CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Those who love France (France 2)
Amina has been living in France since the second year of her life. She loves going to school and at the end of the school year, dressed up as Marianne, she campaigns for human and citizens’ rights. She loves France and French ideals. She would like to be President of the Republic one day. Amina really feels like a Frenchwoman. But her parents come from Algeria and live with her without valid identity papers in Marseille. Just how much people try to become part of this society is shown by this subtly differentiated, highly visual film – with excellent actresses and actors.
Television film
Author: Baya Kasmi
Editor: Hélène Saillon
Directon: Ariane Ascaride
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Inspector Wallander - Faceless Killers (ARD/BBC)
An old married couple is killed on a farm. Vague clues point to foreign perpetrators. Wallander attempts to conceal the reports from the press in order not to create prejudices against foreigners. In vain – the media give wide coverage to the theme. Soon afterwards, a reception centre for asylum seekers is in flames and an immigrant is shot by a right-wing radical. But all is not as it first seems. Wonderful portrayal of political correctness – exceptional film, outstanding actors.
Television film
Author: Richard Cottan
Literarische Vorlage: Henning Mankell
Editor: Rainer Bunz
Directon: Hettie Macdonald
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
The Cheese Dairy in Goldingen (SRF)
The film tells the emotional story of a stubborn old man who recaptures joy in his life through a meeting with a refugee. Hans Güntisberg can hardly cope with the work in his old cheese dairy. One morning in his goat stable he finds Rashid Mahmadou suffering from a heavy cold. He reluctantly allows him to live with him until he is healthy again. The initial anger quickly vanishes: Rashid provides a helping hand in the dairy and things slowly change. A modern fairytale – with memorable actors and actresses.
Television film
Author: Jan Poldervaart
Editor: Lilian Räber
Directon: Markus Welter
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
DOK: The Asylum Chief and the Nigerians (SRF)
Alard du Bois-Reymond is head of the Swiss Federal Office for Migration. Since the yes vote to the extradition initiative, strict regulations apply to asylum policy. The new director implements them and he describes the majority of the Nigerian applicants for political asylum as criminal. The relations to Nigeria deteriorate. A Nigerian dies during the violent deportation. The asylum chief becomes the target of public criticism. The documentary shows how Alard du Bois-Reymond tackles his job in his first term of office. It shows the complicated political back - grounds, people and destinies. Critical, surprising, journalistically impressive.
Documentary
Author: Karin Bauer
Editor: Nathalie Rufer, Christoph Müller
Direction: Karin Bauer
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Nestlings – Episode 13: My Ghetto, My World (Czech Television)
First Czech long-running documentary-soap as a video project. Big stories from small people about difficult starting conditions. Children from discriminated minorities create documents of their life in video films. Several eight-year-old Romany children and a boy from the Ukraine show us their world. Small birds, ready to leave their nest. They take us along the streets of their ghetto and show us what they already know about drugs. We see everyday racism. Taking a stand against discrimination and for integration – an important project, impressive, moving, exemplary.
Docu-soap
Author: Kamila Zlatusková
Editor: Alena Müllerová
Direction: Kamila Zlatusková, Ladislav Cmíral
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Television Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Entweder Broder – die Deutschlandsafari (HR/BR/SR)
Episode 5 – Fromm oder frei?
Henryk M. Broder and Hamed Abdel Samad are on a Germany safari. A chronically know-all Jew and an uprooted Egyptian Muslim. What the two experience, is commented on angrily and cheerfully. On the fifth stage of their journey they seek an answer to the question: Is there a religion that is good, or can one only be free when one lives godlessly? A religious safari begins: A Roman Catholic monsignor who blesses cars, a priest in the temple of the goddess of the love, a rabbi, an imam and Broder behind the Burka at the Munich Beer Festival. Between journalism and comedy – humorous, courageous, with unusual insights.
Docu-Series
Authors: Joachim Schröder, Tobias Streck
Editor: Esther Schapira, Direction: Joachim Schröder, Tobias Streck
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Civil courage (WDR/ARD)
The bookseller Peter Jordan resists a gang of criminal youths and demonstrates courage. When the 16-year old Afrim almost beats a cursing drunkard to death, he intervenes. The youthful serial offender is threatened with prison. His older brother wants to force Jordan to withdraw the statement. Jordan refuses to give in. His in sistence impresses his 15-year-old schoolgirl trainee – the ghetto bride of the thug. Jessica will help him. The film does not blame, it asks questions. With great emotional force against turning a blind eye – impressive filming and acting.
