{"id":88422,"date":"2025-05-09T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88422\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:50:09","slug":"september-5-sweeps-german-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88422\/","title":{"rendered":"September 5 Sweeps German Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSeptember 5<\/a> took top honors at the German Film Awards<\/a>, or Lolas, held in Berlin Friday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tTim Fehlbaum\u2019s real-life thriller, based on the terrorist attacks on the 1972 Munich Olympics, picked up nine Lolas, including for best director, best editing, best cinematography, best sound design, best screenplay, best makeup and best production design.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeonie Benesch won best supporting actress for her performance as a translator for the U.S. television network broadcasting the attacks live to the world. September 5<\/a> premiered at the Venice film festival last year before becoming an awards contender and landing a best original screenplay Oscar nomination for Fehlbaum, Moritz Binder and Alex David.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccepting his best director prize, Fehlbaum praised his German team, and, with a side swipe at Donald Trump and his promised tariffs on \u201cforeign films,\u201d<\/a> noted that \u201cthey can raise the tariffs as high as the want, there is not reason to make films anywhere else [than here].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWolfram Weimer, the new German culture minister, who presented the best film honor, also criticized Trump, calling the tariff proposal \u201cabsurd. The next thing he\u2019ll introduce tariffs on jokes, so that people will stop making fun of him.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tLiv Lisa Fries won best actress for playing Hilde Coppi, a member of the left-wing anti-Nazi resistance group the Red Orchestra, in Andreas Dresen\u2019s historic drama From Hilde, With Love<\/a>. The film also took the bronze Lola for best film. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a moving speech, Fries referenced the threat of resurgent far-right extremism in Germany. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s getting serious,\u201d she said. \u201cThis can\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPolitics was a recurring theme at the awards ceremony in Berlin Friday night, with several winners referencing the dangers represented by the far-right AfD, which is surging in the polls, despite Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence service classifying the party as extremist. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCall them out and show yourselves,\u201d German musician Igor Levit told the crowd in his tribute to Margot Friedl\u00e4nder, a Holocaust survivor who became the conscience of a nation, speaking about her experience in her many television and public appearances, and who died on Friday at the age of 103.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest actor went to Missagh Zareh for his portrayal of an Iranian patriarch in Mohammad Rasoulof\u2019s Oscar-nominated The Seed of the Sacred Fig<\/a>. The film, which depicts an Iranian family torn apart by conflicting loyalties to an increasingly oppressive Tehran regime, was set up as a German-French co-production and shot in secret in Iran. The film also won the runner-up silver Lola for best film. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMaking this film was a miracle, but the miracle was the Iranian women, who made this film possible,\u201d said Rasoulof, accepting his award. The director, who fled Iran last year, now lives in Berlin. He ended his speech with a call to \u201cstand by us, stand by the people of Iran.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tChristian Friedel, star of Jonathan Glazer\u2019s The Zone of Interest<\/a> and part of the ensemble cast of the third season of The White Lotus<\/a>, hosted the awards, showing off his talents as a song-and-dance man with his band Woods of Birnam.<\/p>\n

