Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum’s English-language dramatic thriller September 5, set in a US newsroom in the course of the 1972 hostage disaster on the Munich Olympics, leads the contenders for this yr’s German Movie Awards, also referred to as the Lolas, with 10 nominations together with for finest movie, director and screenplay.
Produced by German outfit BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion with Constantin Movie, September 5 premiered at Venice 2024 and has been distributed by Paramount Photos in key worldwide territories.
Andreas Dresen’s From Hilde, With Love garnered seven nominations, intently adopted by Iranian-born director Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, with six nominations. The latter was produced by Rasoulof’s German-based Run Approach Photos longside France’s Parallel45.
Rounding out the six finest function movie nominees are Jan Ole Gerster’s English-language debut Islands and Ido Fluk’s Köln 75, which each had their world premieres on the Berlinale final month, and Chiara Fleischhacker’s commencement movie Vena which premiered at Filmfest Hamburg final October.
Claudia Roth, the outgoing state minister for tradition and media, introduced the nominations throughout ZDF’s breakfast TV programme.
In a change from earlier years, this yr’s nominees in one of the best movie, documentary and kids’s movie classes won’t obtain money premiums from Roth’s ministry, the BKM, nor will any money prizes be handed out to winners on the evening.
As a substitute, what was some €3m in whole prize cash will now for use to spice up the price range of the BKM’s new cultural movie funding programme as a part of the wide-ranging reforms to the nationwide movie funding infrastructure.
The Lolas are voted on by the two,400 members of the German Movie Academy. The winners can be offered on Might 9 at a ceremony in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz.
Veteran casting director An Dorte Braker, whose credit embody Run Lola Run, The Baader Meinhof Complicated, Downfall, and Hell, would be the recipient of this yr’s honorary Lola for her providers to German cinema.