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Until September 1, young filmmakers from all over the world were invited to submit their work for the 9th Hanover International Film Festival. With a total of 2680 applications from 58 countries, up-and-coming 2007 recorded a submission record. 98 German films and another 94 from a total of 42 countries cleared the first hurdle: they were nominated for the ‘German Young Film Award 2007’ or the ‘International Young Film Makers Award’ and competed over the last three days for the favour of the audience and the jury.
At up-and-coming 2007, both the number of films submitted and the number of filmmakers present were exceptional: a good 200 young filmmakers took part in the festival in Hanover; some of them travelled halfway around the world to do so. There had never been greater participation in the festival’s 25-year history, said festival director Burkhard Inhülsen. The 9th Hanover International Film Festival generally enjoyed lively interest: several thousand spectators had come to the CinemaxX Nikolaistraße over the past few days. Almost all screenings were sold out, including today’s award ceremony in the large cinema hall 7.
Nearly 200 young filmmakers from Germany and all over the world have had a sleepless night: since Thursday they have been sharing the suspense, because their films were nominated for one of the awards presented this morning as part of up-and-coming 2007 and were shown in the German or international competition. But the jurors of the 9th Hanover International Film Festival also completed a sleepless night. Behind closed doors, discussion, argument and deliberation continued into the early hours of the morning then the decision was made:
The ‘German Young Film Award 2007’ goes to ‘Grenzgebiet Spiritual healing’ by Lisei Caspers from Großefehen, to Richard Lamprecht from Dresden for ‘Kids in black Der sonderbare Stein’ and to Jan Riesenbeck from Hagen for ‘Kopfgeburtenkontrolle’.
The ‘International Young Film Makers Award’ was presented to Anand Gandhi and Khushboo Ranka from India for ‘Continuum’, Mak Hei Yan from Hong Kong for ‘Lovers lover’ and Bijan Zampanpira from Iran for ‘Mirror and water’
honoured.
The ‘BDK Student Film Award’, endowed for the first time as part of up-and-coming 2007, went to school class 4c of Grimselweg Primary School in Hanover, which had submitted the films ‘Where are you little Kangaroo’ and ‘The magic ball’.
Briton Ian Mackinnon and his film ‘Adjustment’ were honoured with the ‘Flying Camera’ of the kestnergesellschaft Hanover.
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