Hysteria triomphe au 35e Festival de Cologne
par Olivia Popp
- Le film de Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay est en tête du palmarès, qui comprend aussi les petits derniers de Kleber Mendonça Filho et Mstyslav Chernov
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The 35th edition of Film Festival Cologne closed out its eight days of screenings, events and conferences with an awards ceremony honouring the festival’s top films and filmmakers. Hysteria [+lire aussi :
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interview : Devrim Lingnau
interview : Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
fiche film] by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay secured the NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia) Film Award, sponsored by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Cologne and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. Selected by a five-member jury, the prize goes to the best entry in the festival’s NRW Competition – the film must have production connections to the German region – and comes with a €20,000 monetary award.
The thriller, which premiered in the Panorama section at the Berlinale earlier this year and won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film, follows a film shoot that turns chaotic after a Quran is burnt on set. Hysteria is set to be released in German cinemas starting on 6 November.
Acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog took home the Cologne Film Award, a career achievement award endowed with 25,000 euros. The festival lauded his career of over 60 years and Herzog’s commitment to creating films across many genres and art forms, specifically highlighting his “world-famous documentaries”.
The International Actors Award went to German actress Maren Eggert and includes prize money of 10,000 euros, sponsored by Network Movie and MMC Studios Cologne. Known for I’m Your Man [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
interview : Maria Schrader
fiche film] – for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlinale in 2021 – and The Sparrow in the Chimney [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ramon et Silvan Zürcher
fiche film], among others, she most recently played in Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which opened Film Festival Cologne.
The Hollywood Reporter Award, presented to a director for their film, went to Kleber Mendonça Filho for The Secret Agent [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], selected from all of the fiction entries in the Top TV, Best of Cinema Fiction and Look categories. In the corresponding category for best documentary work, the phoenix Award, this year’s honour went to Mstyslav Chernov for 2000 Metres to Andriivka [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. This intense and pressing Ukrainian frontline documentary premiered at Sundance earlier this year and tells of a platoon seeking to liberate the titular Russian-occupied village.
As part of the framework of the festival but during the “Global Day. Stories for Change” Conference, three awards for campaigns dedicated to development policy engagement – such as raising awareness pertaining to climate change, poverty and conflict – were also handed out, an initiative that is now in its sixth year.
The full list of award winners:
NRW Film Award
Hysteria [+lire aussi :
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interview : Devrim Lingnau
interview : Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
fiche film] – Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay (Germany)
Cologne Film Award
Werner Herzog
International Actors Award
Maren Eggert
Hollywood Reporter Award for Best Fiction Work
Kleber Mendonça Filho – The Secret Agent [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] (Brazil/France/Germany/Netherlands)
phoenix Award for Best Documentary Work
Mstyslav Chernov – 2000 Metres to Andriivka [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Ukraine)
NRW Media Award for Development Policy Engagement
First prize
Besser Jetzt Als Peter. #StopDeepSeaMining – Greenpeace E.V.
Second prize
Ready to Recycle – MBRC the Ocean gGmbH
Third prize
#Road to Freedom: Auf den Spuren der Befreiung – Capa-Haus Leipzig x Leon Ziegler x Roofless Cat
(Traduit de l'anglais)
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