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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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Zhang Yimou came to Mannheim-Heidelberg because even in China he had heard a lot about this Festival.
2002
Master of Cinema Award
Zhang Yimou
Laudation to Zhang Yimou
For his works encompassing 11 feature films and other works so far Zhang Yimou has received over 50 awards and prizes, I repeat, over 50 - in Berlin, Venice, Cannes, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, even in his own country. In Montreal he was declared to be one of the 10 outstanding film directors in the world. And we now add our small prize, a "special mention" compared to those many and much bigger awards: we are delighted to declare him to be a "Master of Cinema" today (...).
Download full Laudation as pdf.
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