Prize of the Cinema Jury

in connection with two buying options on the awarded works by the Short Film Agency Hamburg

Members of the Jury:
Vildana Drljević (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Dirk Steinkühler (Germany), Martin Urban (Germany)



Prrrride
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat
Netherlands/Israel 2008, 3 min, DV, colour

Statement:
We hear a drum kit and a kettledrum, we hear about military service and the feelings of a mother. We see a musician, but we don’t see his head. And yet the filmmakers manage to create a very vivid and personal image of an individual in our heads and, in passing, draw our attention to the conflicts and contradictions of our age.

Prize of the Cinema Jury

Murphy
Bjørn Melhus
Germany 2008, 3,5 min, DV, colour

Statement:
This film extracts the essence of action movies. Their soundtracks provide the rhythm for the strobe light effects where planes of different colours dance on the screen. The filmmaker edits all this so originally and extraordinarily that the spectator who allows himself to be immersed in this experience takes off with the starting helicopter, is shaken thoroughly and at last gently lowered back into his or her cinema seat.

Special Mention

Booo
Alicja Jaworski
Sweden 2009, 7 min, 35 mm, colour

Statement:
This animated films manages to tell its young audiences the story of “being different” and of friendship by simple means, using not much more than one sound.