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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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2003
Master of Cinema Award
Raúl Ruiz
Laudation to Raúl Ruiz
This evening is dedicated to a man whose name over many decades has been pronounced with great awe and extraordinary respect throughout the world of film, and I hope that you will soon understand why. That's at least how I feel. And if back then somebody had told me that one day I would hand an award to him, to this genius of cinema, I wouldn't have believed it. "Back then", this was mere 24 years ago but I still remember it: how I sank deeper and deeper into my seat when, being a young film critic at the time, I marvelled at the depth that opened up on the screen in front of my eyes (...).
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