The Film Award NRW has been awarded since 2016. The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros, honors the best entry in the NRW competition and is sponsored by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. In 2022, the award went to A ROOM OF MY OWN (produced by Eva Blondiau and Elmar Imanov).
Jury statement:
Introverted Tina just moved to Tbilisi and meets extroverted Megi, who dreams of moving to the USA. Two very different young women who slowly get closer to each other in a shared flat. With little means but all the greater directing talent, up-and-coming director Ioseb Bliazde and his co-writer and leading actress Taki Mumladze tell the intimate portrait of a woman in search of herself as a subtle emancipation and a tender love story. The film reflects on gender roles and patriarchal structures, not only in Georgian society, and is a convincing snapshot of precarious everyday life in the pandemic. A small cinematic miracle that gives hope.
Nominees:
Jury:
Friederike Becht, actress
Sabine Bernardi, director
Melissa de Raaf, professor for dramaturgy and filmic storytelling
Sven von Reden, film journalist
Thomas Abeltshauser, film journalist
The winners of the Filmpreis NRW in the past years are:
2021 AUF ANFANG – Georg Nonnemacher, Mike Schlömer
2020 MIT EIGENEN AUGEN – Harry Flöter, Regina Rosissen, Jörg Siepmann
2019 EASY LOVE – Lino Rettinger
2018 WINTERMÄRCHEN – Bettina Brokemper (Spielfilm)
2018 LUCICA UND IHRE KINDER – Bettina Braun (Dokumentarfilm)
2017 DER TRAUMHAFTE WEG – Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti (Spielfilm)
2017 PETER HANDKE – BIN IM WALD. KANN SEIN, DASS ICH MICH VERSPÄTE… – Thomas Kufus (Dokumentarfilm)
2016 TONI ERDMANN – Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michel Merkt (Spielfilm)
2016 FAMILY BUSINESS – Tobias Büchner (Dokumentarfilm)
