2021

70th International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg
11th to 21st November 2021

Director
Dr. Sascha Keilholz (Artistitic & Commercial Director)

Head of Programme & Curator ON THE RISE
Frédéric Jaeger
Programme Coordination
Philipp Schwarz
Curators CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL
Lisa Niederauer, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
Curator RETROSPECTIVE
Hannes Brühwiler
Programming Consultant & FACING NEW CHALLENGES
Dr. des. Alfred Stumm
Curator FACING NEW CHALLENGES
Ursula Schöndeling
Programme & Acquisitions
Felix Rieger
Programming Consultation
Violeta Kovacsics, Daniela Persico, Welf Lindner, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
Internship
Max Müller

Head of Event Production
Wiebke Langele
Event Production & IT
Ricarda Voigt
Assistant Event Production
Julia Fischer
Ticketing
Colmán Larkin
Accreditations
Theresa Klocke
Video on Demand
Lena Reitschuster
Head of Guest Management
Nicole Domas
Guest Management
Anna Edelmann, Malin Limmer

Assistant to the Festival Director
Maxi Cieszynski
Office Management
Stephanie Ebs
Accounting & Legal Advisor
Thomas Hartmann

Head of CUTTING EDGE TALENT CAMP
Zsuzsi Bánkuti
Assistance CETC
Tina Haagmann

Head of Communications
Sofia Glasl
Head of Marketing & Partners
Katy Anderlik
Editorial
Elisabeth Bohnet
Graphic Design
Alex Rozmann
Social Media
Michael Kienzl, Stefanie Gstettner
Press Relations
Carola Schaffrath, Anne Schütz
International Presse
Gloria Zerbinati
Advertisement
Liina Airikkala

Supporters & Sponsors
Stadt Mannheim, Stadt Heidelberg, Land Baden-Württemberg, BKM, MFG

The Jury

International Jury
Kathleen McInnis
Michelle Carey
Nicolas Wackerbarth

FIPRESCI Jury
Nirmal Dhar
Pélagie Ng'onana
Valentina Giraldo Sánchez
Yun-hua Chen

Ecumenical Jury
Alexander Bothe
Dietmar Adler
Michael Kranzusch
Ingrid Glatz-Anderegg
Karsten Visarius
Magali Van Reeth
Michael Kranzusch
Théo Peporté
Uta Losem
Lothar Strüber

Student Jury
Omar Alsawadi
Steve Bache
Clara Schmid

Awards

International Newcomer Award - Best Director (30.000 Euro)

IL BUCO
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Country: Italy, France, Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award - Best Script(10.000 Euro)

ZERO FUCKS GIVEN (RIEN À FOUTRE)
Directors: Julie Lecoustre und Emmanuel Marre
Countries: France, Belgium

Honorable Mention of the International Jury for the RWF Award

HARUHARA-SAN'S RECORDER (HARUHARASAN NO UTA)
Director: Kyoshi Sugita
Country: Japan

FIPRESCI Award

THE SLEEPING NEGRO
Director: Skinner Myers
Country: USA

Award of the Ecumenical Jury (2.500 Euro)

MY NIGHT (MA NUIT)
Director: Antoinette Boulat
Countries: France, Belgium

Award of the Student Jury (5.000 Euro)

THE FIRST FALLEN (OS PRIMEIROS SOLDADOS)
Director: Rodrigo de Oliveira
Country: Brazil

Audience Award (5.000 Euro)

THE FIRST FALLEN (OS PRIMEIROS SOLDADOS)
Director: Rodrigo de Oliveira
Country: Brazil

Programme

Anniversary Programme - FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

• Feathers - Director: Omar El Zohairy, Country: France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece
• Free Time or: The Opposite of Doing Nothing - Director: Caroline Pitzen, Country: Germany
• Great Freedom - Director: Sebastian Meise, Country: Austria, Germany
• The Innocents (De uskyldige) - Director: Eskil Vogt, Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, USA
• The Noise of Engines (Le bruit des moteurs) - Director: Philippe Grégoire, Country: Canada

