Kinema - German-french youth award

Young people like to go to the cinema and talk about it. This everyday interest is taken up by the German-French youth prize "Kinema", which the 22nd Braunschweig International Film Festival is awarding for the 2nd time. Together with the Lower Saxony school cinema project Kinema , the German-French Youth Association and TV5MONDE the filmfest has developed a concept which enables young people from both countries to participate in an international festival.

A jury of five young French and Germans between 17 and 22 will select an award-winner from six debut films. The five jurors, three from Lower Saxony and two from Haute-Normandie, will be prepared for their work by film expert Anne Huet and helped by last year’s winner, director Felix Randau.

The following films will be shown: "Little Paris" und "About breathing under water" from Germany, "Thousand Oceans" from Switzerland, "La vie d'Artiste" and "Les Grandes Personnes" (France) and "Eldorado" (Belgium).






Head of Jury

Felix Randau


Felix Randau, born 1974 in Emden/East Frisia, studied German language and literature from 1993 to 1995 at the University of Bonn. During these years he was an intern at the theatre Bonn. In 1995 he started to study directing at the German Film and TV academy dffb. After having worked as an assistant for Sören Voigt ("Tolle Lage", 2000) and Achim von Borries ("England", 2000) and several short film projects like "Something" (1998) and "Siemensstadt" (2000), he was nominated for the "First Steps Award" for his first feature film "Northern Star" (2003).

Last year he won the "Kinema" Award with his second long film "Die Anruferin", an intensive woman's portrait. This year he will chair the bi-lingual debates of the young "Kinema" jury and offer his advice to the five jurors.




Supervision

Anne Huet


Director and film researcher. Head of the project "L'Eden Cinéma" supported by the French ministry for education. Expert on script writing. She has made several productions for the French station "La cinq" and the cinema. After her debut "Julie Meyer" she is working on her second made-for-cinema production "Ramatuelle". At the filmfest the colleague of Alain Beegala, leading expert on film education in schools, will run the two day training on "film in class" for German and French teachers, hosted by the "Kinema" project.




The "Kinema"-Jury 2008

Rémy Albaut: 17 years, pupil in Eu (Haute-Normandie)
Julia Boulet: 18 years, student in Rouen (Haute-Normandie)
Johannes Jancke: 18 years, pupil in Braunschweig (Lower Saxony)
Yulia Lokshina: 22 years, student in Rouen andPassau
Finnja Vollbrecht: 21 years, student in Freiburg (Baden-Württemberg)




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