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German Film Award For Best Documentary Film
The German Film Award for Best Documentary Film () is the award given to the best feature-length cinema documentary produced with majoritarian German funding. The current category was introduced in 2000, although numerous similar categories were in existence going back all the way to 1951. As of 2020, besides the Lola statuette in gold, the winning film also receives 200.000 euros. A nomination is endowed with 100.00 euros. In 2012 the number of nominated films was raised from two to three. List of winning films External links Official list of all award recipients since 2005German Film Awardsat the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... Documentary Documentary film awards Awards established in 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Film Award
The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important film award in Germany, it is also the most highly endowed German cultural award, with cash prizes in its current 20 categories totalling nearly three million euros. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, but since 2005 the award has been organized by the German Film Academy ( Deutsche Filmakademie). The Federal Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs has been responsible for the administration of the prize since 1999. The awards ceremony is traditionally held in Berlin. History The award was created in 1951 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and was first given out during the Berlin Film Festival. A practice that was kept for the upcoming decades. Since 1999 it is commissioned by the Federal Government Commissioner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workingman's Death
''Workingman's Death'' is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world. The film is composed of six differently titled chapters. The first five depict hazardous conditions of hard laborers around the world and the sixth shows contrasting scenes of youths in a former German industrial complex which had been converted into a leisure park: #''Heroes'' – Miners of Donets Basin, Ukraine #''Ghosts'' – Sulfur carriers in Ijen, Indonesia #''Lions'' – Butchers in an open-air market in Port Harcourt, Nigeria #''Brothers'' – Welders in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan #''The Future'' – Steel workers in Liaoning, China #''Epilogue'' – Youths in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in Germany Reception The film was met with a largely positive critical reception with a 73% approval ratin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Imhoof
Markus Imhoof (born 19 September 1941) is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director. Biography He began his career as a documentary maker, focusing on controversial issues. His 1968 film ''Rondo'' was a critical look at the prison system in Switzerland. The film was banned until 1975. His next picture, ''Ormenis 199+69'' (1969) also met with censorship, as it examined the role and treatment of horses in the cavalry and suggested that the unit ought to be disbanded. Imhoof was forced to make some edits before the film could be screened in public, removing scenes that military veterans found objectionable. Only in 2002 did the film became available in uncensored form. ''Volksmund - oder man ist was man isst'' (''Vernacular - One Is What One Eats'') (1972) was a documentary critical of consumption in society. Later in his career Imhoof began directing regular narrative films as well. His film ''Das Boot ist voll'' (''The Boat Is Full'') (1980) received inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More Than Honey
More or Mores may refer to: Computing * MORE (application), outline software for Mac OS * more (command), a shell command * MORE protocol, a routing protocol * Missouri Research and Education Network Music Albums * ''More!'' (album), by Booka Shade, 2010 * ''More'' (soundtrack), by Pink Floyd with music from the 1969 film * ''More...'' (Trace Adkins album), or the title song, 1999 * ''More'' (Mary Alessi album), 2005 * ''More'' (Beyoncé EP), 2014 * ''More'' (Michael Bublé EP), 2005 * ''More'' (Clarke-Boland Big Band album), 1968 * ''More'' (Double Dagger album), 2009 * ''More...'' (Montell Jordan album), 1996 * ''More'' (Crystal Lewis album), 2001 * ''More'' (Giuseppi Logan album), 1966 * ''More'' (No Trend album), 2001 * ''More'' (Jeremy Riddle album), or the title song, 2017 * ''More'' (Symphony Number One album), 2016 * ''More'' (Tamia album), or the title song, 2004 * ''More'' (Vitamin C album), 2001 * ''More'', by Mylon LeFevre, 1983 * ''More'', by Resin Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinna Belz
Corinna Belz is a German documentary filmmaker. She is known for the films '' Gerhard Richter Painting'' (2011), '' Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late'' (2016) and '' Inside the Uffizi'' (2021). Life and career Corinna Belz studied philosophy, art history and media studies in Cologne and Berlin. After her first film about Gerhard Richter's Cologne Cathedral Window (2007), Belz made the feature length documentary '' Gerhard Richter Painting'' (2011). In 2017, Richter and Belz developed the abstract film ''Moving Picture (946-3)'', for which Steve Reich wrote the composition "Reich/Richter". The piece was performed in New York City in 2019 by Ensemble Signal, at the Barbican Centre in London, Philharmonie de Paris and other European venues. Performances at the Walker Art Center, Soundstream Festival Toronto, Walt Disney Concert Hall and by the London Sinfonietta to follow in 2023. For an exhibition in Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Richter Painting
''Gerhard Richter Painting'' is a 2011 German documentary film about the artist Gerhard Richter. It was directed by Corinna Belz. It received the German Film Award for Best Documentary Film. Synopsis The film follows the contemporary artist Gerhard Richter. It focuses on his creative process as he develops and completes a new piece. Release The film was released in Germany on 8 September 2011. Reception Racher Salz of ''The New York Times'' said the film shows rather than tells and called Richter "an excellent subject, serious and purposeful but also unexpectedly good-natured". Alissa Simon of ''Variety'' called the film "a gorgeously rendered work of art". ''Gerhard Richter Painting'' received the German Film Award for Best Documentary Film The German Film Award for Best Documentary Film () is the award given to the best feature-length cinema documentary produced with majoritarian German funding. The current category was introduced in 2000, although numerous similar categor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian-Piero Ringel
