Members of the Jury:

Barbara Engelbach (Cologne), Christiane Heuwinkel (Bielefeld), Nikolaj Nikitin (Cologne), Ulrike Sprenger (Konstanz), Stefan Westerwelle (Cologne)

Members of the Jury:
Barbara Engelbach (Cologne), Christiane Heuwinkel (Bielefeld), Nikolaj Nikitin (Cologne), Ulrike Sprenger (Constance), Stefan Westerwelle (Cologne)


Definitively Unfinished

Pavel Braila

Moldova 2009, 14'30'', Beta SP, colour

 

Jury statement:

The Film Definitively Unfinished begins at the end: it tells about the end of cinema in Moldavia; about the end of the short history of the travelling video carriages and about the blazing failure of the first independent Moldavian film project. In its formal realisation, which is as clever as it is confident, the film shows itself as a tri-fold end-credit and at the same time as a departure for the beautiful land of eternally unfinished works.

 

Rendez-vous à Stella-Plage

Shalimar Preuss

France 2009, 18', 35mm, colour

 

Jury statement:

A special mention by the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia  goes to the film Rendez-vous à Stella-Plage by Shalimar Preuss. Two stories about closeness and distance, about wanting to keep hold and having to let go, which are independent of each other, are linked in the associative basic structure of this film.