"Fordert das Unmögliche!“ -- Demand the impossible is the typically feisty slogan of Germany's upcoming biggest (and oldest) doc fest. Last year, GOETHE FILMS featured the gems that have come out DOK Leipzig. This year, I am honored to be sitting on the jury to choose the next Goethe Documentary Prize winner at the 61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film that runs 29 October to 4 November 2018.
Monday, October 29. 2018
DOK Leipzig 2018: Demand the impossible
"Fordert das Unmögliche!“ -- Demand the impossible is the typically feisty slogan of Germany's upcoming biggest (and oldest) doc fest. Last year, GOETHE FILMS featured the gems that have come out DOK Leipzig. This year, I am honored to be sitting on the jury to choose the next Goethe Documentary Prize winner at the 61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film that runs 29 October to 4 November 2018.
Documentary films tell real-life stories, portray genuine characters and raise questions about social realities. Each November since 2003 at DOK Leipzig, the Goethe-Institut has been awarding an outstanding German doc and then showing it to audiences worldwide. Stay tuned for live reports & impressions!
As a warm-up, here's a DOK Leipzig cheat sheet:
61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film DOK Leipzig
306 films from
50 countries in
9 sections
12 360 degree, smart and VR projects in the "Neuland" sidebar
61 world premieres
31 international premieres
6 European premieres
54 German premieres
60 % of German films by female filmmakers
76 age of Werner Herzog, who opens with MEETING GORBACHEV (see TIFF18)
1968 Focus year in the •prize money in the amount of 73,500 Euro
19 films elegible for the Goethe Documentary Prize
16 films out of those 19 are by female filmmakers (= 84%)
9 films out of those 19 are German productions
10 films out of those 19 are international co-productions with Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Egypt, Netherlands, Norway, Phillipines, Quatar, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US
3 jurors for the Goethe Documentary Prize
10 juried prizes
47,000+ festival visitors 2017
c.1,800 accredited guests 2017
150+ accredited journalists 2017
I am looking forward to watching & discussing films with my Goethe-Institut Munich colleague Noni Lickleder and last year's winning doc director Sebastian Schulz (WILD HEART), and to keeping you posted about a busy week from Leipzig.
More on the Goethe Documentary Prize:
Once a year, at Europe's second largest documentary film festival, DOK Leipzig, an outstanding film is awarded the Goethe Documentary Film Prize by a jury. The prize is awarded to a recent feature-length German documentary film from the German or International Competition. First presented in 2003, the award comes with 2,000 euro prize money. The Goethe-Institut also acquires the rights to the film and arranges the subtitling in eight languages so that it can be shown at the over 150 Goethe-Instituts throughout the world. The jury is chaired by a documentary filmmaker or international expert and composed of film experts from the global network of Goethe-Instituts. Artistic criteria are as important in the decision-making as the winning film's relevance for the current German socio-political discourse, but also the degree to which it transcends its culture of origin and facilitates a global conversation.
Past winners of the Goethe Documentary Award:
WILD HEART by Charly Hübner & Sebastian Schultz 2017
TO BE A TEACHER by Jakob Schmidt 2016
OVERGAMES by Lutz Dammbeck 2015
CONCRETE LOVE – THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BÖHM FAMILY by Maurizius Staerkle-Drux 2014
LAND IN SIGHT by Judith Kail & Antje Kruska 2013
FORGET ME NOT by David Sieveking 2012
PEAK by Hannes Lang 2011
HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL by Gereon Wetze & Jörg Adolph 2010
SHANGHAI FICTION by Julia Albrecht & Busso von Müller 2009
ZULETZT BEFREIT MICH DOCH DER TOD by Beate Middeke 2008
THE HALFMOON FILES by Philip Scheffner 2007
DIE UNZERBRECHLICHEN by Dominik Wessely 2006
MY BROTHER – WE’LL MEET AGAIN by Thomas Heise 2005
HAT WOLFF VON AMERONGEN KONKURSDILIKTE BEGANGEN? by Gerhard Friedl 2004
FÜR DEN SCHWUNG SIND SIE ZUSTÄNDIG by Margarete Fuchs 2003
by Jutta Brendemühl
As a warm-up, here's a DOK Leipzig cheat sheet:
61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film DOK Leipzig
306 films from
50 countries in
9 sections
12 360 degree, smart and VR projects in the "Neuland" sidebar
61 world premieres
31 international premieres
6 European premieres
54 German premieres
60 % of German films by female filmmakers
76 age of Werner Herzog, who opens with MEETING GORBACHEV (see TIFF18)
1968 Focus year in the •prize money in the amount of 73,500 Euro
19 films elegible for the Goethe Documentary Prize
16 films out of those 19 are by female filmmakers (= 84%)
9 films out of those 19 are German productions
10 films out of those 19 are international co-productions with Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Egypt, Netherlands, Norway, Phillipines, Quatar, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US
3 jurors for the Goethe Documentary Prize
10 juried prizes
47,000+ festival visitors 2017
c.1,800 accredited guests 2017
150+ accredited journalists 2017
I am looking forward to watching & discussing films with my Goethe-Institut Munich colleague Noni Lickleder and last year's winning doc director Sebastian Schulz (WILD HEART), and to keeping you posted about a busy week from Leipzig.
More on the Goethe Documentary Prize:
Once a year, at Europe's second largest documentary film festival, DOK Leipzig, an outstanding film is awarded the Goethe Documentary Film Prize by a jury. The prize is awarded to a recent feature-length German documentary film from the German or International Competition. First presented in 2003, the award comes with 2,000 euro prize money. The Goethe-Institut also acquires the rights to the film and arranges the subtitling in eight languages so that it can be shown at the over 150 Goethe-Instituts throughout the world. The jury is chaired by a documentary filmmaker or international expert and composed of film experts from the global network of Goethe-Instituts. Artistic criteria are as important in the decision-making as the winning film's relevance for the current German socio-political discourse, but also the degree to which it transcends its culture of origin and facilitates a global conversation.
Past winners of the Goethe Documentary Award:
WILD HEART by Charly Hübner & Sebastian Schultz 2017
TO BE A TEACHER by Jakob Schmidt 2016
OVERGAMES by Lutz Dammbeck 2015
CONCRETE LOVE – THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BÖHM FAMILY by Maurizius Staerkle-Drux 2014
LAND IN SIGHT by Judith Kail & Antje Kruska 2013
FORGET ME NOT by David Sieveking 2012
PEAK by Hannes Lang 2011
HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL by Gereon Wetze & Jörg Adolph 2010
SHANGHAI FICTION by Julia Albrecht & Busso von Müller 2009
ZULETZT BEFREIT MICH DOCH DER TOD by Beate Middeke 2008
THE HALFMOON FILES by Philip Scheffner 2007
DIE UNZERBRECHLICHEN by Dominik Wessely 2006
MY BROTHER – WE’LL MEET AGAIN by Thomas Heise 2005
HAT WOLFF VON AMERONGEN KONKURSDILIKTE BEGANGEN? by Gerhard Friedl 2004
FÜR DEN SCHWUNG SIND SIE ZUSTÄNDIG by Margarete Fuchs 2003
by Jutta Brendemühl
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