"Kinema" - German/french youth-award

Young people like going to the cinema and talking about films.This is why the 21st Braunschweig International Film Festival is awarding the German-French youth prize "Kinema" for the first time on November 11th in the CinemaxX. The filmfest, together with the Lower Saxony school cinema project Kinema, the German-French Jugendwerk and TV5MONDE, has developed a programme which will enable young people from both countries to take part in an international festival.

The jury of five, consisting of three young Germans and two young French people, will select two prize winners from six debut films – one a German production and the other French. The three German films are "Wortbrot", "Die Anruferin" and "Wir Sagen Du! Schatz", the films in French are "Le Héros de la Famille", Avril" and "Ça rend Heureux".

The young jury will get some expert training from experts at a special seminar beforehand to help them carry out their task.




Alain Bergala


Alain Bergala heads the advance training for teachers, which is part of the KINEMA project. As only a few, the Frenchman combines applied experience and substantial theoretical knowledge. The former editor-in-chief of the famous film magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma" is author of the book "Cinema as Art", which is regarded as the leading work on the use of film in school education and is published by Germany’s federal agency for political education. The head of the seminar for film analysis at the legendary film academy FEMIS is also in charge of the French school film programme "Le cinéma à l'école", for which he edited a series of DVDs for use in class.


Gordian Maugg


Born in Heidelberg 1966, now living in Berlin. Since 1986 free-lance author of screenplays, director and producer, until 1993 student of "visual communication" at Kassel art school with emphasis on "film and television" under the auspices of professor Manfred Vosz. In the same year he receives the Silver "Filmband" for "Der Olympische Sommer". Start of Gordian Maugg Filmproduction Ltd. in 1994, one of the founders of the "German Film Academy", scholarship of "Stiftung Kulturfonds" Berlin/Ahrenshoop in 1998, visiting professor at Bauhaus University Weimar and the Hamburg Media School. In the year 2000 his film "Hans Warns - Mein 20. Jahrhundert" won the Gold "Filmband" of the "Deutscher Filmpreis" for best editing.




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