Television film
Author: Jürgen Werner
Editor: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Direction: Dror Zahavi
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Takiye – Trace of Terror (WDR/BR)
Metin is a loving German-Turkish family father. The practising Muslim is a member of an Islamic community. When its spokesman campaigns to collect money for an Islamic fundamental fund, Metin and his friends are taken in by the financial deceit. Metin is dragged into an undertow of violence and crime: He finds himself faced by a globally-operating terror organisation. Metin’s wife is murdered, his son survives seriously injured. Metin must find the murderers and wants to prove his innocence. Between Islam and Islamism – an important topic – exciting, vivid, moving.
Television film
Autor: Kadir Sözen
Editor: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Direction: Ben Verbong
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Entertainment (fiction)
Christmas cookies and crescent moon (BR/ARD)
On Christmas Eve, Barbara and her new boyfriend stand at the door: Kamal is Muslim, a Palestinian and comes from Bethlehem. The parents immediately re - cognize the consequences: Oppression! Fundamentalism! Taliban! The celebration of love turns into the battle of the cultures. It is the start of a humorous Bavarian- Arabian Christmas story with a light touch. When Barbara becomes pregnant Kamal’s family arrives. It comes to the intercultural family argument: Roman Catholic or Islamic marriage ceremony? But everything turns out well. Humorous handling of prejudices and cultural differences – excellent, charming, amusing.
Television film
Autor: Daniel Speck
Editor: Dr. Stephanie Heckner
Direction: Matthias Steurer
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Monitor: Social City - Why the Coalition will now cut funding for integration (WDR/ARD)
In the Körner district, in Berlin-Neukölln, every second resident is an immigrant. Two- thirds of the children live on benefits. All stereotypes in just a few square kilometres. The district is difficult, it is poor, but not yet over the brink. Also thanks to the programme “Social City”: Integrated urban planning for the poor and less poor, for those who are German and less German. The programme exists in 570 areas, financed by the Federal Government with 95 million Euros. A success story. The social programme is now planned to be cut. The programme shows how politics abandons important positions and opportunities – engaged, insistent, at close range.
Magazinbeitrag
Autorinnen: Isabel Schayani, Dr. Frauke Steffens
Editor: Jo Angerer
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
37° "Condemned to marry" (ZDF)
Sabatina James would like to sensitize others for the theme of forced marriage. She founds a contact centre for women who have been forced to marry and dares to go public. Sabatina’s traumatic story began when she was 16. Her parents sent her back from Austria to Pakistan, because their daughter was too western for them. Sabatina was forced to attend a Koran school and was planned to marry her cousin. But she refused. She returned to Austria and converted to Christianity. There was a scandal. Not an isolated case. An important theme - convincing, understandable.
Documentary
Author: Tina Soliman
Editor: Marina Fuhr
Directon: Torsten Lapp
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the German CIVIS Media Prize
Category: Information (non-fiction)
Tough and sincere - A Turkish teacher doesn’t give up (WDR/ARD)
Betül Durmaz teaches at a special school in Gelsenkirchen. She campaigns for integration and equal opportunities. 70 percent of the children at the school have foreign roots. For many of them she is "one of us". For fundamentalist families, however, the liberal-minded Turkish teacher is a provocative figure with a German passport. The teacher knows the balancing act between the cultures. With her own biography she would like to encourage others and show perspectives. Credible, journalistically impressive – without accusations.
Documentary
Author: Nicole Rosenbach
Editor: Ulrike Schweitzer
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
"Burnt in police cell No. 5 – The death of the Asylum-seeker Oury Jalloh in Dessau" (MDR/DLF/NDR)
In 2005 Oury Jalloh burns to death in a Dessau police cell, both his hands and feet are bound. How this could happen remains a mystery. “Despite most intensive efforts”, the court is unable to clear up the facts of the death in the police station. The defendants are acquitted. In January 2010, the Federal Supreme Court revokes the verdict and orders a new investigation of the case. Oury Jalloh’s death through burning will be completely re-investigated. One Dessau policeman breaks the code of silence of the police force. An investigative journalistic performance - meticulously researched, spine-chilling, shocking.
Feature
Author: Margot Overath
Editor: Ulf Köhler
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
People of the Balkans, music of the Balkans – stories about the Balkans. In this talk show, the entire Southeast European cultural region is vividly portrayed. The programme focuses on studio guests who have links with the region through their personal relations. Young and old, taxi-drivers and managers, performers and housewives – all of them have their say in "Balkanizer". Some prejudices and clichés are thus quickly resolved, others are humorously confirmed. As entertaining as it is illuminating. Stories from one of the large immigrant groups in Germany. Lives through the personality of the presenter – pointed, self-ironic, authentic.
