12.06.2025 | Schleswig-Holstein Cinema Prize 2025
In the cinema auditorium of the LichtBlick Filmtheater in Heide today (Wednesday 11 June), for once it was not the film that was in the spotlight, but those who provide the film with a stage: the cinemas and their operators.
Here are photos of the award ceremony for free download (Copyright Sven Zimmermann)
State Secretary for Culture Guido Wendt distributed the 2025 Cinema Awards and praised the cinemas as "places of culture and encounter that are of great importance for social life, especially in rural regions". The cinema operators have "defied the difficult conditions in recent years with creativity and perseverance, courageously invested in new formats, developed individual programme concepts and cooperated with schools and initiatives. That is culture in action and we want to reward that today," said Wendt.
Helge Albers, CEO of MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "Great cinema 'Made in Schleswig-Holstein'! Our congratulations go to eleven outstanding cinemas that impressed us with their exciting programme series, sustainable and inclusive concepts and special cinema events. We would like to thank all the award winners and the entire Schleswig-Holstein cinema landscape for their love of cinema and their outstanding commitment."
The Schleswig-Holstein Cinema Award will be presented for the 15th time in 2025. A total of 43,000 euros in prize money is available, which was distributed among eleven award winners this year. The prizes are awarded in five categories: Three cinemas will be honoured as "Cinema of the Good Programme", two each will be awarded "Cinema as a Cultural Venue", "Cinema of Sustainability", "Cinema for All" and "Cinema of the Good Idea".
The jury consisted of Nicola Jones for the MOIN Film Fund, Linde Fröhlich, former artistic director of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Schayan Riaz, cultural journalist specialising in film, Sven Bode, filmmaker from Schleswig-Holstein and Martina Harand as representative of the Ministry of Culture.
WINNER OF THE CINEMA PRIZE 2025
Category "Cinema of the Good Programme" - prize money 5,000 euros
Kino in der Pumpe, Kiel
Schauburg Filmtheater, Rendsburg
Kino Koki Kommunales Kino, Lübeck
Category "Cinema of Good Ideas" - prize money 3,500 euros
Lichtblick Filmtheater Oldenburg
LichtBlick Filmtheater Heide
Category "Cinema of Sustainability" - prize money 3,500 euros
Astra Filmtheater Plön
CinePlanet 5, Bad Segeberg
Category "Cinema as a cultural venue" - prize money 3,500 euros
Studio Filmtheater am Dreiecksplatz, Kiel
Kino im KDW, Neumünster
Category "Cinema for All" - prize money 3,500 euros
Municipal cinema Neustadt
Queer Cinema Lübeck
