2024

73rd International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg
7 to 17 November 2023

The festival history of the 73rd IFFMH will be added shortly.

Director
Dr. Sascha Keilholz (Artistic & Managerial Director)

Programme Management
Tim Moeck
Alfred Stunm
Programme Coordination
Philipp Schwarz
Curator YOUNG FILM FESTIVAL
Julia Fischer
Curator RETROSPEKTIVE
Hannes Brühwiler
Curator FACING NEW CHALLENGES
Jan-Philipp Possmann, Lena Reitschuster
Internship Programme Coordination
Hannah Metz, Nicole Zurikov
Programme Advisors
Jérôme d'Estais, Violeta Kovacsics, Louise Malherbe, Petra Palmer, Daniela Persico, Anselm Scherer, Alfred Stumm, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski

Head of Production
Julia Fischer
Project Management
Lena Reitschuster
Technical Project Lead
Michael Woll
Guest Management
Susanne Berckhemer, Anke Sonnentag, Time Schrepp, Laura Undisz
Technical Assistance Festival Production
Eno Haque
Production Assistance & YOUNG FILM FESTIVAL
Emelie Jung
Accreditations
Julia Schadler
Traineeship Accreditations
Louisa Mayerle
Internship Festival Production
Natalie Sünder
Shuttle Management
Stefano Monego, Julius Schreml
Ticketing
Jannika Krämer, Frederike Stang

Head of Editorial Content
Alfred Stumm
Editorial Assistent
Nils Schröder
Marketing and Public Relations
Rebecca Raab
Internship Marketing
Hannah Metz, Chiara Kuch
Media Design & Branding
Alex Rozmann
Social Media
Florian Dörr, Eva Hillebrand, Michael Kienzl
Press Relations
Carola Schaffrath, Anne Schütz

Partner Management & YOUNG FILM FESTIVAL
Katharina Breiding
Assistant to the Festival Direction
Friederike Schülke
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, Manfred Lautenschläger-Stiftung, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, cbs

The Jury

Internationale Jury
Angela Bundalovic
Graham Foy
Johanna Süß

FIPRESCI Jury
Achim Forst
Shala Nahid
Ioannis Raouzaios

Ecumenical Jury
Tom Alesch
Jörg Breu
Gaëlle, Courtens

Student Jury
Allegra Bosch
Linda Luna
Sirus Narhagi Marin

Awards

International Newcomer Award - Best Director (30.000 Euros)

›Manas‹
Director: Marianna Brennand
Countries: Brazil, Portugal

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award - Best Screenplay (15.000 Euros)

›Familiar Touch‹
Screenplay: Sarah Friedland
Country: USA

Young Actors Award - Best Leading Role (10.000 Euros)
Laura Weissmahr in ›Salve Maria‹
Country: Spain

FIPRESCI-Award

›Bring Them Down‹
Director: Christopher Andrews
Countries: UK, Belgium

Ecumenical Award (2.500 Euros)

›Bound in Heaven‹
Director: Hou Xin
Country: China

Award of the Student Jury (5.000 Euros)

›Manas‹
Director: Marianna Brennand
Country: Brazil, Portugal

Audience Award (5.000 Euros)

›Across the Sea‹
Director: Saïd Hamid Benlarbi
Countries: Marokko, France, Belgium

Programme

OPENING NIGHT

• ›Sharp Corner‹ - Director: Jason Buxton, Country: Canada, Ireland

CENTRE PIECE

• ›April‹ - Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili, Country: Georgia

CLOSING NIGHT

• ›Shepherds‹ - Director: Sophie Deraspe, Countries: Canada, France

International Competition - ON THE RISE

• ›Across the Sea‹ Saïd Hamich Benlarbi, Morocco, France, Belgium
• ›Boomerang‹ Shahab Fotouhi, Iran, Germany
• ›Bound in Heaven‹ Huo Xin, China
• ›Bring Them Down‹ Christopher Andrews, Ireland, UK, Belgium
• ›Cabo Negro‹ Abdellah Taïa, France, Morocco
• ›Dead Mail‹ Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy, USA
• ›Familiar Touch‹ Sarah Friedland, USA
• ›Gazer‹ Ryan J. Sloan, USA
• ›Girls Will Be Girls‹ Shuchi Talati, India, France, USA, Norway
• ›Holy Electricity‹ Tato Kotetishvili, Georgia
• ›Ink Wash‹ Sarra Tsorakidis, Romania, Greece, Denmark
• ›The Kingdom‹ Julien Colonna, France
• ›Manas‹ Marianna Brennand, Brazil, Portugal
• ›Panopticon‹ George Sikharulidze, Georgia, France, Italy, Romania
• ›Santosh‹ Sandhya Suri, India, France, UK, Germany
• ›Sugar Island‹ Johanné Gómez Terrero, Dominican Republic, Spain

