Jury Award of the International Competition, 3000 Euros

2012

Makino Takashi, Japan 2013, 30:00 min., Experimental

Jury statement: A film that creates a forceful statement for the cinematic experience – the dark space, the image, the sound and the viewer. It opens a new dimension for the audience collectively and individually. The winner of 2013 is “2012” by Makino Takashi.

Special Mention:

Skinningrove

Michael Almereyda, USA 2012, 14:38 min., Documentary

Jury statement:

In the purest terms the film tells a vivid, moving story about an imagemaker and his images.

Liberté-Audience Award (1500 Euros), presented by Gauloises, given to a short film from the International ort he German Competition

Pouters

Paul Fegan, Great Britain 2012, 17:07 min., Documentary

The Audience Award (EUR 1.500,-) will be given to a film from the International or the German Competition.

Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar

Jorge López Navarrete, Spain 2012, 15:33 min., Fiction

Jury statement Immaculately conceived, supremely artful and sensitively shot, the most enigmatically entitled film of the NoBudget Competition, convinced the jury for it’s story of high altitude Ecuadorian romance. Guest featuring the Galapagos Brigade Band of Riobamba, and two main protagonists whose portrayal of the give and take of commitment never fails to convince, “Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea” is a work of great ambition. Through Jorge López Navarrete’s masterful edit, the power of cinema reveals and evokes the most profound of human emotions, transforming the runaway tale of a white mare and a German Shepherd Dog into a widescreen epic of jealousy, betrayal and romance.

Continuity

Omer Fast, Germany 2012, 41:00 min., Fiction

Jury statement: In an unanimous decision the German Competition’s jury is awarding a film that extends a term often considered fundamental to narrative cinema into the political dimension. Clean, glossy images reflect the spatial and emotional distance that the West has become accustomed to through decades full of wars waged far away. The film critically revisits the images and narratives that have become a cover to this rupture, whilst ambiguously examining concepts of linearity and coherence. Through ritualised enactments of a young soldier’s ostensible homecoming from service in Afghanistan, the artist creates a nightmarish echo of crisis and loss, German continuities and filmic conventions that has deeply impressed the jury.

Recently in the Woods

Daniel van Westen, Germany 2012, 1:00 min., Animation