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Great cinema is art -
With the Master of Cinema Award, the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg honors directors who as authors have promoted the art of cinema both uncompromisingly and with artistic innovation, cinema artists who have created an author cinema with its own signature. This award is given to auteurs who create works of film art opposed to films which should be understood without a problem by everybody. Films that stand out from mainstream cinema like marvels of poetic "enchantment of reality" (Dr. Michael Kötz), auteur films that have the right to allow as much character as possible, free from all prototypes.
Since 1998, the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg has welcomed these outstanding creators of masterfully crafted cinematography:
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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Otar Iosseliani was also member of the International Jury in 1999.
1999
Master of Cinema Award
Otar Iosseliani
Laudation to Otar Ioselliani
Compared to the massive amount of syndicated, standardised TV shows and mainstream cinema we see everyday, the films by Iosseliani seem to be wonderful creations of poetic wizardry, enchantments of reality. "Reality" is actually the catchword for his kind of cinema: Iosseliani doesn't use reality to give form to big and important ideas; I think he would find such theatrical enterprises rather funny (...).
Download full Laudation as pdf.
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