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Congratulation to the producers Ira Tondowski & Alex Tondowski, winners of the German Film Award BEST DOCUMENTARY 2020 for the Production BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree
Nominees for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS category Best Documentary
• Alex Tondowski & Ira Tondowski for BORN IN EVIN
• Heino Deckert for HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME
• Frieder Schlaich & Irene von Alberti for SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE
BETTINA BÖHLER, director as well as editor of the filmportrait of Christoph SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE is one of the four nominees in the category BEST EDITING. Among others Bettina Böhler is also nominated for BEST SOUNDDESIGN with the fiction film UDINE.
The awards will be presented by Edin Hasanovic in a ceremony at the PALAIS AM FUNKTURM at Hammarskjöldplatz in Berlin, April 24, 2020, 5p.m. For invited guests only, broadcasted by rbb/ARD at the same day. The presentation of BEST DOCUMENTARY starts at 54:30 by Charlie Hübner.
More than 2 000 members of the German Film Academy from all trades decide on the nominations for the German Film Award 2020. The official announcement of the nominations in the 17 award categories is presented by Film Award Ambassadors Emilia Schüle and Kostja Ullmann, Academy President Ulrich Matthes and Minister of State Prof. Monika Grütters March 11, 2020.
The three nominees for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS category BEST DOCUMENTARY productions are:
BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree, Producers: Alex Tondowski & Ira Tondowski, Companies: Tondowski Films, Golden Girls Film
HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME | HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise, Producer: Heino Deckert, Company: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE | SCHLINGENSIEF – IN DAS SCHWEIGEN HINEINESCHREIEN by Bettina Böhler (nominated for Best Editing), Producers: Frieder Schlaich & Irene von Alberti, Company: Filmgalerie 451
For the full list of the nominees #lola20 click here.
The members of the preselection committee DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS DOKUMENTARFILM (German Film Award) are: Kerstin Stutterheim, Frank Marten Pfeiffer, Martin Rabanus, Irene Höfer, Matthias Petsche, Isabelle Casez, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Christoph von Schönberg, Eva Kemme, Matthias Elwardt, Catrin Vogt.
- AQUARELA by Victor Kossakovsky, Producers: Heino Deckert, Aimara Reques, Sigrid Dyekjær, Companies: MA.JA.DE. Filmproduktions GmbH, Aconite Productions, Danish Documentary
- BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree, Producer: Alex Tondowski, Companies: Tondowski Films, Golden Girls Film
- DEAR BROTHER | BRUDERLIEBE by Julia Horn, Producers: Erik Winker, Martin Roelly
- CUNNINGHAM by Alla Kovgan, Producers: Helge Albers, Ilan Girard, Alla Kovgan, Companies: Achtung Panda! Media, Arsam International, Chance Operations
- DARK EDEN by Jasmin Herold, Michael Beamish, Producer: Melanie Andernach, Companies: Made in Germany Filmproduktion
- THE FORUM | DAS FORUM by Marcus Vetter, Producer: Christian Beetz, Companies: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, Filmperspektive, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
- THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES | DAS GEHEIME LEBEN DER BÄUME by Jörg Adolph, Producer: Friederich Oetker, Company: Constantin Film Produktion
- HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME | HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise, Producer: Heino Deckert, Company: MA.JA.DE. Filmproduktions GmbH
- HELMUT NEWTON — THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL by Gero von Boehm, Producers: Felix von Boehm, Torsten Bönnhoff, Companies: Lupa Film, Monarda Arts
- ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS | DIE INSEL DER HUNGRIGEN GEISTER by Gabrielle Brady, Producers: Alexander Wadouh, Gizem Acarla, Gabrielle Brady, Companies: Chromosom Film, Various Films, Third Films, Echotango
- GERMAN CLASS | KLASSE DEUTSCH by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Producers: Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Georg Heinzen, Company: Polyphem Filmproduktion
- LOVEMOBIL by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, Producer as well as Company: Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss
- SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE | SCHLINGENSIEF – IN DAS SCHWEIGEN HINEINESCHREIEN by Bettina Böhler, Producers: Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti, Company: Filmgalerie 451
- THE WHALE AND THE RAVEN by Mirjam Leuze, Producer: Marcelo Busse, Company: busse&halberschmidt Filmproduktion oHG
- DIE TOTEN HOSEN — YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE | WEIL DU NUR EINMAL LEBST – DIE TOTEN HOSEN AUF TOUR by Cordula Kablitz-Post, Producer: Cordula Kablitz-Post, Company: avanti media fiction GmbH
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• German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2019
• German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2018
••• GERMAN FILM AWARD LONGLIST will be announced April 19, 2021 •••