INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MANNHEIM-HEIDELBERG
The festival started in 1952 as "Mannheimer Kultur- and Dokumentarfilmwoche" (Mannheim Film Week for Documentary and Cultural Films). Since 1961, it was called "International Film Week Mannheim", which turned to "International Film Festival Mannheim" in 1991, and became the "International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg" in 1994. A first international jury was established in 1958. Evangelical and Catholic juries award prizes since 1963, joining to an Ecumenical Jury in 1995.
1963 Award: Italia Proibita by Enzo Biagti, Brando Giordani and Sergio Giordani, 92’, Italy 1962
1964 No Award
1965 Award: La Cage de verre by Philippe Arthuys and J.L. Levi-Alvarès, 90', France/Israel 1965
1966 Awards: Time of the Locust by Peter Gessner, 10', USA 1966 Die minder glückliche Heimkehr des Joszef Katus in das Land Rembrandts by Vim Verstappen, 85', Netherlands 1966
1967 Award: Le Théâtre de Monsieur et Madame Kabal by Walerian Borowyczyk, 77', France 1967
1968 Award: Hora de los hornos by Fernando Ezequiel Solanas and Octavio Getino, three parts (90'/120'/45'), Argentinia 1968
1969 Award: Katzelmacher by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 88', Germany 1969
1970 Awards: Right On by Herbert Dansk, 78', USA 1970 La Fin des Pyrenées by Jean Pierre Lajournade, 83', France 1970
1971 Awards: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit by Werner Herzog, 86', Germany 1971 Where our strength lies by Winkelmann and Büttenbender, Germany
1972 Award: Kippe Mannheim-Rheinau, Heuweg by Kollektiv Krauss, Ossowski and Schoeller, Germany 1972
1973 Awards: Cousin Jules by Dominique Benichetti, 91', France 1973 Na Wylot by Grzegorz Krolikiewicz, 94', Poland 1972 Der lange Jammer by Max Willutzki, 95', Germany 1973
1974 Awards: Last Grave at Dimbaza Anonymous, 42', UK/South Africa 1974 Wer einmal lügt oder Victor und die Erziehung by June Kovach and Alexander J. Seiler, 68', Switzerland 1974 O mal amado by Fernando Matos Silva, Portugal 1974 Honorable Mentions: Swiss in the spanish civil war by Richard Dindo, Switzerland Apuntes by Ariel Zuniga, Mexico
1975 Awards: Strasse im Widerstand by Wolfgang Braun, 55', Germany 1974/75 Honorable Mention: Hester Street by Joan Micklin Silver, 90', USA 1974
1976 Awards: E noi altri apprendisti? by G. Doffini, 43', Switzerland 1976 Hollywood on Trial by David Helpern, 105', USA 1975 Honorable Mentions: Double Day by Helena Solberg-Ladd, USA Czlowiek z Cyfra by Janusz Kidawa, Polen Der Umsetzer by Benno Trautmann and Brigitte Toni Lerch, Germany Don’t worry, it’s only a movie by Donald Blank, USA
1977 Award: Fluchtweg nach Marseille by Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring, two parts (90'/120'), Germany 1977 El Grito del Pueblo by Peter von Gunten, 73', Switzerland 1977
1978 Awards: Where have All the Maoists Gone? by Michael Rubbo, 88', Canada 1978 Renaldo und Clara by Bob Dylan, USA 1978 Stilleben by Elisabeth Gujer, 70', Switzerland 1977/78 Alambrista! by Robert M. Young, 116', USA 1977
1979 Award: Behinderte Liebe by Marlies Graf, 120', Switzerland 1979. Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang by Jack Willis and Saul Landau, USA 1979
1980 Award: Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio by Gertrud Pinkus, Switzerland The Ominous House by Masihuddin Shaker & Sheikh Niamat Ali, Bangladesh Honorable Mention: El Salvador - Revolution or Death by Frank Diamand, Netherlands
1981 no awards Honorable Mentions: Ca peut être l'hiver, on n'a même pas eu l'été by Louise Carre, Canada Soldier girls by Nick Broomfield and Joan Chruchill Les naufragés du quartier by Bernard Longpres, Canada
1982 Awards: The plains of Heaven by Ian Pringle, Australia Roses in December by Ana Carrigan and Bernhard Stone, USA L'ombre de la terre by Taieb Louhichi, Tunesia/France Honorable Mentions: Close harmony by Nigel Noble, USA Fire on the water by Robert Hillmann, USA Menschen wie aus Glas by Lienhard Wawrzyn, Germany The story of Chaim Rumkowski and the jews of Lodz by Peter Cohen and Bo Kuritzen, Sweden
1983 Award: Hunderennen by Bérnard Safarik, Switzerland Honorable Mention: Der Versuch zu leben by Johann Feindt, Germany
