JENSEITS VON SCHULD

Germany 2024 – Director: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec

The media call their son the “patient killer.” He was given a life sentence for his numerous crimes. Life goes on for his parents Ulla and Didi Högel but nothing is the same as before. They must accept the bitter truth, figure out how to cope with everyday life and reposition themselves in relation to their child. A compelling, precisely observed film about parenthood and love. Ysabel Fantou

Winner of

kinokino Audience Award – sponsored by BR and 3sat
Awarded and sponsored by kinokino, the film magazine of BR and 3sat and endowed with 2,000 euros.

Biography

Director and screenwriter Katharina Köster completed pre-professional ballet training, worked as a writing coach and studied screenwriting and documentary film at HFF Munich. She feels at home in documentary and fiction.

Filmmaker Katrin Nemec first studied theater studies, literature and sociology at LMU before completing her documentary film studies at the HFF Munich. Her graduation film VOM LEBEN UND STERBEN received the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis.

FRAGMENTE AUS DER PROVINZ

Germany 2024 – Director: Martin Weinhart

We are colourful. We are diverse and committed – but all you ever read in the headlines is: the Nazi village.” This film does things differently. It takes us through the everyday occurrences in an existential struggle for power, freedom and open reporting. A film about neo-Nazi strategies and East German counter movements that show us how you can oppose the threat of right-wing extremism. Morgane Remter

Biography

The multi-award-winning director Martin Weinhart has made over 30 multi-layered and socially relevant films and series since studying film in Munich. He also studied philosophy and ethnology as well as psychology.

2UNBREAKABLEGermany 2023 – Director: Maike Conway

Breakdancing is about more than dancing; it is an identity and an attitude that allows breakers to face life’s challenges with confidence. Injuries become an opportunity to develop further. We follow Joanna and Serhat as they take part in their battles for Olympic qualification. The two share similar backgrounds and are pursuing a future in breakdancing. An emboldening, moving film. Morgane Remter

Biography

Director and author Maike Conway has been working primarily as a freelance documentary filmmaker since 1996. After being nominated several times, her film IBRAHIM UND JEREMIA received the Grimme Audience Award in 2017 and she won the Bayerischer Filmpreis for CORINNES GEHEIMNIS.