Gian-Piero Ringel (born 1976 in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German producer. Gian-Piero Ringel studied film production at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). Together with Wim Wenders he founded Neue Road Movies Inc. in 2008. In 2006, his first production ''The Measure of Things'' was a nominee for the Student Academy Awards. Later that year, he went on to produce Angela Schanelec's feature film ''Afternoon'' and began working as a producer for Wim Wenders's film '' The Palermo Shooting'', which premiered at the official selection of the Festival de Cannes 2008. In 2009, he produced Angela Schanelec's feature film ''Orly'', a co-production with the Paris-based company La Vie Est Belle, that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. In addition, Ringel produced Wenders's 3D dance film ''Pina'', a co-production with Claudie Ossard and her company Eurowide Film Production, Paris. ''Pina'' premiered out of competition in the official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pina (film)
''Pina'' is a 2011 German 3D film, 3D documentary film about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch. It was directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered out of competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. During the preparation of the documentary, Pina Bausch died unexpectedly. Wenders cancelled the film production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to make the film anyway. It showcases these dancers, who talk about Pina and perform some of her best-known pieces inside the Tanztheater Wuppertal and in various outdoor locations around the city of Wuppertal. Synopsis The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent. The extracts are from four pieces: ''Le sacre du printemps'' (''The Rite of Spring''), ''Café Müller'', ''Kontakthof,'' and ''Vollmond''. These are complemented with interviews and further dance choreog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Geller
Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again from 1296 to 1301 * León (historical region), composed of the Spanish provinces León, Salamanca, and Zamora * Viscounty of Léon, a feudal state in France during the 11th to 13th centuries * Saint-Pol-de-Léon, a commune in Brittany, France * Léon, Landes, a commune in Aquitaine, France * Isla de León, a Spanish island * Leon (Souda Bay), an islet in Souda Bay, Chania, on the island of Crete North America * León, Guanajuato, Mexico, a large city * Leon, California, United States, a ghost town * Leon, Iowa, United States * Leon, Kansas, United States * Leon, New York, United States * Leon, Oklahoma, United States * Leon, Virginia, United States * Leon, West Virginia, United States * Leon, Wisconsin (other), United States, severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Vetter
Marcus Attila Vetter (* 1967 in Stuttgart) is a German documentary filmmaker. Life and career Vetter was born to a Turkish father, Cahit Cubuk, and a German mother. After studying in Worms, Buenos Aires and Madrid (with a focus on European Business Management among others) Vetter started working as a trainee at the production company Bavaria Film in Munich and graduated in Media Studies and Practice at the University of Tübingen in 1994. Since 1994 he worked as a freelance editor, writer and director at SDR in Stuttgart, in 1998 he went to SWR in Baden-Baden, to work as a freelance documentary filmmaker for culture and society. Vetter's autobiographical documentary My Father the Turk (2006) was awarded the Prix Europa for documentaries. In June 2007, his documentary Traders' Dream was released in German cinemas, a global report on the phenomenon Ebay, produced in cooperation with Stefan Tolz. Vetters feature documentary The Heart of Jenin, a film about the Palestinian Ismail Kh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of Jenin
''The Heart of Jenin'' is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Marcus Vetter and Leon Geller. The film tells the story of Ismael Khatib from Jenin, a Palestinian whose son was shot by Israeli soldiers. Instead of seeking revenge, he donated his son's organs to Israeli children. In April 2010, ''The Heart of Jenin'' won the German Film Award for Best Documentary Film. The film also served as a springboard for the project Cinema Jenin. Synopsis ''The Heart of Jenin'' recounts the true story of Ismael Khatib, a refugee in the Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank. In 2005, his eleven-year-old son Ahmed suffers fatal head shots by Israeli soldiers who mistake him for an armed Palestinian due to a toy weapon. After physicians in a hospital in Haifa declare Ahmed brain-dead, Ismael has to decide if his son's organs should be donated. His decision (with his wife's consent) demonstrates humanity at the moment of his greatest sorrow. Thus, the Palestinian enables the surviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niko Von Glasow
Niko von Glasow (''né'' Brücher; born 1960) is a German film director and producer. The founder and Artistic Director of Palladio Film, von Glasow began his training with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and then worked for many film directors including Georg Stefan Troller, Hellmuth Costard, Alexander Kluge, Peter Zadek and Jean-Jacques Annaud before going on to study film at New York University and at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland. In 2008 he produced and directed the feature documentary " NoBody's Perfect". "NoBody's Perfect" follows Niko von Glasow as he looks for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the disastrous side-effects of Thalidomide, and who are prepared to pose nude for a calendar of photos. The film won the German Film Award for Best Documentary at the Deutscher Filmpreis in 2009 and received worldwide acclaim. Through the film's worldwide success, Niko met with various politicians and journalists. An effective campaign resulted in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
