11mm football film festival
Great movies and brilliant winners
Two world Champions, Brazilians from the Bundesliga and a local hero to meet thousands of football fans at the 11mm football film festival in Berlin. The films show what a variety of stories of football told.
Over 4,000 people have looked at in the past few days, one, several, or even all of the over 70 football films, which were screened at the 11mm football film festival in Berlin. The bandwidth of topics ranged from a documentary about the controversial Wembley goal of 1966 to animated short films about the experiences of football fans
On Monday evening was awarded in the framework of the “Short Kicks Gala”, traditionally one of the highlights of the festival, the best football short film. The jury, consisting of world champion Thomas Berthold, world champion Ariane Hingst, the actors, Eva Löbau and Heiko Pinkowski as well as Hertha Central defender Sebastian Langkamp, opted for the French movie “Sur La Touche”.
Football enthusiasm suggests gender stereotypes
The Film is about a Couple from Paris, has to contend with the influence of football on your relationship and your daily life. Samir Fan of PSG. His girlfriend, Anna starts to go on the biscuit. The changes, however, are rapidly as you can one day persuade her to come with him to the stadium.
Juror Ariana Hingst Sur La Touche gave the maximum score of three, because the movie touched them. “I think this is played in a very sympathetic way with the clichés. In addition, the Film was entertaining,” she said. “It was funny, and I like the style of the movie.”
Also DW expert Thomas Berthold gave the Film a perfect score, and hinted, that he was versed not only in football, but also in the Film. “The bandwidth of the displayed topics was huge,” he said. “Documentaries, feature films – a wide range, but I found the Film’s best, most emotionally, the victory of the film. I liked the Story, it was well played, a bit of Comedy, and overall a positive Film.”
Golden 11 “two fighters”
In addition to the “Short Kicks” Award was also awarded the prestigious prize “Golden 11”. To get this time to Director Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali for his documentary “two fighters, in the it comes to the unemployed football experts, the collect in the training camp of the players’ Union VDV, and on the Chance of hope, but once again a contract. Benhadj-Djilali received his prize from the hands of Wolfsburg’s Central defender Naldo, the mixed in the further course of the Evening – just like his Bundesliga colleague Sebastian Langkamp-excited among the guests.
Football Celebrities: Sebastian Langkamp (2.v.l.) Thomas Berthold (3.v.l.), Ariane Hingst (3.vr.) and Naldo (2.v.r.)
Local hero Langkamp was hailed in Berlin’s Babylon cinema even louder as the former Brazilian national team player Naldo. The 28-year-old defender from Hertha BSC had not previously been clear how good his Sport was also for movies. “I’m here for the first Time at the 11mm Festival, but I had heard a lot about it,” said Langkamp. “The mood is great, and it took me completely by surprise, how many good movies about football.”
Still potential for development
As the Festival was held in 2004 for the first Time, it was widely doubted that a pure football film festival over the years and develop. However, Andreas leimbach, one of the organizers, looks like even after the 13. Festival Potential. “We are very happy with how everything has developed,” he said. “It takes months to prepare and organize, but I think the quality has increased since the early years. All the thought, to us it would only be for two or three years, because then there would be no football movies, and more. But now, after 13 years, there are more football movies than ever before. I think the football film is a Genre that has been invented.”
Judging from the cheers of spectators and the quality of the movies after, it will go for the football film in the future, actually.