CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Kebab with all the trimmings (ORF/arte)
Just as the owner of Café Prinz Eugen is planning to extend the café, a Turkish businessman turns up and holds a lease agreement under his nose for exactly the same room. As the two protagonists realize that they have been tricked by a swindler, they try to force the respective other one to give up the property. In a highly comedic way no cliché is left out in the Austrian-Turkish multicultural comedy. Self ironic interplay of stereotypes – brilliant satire about everyday racism.
Television film
Authors: Rupert Henning, Wolfgang Murnberger, Tac Romey, Don Schubert
Editor: Dr. Klaus Lintschinger, Dr. Andreas Schreitmüller
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
No place like home (VPRO)
Extremely colourful local knowledge quiz with five genuine failed applicants for political asylum from Cameroon, Chechenya, Armenia, Sri Lanka and Syria. All of them young, highly educated, practically graduated. Everyone of them in the country for at least nine years, socially well-integrated. The show staged with conscious irony and sarcasm draws attention to the Dutch deportation practice and the fate of young applicants for political asylum. Evil, provocative, debunking with a laugh that sticks in the throat.
Game show
Author: Marius van Duijn
Editors: Richard den Dulk, Jan de Graaf
Director: Jan Gitsels
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Plato's Academy (ZDF/arte)
Day in, day out, Stavros, Nikos, Argyris and Thymios hang around in front of their small shops in Athens killing off time. They like to watch the Chinese and Albanian immigrants at work and confirm each others prejudices. One day, Stavros suddenly has to face up to the shocking possibility that he is one of the Albanians disdained by him and his friends. What makes up identity? – Arthouse with delicate humour, melancholic, outstanding acting performances.
Television film
Authors: Alexis Kardaras, Filippos Tsitos
Editors: Doris Hepp, Burkhard Althoff
Director: Filippos Tsitos
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Storie: Campo nomadi (RSI)
Near Bellinzona shots are fired on the street at a wagon of travelling Romanies. Just a few minutes ago two little girls were playing in the same place. The author spontaneously approaches the Romanies and asks whether he may live together with them for a short while. A people which apparently nobody wants. The Romanies accept with one condition: He should teach the children to read and write. An unusual documentary about the life of the Romanies in haunting pictures.
Documentary
Author: Stefano Ferrari
Editor: Luca Jaeggli
Director: Stefano Ferrari
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
The way of the migrating whores – from Dortmund to Stolipinovo (WDR/ARD)
Living in squalor. Neglect, prostitution and disgusting houses – the report shows the suffering of the Romanies in Dortmund’s Nordstadt and in the Bulgarian poor quarter Stolipinovo. Neither in Bulgaria nor in Germany there are sufficient attempts to integrate the Romanies and to provide them with perspectives. Since they may only work independently in Germany, many women become prostitutes and slide ever deeper into squalor. Europe right at the bottom – reported rationally and with powerful images.
Report
Authors: Esat Mogul, Edeltraud Remmel
Editor: Sabine Bohland
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
ch: filmszene: Our Garden of Eden (SRF)
Stories from the allotments in Bümpliz in the canton of Berne. People of various cultures and religions work as allotment gardeners on 148 plots: Former refugees, guest workers, Swiss by marriage and locals. A multi-cultural garden colony, a microcosm of today’s Switzerland. The documentary shows people from 20 nations. They suffer, love and argue with each other – also about the rules of their power-conscious association chairman. Bitter-sweet milieu study – powerful images, moving, without being voyeristic.
Documentary
Author: Mano Khalil
Editor: Urs Augstburger
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
The Bülent Ceylan Show (RTL)
Turkish Germans or Germanized Turks? Bülent Ceylan pokes fun at both German and Turkish peculiarities and prejudices. The first own personality show of the German-Turk with a dialect straight out of the Rhineland-Palatinate, invites celebrities like Kaya Yanar, Atze Schröder, Cindy aus Marzahn or the Söhne Mannheim as topical weekly guests. The show offers topical stand-up comedy, parodies, appeals and video campaigns. Virtuoso play on prejudices - full of fun and self-ironic.