\n\tA complete list of the winners of the 2025 German Film Awards<\/a> follows.<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Seed of the Sacred Fig<\/a> \u2013 Mohammad Rasoulof, Mani Tilgner, Rozita Hendijanian (WINNER Best Film in Silver)<\/strong>
From Hilde, With Love \u2013 Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel, Regina Ziegler (WINNER Best Film in Bronze)
<\/strong>Islands \u2013 Maximilian Leo, Jonas Katzenstein
K\u00f6ln 75 \u2013 Sol Bondy, Fred Burle
September 5 \u2013 Philipp Trauer, Thomas W\u00f6bke, Tim Fehlbaum (WINNER Best Film in Gold)
<\/strong>Vena \u2013 Dietmar G\u00fcntsche, Martin Roh\u00e9<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Documentary Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHollywoodgate \u2013 Talal Derki, Shane Boris, Odessa Rae, Ibrahim Nash\u2019at
Petra Kelly \u2013 Act Now! \u2013 Birgit Schulz, Doris Metz (WINNER)
<\/strong>Riefenstahl \u2013 Sandra Maischberger, Andres Veiel<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Children\u2019s Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAkiko, der fliegende Affe \u2013 Veit Helmer (WINNER)<\/strong>
<\/strong>Woodwalkers \u2013 Corinna Mehner, Carolin Dassel<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Director\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Seed of the Sacred Fig \u2013 Mohammad Rasoulof
From Hilde, With Love \u2013 Andreas Dresen
September 5 \u2013 Tim Fehlbaum (WINNER)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Screenplay\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Seed of the Sacred Fig \u2013 Mohammad Rasoulof
From Hilde, With Love \u2013 Laila Stieler
September 5 \u2013 Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum (WINNER)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLiv Lisa Fries \u2013 From Hilde, With Love (WINNER)<\/strong>
<\/strong>Mala Emde \u2013 K\u00f6ln 75
Emma Nova \u2013 Vena<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Actor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSam Riley \u2013 Cranko
Misagh Zare \u2013 The Seed of the Sacred Fig (WINNER)<\/strong>
<\/strong>Sam Riley \u2013 Islands<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Supporting Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnne Ratte-Polle \u2013 Bad Director
Niousha Akhshi \u2013 The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Leonie Benesch \u2013 September 5 (WINNER)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Supporting Actor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander Scheer \u2013 From Hilde, With Love
Alexander Scheer \u2013 K\u00f6ln 75
Godehard Giese \u2013 Sad Jokes (WINNER)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Cinematography\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCranko \u2013 Philipp Sichler
September 5 \u2013 Markus F\u00f6rderer (WINNER)<\/strong>
<\/strong>Vena \u2013 Lisa Jilg<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Editor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Seed of the Sacred Fig \u2013 Andrew Bird
K\u00f6ln 75 \u2013 Anja Siemens
September 5 \u2013 Hansj\u00f6rg Wei\u00dfbrich (WINNER)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Sound Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Light\u2013 Bernhard Joest-D\u00e4beritz, Frank Kruse, Matthias Lempert, Markus Stemler, Alexander Buck
Islands \u2013 Stefan Soltau, Thomas Kalb\u00e9r, Tobias Fleig
September 5 \u2013 Lars Ginzel, Frank Kruse, Marc Parisotto, Marco Hanelt (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Score\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIslands \u2013 Dascha Dauenhauer (WINNER)
<\/strong>Kein Tier. So Wild. \u2013 Dascha Dauenhauer
September 5 \u2013 Lorenz Dangel<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Production Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCranko \u2013 Astrid Poeschke
Hagen \u2013 Matthias M\u00fcsse, Nancy Vogel
September 5 \u2013 Julian R. Wagner, Melanie Raab (WINNER<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Costume Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCranko \u2013 Juliane Maier, Christian R\u00f6hrs (WINNER)
<\/strong>Hagen \u2013 Pierre-Yves Gayraud
From Hilde, With Love \u2013 Birgitt Kilian<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Hair and Makeup\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHagen \u2013 Jeanette Latzelsberger, Gregor Eckstein
From Hilde, With Love \u2013 Grit Kosse, Uta Spikermann, Monika M\u00fcnnich
September 5 \u2013 Sabine Schumann (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tBest Visual Effects\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Light\u2013 Robert Pinnow
Hagen \u2013 Jan Stoltz, Franzisca Puppe (WINNER)
<\/strong>Woodwalkers \u2013 Max Riess, Sven Martin, Bernie Kimbacher<\/p>\n

\t\tMost Commercially Successful Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSchool of Magical Animals 3\u2013 Sven Unterwaldt (Regie), Alexandra Kordes, Meike Kordes (Produktion)<\/strong> (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tHonorary Lola\t<\/p>\n

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