2023

72nd International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg
16 to 26 November 2023

The festival history of the 72nd IFFMH will be added shortly.

Director
Dr. Sascha Keilholz (Artistic & Managerial Director)

Programme Management
Tim Moeck
Programme Coordination
Philipp Schwarz
Curator KINDERFILMFEST
Lisa Niederauer
Curator RETROSPEKTIVE
Hannes Brühwiler
Curator FACING NEW CHALLENGES
Jan-Philipp Possmann
Traineeship Programme Coordination
Pauline Roßbach, Lauren Zeiger
Programme Advisors
Violeta Kovacsics, Louise Malherbe, Petra Palmer, Daniela Persico, Anselm Scherer, Alfred Stumm, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski

Production & Organisation
Julia Fischer
Project Management
Lena Reitschuster
Technical Project Lead
Michael Woll
Guest Management
Susanne Berckhemer, Fanny Spiegelhalter, Laura Undisz
Assistance Festival Production
Eno Haque
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL, Sustainability and Inclusion
Amelie Opitz
Accreditations
Julia Schadler
Traineeship Accreditations
Antonia Schlesinger
Traineeship Festival Production
Emelie Jung
Shuttle Management
Tom Pascheka
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL
Annika Stutz

Editorial & Programme Advisor
Alfred Stumm
Marketing and Public Relations
Rebecca Raab
Traineeship Marketing
Emilia Weden
Media Design & Branding
Alex Rozmann, Milena Hartmann
Social Media
Florian Dörr, Eva Hillebrand, Michael Kienzl
Press Relations
Carola Schaffrath, Anne Schütz

Partner Management
Katharina Breiding
Assistant to the Festival Direction
Maxi Cieszynski
Office Management
Stephanie Ebs
Accounting
Evelyn Gutfleisch
HR
Klara Kurz

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

Sponsors
Stadt Mannheim, Stadt Heidelberg, Land Baden-Württemberg, BKM, MFG, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, VG Bild Kunst, Goethe Institut, Manfred Lautenschläger-Stiftung, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation

The Jury

International Jury
Elisa Schlott
Goran Stolevski
Denis Dercourt

FIPRESCI Jury
Nataliia Serebriakova
Michael Ranze
Roberto Tirapelle

Ecumenical Jury
Lotta Lundberg
Markus Leniger
András Petrik

StudentJury
Yasmin Renani
Joseph Holten
Tristan Horn

Awards

International Newcomer Award - Best Director (30.000 Euro)

›In Flames‹
Director: Zarrar Kahn
Countries: Pakistan, Canada

Special Mention:

›Touched‹
Director: Claudia Rorarius
Country: Germany


Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award - Best Screenplay (15.000 Euro)

›The Sweet East‹
Screenplay: Nick Pinkerton
Country: USA

FIPRESCI Award

›Animal‹
Director: Sofia Exarchou
Countries: Greece, Austria, Rumania, Cyprus, Bulgaria

Award of the Ecumenical Jury (2.500 Euro)

›An Endless Sunday‹
Director: Alain Parroni
Countries: Italy, Germany


Award of the Student Jury (5.000 Euro)

›Without Air‹
Director: Katalin Moldovai
Country: Hungary

Audience Award (5.000 Euro)

›Upon Entry‹
Director: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez
Country: Spain

Programme

OPENING NIGHT

• ›Day of the Fight‹ - Director: Jack Huston, Country: USA

CENTRE PIECE

• ›All of Us Strangers‹ - Director: Andrew Haigh, Countries: UK, USA

CLOSING NIGHT

• ›Sisterhood‹ - Director: Nora El Hourch, Country: France

International Competition - ON THE RISE

• ›Animal‹ Director: Sofia Exarchou, Greece, Austria, Rumania, Cyprus, Bulgaria
• ›Bitten‹ Director: Romain de Saint-Blanquat, France
• ›Dreaming & Dying‹ Director: Nelson Yeo, Singapur, Indonesia
• ›An Endless Sunday‹ Director: Alain Parroni, Italy, Germany
• ›Family Portrait‹ Director: Lucy Kerr, USA
• ›Hopeless‹ Director: Kim Chang-hoon, South Korea
• ›In Flames‹ Director: Zarrar Kahn, Pakistan, Canada
• ›Melk‹ Director: Stefanie Kolk, The Netherlands
• ›Mimang‹ Director: Kim Taeyang, South Korea
• ›The Red Suitcase‹ Director: Fidel Devkota, Nepal, Sri Lanka
• ›Riverbed‹ Director: Bassem Breche, Libanon
• ›The Sweet East‹ Director: Sean Price Williams, USA
• ›Touched‹ Director: Claudia Rorarius, Germany
• ›Upon Entry‹ Director: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez, Spain
• ›Where the Wind Blows‹ Director: Marco Righi, Italy
• ›Without Air‹ Director: Katalin Moldovai, Hungary

