Dear festival audience,
We are happy that the changes to our award scheme introduced two years ago were met with interest, as was testified by the broad range of responses in our then newly introduced visitors’ book. The book will be available again this time, but we’re also planning to take our experimental journey with you one step further.
After having discarded our jury awards in favour of more remunerative audience awards for two years, we decided for the 20th Provinziale to offer not one but two audience awards in each category so as to take an even closer look at all of the submissions together with our audience. The two awards are meant to reflect different cinematic perspectives, and therefore we would like to ask you to rate the films under two different criteria this time:
1. Emotional impact: your immediate emotional response as might be expressed by a statement like ‘I love this film, it went straight to my heart.’ This is the kind of quality we would like you to assess first.
2. Relevance: here you can take a more analytical approach and ask how a film relates to Provinziale’s overarching thematic line. What does it reveal about people’s relationships with their land and what does it offer for us to learn? This should be the subject of the second score you give.
Along with this change, we are abandoning the idea of a single award (called the ‘e’ in recent years) in favour of two. And just like there are Golden Palms, Lions and Bears elsewhere, we will have a Rose (“Die Rose”) and a Thistle (“Die Distel”) – the Rose for emotional impact and the Thistle for relevance. Both awards will be accompanied by an artistically refined certificate and prize money.
• Long Documentary Audience Award
◦ Die Rose including €2,500 of prize money
◦ Die Distel including €2,500 of prize money
both donated by the Brandenburg State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Energy
• Short Documentary Audience Award
◦ Die Rose including €1,000 of prize money donated by the Mayor of Eberswalde
◦ Die Distel including €1,000 of prize money
• Short Feature Film Audience Award
◦ Die Rose including €1,000 of prize money donated by Sparkasse Barnim
◦ Die Distel including €1,000 of prize money
• Animated Film Audience Award
◦ Die Rose including €1,000 of prize money
◦ Die Distel including €1,000 of prize money
both donated by WHG Eberswalde Building and Housing Company