2020

69th International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg
12th to 22nd November 2020

Director
Dr. Sascha Keilholz (Artistic & Commercial Director)
Head of Programme & Curator ON THE RISE
Frédéric Jaeger
Curator RETROSPECTIVE
Hannes Brühwiler
Curator CHILDREN`S FILM FESTIVAL
Lisa Niederauer
Curator FACING NEW CHALLENGES
Ursula Schöndeling
Programming Consultant and FACING NEW CHALLENGES
Dr. des. Alfred Stumm
Programming Consultants
Cécile Tollu-Polonowski, Violeta Kovacsics, Daniela Persico
Programming & Acquisitions
Felix Rieger
Assistant Programming & Acquisitions
Malin Limmer
Head of CUTTING EDGE TALENT CAMP
Zsuzsi Bánkuti
Head of Technical Operations and Human Resources
Imke Poeschel
Event organization
Wiebke Langele
Organization
Gurbet Erbulan
Ticketing
Ricarda Voigt
Assistant to the Festival Director
Stefan Wallner
Assistant to the Festival Director
Maxi Cieszynski
Video Production
Christophe Nassif
Media Design
Bernd Rohs
Assistance Programming
Rieke Bubert
Accounting & legal advice
Thomas Hartmann
Partnerships & Controlling
Katy Anderlik
Sponsoring
Dr. Morticia Zschiesche
Guest Service
Robin Laumeyer
Event and Guest Service
Liina Airikkala
Digital Communication
Mischa Smeljanskij
Media Design & Content Management
Alexander Rozmann
Press Relations
Carola Schaffrath, Anne Schütz
International Press
Gloria Zerbinati
Supporters & Sponsors
City of Mannheim, City of Heidelberg, State of Baden-Württemberg, BKM, MFG

The Jury

International Jury
Jessica Kiang
Jan Bonny
Mathilde Henrot

FIPRESCI-Jury
Dr. Christina Stojanova
Schayan Riaz
Ernesto Diezmartinez

Ecomenical Jury
Gergely Hajnal
Michael Kranzusch
Uta Losem
Mina Radović
Rianne Wijmenga-van Dijk

Student Jury
Sabrina Mertens
Nico Hagel
Ruth Lang Fuentes

Awards

International Newcomer Award - Best Director (25.000 Euros)

MY MEXICAN BREZEL
Director: Nuria Giménez Lorang
Land: Spain

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award - Best Script (10.000 Euros)

SINGLE CYCLE (YÈ YǏ JÌ YÈ)
Director: Zhang Qi
Country: People's Republic of China

Honorable mention by the International Jury:

COME CLOSER (DER SIEBZEHNTE)
Director: Saskia Walker, Ralf Walker
Country: Germany

BEGINNING
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Country: Georgia, France

FIPRESCI-Award

MY MEXICAN BREZEL
Director: Nuria Giménez Lorang
Country: Spanien

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (2.500 Euros)

UNA PROMESSA (SPACCAPIETRE)
Director: Gianluca & Massimiliano De Serio
Country: Italy, France, Belgium

Honorable mention by the Ecumenical Jury:

THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE (KOSHTARGAH)
Director: Abbas Amini
Country: Iran

Award of the Student Jury (5.000 Euros)

LORELEI
Director: Sabrina Doyle
Country: USA

Honorable mention by the Student's Jury:

SHITHOUSE
Director: Cooper Raiff
Country: USA

Audience Award (5.000 Euros)

LORELEI
Director: Sabrina Doyle
Country: USA

Programme

International Competition - ON THE RISE

• Asia - Director: Ruthy Pribar, Country: Israel
• Beginning (Dasatskisi) - Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili, Country: Georgia, France
• Come Closer (Der Siebzenhte) - Director: Saskia Walker & Ralf Walker, Country: Germany
• Get It Right (Sdelat' Kak Nado) - Director: Igor Polevichko, Country: Russia
• Gold for Dogs (De l'or pour les chiens) - Director: Anne Cazenave Cambet, Country: France
• Longing Souls (El alma quiere volar) - Director: Diana Montenegro García, Country: Colombia, Brazil
• Lorelei - Cirector: Sabrina Doyle, Country: USA
• My Mexican Bretzel - Director: Nuria Giménez Lorang, Country: Spanien
• Shithouse - Director: Cooper Raiff, Country: USA
• Single Cycle - Yè yi jì yè, Regie: Zhang Qi, Land: People's Republic of China
• The Disciple - Director: Chaitanya Tamhane, Country: Indien
• The Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah) Director: Abbas Amini, Country: Iran
• Una Promessa (Spaccapietre) - Director: Gianluca & Massimiliano De Serio, Country: Italien, Frankreich, Belgien
• You Know Him (Nasipse Adayız) - Director: Ercan Kesal, Country: Türkei, Serbien

