VELOBerlin film award

Cycling and the City – Join the International Online Competition for Bicycle Short Films, powered by VELOBerlin, Schwalbe and interfilm Berlin!

Celebrating the advance of the worldwide cycling movement, the VELOBerlin Film Award is an online bike film competition created to find the best short films that relate to the theme of “Cycling and the City”.

Topic: Cycling and the city
Length: Films up to 10 minutes
Genres, forms and shooting formats: whatever you like

Win prizes worth € 1800!

Submit your film now! – Deadline is January 18, 2013!

Public Online Vote: Open from February 18 to March 22, 2013!

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Award for Afghanistan from International film festival

Second prize of 21st document ART of European Film Festival for "Postman" documentary film by Wahid Nazir.

The dokumentART – European Festival for Documentaries – takes place annually in the autumn in Neubrandenburg and Szczecin simultaneously. The festival showcases current European documentary films in formats that range from the traditional to the experimental.

The main focal point of the festival is the European Competition, in which films of up to 60 minutes in length compete for a total of eight prizes. Audiences on both the German and the Polish sides of the border can also see additional programmes such as the “Eastern Bloc”, or the presentation of the work of a European film school. A special programme section invites you to discover themes and films related to the region and its inhabitants.

Best Prize of Promotional Film for Afghanistan

Promotional Award

The Promotional Award of the International Competition for a directing talent, worth 10,000 CHF, goes to the Afghan filmmaker Sayad Qasem Hossaini for «DEATH TO THE CAMERA». The Jury gives the prize to this documentary because it offers a stage to men and women from the margin of society to raise their voices and reflect injustice and manipulation.The magnetism of the documentary medium is powerfully present in this film.

Synopsis:

A camera moves among women working their last day on a job site. Is the camera revealing anything truthful, or simply inciting these women to present what they think ‘the other’ wants to hear – or what might get them something from the world on the other side of the camera? Who is on the other side of that camera anyway?

"Death to the Camera" also was official selection in Hot Docs international film festival and 14th Tel Aviv International student film festival. 

Also this film was winner of the Best prize for Best Film from the first Human Rights film festival in Kabul.

The Glasses Short Film By Seyyed Hussein Mousavi in Berlin

"The Glasses" Short film have been selected on 5th KUKI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL For CHILDREN AND YOUTH BERLIN

"The Glasses" short film by Seyyed Hussein Mousavi, also was official selection on 14th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival and 8th Detmold International Short film festival in Berlin.

"The Glasses" is about Two friends find an exciting-looking book and want to learn how to read it. But before the old grandfather can teach them, they have to repair his glasses.

The Film will be shown in the following Programs:

KUKI for ages 6-11

Competition Programme for Children ages 6 +

11.11.2012, 15:00h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain - Kino 2

13.11.2012, 10:00h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain - Kino 1

Berlin's one and only short film festival for children and teens! The 2012 festival will be held from 11 - 18 November at the gorgeously grand cinemas Filmtheater am Friedrichshain and Passage Neukölln. Click here for this year's highlights and detailed programme information. - Read the catalogue here