AWARDS & JURY

Dear audience,
we are happy to learn that the changes we’ve made to Provinziale’s award scheme have been met with constructive interest, as your many contributions to our introduced visitors’ book show. The book will be available again this year.

Again, there will be two audience awards in each category at the 21st edition of Provinziale. They will allow us, together with our audience, to take an even closer look at all of the submissions. The two awards are meant to reflect different perspectives that are possible when you see a film, and therefore we would like to ask you again to rate the films under two different criteria:

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 €2,000 of prize money
◦ Die Distel including €2,000 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 donated by Sparkasse Barnim

• 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

STACHEL, meaning ‘thorn’ or ‘prickle’, is the name of or sole jury award, which is to honour one entry across all genres. We are looking for a convincing cinematic work to present the most successful discussion of sustainability issues. Because sustainability, if taken seriously, is a perpetual process, not a hard and fast answer. The winning candidate will thus be one that enriches the debate with a both doubtful and powerful stance.

• DER STACHEL special award for the most successful cinematic discussion of sustainability issues, including €2,000 of prize money donated by Eberswalde University for Sustainably Development and Kreiswerke Barnim

This year’s nominees for the award, as selected by our Programme Board members, are:

Animated Film

• AU 8ÈME JOUR / ON THE 8TH DAY / AM 8. TAG – FR 2023
• PIG / SCHWEIN – NL 2024

Short Feature Film

• TILIPIRCHE / GRASSHOPPERS / HEUSCHRECKEN – FR 2023
• PASANDO TERUEL / BEYOND TERUEL / JENSEITS VON TERUEL – ES 2023

Long Documentary

• THE WALKING FOREST / DER WANDERNDE WALD – NL 2023
• MARX HÖRT AUF / MARX IS QUITTING – DE 2024
• FATA MORGANA – DE/SY 2023

Short Documentary

• VISTA MARE / MEERBLICK – AT/IT 2023
• RÍO ROJO / RED RIVER / ROTER FLUSS – FR/CO 2023

Pia Witte (photo by Tun Jourdain)
Pia Witte (born in 2003) is a student of Sustainable Economy and Management and Student Vice President at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE). Born in the state of Schleswig Holstein, a voluntary ecological year sent her to Stralsund after graduating from school. She works with great enthusiasm in the Student’s Committee and is very committed to university matters and the student’s daily life at the university. She has always liked watching international films of various genres.

Christoph Günther-Skorka (photo by Torsten Stapel)
Christoph Günther-Skorka, born in Berlin in 1985, completed a vocational training as a gardener in 2004 and has been working as an arborist for many years. In 2018, he felt that he wanted to leave Berlin, so he started working with Kommunal- und Industrieservice GmbH in Eberswalde, where he became managing director after completing a study programme and master’s examination. As a sideline, he also works as a tree and habitat surveyor and playground inspector. Besides a full working life, he also has a family, loves motorcycling and is volunteer chairman to a Berlin district group of the German Red Cross association.

Sophia Schrade (drawing – no photo)
Sophia Schrade, born in Jena in 1993, studied at Akademie für Illustration und Design in Berlin until 2017. Barely having escaped the big city, she now lives and works as an illustrator for children’s books in the beautiful state of Brandenburg. Artistically, she loves to create playful worlds rich in detail and particularly inhabitable by queer characters of all kinds. Mindful viewers, no matter what age, will never get bored looking at them.