The jury of the film award decided on the following nominations:
Feature film
„Cuckoo“ von Tilman Singer
“clandestine” by Angelina Maccarone
„Shahid“ by Narges Kalhor
Documentary film
„Exile Never Ends“ by Bahar Bektas
„Sisterqueens“ by Clara Stella Hüneke
“Watching You – The World of Palantir and Alex Karp” by Klaus Stern
In these categories, the nomination fee is 4,000 euros.
Short film
“The perfect day” by Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein
“art choice” by Mark Menzel
“Staring” von Tianshu Yang
Graduation film
“The Cemetery of the Nameless” by Hesam Yousefi, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
“The city is the guild and the guild is the city” by Jonas Leichsenring, Kassel Art Academy
„It’s (Not) A Men’s World“ von Julia Gens and Franziska Rozicki, Kassel University of Art
script
“The 2nd Star from the Right” by David Ungureit and Markus Dietrich
„Out Of Place“ von Alison Burns
“September to September” by Nur Muhammed Tarhan
The nomination fee in these categories is 1,000 euros each.
The Hessian Cinema Prize
The Hessian Cinema Prize is aimed at arthouse cinemas and film theaters and is endowed with a total of 150,000 euros. This year it will be awarded to 17 commercial cinemas or commercially operated cinemas and to ten non-commercial cinemas, screening venues or cinema initiatives and municipal cinemas. A list of the cinemas is at the end of this press release. The award-winning cinemas have the opportunity to show the films nominated for the film prize.