1984 Award: Fern vom Krieg by Wolfgang Landgraeber, Germany Honorable Mentions: Next of Kin by Atom Egoyan, Canada A mi iskolank by Jozsef Magyar, Hingria
1985 Award: Dark Lullabies by Irene Lilienheim-Angelico and Gloria Demers Honorable Mentions: La ciudad y los perros by Francisco J. Lombardi, Peru Martin Niemöller: Was würde Jesus dazu sagen? by Hannes Karnick und Wolfgang Richter, Germany Oriane by Fina Torres, Venezuela
1986 Award: Hellfire, a journey from Hiroshima by John Junkerman, Michael Cannerini and James Mac Donald Honorable Mentions: The rat catcher by Andrzej Czarnecki, Poland Dancing in the dark by Leon Marr
1987 Award: Szépléanos by Andras Dér und Laszlo Hartai Honorable Mention: Sonderreihe AIDS-Filme
1988 Award: "Slucaj Harms" by Slobodom Pesic, Yugoslavia Honorable Mention: Het oog boven de put by Johan van der Keuken, Netherlands
1989 Award: China Lake by Dieter Weihl, USA
1990 Award: The company of Strangers by Cynthia Scott, Canada Honorable Mention: Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand by Volker Koepp, DDR
1991 Award: Spätnachmittag (Indien) by Sukumaran Nair, India Honorable Mentions: Der im Dunklen mäht by Guerasim Degaltsev, Sowjetunion Lea by Raymond St.-Jean, Canada
1992 Award: As in Heaven by Kristin Johannesdottir, Island Honorable Mentions: About love, Tokyo by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Japan On the border of Hopetown Short film by Wayne Coles-Janess, Australia
1993 Award: Reste - Dableiben by Marie Vermillard, France Honorable Mentions: Creation by Fumiko Kiyooka Chaka by Morshedul Islam
1994 Award: It also snows in Paradise by Audrius Juzenas, Litauen Honorable Mentions: The Servile by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India Avondale Dogs by Gregor Nicholas, New Zealand
1995 First Ecumenical Award: Das Kreuz der Erfahrung by Vladimir Tyulkin and Taras Popov, Kasachstan Honorable Mention: Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Meg Partridge, USA
1996 Award: A Peal by Chang Sun-woo, South Corea 1995 Honorable Mention: Az Asszony by Janos Erdélyi and Dezso Zsigmon, Hungria 1995
1997 Award: The Stowaway by Ben van Lieshout, Netherlands 1997 Honorable Mention: Shoemaker by Colleen Murphy, Canada 1994
1998 Award: Brothers Tied by Derek M. Cianfrance, USA 1998 Honorable Mention: In My Father’s House by Fatima Jebli Quazzani, Netherlands 1997
1999 Award: The Executioner by Filip Zylber, Poland 1999 Honorable Mention: Bye Bye Bluebird by Katrin Ottarsdottir, Denmark 1999
2000 Award: Samotari by David Ondricek, Chech Rep. 2000 Honorable Mention: Les Chaussettes Sales by David Lanzmann, France 2000
2001 Award: Kira’s Reason by Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark 2001 Honorable Mention: Believers by Jana Sevcikovà, Chech Rep. 2001
2002 Award: Tussenland by Eugenie Jansen, The Netherlands 2002 Commendation: Glowing Growing by Kei Horie, Japan 2001
2003 Award: Khamoushiye darya/Silence of the Sea by Vahid Mousaian, Iran 2003
2004 Award: Mila ot Mars/Mila from Mars by Zornitsa Sophia, Bulgaria 2004 Commendation: Nema Problema/No problems by Giancarlo Bocchi, Italy 2004
2005 Award: Pavee Lackeen/The Traveller Girl by Perry Ogden, Ireland 2005 Commendation: Ryna by Ruxandra Zenide, Romania/Siwtzerland 2005
2006 Award: Trešeta (The Card Players) by Dražen Žarkovic and Pavo Marinkovic, Croatia 2006
2007 Award: Uden for kærligheden (Outside Love) by Daniel Espinosa, Denmark 2007 Commendation: Cover Boy... (L'ultima revoluzione) by Carmine Amoroso, Italy 2007
2008 Award: Borderline by Lyne Charlebois, Canada 2008 Commendation: Lluvia (Rain) by Paula Hernández, Argentina 2008
2009 Award: Cœur animal (Animal Heart) by Séverine Cornamusaz, Switzerland 2009
2010 Award: Hold Om Mig (Hold me tight) by Kaspar Munk, Denmark 2010
2011 Award: Bein Hashmashot (Dusk) by Alon Zingman, Israel 2010 Commendations: Parked by Darragh Byrne, Ireland/Finland 2010 Un cuento Chino (Chinese Take-Away) by Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina 2011
2012 Award: Le sac de farine (The Bag of Flour) by Kadija Leclere, Belgium/Morocco 2012 Commendation: W sypialni (In a Bedroom) by Tomasz Wasilewski, Poland 2012 |