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

• ›Between the Temples‹ Nathan Silver, USA
• ›By the Stream‹ Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
• ›Emilia Pérez‹ Jacques Audiard, France
• ›Harvest‹ Athina Rachel Tsangari, UK, Germany, Greece, France, USA
• ›A Hundred Thousand Billions‹ Virgil Vernier, France
• ›Maldoror‹ Fabrice Du Welz, Belgium, France
• ›Nightbitch‹ Marielle Heller, USA
• ›Paying for It‹ Sook-Yin Lee, Canada
• ›The Return‹ Uberto Pasolini, Italy, UK
• ›The Seed of the Sacred Fig‹ Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany, France, Iran
• ›Salve Maria‹ Mar Coll, Spain
• ›Stranger Eyes‹ Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore, Taiwan, France
• ›They Will Be Dust‹ Carlos Marqués-Marcet, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
• ›Death Will Come‹ Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium
• ›Who by Fire‹ Philippe Lesage, Canada, France

FILMSCAPES

• ›Afternoons of Solitude‹ Albert Serra, Spain, France, Portugal
• ›All We Imagine As Light‹ Payal Kapadia, India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
• ›Desert of Namibia‹ Yoko Yamanaka, Japan
• ›Eephus‹ Carson Lund, USA
• ›Der Fleck‹ Willy Hans, Germany, Switzerland
• ›Good One‹ India Donaldson, USA
• ›Happy Holidays‹ Scandar Copti, Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, Qatar
• ›Memoir of a Snail‹ Adam Elliot, Australia
• ›A Real Pain‹ Jesse Eisenberg, USA, Poland
• ›Ten Months‹ Idan Hubel, Israel
• ›Universal Language‹ Matthew Rankin, Canada
• ›The Village Next to Paradise‹ Mo Harawe, Somalia, Austria, France, Germany

RETROSPECTIVE - BODIES IN FILM

• ›Steamboat Bill, Jr.‹ Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton, USA, 1928
• ›Freaks‹ Tod Browning, USA, 1932
• ›The Red Shoes‹ Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948
• ›The House Is Black‹ Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1962
• ›Black Girl‹ Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, France, 1966
• ›Videodrome‹ David Cronenberg, Canada, 1983
• ›Terminator 2: Judgment Day‹ James Cameron, USA, 1991
• ›The Watermelon Woman‹ Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1996
• ›Audition‹ Takashi Miike, Japan, South Korea, 1999
• ›Fat Girl‹ Catherine Breillat, France, 2001
• ›In the Cut‹ Jane Campion, UK, Australia, France, 2003
• ›Hunger‹ Steve McQueen, UK, Ireland, 2008
• ›The Raid‹ Gareth Evans, Indonesia, France, 2011

CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL

• ›Big Boys‹ Corey Sherman, USA, 2023
• ›Flow‹ Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia, France, Belgium
• ›Greetings From Mars‹ Sarah Winkenstette, Germany
• ›The Major Tones‹ Ingrid Pokropek, Argentina, Spain
• ›Savages‹ Claude Barras, Switzerland, France, Belgium
• ›Animal Tales of Christmas Magic‹ Caroline Attia, Camille Alméras, Ceylan Beyoğlu, Natalia Chernysheva, Haruna Kishi, Olesya Shchukina, France, Germany
• ›Yasmeen’s Element‹ Amman Abbasi, Pakistan, USA

HOMMAGE: Agnieszka Holland

• ›Europa Europa‹ Germany, France, Poland, 1990
• ›Olivier, Olivier‹ France, 1992
• ›Green Border‹ Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, 2023

GRAND IFFMH AWARD: Lynne Ramsay

• ›Ratcatcher‹ UK, 1999
• ›We Need to Talk About Kevin‹ UK, 2011
• ›A Beautiful Day‹ UK, France, 2017

FACING NEW CHALLENGES

• ›Uncensored Lilac‹ Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Jennifer Mehigan
• ›Today Is the Shortest Day of the Year but Somehow Hanging Around with You All Day Makes It Seem Like the Longest. Perverse Decolonization.‹ Saddie Choua
• ›The Distance from Here‹ Bandi Abibi, Pakistan
• ›Ocean Is Future‹ Latent Community, Greece
• ›Correspondance(s)‹ Sahar El Echi, Tunisia
• ›Im Tesla nach Schnellroda‹ Tommy Neuwirth, Germany
• ›Four Seven Round-the-Clock‹ Krassimir Terziev, Bulgaria