Feo Aladag’s “When We Leave”received seven nominations from the Germany’s film critics association, basically, winning an award in every category for which the film was eligible. The film follows a woman and her son as they try to escape her husband’s abuse and finds shelter with a family in Berlin.
Nominations for German Film Critics Awards, 2011:
Best Film
Boxhagener Platz (Director: Matti Geschonneck)
The Silence (Director: Baran bo Odar)
When We Leave (Director: Feo Aladag!)
Three (Director: Tom Tykwer)
Goethe! (Director: Philipp Stölzl)
Habermann (Director: Juraj Herz)
Vincent Wants to Sea (Director: Ralf Huettner)
We Are The Night (Director: Dennis Gansel)
Best Debut Film
The Dispensables (Director: Andreas Arnstedt)
When We Leave (Director: Feo Aladag)
Losing Balance (Director: Felix Fuchssteiner)
Parkour (Director: Marc Rensing)
Schwerkraft (Director: Maximilian Erlenwein)
Best Actress
Bernadette Heerwagen (The Coming Days)
Sibel Kekilli (When We Leave)
Julia Koschitz (Der letzte schone Herbsttag)
Sophie Rois (Three)
Katrin Sass (The SIlence)
Best Actor
August Diehl (The Coming Days)
Fabian Hinrichs (Schwerkraft)
Andreas Lust (The Robber)
Sebastian Schipper (Three)
Devid Striesow (Three)
Best Cinematography
Boxhagener Platz (Martin Langer)
When We Leave (Judith Kaufmann)
The Coming Days (Sonja Rom)
Parkour (Ulle Hadding)
We Are The Night (Thorsten Breuer)
Best Screenplay
When We Leave (Feo Aladag)
Three (Tom Tykwer)
Friendship! (Oliver Ziegenbalg)
Run, When You Can (Dietrich Bruggemann, Anna Bruggemann)
We Are The Night (Jan Berger)
Best Score
When We Leave (Stephane Moucha, Max Richter)
The Coming Days (Christoph M. Kaiser, Julian Maas)
Die Liebe der Kinder (Tobias Ellenberg, Daniel Backes, Jennifer Jones)
Jane’s Journey (Wolfgang Netzer, Chris Heyne)
Jerry Cotton (Helmut Zerlett, Christoph Zirngibl)
Best Editing
Der Freischutz (Martin Hoffmann)
When We Leave (Andrea Mertens)
Im Haus meines Vaters sind viele Wohnungen (Daniela Grosch)
Jew Suss – Rise and Fall (Bettina Bohler)
Orly (Mathilde Bonnefoy)
Best Documentary
Berlin – Stettin (Director: Volker Koepp)
Das Schreiben und das Schweigen (Director: Carmen Tartarotti)
Im Haus meiner Vaters sind viele Wohnungen (Director: Hajo Schomerus)
Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz (Director: Helga Reidemeister)
Neukolln Unlimited (Director: Agostino Imondi/Dietmar Ratsch)
The winners of this year’s German Film Critics association honors will be announced during next month’s Berlin International Film Festival.