Anniversary Programme - SHORTS

• Dustin - Director: Naila Guiguet, Country: France
• Centauress - Director: Deniz Simsek, Country: Germany
• Home Sweet Home (Mon doux chez moi) - Director: Franck Moka, Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
• First time (the time for all but sunset - Violet) - Director: Nicolaas Schmidt, Country: Germany

Anniversary Programme - GRAND IFFMH AWARD

• Fish Tank - Director: Andrea Arnold, Country: United Kingdom
• To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde) - Director: Guillaume Nicloux, Country: France

Anniversary Programme - FILM EXPERIENCE 2021

• 107 Mothers (Cenzorka) - Director: Peter Kerekes, Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine
• A Night of Knowing Nothing - Director: Payal Kapadia, Country: India, France
• A School in Cerro Hueso (Una escuela en Cerro Hueso) - Director: Betanie Cappato, Country: Argentina
• Brighton 4th - Director: Levan Koguashvili, Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Monaco, USA
• Future is a Lonely Place - director: Martin Hawie & Laura Harwarth, country: Germany
• El Gran Movimiento - Director: Kiro Russo, Country: Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland
• Mass - Director: Fran Kranz, Country: USA
• Nobody is with the Calves - Director: Sabrina Sarabi, Country: Germany
• What do we see when we look at the sky? - Director: Alexandre Koberidze, Country: Germany, Georgia

Opening

• You Resemble Me (Tu me ressembles) - Director: Dina Amer, Country: Egypt, France

Centre Piece

• Shen Kong - Director: Chen Guan, Country: Macau

Closing

• Love is Better Than Life (L'amour c'est mieux que la vie) - Director: Claude Lelouch, Country: Frankreich

International Competition - ON THE RISE

• Blue Moon (Crai nou) - Director: Alina Grigore, Country: Romania
• Destello Bravío - Director: Ainhoa Rodriguez, Country: Spain
• Fractured (Catlak) - Director: Fikret Reyhan, Country: Turkey
• Haruhara-san's Recorder (Haruharasan no uta) - Director: Kyoshi Sugita, Country: Japan
• Il Buco - Director: Michelangelo Frammartino, Country: Italy, France, Germany
• Louloute - Director: Hubert Viel, Country: France
• My Night (Ma nuit) - Director: Antoinette Boulat, Country: France, Belgium
• Rehana (Rehana Maryam Noor) - Director: Abdullah Mohammed Saad, Country: Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar
• Rhino (Nosorih) - Director: Oleh Sentsov, Country: Ukraine, Poland, Germany
• The Employer and the Employee (El empleado y el patrón) - Director: Manuel Nieto Zas, Country: Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, France
• The First Fallen (Os primeiros soldados) - Director: Rodrigo de Oliveira, Country: Brazil
• The Sleeping Negro - Director: Skinner Myers, Country: USA
• To Kill the Beast (Matar a la bestia) - Director: Agustina San Martin, Country: Argentina
• Vera Dreams of the Sea (Vera andrron detin) - Director: Kaltrina Krasniqi, Country: Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, Albania
• Women Do Cry - Director: Mina Mileva, Country: Bulgaria, France
• Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) - Director: Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre, Country: France, Belgium

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

• Aheds Knie (Ha'berech) - Director: Nadav Lapid, Country: France, Israel, Germany
• Another World (Un autre monde) - Director: Stéphane Brizé, Country: France
• Cow - Director: Andrea Arnold, Country: United Kingdom
• Earwig - Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
• El Fulgor - Director: Martin Farina, Country: Argentina
• Forever and Ever (Serre-moi fort) - Director: Mathieu Amalric, Country: France, Germany
• I Want to Talk about Duras (Vous ne désirez que moi) - Director: Claire Simon, Country: France
• Intregalde - Director: Radu Muntean, Country: Romania
• Memoria. Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Country: Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Mexico, France, Germany
• On the Job: The Missing 8 - Director: Erik Matti, Country: Philippines
• Petite Maman - When We Were Children (Petite maman) - Director: Céline Sciamma, Country: France
• The Replacement (El sustituto) - Director: Óscar Aibar, Country: Spain
• The Tsugua Diaries (Diários de Otsoga) - Director: Miguel Gomes, Maureen Fazendeiro, Country: Portugal
• Vortex - Director: Gaspar Noé, Country: France, Belgium