Balkanizer (WDR)
Talk-Show
Author: Danko Rabrenovic
Editor: Luigi La Grotta
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
Zündfunk Reportage: "My Turk and I – Integrative visits in the neighbourhood" (BR)
Integration or discrimination. The author starts his own experiment and appro aches his fellow-citizens: “May I get to know you”, he says to his Turkish tailor, to his doner kebab seller, to his apparently Turkish neighbour, who then proves to be an Iraqi, and to many others in his direct neighbourhood. Exciting and true-to-life it be comes clear what happens when people approach each other with curiosity. Cheeky, humorous, simply convincing - high-quality radio.
Reportage
Author: Marco Maurer
Editor: Franziska Storz
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
WDR 5 Morgenecho: The kids from Chorweiler (WDR)
End of the line: Chorweiler – young immigrants from Cologne. About the frustration, rage and resignation of a generation which feels branded. They themselves are seldom asked when it is a question of the integration debate. Borat, a young Turk, Omar and Malaisch, two Afghans. All three have a German passport, how - ever, they do not feel at home in Germany. Borat has a secondary school certificate, nevertheless he cannot find an apprenticeship. And nevertheless, Germany is the only home they have. About the lack of prospects in social problem districts - precise, intensive, very atmospheric.
Reportage
Author: Anna Kuhn-Osius
Editor: Golo Schmidt, Bettina Nutz
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
Radio Essen am Morgen: Integration and I (Radio Essen)
The voluntary attempt at integration of a Belorussian journalist. When her voyage of discovery through the Capital of Culture comes to an end, the author decides to remain in Essen. As a guest she felt very welcome. What is it like now to live here as a foreigner with a residence permit? What must she watch out for? The author organizes a crash course in integration for herself in Essen’s city centre. It quickly becomes clear: integration needs an opposite number. Ironic, original, self-confident – an impressive listening experience.
Programme from the series "Katja in the Capital of Culture"
Author: Katsiaryna Artsiomenka
Editor: Christian Pflug
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
Wiener Radiobande: At home – what is that, where is that? (Orange 94.0)
Statements, thoughts and associations with the theme of "home". Schoolchildren from the Islamic Technical College for Social Education in Vienna produce radio. They make audible, what being "foreign" means to them, how emotionally important words from their Turkish and Bosnian native countries are translated and what "at home" means for them. Their conclusion: friends and the bare necessities of life. The feature ends with the brief observation: "I was born here. Vienna is my home". Emotionally moving – sensitive, with a lasting effect.
Feature
Author: Walter Kreuz
Editor: Walter Kreuz
Direction: Evelyn Blumenau
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Online Media Prize
The www.dastandard.at Webpage reports authentically, diversely and discursively about the everyday life of immigrants in Austria. Young up-and-coming journalists with a migration background provide the reporting with new perspectives - with a special approach to the "old" and "new" Austrians. The editorial objective is a more equitable representation of people with a migration biography in the media. Does not report about - but rather from the immigrant community.
derStandard.at GmbH
dastandard.at
Authorized representative: Gerlinde Hinterleitner
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Online Media Prize
The trans-cultural Internet programme for people with and without a migration background, www.dasbiber.at, reports about and from the multi-ethnic communities in Austria. A sharp blend of lifestyle, politics, entertainment, business and society - with topical blogs and commentaries. Multi-medial entertainment and information for a young, aspiring and dynamic target group. Humorous, self-deprecating - challenges to join the discussion.
Biber Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h.
dasbiber.at
Authorized representative: Dr. Simon Kravagna
CIVIS 2011
nominated for the European CIVIS Online Media Prize
www.eurozine.com is a network of European cultural magazines on the Internet. Half of the multi-language published articles comes from countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. They come from partner magazines or are original contributions. The transnational Web portal offers an insight into the cultural, social and political life in Europe - with themes such as multi-culturalism, migration, integration and cultural diversity. Topical and pluralistic - here Europe talks with itself.
eurozine.com
Gesellschaft zur Vernetzung von Kulturmedien mbH
Authorized representative: Veronika Leiner
CIVIS 2011
European Young CIVIS Media Prize
Selected was:
Home country (Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst)
"Home country" tells the story of the fears of a Swiss patriot about his Turkish neighbour. Hausi, a fan of Swiss folk music, leads a settled and contented life. Everything appears to be harmonious. The moving in of a Turkish neighbour unexpectedly throws Hausi’s life completely off the rails. The ironic-droll exaggerated picture of the Swiss fear of foreigners comments on political events like the minaret referendum or the extradition initiative. Humorous, highly topical game with fears and prejudices toward the Islamophobie of our days.
Short film
Authors: Andrea Schneider, Loretta Arnold, Fabio Friedli, Marius Portmann
Examining commission: Prof. Jürgen Haas