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

• ›Blackberry, Blackberry, Blackbird‹ Director: Elene Naveriani, Switzerland, Georgia, Germany
• ›Critical Zone‹ Director: Ali Ahmadzadeh, Iran, Germany
• ›Delegation‹ Director: Asaf Saban, Poland, Israel, Germany
• ›Evil Does Not Exist‹ Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Japan
• ›Following the Sound‹ Director: Kyoshi Sugita, Japan
• ›Here‹ Director: Bas Devos, Belgium
• ›Hit Man‹ Director: Richard Linklater, USA
• ›Housekeeping for Beginners‹ Director: Goran Stolevski, North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia
• ›The Delinquents‹ Director: Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina, Luxembourg, Brazil, Chile
• ›Only the River Flows‹ Director: Wei Shujun, China
• ›Perfect Days‹ Director: Wim Wenders, Japan, Germany
• ›Priscilla‹ Director: Sofia Coppola, USA
• ›Red Rooms‹ Director: Pascal Plante, Canada
• ›Homecoming‹ Director: Catherine Corsini, France
• ›Solo‹ Director: Sophie Dupuis, Canada
• ›Salty Water‹ Director: Henrika Kull, Germany

FILMSCAPES

• ›All to Play For‹ Director: Delphine Deloget, France
• ›Un amor‹ Director: Isabel Coixet, Spain
• ›On dry Grasses‹ Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, France, Germany
• ›Excursion‹ Director: Una Gunjak, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France Norway, Qatar
• ›The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed‹ Director: Joanna Arnow, USA
• ›Forever-Forever‹ Director: Anna Buryachkova, Ukraine, The Netherlands
• ›Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell‹ Director: Pham Thien An, Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain
• ›Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros‹ Director: Frederick Wiseman, France, USA
• ›Of an Age‹ Director: Goran Stolevski, Australia
• ›Omen‹ Director: Baloji, Belgium, Congo, Netherlands, France, Germany, South Africa
• ›The Rapture‹ Director: Iris Kaltenbäck, France
• ›The Settlers‹ Director: Felipe Gálvez, Chile, Argentina, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, France

RETROSPECTIVE - CINEMA OF SPLENDOUR

• ›Body and Soul‹ Director: Robert Rossen, USA 1947
• ›A Place in the Sun‹ Director: George Stevens, USA 1951
• ›On the Waterfront‹ Director: Elia Kazan, USA 1954
• ›The Defiant Ones‹ Director: Stanley Kramer, USA 1958
• ›The Misfits‹ Director: John Huston, USA 1961
• ›The Pawnbroker‹ Director: Sidney Lumet, USA 1964
• ›Seance on a wet afternoon‹ Director: Bryan Forbes, UK 1964
• ›Rachel, Rachel‹ Director: Paul Newman, USA 1968
• ›Wanda‹ Director: Barbara Loden, USA 1970
• ›The Godfather Part II‹ Director: Francis Ford Coppola, USA 1974
• ›Norma Rae‹ Director: Martin Ritt, USA 1979
• ›Raging Bull‹ Director: Martin Scorsese, USA 1980

CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL

• ›Kiddo‹ - Director: Zara Dwinger, The Netherlands
• ›Okthanksbye‹ - Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk, The Netherlands
• ›Robot Dreams‹ - Director: Pablo Berger, Spain, France
• ›Rosa and the Stone Troll‹ - Director: Karla Nor Holmbäck, Denmark
• ›Scrapper‹ - Director: Charlotte Regan, UK
• ›Tony, Shelly and the magic light‹ - Director: Filip Pošivač, Czeck Republic, Hungary, Slovakia
• ›Totem‹ - Director: Sander Burger, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany

HOMMAGE: Agnès Godard

• ›Hinterland‹ Jacques Nolot, France 1998
• ›Beau Travail‹ Claire Denis, France 1999
• ›Wild Side‹ Sébastien Lifshitz, France, Belgium, UK 2004

GRAND IFFMH AWARD: Nicolas Winding Refn

• ›Pusher‹ Denmark 1996
• ›Drive‹ USA 2011
• ›Only God Forgives‹ Denmark , France2013

FACING NEW CHALLENGES

• ›To the North Part I and II‹ Kelman Duran, USA, Dominikanische Republik 2016
• ›When We Are/When We Are Not‹ The Nest Collective, Kenia 2016
• ›The Stories of Our Lives‹ The Nest Collective, Kenia 2014