Findling Award

The Findling Award or short Findling (German: Findlingspreis) was a German film award donated by the umbrella organization of cultural cinemas and film clubs . It was founded in 1982 in GDR and was awarded on several film festivals. Far more than hundred filmmakers received this award. The prize itself is a stone on a pedestal with a metal plate designed by sculptor Peter Lewandowsky. Part of the prize's endowment was a tour of the winning film with its director and a critic, often with , to cultural cinemas, art houses and film clubs. The award was named after a glacial erratic, but plays with the word as it also means "foundling". Sometimes, though wrong, you read Findling Prize.

Festivals[]

It was awarded on all GDR National film festivals:

• (National Feature Film Festival of GDR) in Karl-Marx-Stadt (1982-1990)
• Nationales der DDR (National Festival of Documentary Film of GDR) in Neubrandenburg (1982-1989)
• Nationales Kinderfilmfestival (National Children's Film Festival) in Gera (1983-1989)
• Internationale Dokumentar- und Kurzfilmwoche (International Week of Documentary and Animation Film) (now: dok Leipzig) in Leipzig (1983-1989)

After 1990 it is awarded on the following festivals:

• Festival for Eastern European Feature Film (1991-2002)
• FilmArtFestival Mecklenburg-Pomerania German Feature Film Festival Schwerin (1991-2013)
• International Documentary Film Festival Neubrandenburg^[1] (1992-2015)
• Film- Rostock / Young German Film (2004-2014)
• dok Leipzig (Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm)
• 2015 and 2016 the Findling also was awarded abroad at the SEFF Szczecin European Film Festival in Poland.

Selected honorees[]

Sources[]

• Becker, Wieland; Petzold, Volker, eds. (2001), Tarkowski trifft King Kong - Geschichte der Filmklubbewegung der DDR (in German), Berlin: VISTAS, ISBN 978-3891583098

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