page_title: Filmfest München
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Filmfest München / Awards
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die HFF während des Filmfest München (2019)
context_page_description: Munich International Film festival is the largest summer film festival in Germany and second only in size and importance to the Berlinale. It has been held annually since 1983 and takes place in late June. The next festival will be from June 25 to July 4, 2020. It presents feature films and feature-length documentaries. The festival is also proud of the role it plays in discovering talented and innovative young filmmakers. With the exception of retrospectives, tributes and homages, all of the films screened are German premieres and many are European and world premieres.
  There are a dozen competitions with prizes worth over €250,000 which are donated by the festival's major sponsors and partners.
  With over 200 feature films and feature-length documentaries on more than 18 screens, Filmfest München attracts approximately 80 000 movie lovers each year. It accredits more than 600 members of the international press and media as well as over 2500 film industry professionals. It has always been a popular meeting place for industry insiders throughout Germany and Europe.
context_section_description: The Filmfest München awards the following prizes (worth roughly €250,000):
  The ARRI/OSRAM Award (services from ARRI and OSRAM worth €50,000) goes to the Best Film (non-German language). It has been awarded by ARRI since 2008 and by OSRAM since 2013.
  The CineMerit Award (established in 1997) honors outstanding personalities in the international film community for extraordinary contributions to motion pictures as an art form.
  The CineVision Award and €12 000 go to the Best Film by an Emerging Director. It is intended to support upcoming directors and provide them with exposure in Germany. The winner is selected from the CineVision section of the program and is endowed by Wild Bunch.
  The CineVision Award goes to the best international co-production involving German co-producers.
  The German Cinema New Talent Awards are donated by the DZ Bank, Bavaria Film and Bavarian Broadcasting. The prizes go to the best director, best producer, best screenwriter, and best actor and actress in narrative films in the festival's New German Cinema section.
  The Bernd Burgemeister TV Movie Award (previously the VFF TV Movie Award) is awarded by the VFF, the German Film & TV Producers' royalty co. VFF to the producer of the Best German TV Movie in the festival program. €25,000 purse.
  The Bayern 2 and SZ Audience Award has been presented by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and radio station Bayern 2 since 2004. Filmfest audiences pick the winner.
  The Kinderfilmfest Audience Award: The children in the audiences vote for their favorite film.
  The One Future Prize (presented since 1986 and endowed by the Interfilm Akademie, München) goes to the film that shows, ethically as well as aesthetically, that our world has one common future.
  The Fritz Gerlich Preis is donated by the Munich-based production company Tellux and goes to a feature film or documentary that courageously deals with a topic of public concern, reflecting Fritz Gerlich's commitment to human rights. Gerlich was a journalist who openly opposed Adolf Hitler and was executed in 1934. €10,000 prize money.
  The Fipresci Preis goes to the best film in the section New German Cinema.
  Prizes awarded to films other than those in the Filmfest München program:
  The Bernhard Wicki Film Prize – The Bridge has been awarded by the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund since 2002 and goes to film artists whose work builds bridges and inspires tolerance and humanitarianism. €10,000 prize money.
  The Children's Media Prize White Elephant is awarded by the Munich Media Club to outstanding children's films which foster positive development. Since 2002 at Filmfest München.
  The 13th Street Shocking Short is a short film award presented annually by NBC Universal pay-tv channel 13th Street. The winner receives a backstage pass to Universal Studios in Hollywood.
  The Treatment Competition for Documentaries is held by Bavarian Broadcasting and Global Screen GmbH München and serves to foster young documentary filmmakers and support documentary filmmaking in Germany and German-speaking countries in Europe. Three projects are awarded prizes worth €5,000, €3,000 and €2,000 (until 2014).
  The Look & Listen – Telepool-BR-Music-Award is endowed by Telepool, a subsidiary of Bayerischer Rundfunk. The award honors the music of an internationally acclaimed film music composer and is accompanied by a cash prize of €10,000 (until 2014).
  The Choreographic Captures-Award went to the best 60 second choreographic clip.
  The FFF Talent Award for Film Journalism is presented to a student from the German School of Journalism in Munich.
  The FIPRESCI Award by the international film critics’ association was presented for the first time in 2015 and honors the best film in the New German Cinema section.
caption: Munich's University of Television and Film during the Filmfest (2019)
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