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

• Der Rausch (Druk) - Director: Thomas Vinterberg, Country: Denmark
• Enormous (Énorme) - Director: Sophie Letourneur, Country: France
• Fanny Lye Deliver'd - Director: Thomas Clay, Country: UK, Germany
• Fauna - Director: Nicolás Pereda, Country: Mexiko, Canada
• Genus, Pan (Lahi, Hayop) - Director: Lav Diaz, Country: Philippines
• High Tide (Marea alta) - Director: Verónica Chen, Country: Argentina
• Home Front (Des Hommes) - Director: Lucas Belvaux, Country: France, Belgium
• Love Affair(s) (Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait) - Director: Emmanuel Mouret, Country: France
• One of These Days - Director: Bastian Günther, Country: Germany, USA
• The Woman Who Ran (Domangchin yeoja), Director: Hong Sangsoo, Country: Republic of Korea
• Tragic Jungle (Selva trágica) - Director: Yulene Olaizola, Country: Mexico, France, Colombia

Opening

• The Death of Cinema and My Father Too (Moto shel hakolnoa veshel aba sheli gum) - Director: Dani Rosenberg, Country: Israel

Closing

• À l'Abordage - Director: Guillaume Brac, Country: France

Centre Piece

• This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection - Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Country: Lesotho, South Africa, Italy

Special

• City Hall - Director: Frederick Wiseman, Country: USA
• Die Hungrigen aber wandern aus - Directors: Sophia Groening, Jan Bonny, Country: Germany
• Transit - Director: Christian Petzold, Country: Germany, France

Children's Film Festival

• Flussfahrt mit Huhn - Director: Arend Agthe, Land: Deutschland
• GIRLS GO MOVIE Filmspecial 2020 - Regie: Verschiedene, Land: Deutschland
• Los Lobos - Regie: Samuel Kishi Leopo, Land: Mexiko
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bú dan shì jiàoshì) - Regie: Pawo Choyning Dorji, Land: Bhutan
• Marona's Fantastic Tale (L'extraordinaire voyage de Marona) - Regie: Anca Damian, Land: Frankreich, Belgien, Rumänien
• Mum Mum Mum (Mamá, Mamá, Mamá) - Regie: Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière, Land: Argentinien
• Nordsee ist Mordsee - Regie: Hark Bohm, Land: Deutschland
• Ponette - Regie: Jacques Doillon, Land: Frankreich
• The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (La fameuse invasion des ours en Sicile) - Regie: Lorenzo Mattotti, Land: Frankreich

RETROSPECTIVE - LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE - THE SECOND GENERATION

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Regie: Chantal Akerman, Land: Belgien, Frankreich
• La drôlesse (Ein kleines Luder) - Regie: Jacques Doillon, Land: Frankreich
• La fiancée du pirate (Moneten fürs Kätzchen) - Regie: Nelly Kaplan, Land: Frankreich
• La maman et la putain (Die Mama und die Hure) - Regie: Jean Eustache, Land: Frankreich
• L'enfance nue (Nackte Kindheit) - Regie: Maurice Pialat, Land: Frankreich
• Les hautes solitudes - Regie: Philippe Garrel, Land: Frankreich
• L'étrangleur (Der Würger mit dem weißen Schal) - Regie: Paul Vecchiali, Land: Frankreich
• Mon coeur est rouge (My Heart is Red) - Regie: Michèle Rosier, Land: Frankreich
• Neige (Schnee) - Regie: Juliet Berto, Jean-Henri Roger, Land: Frankreich
• Simone Barbès ou la vertu (Simone Barbès oder die Tugend) - Regie: Marie-Claude Treilhou, Land: Frankreich
• Tchao Pantin (Am Rande der Nacht) - Regie: Claude Berri, Land: Frankreich
• Un enfant dans la foule (A Child in the Crowd) - Regie: Gérard Blain, Land: Frankreich

FACING NEW CHALLENGES

• Kunsthalle Mannheim:

AGAIN (Noch Einmal), Director: Mario Pfeifer, Country: Germany

• Heidelberger Kunstverein: Sammelausstellung WATER

Artists

• The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland - Karrabing Film Collective
• Dark Waters - Nina E. Schönefeld
• maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore - Sky Hopinka
• Hafrún - Sonia Levy
• Deep Down Tidal - Tabita Rezaire
• Haemocyanin - Tuomas A. Laitinen
• Acoustic Ocean - Ursula Biermann