Braunschweig International Film Festival (BIFF) Photo: Information about the press agency dts
Brunswick. The juries for the International Film Festival, which starts on Monday, decided. For this year’s selection of winning films, the festival was able to recruit 25 jurors for the seven jury awards, organizers announced Thursday.
“The awards offer not only financial support, but above all visibility and appreciation for emerging filmmakers,” said Karina Gauerhof, one of the festival’s two directors and program manager. “That’s why we attach great importance to technical expertise and different perspectives when we put the juries together each year, so that we can always put together the best possible constellations for the respective jury awards at our festival,” she adds. For the Volkswagen Financial Services Film Prize (€ 10,000), for example, the jury is composed of Maik Schöttke, head of the media center of the main sponsor, Alik Shpilyuk, artistic director of the Ukrainian Film Academy and program consultant of the Odesa International Film Festival, and Anna Kazejak, member of the Polish and European Film Academy festivals and director of the film “Fucking Bornholm”.
Mixed judges
The jury of the “Heimspiel Prize” (prize money of 2,500 euros) includes Franziska Stünkel, screenwriter, photographer and director of the film “Nahshot”, Cornelia Köhler, author, and Anna Deileke, event organizer at the indoor pool culture center in Wolfsburg. Klaus Buhlmann, one of the sponsors of the award, Sabine Weimann of the Federal Casting Association and Braunschweig-born actress Bibiana Beglau decide the “Braunschweig Film Prize”, which is associated with a prize pool of 5,000 euros.
Natalie Lettenewitsch, research associate at Freie Universität Berlin with research work on the documentary on nature, Klaus Fricke, head of the chair for waste and resource management at TU Braunschweig and member of the Ökoinstitut eV and María Vallecillos Soldado supervise the “Green Horizons Award “, awarded since 2018, responsible for the film competition at the NaturVision film festival in Ludwigsburg. The prize for the queer film “Echt” will be awarded for the first time this year to Kai Pieck, director and author and promoter of the Queer Media Society initiative, to actress Nadine Wrietz and Robin Ivy Osterkamp, consultant of the state department for trans, decide who receives the 2,500 euros of the Queer Network of Lower Saxony.
Pupils from France have a say
This year’s jury for the “Die TILDA” film award (5,000 euros) is made up of the two sponsors of the award Sabine Brombach and Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić, as well as Sophie Brakemeier, film critic of the feminist magazine “Filmlöwin” and Verena Gräfe – Höft, producer. Supported by director and jury president Gordian Maugg, six schoolchildren aged 16 to 18 from Normandy and Lower Saxony will once again award the best film in German or French with the “KINEMA” youth award this year. The prize pool is 2,500 euros.
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