41st Filmschoolfest Munich: The 2022 Climate Clips Award
Sunday, 13.11.2022
At the opening ceremony of the 41st FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH the first prizes were given out. The Climate Clips Award was presented to the three best short films dealing with the topic of climate change.
Since 2008, the Nagelschneider Foundation, in cooperation with Filmschoolfest Munich and Brigitte Bruns, has presented the Climate Clips Award to the short film that best deals with the topic of climate change and sustainable energy. This competition is held annually and is open to all film school students around the world. Starting this year, the Climate Clips Award winners receive € 3,000 as the 1st prize, € 2,000 as the 2nd prize, and € 1,000 as the 3rd prize.
This year, projects produced in an environmentally friendly way are eligible for grants and will be noted in relation to the Green Film Shooting project of the European Centre for Sustainability in the Media World as a minimum standard of the MOIN Film Fund.
This year's 1st prize goes to THE LAST SHADE by Alper Bozkurt from the University of Arts in London.
The jury says: "A man trying to escape the heat shares the last drop from his water bottle with a small twig in a hopeless, symbolic gesture. The rapid sequence of scenes warns of the future that threatens all of us with rising global warming and increasing resource consumption, and especially of the devastating consequences of a life without water for creatures, vegetation, animals and humans. This is an emergency call to action. The jury offers its congratulations for a wonderfully stringent animation clip by awarding it the 1st prize."
The 2nd prize is awarded to ONCE UPON A TIME: EARTH by Christian León from the Politécnico Grancolombiano in Bogotá.
The jury's statement: "The Earth: a distant recollection of a time before the climate crash — brief memories as distorted and disrupted scenes of people in cities, on streets, and in plazas. A kaleidoscope involving voices, snatches of conversation, noises and sounds from the audio archive — repeatedly cut off by electrical interference — familiar from the world of television. For this experimental audiovisual reflection on our human existence and its imperilment, the jury offers its thanks with the well-deserved 2nd prize."
The 3rd prize goes to FISHERMAN by Vahid Omidi from Mashgh Film School in Afghanistan.
The jury concludes: "The fictional scenario in FISHERMAN evokes the reality of today’s fishermen, whose existence is threatened by global warming and the drying up of entire lakes and rivers. This drama about a desperate fisherman facing the evaporation of his lake, bluntly set in dull colors and without sound, is a narrative rendered in a powerful visual style, for which the jury awards the 3rd prize."