RETROSPECTIVE - LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE - THE SECOND GENERATION

• A Child in the Crowd (Un enfant dans la foule) - Director: Gérard Blain, Country: France
• Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 09.12.67 - Director: Adolf Winkelmann, Country: Germany
• Il valore della donna é il suo silenzio - Director: Gertrud Pinkus, Country: Switzerland, Germany
• Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci) - Director: Jan Nemec, Country: Czechoslovakia
• The Groom, the Comedienne and the Pimp - Director: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Country: Germany
• Escape to Marseille - Director: Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring, Country: Germany
• Jimmy Orpheus - Director: Roland Klick, Country: Germany
• Märkische Ziegel - Director: Volker Koepp, Country: GDR
• Mahlzeiten - Director: Edgar Reitz, Country: Germany
• Medium Cool - Director: Haskell Wexler, Country: USA
• Neun Leben hat die Katze - Director: Ula Stöckl, Country: Germany
• Pather Panchali - Director: Satyajit Ray, Country: India
• Rohfilm - Director: Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein, Country: Germany
• Salesman - Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, Country: USA
• Same Player Shoots Again - Director: Wim Wenders, Country: Germany
• The Experience (Tadjrebeh) - director: Abbas Kiarostami, country: Iran
• La Jetée - director: Chris Marker, country: France
• The Movement of Things - director: Manuela Serra, country: Portugal
• Something Different (O necem jiném) - Director: Vera Chytilová, Country: Czechoslovakia
• On the Concept of 'Critical Communism' in Antonio Labriola - Director: Günter Peter Straschek, Country: Germany

CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL

• Any Day Now (Ensilumi) - Director: Hamy Ramezan, Country: Finland
• Calamity (Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary) - Director: Rémi Chayé, Country: France, Denmark
• The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion) - Director: Carroll Ballard, Country: USA
• Nelly Rapp - Monster Agent (Nelly Rapp - Monster Agent) - Director: Amanda Adolfsson, Country: Sweden
• Short Vacation (Jong Chak Yeok) - Director: Han-Sol Seo, Kwon Min-pyo, Country: South Korea
• Spaceboy - Director: Olivier Pairoux, Country: Belgium
• Tottori (Tottori! Sommeren vi var alene) - Director: Ariid Ostin Ommundsen, Silje Salomonsen, Country: Norway

HOMMAGE: CLAUDE LELOUCH

• Les uns et les autres - Director: Claude Lelouch, Country: France
• A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) - Director: Claude Lelouch, Country: France
• Love is a Funny Thing (Un homme qui me plaît) - Director: Claude Lelouch, Country: France, Italy
• Love is Better Than Life (L'amour c'est mieux que la vie) - Director: Claude Lelouch, Country: France

HOMMAGE: BETTINA BROKEMPER

• Antichrist - Director: Lars von Trier, Country: Denmark, Germany
• I Am Guilty - Director: Christoph Hochhäusler, Country: Germany
• Hannah Arendt - Director: Margarethe von Trotta, Country: Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
• Germany. A Winter's Tale - Director: Jan Bonny, Country: Germany

FACING NEW CHALLENGES

• Kunsthalle Mannheim:

• If I could only be sure - Künstlerin: Johanna Hullár

• Heidelberger Kunstverein: Collective Exhibition "Cities - Urban Communities"

• In Purple - Artist: Johanna Billing
• Ditch Plains - Artist: Loretta Fahrenholz
• Aus westlichen Richtungen - Artist: Juliane Heinrich
• City of Tales - Artist: Arash Nassiri
• H A Z E City - Artist: Nina E. Schönefeld
• Voices and Shells - Artist: Maya Schweizer
• 70.001 - Artist: Clemens von Wedemeyer
• Metzstraße 11 - Artist: Zelimir Zilnik
• SPOTS (zum NSU-Komplex) - Artist: Diverse