Short film Lola goes to Schleswig-Holstein

Karin Prien,Minister for Education, Science and Culture of Schleswig-Holstein: "Congratulations to this creative tandem of Directors and Producers. Both have rightly earned the award with this production. And a word about Ann Carolin Renninger. She fulfils the role of Creative Segment Producer in a special way, intelligently, innovatively and at the highest level. The fact that she is at home here with us fills us with pride. This is really good news for the moving image industry in the country."

Helge AlbersCEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH): "With 'Maman Maman Maman', Directors Lucia Margarita Bauer and Executive Producer Ann Carolin Renninger from Schleswig-Holstein have created an impressive, tragic-comic film about the process of saying goodbye that is bursting with ideas. We are delighted that the film has now been awarded the Short Film Lola."

Another short film Lola went to HFBK graduate Roxana Reiss for her experimental graduation film in the Documentary category with a running time of up to 30 minutesAlturas. Helge Albers adds: "Great news also for the HFBK Hamburg and its graduate Roxana Reiss. We send our congratulations!"

ABOUT THE FILMS

Maman Maman Maman Directors Lucia Margarita Bauer's grandmother Babet Berger died on 6 April 2012. The story of her semi-criminal transfer from Riedlingen in southern Germany via Paris (including a bus tour and a trip around the Seine) to her husband's grave in France was the starting point for the film "Maman Maman Maman", in which she embarks on a search for her own roots and gets stuck at one or two forks in the road as a matter of course. She uses numerous filmic sources, letters, photos, objects of all kinds, mobile phone films of her cousins, her own footage of her great-grandparents, as well as Super 8 films of her grandmother herself. The result is a kaleidoscopic anti-portrait about life and the deep relationship between tragedy and comedy, slapstick and death.

Alturas Fragments from the everyday life of a Peruvian family at 3600 metres above sea level. The land is dry, the light is dazzling. What grows in this place? A silent search for distance and closeness in the small community of Contay. Elisa Taboada is the first woman to stand for election as a local councillor here.

ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Ann Carolin Renninger has moved back to her home town of Siegum in Schleswig-Holstein after ten years in Berlin and produces films under the label of her company "joon film". In 2017, she made her directorial debut with the documentary "Aus einem Jahr der Nichtereignisse" together with her partner René Frölke, which screened directly in the Forum of the 67th Berlinale. Their current production "Maman Maman Maman" has already been honoured with the German National Gallery's Advancement Award for Film Art. Their next joint project "Altheimer Altar" was also supported by the FFHSH. You can read a comprehensive interview with Ann Carolin Renninger here.

Roxana Reissborn in Berlin in 1993, studied film at the HFBK Hamburg and the FUC in Buenos Aires until 2020. She is currently studying cinematography at the Danish Film School in Copenhagen. ALTURAS is her first documentary Directors work and her graduation film at the HFBK Hamburg, which she made in co-production with her HFBK fellow student Marian Freihstühler (Ohne Falsch Film).

ABOUT THE GERMAN SHORT FILM AWARD

The German Short Film Award is the most important award for short film in Germany and is distributed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in five categories. The decision on the awards is made by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the recommendation of the German Short Film Award jury.

Winning the short film prize is associated with an earmarked prize of 30,000 euros and the nomination with 15,000 euros. The bonus for the special prize, which can be awarded for an outstanding film with a running time of more than 30 to 78 minutes, is 20,000 euros.