Comedy-Show
Authors: Bülent Ceylan, Rainer Bender, Godehard Wolpers
Editor: Meikel Giersemehl
Director: Mark Achterberg
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Under suspicion – the elegant solution (ZDF/arte)
The death of a Bavarian policeman, who was working for the European Border Agency BORDAC, leads two internal investigators from Munich’s police to Southern Italy. The man who apparently suffered a fatal accident had been stationed on one of the Italian coast-guard ships which is working with an international crew to guard the external border against refugees from Africa. The inquiries lead into grey areas of the EU security policy towards applicants for political asylum from Africa. Illegal immigration in powerful images – tense, political.
Television film - Detective story
Authors: Aelrun Goette, Martin Muser, Don Schubert
Editor: Klaus Bassiner, Elke Müller
Director: Aelrun Goette
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Salami Aleikum (ZDF)
Multicultural comedy, rich in clichés, in which 7,000 years of advanced Persian civilisation collide with two decades of East German wasteland. In order to save his parents‘ butcher‘s shop in Cologne, searching for sheep, Mohsen arrives in Obermiederwalde. Through a case of mistaken identity he is seen as a ray of hope for the textile industry which has laid fallow here ever since reunification. The small Persian falls in love with the tall daughter of the landlord of the village hostelry. In search of a place to call home, in search of new identity. Funny, grotesque - outstanding production.
Feature film
Authors: Arne Nolting, Ali Samadi Ahadi
Editor: Christian Cloos
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Menschen hautnah: Death of a judge – on the trail of Kirsten Heisig (WDR)
The Berlin juvenile court judge became well-known through the fast and consistent prosecution of criminal teenagers. Suddenly, Kirsten Heisig disappeared. A few days later her corpse was found. The film neither expresses doubts about the suicide, nor does it go into earlier conspiracy theories surrounding the death of the judge. The documentary shows Kirstin Heisig in her personal engagement in connection with the rehabilitation and integration of teenagers. Shows the responsibility of the judge for problems of integration.
Documentary
Authors: Güner Balci, Nicola Graef
Editor: Wilfried Prill
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Blow for Freedom (BR)
In the project of the Work and Box Company, a group of violent young men is confronted with the decisive challenge: reaching the final stop of prison or tearing down all the walls of self-hate and destruction with the objective of accepting themselves. Without any sentimental glossing over, the documentary shows a radically different approach to dealing with youth violence: Patience and attention. Dramatic, moving – right to the pain barrier.
Documentary
Author: Gerardo Milsztein
Editor: Christian Baudissin
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
frauTV: Forced marriages, young men can also become victims of coercive marriages (WDR)
Young men speak about a taboo: they are compelled by their families into forced marriages. About 120 young men who are threatened by forced marriage, consult the advice centre "Hennamond e.V." annually. Young men only seek help and advice at a very late stage. Shame frequently plays a major role, to have to admit as a man to being forced to marry. Background to the film is the amendment of the law banning forced marriages. Turns attention on a largely unknown problem of integration.
Magazine report
Author: Dr. Anke Wolf-Graaf
Editor: Dagmar Kieselbach
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
Notizbuch: Mr. Yondemir wants to expand, portrait of a Turkish foreign worker‘s family (BR)
Yücel Yondemir has made it: he has built up a chain of eight tailoring alteration shops. And he adds a new one every year. The beginnings in Germany were tough: Yondemir‘s mother arrived from Anatolia 40 years ago. She sorted offal in a poultry factory. Her son Yücel worked his way up without any special education: from crane operator to bus-driver, from bus-driver to businessman. His daughter Yasmin looks after his office today. An immigration story – eye to eye with the protagonists.
Feature
Author: Dr. Gabriele Knetsch
Editor: Jutta Prediger
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
A short story about Ali Samadi Ahadi and the search for a native country (WDR)
Ali Samadi Ahadi was just thirteen years old when he comes to Germany in 1985. His native country Iran was waging war against Iraq. He battles through on his own, permanently in fear of being deported. Ali Samadi looks for a school in Hanover, lives in seven-and-a-half square metres of space in a hostel, works illegally as a packer, manages to qualify for the academy of arts and begins to make films: "Lost Children", "Iran Elections", "Salami Aleikum". Highly topical, exemplary portrait, lends biculturality a face.
Feature
Author: Simone Hamm
Editor: Annette Blaschke
Director: Thomas Wolfertz
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
SWR2 Feature: Back to Bosporus (SWR)
More and more Turks of the second and third generation are turning their backs on Germany and moving to the Bosporus. There the “Almancis”, who used to be a laughing stock, become successful co-formers of Turkish society and, at the same time, act as mediators for German culture. Many of the German Turks maintain contact, work for German companies or come back to Germany for short orders. Wandering between the cultures continues. A reflection of the German integration debate - humorous, impressive in terms of both content and form.
