25th Braunschweig International Film Festival honours Isabelle Huppert with the European Actors Award ”The Europa“The 25th International Film Festival Braunschweig honours French Actress Isabelle Huppert with its main prize, the European Actors Award ”The Europa“. Huppert receives the award for her outstanding artistic performances and contribution to European film culture. Isabelle Huppert will be presented with the statue ”The Europa“ on November 13 during the award ceremony in Bra...
3441 films later – Braunschweig International Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary ”European cinema and ‘Music and Film’ – are the two pillars on which the festival plans to continue to grow in the next 25 years“, says Volker Kufahl, head of the Braunschweig International Film Festival. The 25th anniversary will be celebrated from November 8-13 with 160 films and many guests, making it the oldest and - with its more than 25.000 visitors - also the biggest film festival in ...
Audience
festival showing 160 long/short films to 23.000 spectators.
Offers three competitions:
- THE HEINRICH award for European debut & second features (10.000 Euro)
- THE LEO for the best combination of sound/music and image in a short film (2.000 Euro)
- the French-German youth award KINEMA for the best debut film
Main award of the festival is THE EUROPA for outstanding performances of a European actress or actor and her or his contribution to European film culture (10.000 Euro). Hanna Schygulla, Bruno Ganz and John Hurt received the EUROPA in recent years.
The festival's second focus is "Music & Film" with film concerts, a portray of a composer and a music master class. Reknown composers like Michael Nyman, Carl Davis, Craig Armstrong and Zbigniew Preisner have been guests of this programme.
Other programmes are "New International Cinema", "New German Film" and an extensive short fiml programme.
A jury is considered independent when its members are not selected by the Berlinale. A number of independent juries award prizes at the Berlinale. The high level of quality and diversity of the films are an invitation for critical examination and discerning judgment that opens up new directions. Accordingly the independent juries award their prizes along different criteria, in accordance to the special intention linked to each award.
Award ceremony of the Independent Juries 2009
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Audience festival showing 150 long/short films, 22.000 spectators. Competitions: European Actors Award, Award for European debut & second features. Focus on Music&Film with film concerts, portray of a composer. And: New International & German cinema.
Film music made in Germany - At the 60th Film Festival in Cannes, Monday May 21 2007, is given over to German film music. The guest of honour of GERMAN FILM MUSIC is the film music composer Klaus Doldinger, who wrote the score for the films THE BOAT, THE NEVER ENDING STORY and others. The German Film Music Day is organised by Soundtrack_Cologne and mediamusic:nrw, and presented by the Composers' Club - Deutscher Komponistenverband and the German Composers Association in cooperation with ...
Film music made in Germany - At the 60th Film Festival in Cannes, Monday May 21 2007, is given over to German film music. The guest of honour of GERMAN FILM MUSIC is the film music composer Klaus Doldinger, who wrote the score for the films THE BOAT, THE NEVER ENDING STORY and others.The German Film Music Day is organised by Soundtrack_Cologne and mediamusic:nrw, and presented by the Composers' Club - Deutscher Komponistenverband and the German Composers Association in cooperation with FFACE, th...
