Film Festival Kitzbühel
Film Festival' Kitzbuehel The Film Festival Kitzbuehel offers
History
Film Festival Kitzbuehel[9] was founded in 2012 by Michael Reisch, Kathryn Perotti, Nina Hipfl-Reisch, Mike Mayr-Reisch, Josef Obermoser and Roman Benedetto.[10] Since its first edition in 2013, the festival has attracted increasing numbers of international guests and participants.[11] Its location, the alpine town of
Script Lab ("Drehbuchklausur")
The script lab,[15] held and organized by the FFKB Foundation, is a 20 day long screenplay writing workshop, where script writers can develop scripts and present their work. The script lab is intended to give filmmakers from Austria and German-speaking Europe a chance to work on their creations with colleagues, tutors and experts from the national and international movie industry, as well as to exchange ideas and to network.
Awarded Films
2020
- Opening Film — Narzisst und Goldmund — from Stefan Rusowitzky (Ger)
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch from Arash T. Riad(Aut)
- Best Documentary Feature — Lost in Memories from Ruud Lenssen (Netherlands)
- Best Austrian Director (ÖFI & FFKB Award) — Safety 123 from Julia Gutweniger (Aut)
- Best Austrian Producer — Rettet das Dorf from Teresa Distelberger (Aut)
- Best Short Film — Matriochkas from Bérangère McNeese, Stefan Langthaler (Belgium, France)
- Audience Award – Green Sea from Angeliki Antonious (Greece)
- Best Austrian Newcomer — Fabiu from Stefan Langthaler (Aut)
- Retrospective and Honorary Award — Veronika Ferres
2019
- Opening Film — Es hätte schlimmer kommen können - Mario Adorf from Dominik Wessely
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Nevrland from Gregor Schmidinger(Aut)
- Best Documentary Feature — Another Life from Jan Prazak (Aut, Ger)
- Best Austrian Director (ÖFI & FFKB Award) - Caviar from Elena Tikhonova (Aut)
- Best Austrian Producer — Womit haben wir das verdient from Eva Spreitzhofer (Aut)
- Best Short Film — The Christmas Gift from Bogdan Muresanu (Romania, Spain)
- Audience Award – Dream State from Asger K. Bartels (Denmark)
- Best Austrian Newcomer — Der Wächter from Albin Wildner (Aut)
- Retrospective and Honorary Award — Helmut Berger
2018
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Adam (Ger, Iceland, Mex, USA)
- Best Documentary Feature — Nos llaman guerreras (Venezuela, USA, Mex)
- Best Austrian Director (ÖFI & FFKB Award) — Heimweh (AUT) and ex-aequo Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch? (Aut)
- Best Short Film — Retouch (Iran)
- Best Short Documentary — Unforgiveable (Italy, USA, Rwanda)
- Audience Award — der Minusmann: Die Doku (Aut)
- Best Austrian Newcomer — Entschuldigung, ich suche den Tischtennisraum und meine Freundin (Aut)
- Best Mountain Sport Short —- Ya Mas —- Snowmads in Greece (Greece, Aut)
- Retrospective and Honorary Award —- Marie Bäumer
2017
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Amok (FYR Macedonia)[16]
- Best Documentary Feature — A Young Girl in Her 90s (FR)
- Best Short Film — The Dog Catcher (POL)[17]
- Audience Award —– Painless (USA)[18]
- Best Austrian Newcomer — Lacrimosa (AT)[19]
- Best Winter Sport Short — The White Maze (RUS/USA)
- Retrospective and 1st Honorary Award — Joseph Vilsmaier
2016
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Mother (EST)[20]
- Best Documentary Feature — Raving Iran (SUI)[21]
- Best Short Film — Lightningface (USA)[22]
- Audience Award — Where to, Miss? (IND)
- Best Austrian Newcomer — Die Last der Erinnerung (AUT)
- Best Winter Sport Short — Snowflake
- Retrospective — Sir Peter Ustinov
2015
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Keep in Touch (USA)
- Best Documentary Feature — Unversöhnt (GER)
- Best Short Film — So schön wie du (DE)
- Audience Award — My Blind Heart (AT)[23]
- Best Austrian Newcomer — Pitter Patter Goes My Heart(AT)
- Retrospective — Felix Mitterer
2014
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Meeresstille (GER)
- Best Documentary Feature — Homme Less (AT)
- Best Short Film — Bully (USA)
- Audience Award — Grey Sheep (DE/US)
- Best Austrian Newcomer – Attention - A Life in Extremes(AT)
- Retrospective — Mario Adorf
2013
- Best Narrative Feature Film — Tutti Giu (CH)
- Best Documentary Feature — The Bengali Detective (AT/USA)
- Best Short Film — The Acrobat (ESP)
- Audience Award — Smash & Grab (UK)
- Best Austrian Newcomer – Erdbeerland (AT)
- Retrospective — Billy Wilder
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- ^ "Vardan Tozija's Amok wins top award at Austrian film festival". Archived from the original on 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
- ^ "POLISH SHORTS: "THE DOGCATCHER" WINS IN AUSTRIA -".
- ^ "Painless" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Tanja Mairitsch: Abgetauchte Filmwelt".
- ^ "Estonian Tiina Mälberg wins the best actress award in Spain". 2 June 2017.
- ^ "SWISS FILMS: Raving Iran". www.swissfilms.ch.
- ^ "Lightningface".
- ^ "Mein blindes Herz" – via www.imdb.com.