared."
DEFRAMED AWARD (2.000€):
Jonelle Twum: I Think of Silences When I Think of You
Jury Statement: "A unique perspective on migration that is rarely seen on cinema. Using the archive vividly, this film reclaims home movies and family movies in a way that is both joyful and though-provoking. We want to give the Deframed award to this film which, with very few elements (a fragment of the past and a few images from the present) creates a whole affective universe."
HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Sara Kontar: 3350 KM
Jury Statement: "There are some people amongst us who only have music left to connect with their fading memories. What they do is to look for those lost words, those melodies that can give a sense of home. We would like to award the European Film Academy nomination to 3350 km by Sara Kontar."
SPECIAL MENTION:
Zuza Banasińska: Grandmamauntsistercat
Jury Statement: "A film in which 1 + 1 is not 2 but three: a feminist perspective of the archive, which doesn’t use images, but has a conversation with them to create an idea of what places people occupied in them, and what places they can occupy now. Recovering pieces of East-European heritage, this film creates room for thoughts about the past and the present. We would like to give a special mention to Grandmamauntsistercat, by Zuza Banasińska."
GERMAN COMPETITION
Jury: Toby Ashraf, Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, Gerald Weber
JURY AWARD (2.000 €):
Eva Könnemann: That's All from Me
Jury Statement: "Eva Könnemann skillfully interweaves reality and fiction, combines video letters with crowded long shots and goes to unexpected places to find answers to her question: How do you remain an artist once you have become a mother? With its subtle humor and precise sense of timing, the film develops a unique magic and puts a smile on your face while the wild geese fly into the sky."
SPECIAL MENTION
Miranda Siegel: Ignore Your True Feelings at Your Own Peril
Jury Statement: “Before we hear the sound of convenient elevator music, Miranda Siegel throws up. She continues to do so every day and documents this inconvenient truth even during her stay in the psychiatric ward. Her severe struggle against her own body is juxtaposed with her dry sense of humor in this smart and stunning video journal that makes visible what is otherwise hidden – from society or from oneself. Kudos to her courage, frankness and irony in solving this and other puzzles."
TRIPLE AXEL COMPETITION (1.000€):
Olaf Held: Spätsommer 91
The Audience Award is supported by the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
ARTE AWARD:
José Luis Jiménez Gómez: The Reign of Antoine
The competition spanning ARTE Short Film Award consists of the purchase of one film (up to 6,000 euros) and its subsequent screening in the »Kurzschluss« programme by ARTE, the Franco-German cultural TV channel.
AUDIENCE AWARD (1500€):
Franzis Kabisch: getty abortions
Der Publikumspreis, dotiert mit 1.500 Euro, geht wettbewerbsübergreifend an einen Film aus dem Internationalen oder Deutschen Wettbewerb.
MO&FRIESE AWARDS:
Friese-Award: The Mystery of Missing Socks – Oskar Lehemaa, special mention: Semiotics of the Home – Hsin-Yu Chen/Jessi Ali Lin
Mo-Award: The Creators – Madeleine Homan, special mention: Circle – Yumi Joung
Neon-Award: Bubbling – Che-ming Chang, special mention: Papillon – Florence Miailhe
Nomination ECFA Short Film Award: Yuck! – Loïc Espuche, special mention: Death to the Bikini! – Justine Gauthi
