The winning films of the German Film Board FFA short film award Short Tiger 2020 have been chosen. “Due to the restrictions required to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the award ceremony for the 10th annual Short Tiger Awards was not only quieter than in previous years, but practically silent,” says Frank Völkert, deputy FFA board member. “Nevertheless, I would like to warmly congratulate the winners for their funny, thoughtful and also formally innovative films. And of course for the prize money and the deserved distribution they will have once cinemas are showing films and festivals are taking place again.”
The jury, consisting this year of actor Marleen Lohse, MDR broadcast editor Katrin Küchler and cinema operator Christian Bräuer, selected the following titles from 92 films:
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Apocalypse Airlines" (directors/screenwriters: Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger; producer: Claudia Schnupp; HFF Film Academy Munich): A fake commercial for a fictitious airline caught between the pleasures of travel and ecological footprint
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The Beauty" (director/screenwriter: Pascal Schelbli; producers: Tina Vest, Aleksandra Todorovic; Film Academy Baden-Württemberg): Animated short about a fascinating underwater world in which plastic and nature become one
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Brand/Ablaze" (directors: Jan Koester, Alexander Lahl; screenwriter: Elise Landschek; producer: Max Mönch; mobyDOK medienproduktion): Animated documentary about a fight against fear and the courage to stand up for your convictions despite the threat of one’s life.
• "Fortune in a Cookie" (director/screenwriter: Nina Weilbächer; producer: Adrian Steuer; Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg): Animated short about the tragedy of a fortune cookie
• "Wild West Compressed" (director: Christian Kaufmann; producer: Linda Krauss; Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg): Animated western in Mobilscope: The Wild West! Cowboys ride through endless landscapes, look sadly into the distance, huge egos duel their way to draw blood -- that needs a wide canvas, of course!
Short films with a maximum length of five minutes can be entered for the FFA’s Short Tiger award. German film academies, technical and art colleges with film training as well as the AG Kurzfilm are entitled to make proposals. An expert jury decides on up to five award-winning films and the prize money of 5,000 euros each. The prize money is earmarked either for the release of the award-winning films or to produce a new film. The award-winning films also qualify with five "reference points" for FFA short film funding and are part of the Next Generation program, which is shown worldwide at festivals and in screening series -- the Goethe-Institut Toronto showed previous "Tiger" winners during Toronto's 2019 "Doors Open" program. In addition, the award-winning films are evaluated in the cinema by the Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg.
source: FFA
image: "Apocalypse Airlines" Tricaut/Unger