Feature
Author: Patrick Batarilo
Editor: Dr. Wolfram Wessels
Director: Iris Drögekamp
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
WDR 2 Stichtag: Five years ago: Begging letter to the Rütlischule in Berlin is published (WDR)
Five years ago, the failure of integration was given a name: Rütli-Schule, Berlin- Neukölln. In a begging letter, the teachers admitted that they had capitulated to the violent pupils. Today you can see the miracle of Neukölln on the new “Campus Rütli”: more than 80 percent of the pupils are still of non-German origin – however, their behaviour is respectful, most of them manage to get an apprenticeship, one on five of them goes on to high school. Exceptional, emotional – with powerful radiophonic qualities.
Documentary
Author: Kerstin Hilt
Editor: Ronald Feisel
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
All summer long... Summer camp for Romany children in Berlin (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
More and more Romanies come to Germany not only for one summer. In the meantime, 500 Romany extended families are officially registered in Berlin-Neukölln. They live in shabby, overexpensive dwellings and are unpopular in the neighbourhood. Many of the Romany children hardly speak a word of German, even after months of school attendance in Berlin. In the summer holidays a project takes care of these children and offers them playful learning – with great success. Very sensitive – a cautious approach to the everyday life of the children.
Report
Author: Christina Rubarth
Editor: Eleonore Häring de Vázquez
Director: Roswitha Graf
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
SWR2 Am Morgen: We are not surprised, a commentary on the Neonazi murders (SWR)
The "Non-word of the Year" 2011 was "Döner-Morde" (Döner Murders). The nonword plays down the series of murders of eight Turkish-born and one Greek small-businessmen. The commentary questions the attitude to immigrants in Germany. How can it be that the origin and culture of people can be reduced to a doner kebab skewer? And why is there talk here of milieus? They were fathers of families who were shot down at close range. Clear point of view, well-argued – stimulates a discussion.
Commentary
Author: Filiz Kükrekol-Koch
Editor: Sonja Striegl
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Online Media Prize
The Arabian word "Qantara" means bridge. The multilingual online magazine contributes to the dialogue with Muslims in Germany, Europe and in Islamic-influenced countries. The redesigned webpage offers diverse perspectives and contributions on important political, cultural and social questions. A journalistic Internet platform which promotes understanding between different cultural groups and counteracts prejudice. A very interesting web platform - very informative and convincing.
Deutsche Welle
qantara.de
Authorized representative: Ute Schaeffer
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Online Media Prize
The cross-border, multicultural and multilingual network offers enormous possibilities for journalistic participation. More than 1,500 authors, translators, videomakers, and photographers from all over Europe work on a dialogue focussing on the themes of cultural diversity, civil society and democracy. The multi-media web platform with news, lifestyle, culture and politics addresses itself to young Europeans. Unusual stories very well researched, boldly prepared - interesting and integrative.
Babel International - Cafebabel com
cafebabel.com
Authorized representative: Alexandre Heully
CIVIS 2012
nominated for the European CIVIS Online Media Prize
The multi-media look at Bremen discovers what is hidden and demands you to take a closer look. In hardly any other city can spatial separation, partitioning - or in other words, segregation – be seen more clearly than in Bremen. Dilapidated blocks of houses stand shoulder to shoulder with rich, elegant city villas. 36 students have captured their impressions in an unusual university project in photos, videos and reports. They have taken a look, listened and joined in. Creative, innovative - very modern, thought-provoking.
Hochschule Bremen - Fachbereich 1
augenaufbremen.de
Authorized representative: Prof. Dr. Barbara Witte
CIVIS 2012
European Young CIVIS Media Prize
Selected was: Geen weg terug (No way back) (Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie)
No Way Back tells a thrilling psychological drama. The action takes place in a Dutch refugee camp. Mark, an employee of the asylum authority, makes friends with the refugee Said. Said knows there is no way back for him, his native country Iran would kill him. Mark decides to help Said even though he hears about his participation in horrific cases of torture. The boundaries between good and evil become blurred. A film which demands to take a position - moving, outstanding film-making.
Television film
Director: Shariff Korver
Authors: Gert Altena, Shariff Korver
Examining board: Dr. Ernie Tee
