Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - After two Corona years with pure online editions, the film show finally wants to show what the film state of Baden-Württemberg has to offer on the screen again. According to the organizers, around 110 new film productions are scheduled between December 7th and 11th. The show will open on Wednesday evening with the episodic film "Balconies", the debut of director and former youth film award winner Anja Gurres, who lived in Weinstadt (Rems-Murr district) for a long time.
Fathi Akin's cinema hit "Rheingold" is in the feature film category for the Baden-Württemberg Film Prize, as is the Ukrainian cancer drama "Ya Nina/Lucky Girl" by Marysia Nikitiuk, whose co-producer is Sven Schnell from Stuttgart. A total of 16 film prizes with a total value of 15,000 euros will be awarded.
"The films deal with a society that is on the move, that takes in new people who are marked by fate, who bring new stories with them and change the stories of the country," says the announcement by the Baden-Württemberg Film Office.
The works also include the feature film "Sharaf" by Samir Nasr from Karlsruhe. The graduate of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy tells the story of a man who kills another in self-defense and ends up in an Arab prison. Cengiz Akaygün from Stuttgart made it into the preselection for the German Short Film Award with his short film "Aysha". His work is about an alleged religious test in Syria.
Clara Schemmel from Bad Waldsee and Jakob Lott from Bad Wurzach directed "Der Knecht", a Swabian short film that shows the everyday life of a farming family at the end of the 1960s and was awarded the Sebastian Blau Dialect Prize. Stuttgart's Alexander Tuschinski even made it into the program with three films, including the second part of the documentary "Die Liedermacherin von Botnang".
The film show is a performance show of the industry in Baden-Württemberg. The participating films must have been made in the southwest or have received money from the state's funding pools. Film prizes are awarded in the categories feature, short, documentary, commercial and animated film as well as in the competition for the youth film prize. This year's Baden-Württemberg Honorary Film Award goes to Dieter Krauss, film promoter and former commercial director of the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH (FMF).
