The "Heinrich" - Audience Award

Award Ceremony: Peter Twiehaus



Already as a teenager he spent his entire pocket-money on cinema tickets. Today he is a "film-maniac", obsessed with the world of film. He is entertained by Julia Roberts, loves the stories of Pedro Almodóvar, he is rolling the aisles when Bully Herbig hits the screen and is touched by Andreas Dresen.

About cinema he loves the moment, when the lights shut down and he plunges into another world. Then, Peter Twiehaus is at ease and at work at the same time; the man has turned his passion into a profession. While studying at the Free University of Berlin (French and Science of Communication) he was working as an assistant for "Rias2" radio. In Paris he started to produce reports fort he radio.

Stays at DW-radio and -television and collaboration at a news agency in Bonn followed. Since 2001 Peter Twiehaus worked fort he SFB, first as an author fort he cultural magazine "Ticket". For several years he has been the "Filmvorführer" (projectionist) of RBB television and film buff of the ZDF morning show. For 3sat he reported live from film festivals like the Berlin International Film Festival and Venice.

At the filmfest Braunschweig Peter Twiehaus will host the late night talks and the filmfest-gala.




Family Hero (Le Héros de la Famille)
Director: Thierry Klifa, F 2006, 100 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur, Gérard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart


When Gabriel the owner of the Blue Parrot a cabaret club dies, his quarreling family has to decide what to do with the legendary club, and to heal old family wounds. The film presents an excellent cast including Catherine Deneuve and Emmanuelle Béart.




Euphoria (Eyforya)
Director: Ivan Vyrypaev, RUS 2006, 74 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Polina Agureyeva, Maxim Ushakov, Mikhail Okunev


Love strikes like a bolt from the blue between Vera and Pascha, overwhelming and irritating at the same time as Vera is not free and her husband acts devilishly jealous. Enthralling and fascinating debut with breathless tracking shots and marvellous vista’s shot in the widths of the Russian Tundra.




Trust me
Director: Andrew Kazamia, GB 2006, 96 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: C. Pendergast, Enn Reitel, W. Ave Zoli


Danny Marrs is a small-town grifter, who arrives in Hollywood full of enthusiasm and dreams. Earning his living as a con-artist he hopes for a big break. That seems to occur when he meets Joe Schmolensky, an elderly janitor who is obsessed with old movies. He is also a gifted mimic.




Retrieval (Z Odzysku)
Director: Slawomir Fabicki, PL 2006, 103 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Antoni Pawlicki, Nataliya Vdovina, Jacek Braciak


Living in a poverty-stricken Polish town Wojtek (19) quits his low paid job and accepts a lucrative job as a bouncer. In the hope of a better life he realizes that this takes him right into a criminal world full of violence. Intrigued by wealth and power Wojtek comes into conflict with his own morals.




Upside down (Prevrteno)
Director: Igor Ivanov Izy, MK/HR 2007, 105 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Milan Tocinovski, Sanja Trajkovic, Slavisha Kajevski


Jan Luduvik encounters the abysmal facts of life and love. Like an artist he tries to regain his balance. Based on the book "Navel of the World" by Venko Andonovski, the film is focusing on integrity, the need to be and remain yourself, regardless of where such a stance will take you in life.




The Contestant (Concursante)
Director: Rodrigo Cortés, E 2007, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Chete Lera, Miryam Gallego


Martín’s life changes dramatically when he wins 3 million Euros in a television show. Soon he realizes that keeping up his new wealth is expensive. Taking out loans he gradually gets tangled up in the world‘s web of inexorable banking. His strong opinion about capitalism gradually changes.




What makes you happy (Ça rend heureux)
Director: Joachim Lafosse, B 2006, 85 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Fabrizio Rongione, Kris Cuppens, Catherine Salée


With the help of his unemployed colleagues filmmaker Fabrizio starts to work on his next no-budget movie. The screenplay is simple – it tells the story of a director who makes a film without any money. Enjoyable comedy about filmmaking, and with an excellent mix of fiction and reality.




Cover Boy: The Last Revolution (Cover Boy: L‘ultima Rivoluzione)
Director: Carmine Amoroso, I 2007, 97 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Luca Lionello, Eduard Gabia, Chiara Caselli


In the hope of a better future Ioan leaves Romania for Italy. There he meets Michele, an Italian. Both men in search of a better life become good friends. Making plans for a joint venture it seems fortune favours them. But then Michele loses his job, while Ioan gets discovered by a fashion photographer.




Blind
Director: Tamar van den Dop, NL 2007, 98 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Joren Seldeslachts, Halina Reijn, Katelijne Verbeke


Young blind Ruben and the older woman Marie develop an indiscriminate love for one another. Their intense, odd, relationship takes a fateful turn when Ruben agrees to a new surgical procedure that could result in regaining his vision. Will true love still be blind?




Drink up! (De Bares)
Director: Mario Iglesias, E 2006, 91 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, German premiere!
Actors: Emma Alvarez Leon, Javier Albala, Nancho Novo


Oscar interrogates the old barman Jotó about the photographs decorating the walls of his bar. There is more to the photographs than first meets the eye. Behind each still image there is a story waiting to be told and a life to be revealed.




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