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One Future Prize
 | Presented since 1986 to the film that, ethically as well as aesthetically, shows that our world has one common future. |
Winner 2011: CAIRO EXIT
- Hesham Issawi: CAIRO EXIT (Ägypten)
| Jury: Hesham Issawis existential drama Cairo Exit is a story in which the love between a Coptic Christian woman Amal and a Muslim man Terek unfolds with a powerful inter-religious force. The two families are facing the threat of suffocation in the ruined everyday hopeless milieu of the social and religious hostility, in which even the dreams are unable to offer a way out. The film is literally pregnant with the aesthetics of contrasts. Although the characters in film are pounded by the world of poverty and pain, their struggle emanates the humanity characterized by integrity and dignity that makes the Arabic Spring possible. Through separation, pain, hopelessness and death only the colour of the ocean seems to reconcile heaven and hell as mutually reflective images. Even the exit to paradise is tainted by the question of whether it can be shared by two people of different convictions. |
- Honorary One Future Prize (posthumously): Juliano Mer Hamis
Winner 2010: THE WHITE SPACE (LO SPAZIO BIANCO)
Director: Francesca Comenici, Italy 2009
LO SPAZIO BIANCO, the white space (interior space/cosmos, based on a novella of the same name by Valeria Parrella), reflects on the subject of a "common future" in the face of the breakdown of traditional family structures. The situation in which Maria, an intelligent teacher, not quite young any more and constantly embroiled in unstable relationships, finds herself can almost be seen as paradigmatc for our modern western society oscillating between individual autonomy and loneliness. Her equilibrium breaks down when she becomes pregnant. The baby is born prematurely after 6 months. But what does "to be born" mean? The child's survival in the incubator remains uncertain for a long time. Maria spends the following two months together with her child in the hospital, in an interior space of finding one's self, which is surrounded by white curtains. The solitude of spazio bianco serves for the child's and its mother's birth and, as such, constitutes a metaphor for the womb. As a consequence, both child and mother grow towards each other in an initiation ceremony. With her feelings fluctuating between her need of retreating into an interior space and turning her attention to others, it is necessary for her to face up to her angst, to grow calm and to dedicate herself to her child, which is in need of her protection.
By its remarkable correspondence of form and content, LO SPAZIO BIANCO involves spectators sensitively into the process of finding one's self by interweaving past, presence and future, especially through its camera work and editing.
ONE-FUTURE-PREIS 2010 AND LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PETER FLEISCHMANN
Recommendatory reference: NATARANG
Director: Ravi Jadhav, India 2010
NATARANG portrays an agricultural worker, who is playing an "inverted breeches part" with unexpected consequences in a popular Tamasha play on a stage in the Indian countryside. Because of putting traditional gender roles into question, all interpersonal relationships are doomed to failure.
Recommendatory reference: CLEVELAND VERSUS WALLSTREET (MAIS MIT DÄ BÄNKLER)
Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron, Switzerland/ France 2010 2010The City of Cleveland sues Wallstreet because it was ruined by their banks and their subprime mortgages. But there never was a trial. This fictional documentary stages a real case with real protagonists in a fictional trial with the objective of gaining attention.
Previous Winners:
2009 |
PA-RA-DA Director: Marco Pontecorvo One-Future-Ehrenpreis: Peter Lilienthal Lobende Erwähnung: Anne Aghion für ihre Dokumentation MY NEIGHBOR MY KILLER |
2008 |
DIE KLASSE Director: Laurent Cantet |
2007 |
THE WOVEN STORIES OF THE OTHER Director: Sherad Anthony Sanchez |
2006 |
CROSSING ARIZONA Director: Joseph Mathew, Dan DeVivo |
2005 |
Italianetz Director: Andrei Kravchuk |
2004 |
VODKA LEMON Director: Hiner Saleem |
2003 |
OMNIBUS 174 Director: José Padilha |
2002 |
ANANSI Director: Fritz Baumann |
2001 |
VERSPRECHEN Director: Justine Shapiro und B.Z.Goldberg |
2000 |
BONHOEFFER - DIE LETZTE STUFE Director: Eric Till |
1999 |
The Cup Director: Khyentse Norbu |
1998 |
Honorary Awardfor Marianne Rosenbaum and
Gérard Samaan |
1997 |
MITTWOCH Director: Victor Kossawski (in St. Petersburg verliehen) |
1996 |
TODAS - AM RANDE DES PARADIESES Director: Clemens Kuby |
1995 |
ERMO Zhou Xiaowen WRONY Dorota Kedzierzawska |
1994 |
IT'S ALL TRUE Director: Orson Wells |
1993 |
LATCHO DROM Director: Tony Gatlif |
1992 |
Surviving Columbus Program (10. MÜNCHNER FILMFEST) |
1991 |
BILETAS IKI TAJ MAHAL Director: Algimantas Puipa |
1990 |
MIACHLOEBA Director: Alexander Rechwiaschwili |
1989 |
MAPANTSULA Director: Oliver Schmitz |
1988 |
KRÓTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU Director: Kryzsztof Kieslowski |
1987 |
GERÓNIMA Director: Raúl Alberto Tosso |
1986 |
HALF LIFE Director: Dennis O´Rourke |
