For the French-German Youth Office, the aim of the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” is to promote an intercultural dialogue between young German and French audiences, and inspire interest for German film. The prize will be awarded to a film that appeals equally to critical young people of different cultural backgrounds.
Berlinale: Perspektive Deutsches Kino
FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective
AWARD WINNER 2013
The award winner 2013 with the jury: Anne Zohra Berrached (on the right) together with her producer Cosima M. Degler and Santigo Gil (in the back, at the right), who received a Special Mention for his film Chiralia, as well as the members of the jury and Jury-President Emily Atef (at the left).
Anne Zohra Berrached
For Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers)
The jury found Anne Zohra Berrached’s entry Two Mothers not only compelling in its aesthetic form but also in the profundity of its content and authenticity. With its subtle use of colour and the genuine performances of the two protagonists, the film took a very gentle approach to a political issue without trying to politicize it.
Through its outward form and the outstanding direction of the many non-professional actors, the film gives a very convincing portrait of a difficult relationship between two women, and their desire for togetherness and family. With intelligence, the director finds a way to open up a new perspective between the classic genres of documentary and fictional film, one in which both forms have a place and merge.
Special Mention
Chiralia by Santiago Gil
The Berlinale and the French-German Youth Office Present the Seven-Member Jury of the “FGYO-Prize Dialogue en perspective”
For the tenth time, the Berlin International Film Festival and the French-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlinale, are giving young film-lovers the chance to award the “FGYO-Prize Dialogue en perspective”.
Seven cineastes, who will be able to experience the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival first-hand as jury members, have been selected – three Germans, three French and one Portuguese. On February 16th, during the ceremony for the independent jury prizes, they will present the “FGYO-Prize Dialogue en perspective”, for the first time endowed with 5.000€, to their favourite film in the Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
The application procedure included writing a review of Christian Petzold’s film Barbara (2012) or of Yasemin Samdereli’s film Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (2011). Candidates were asked to comment on the international role of German film, explain their personal film preferences and describe their own cultural engagement. Since 2010, a jury member from a third country is taking part – this time from Portugal.
When choosing the winner of the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”, jurors will evaluate the latest German films from a young German-French perspective.
• Clara Chapus, 23, Reims, is a student of cinematographic studies
• Florian Targa, 26, Paris, has got a degree in comparative political studies and works as freelance journalist for “La Gazette de Berlin”
• Théophile Fourcart, 21, Dernaville (Picardie), is a student of binational French-German political sciences
• Tatiana Ilona Braun, 28, Karlsruhe, is French-German and studies media sciences as well as information and communication
• Johannes Lehnen, 19, Mayence, is pupil, cineaste, screenwriter, director and producer: Night and Coccodrillo
• Regina Karl, 27, Bamberg, wrote a thesis entitled “La main dans la littérature, l’art et le cinéma” and is author and translator of numerous publications
• Jorge Henrique Viera Rodrigues, 22, Lisbon, does a Masters in communication sciences and is an Erasmus student at the University Paris 8
The jury is chaired by German-French-Iranian director Emily Atef.
Jury President Emily Atef
Emily Atef was born in Berlin in 1971. She is the daughter of French-Iranian parents and moved with them to Los Angeles when she was seven. When she was 13, they moved to France, where she graduated from lycée. Next she decided to go to London and attend film school. By the time she was 28 and began studying film directing at the DFFB, the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, she had had so much experience in different cultures that it proved highly advantageous for realizing her cinematic visions. Following a number of short films made at the Academy and a role in Angela Schanelec’s film Marseille (2004), Atef made her first fictional feature, Molly’s Way (2006). For it, she and her co-author, Esther Bernstorff, won a Young German Cinema Award for Best Screenplay at the Filmfest München. Her second feature, Das Fremde in mir (The Stranger in Me), about a mother who falls into a deep depression after the birth of her child, premiered in the “Semaine de la Critique” section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. True to the motto “never change a winning team”, Emily Atef again wrote the screenplay of her third feature, Töte mich (Kill me / 2011) with Esther Bernstorff. She received a grant for it from the Cinéfondation for Cannes’ Résidence du festival. Töte mich premiered last year at the Hofer Filmtage.
“I’m looking forward to watching the movies of new talented filmmakers with young cineastes who are not experts”, commented Emily Atef on the task facing her as president of the French-German jury. “I find the idea of discussing film – its aesthetics, dramaturgy and acting – from the perspective of two cultures that I feel very close to really exciting.”
In 2012, the film This Ain’t California by Marten Persiel won the award. In previous editions of the festival, the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” was awarded to films such as Florian Schewe‘s Lebendkontrolle (2010) and Dirk Lütter‘s Die Ausbildung (2011).
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