German Film Award for Best Documentary Film
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The German Film Award for Best Documentary Film is the award given for best German feature documentary film
at the annual Deutscher Filmpreis
awards, the German national film awards. The category has been introduced in 2000.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
at the annual Deutscher Filmpreis
Deutscher Filmpreis
The Deutscher Filmpreis is the highest German movie award. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, since 2005 the award has been given by the Deutsche Filmakademie...
awards, the German national film awards. The category has been introduced in 2000.
List of winning films
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club (film) Buena Vista Social Club is a documentary film by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album Buena Vista Social Club.-Synopsis:... |
Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf... |
| 2001 | Havanna mi amor | Uli Gaulke |
| 2002 | Black Box BRD Black Box BRD Black Box BRD is a 2001 German documentary film written and directed by Andres Veiel. The film deals with West German politics of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by turmoil and the highly publicized activities of the left-wing terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction .The film focuses on... |
Andres Veiel Andres Veiel Andres Veiel is a German film director and screenwriter. His 2011 film If Not Us, Who? was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Veiel won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale.... |
| 2003 | Rivers and Tides Rivers and Tides Rivers and Tides is a 2001 documentary directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates intricate and ephemeral sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers, and icicles... |
Thomas Riedelsheimer |
| 2004 | The Children Are Dead (Die Kinder sind tot) | Aelrun Goette |
| 2005 | Rhythm Is It! Rhythm Is It! Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch. The film documents a project undertaken by the Berlin Philharmonic principal conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom who decided to popularize classical music by staging a... |
Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch Enrique Sánchez Lansch Enrique Sánchez Lansch is a Spanish-German film director and screenwriter.-History:Enrique Sánchez Lansch was born in Gijón, Northern Spain to a Spanish father and German mother. He was raised in Gijón and Cologne, Germany... |
| 2006 | Lost Children | Ali Samadi Ahadi and Oliver Stoltz |
| 2007 | Workingman's Death Workingman's Death Workingman's Death is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world.The film is composed of six differently... |
Michael Glawogger Michael Glawogger Michael Glawogger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.From 1981 to 1982 Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and then from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy... |
| 2008 | Pool of Princesses (Prinzessinnenbad) | Bettina Blümner |
| 2009 | NoBody's Perfect | Niko von Glasow Niko von Glasow Niko von Glasow is a feature film director as well as a documentary film director. Von Glasow is the son of Ernst Brücher and Majella Neven DuMont, founders of the DuMont Publishing house in Cologne.... |
| 2010 | The Heart of Jenin (Das Herz von Jenin) | Leon Geller and Marcus Vetter |
External links
- German Film Awards at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...