The Glashütte Original-Documentary Award is endowed with € 50,000, funded by Glashütte Original. The prize money will be split between the film’s director and producer. A total of 18 documentary entries from the current programmes of the Competition, Berlinale Special, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections and the special presentation Culinary Cinema are nominated for the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award.
The prize will be presented during the official Award Ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on February 24. In addition to the prize money, Glashütte Original will also provide the trophy, which will be finely crafted in the company’s manufactory in Saxony.
A three-member jury, composed of Cíntia Gil (Portugal), co-directors of the Doclisboa, Portugal’s most important and steadily expanding documentary film festival; director Ulrike Ottinger (Germany); and journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker Eric Schlosser (USA), will pick the winner.
Films nominated for the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award
Competition – Out of competition (1)
Eldorado
Switzerland / Germany
By Markus Imhoof
Berlinale Special (1)
Viaje a los Pueblos Fumigados (A Journey to the Fumigated Towns)
Argentina
By Fernando Solanas
Panorama (6)
Al Gami'ya (What Comes Around)
Lebanon / Egypt / Greece / Qatar / Slovenia
By Reem Saleh
Až prijde válka (When the War Comes)
Czech Republic / Croatia
By Jan Gebert
Ex Pajé (Ex Shaman)
Brazil
By Luiz Bolognesi
Game Girls
France / Germany
By Alina Skrzeszewska
Obscuro Barocco
France / Greece
By Evangelia Kranioti
Zentralflughafen THF (Central Airport THF)
Germany / France / Brazil
By Karim Aïnouz
Forum (5)
Den' Pobedy (Victory Day)
Germany
By Sergei Loznitsa
L'empire de la perfection (In the Realm of Perfection)
France
By Julien Faraut
Minatomachi (Inland Sea)
Japan / USA
By Kazuhiro Soda
Premières solitudes (Young Solitude)
France
By Claire Simon
Waldheims Walzer
Austria
By Ruth Beckermann
Generation (2)
Ceres
Belgium / Netherlands
By Janet van den Brand
What Walaa Wants
Canada / Denmark
By Christy Garland
Perspektive Deutsches Kino (2)
The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life
Germany / Mexico
By Zita Erffa
draußen
Germany
By Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht
Culinary Cinema (1)
The Green Lie
Austria
By Werner Boote
All nominated films will celebrate their world premiere at the Berlinale 2018.
