This year, for the second time ever, the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival will present the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award. A total of 18 documentary films from the current program of the Competition, Berlinale Special, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections and the special presentation Culinary Cinema are nominated for the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award. All nominated films will celebrate their world premiere at the Berlinale 2018.
The Glashütte Original – Documentary Award is endowed with € 50,000, and trophy funded by Glashütte Original. The prize money will be split between the film’s director and producer. The prize will be presented during the official Award Ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on February 24.
A three-member jury will pick the winner: Cíntia Gil (Portugal) – co-director of the Doclisboa, documentary film festival in Portugal ; Ulrike Ottinger (Germany) -director; and Eric Schlosser – (USA)investigative journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
The following films are nominated for the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award:
Competition – Out of competition
Eldorado
Switzerland / Germany
By Markus Imhoof
Berlinale Special
Viaje a los Pueblos Fumigados (A Journey to the Fumigated Towns)
Argentina
By Fernando Solanas
Panorama
Al Gami’ya (What Comes Around)
Lebanon / Egypt / Greece / Qatar / Slovenia
By Reem Saleh
Až přijde válka (When the War Comes)
Czech Republic / Croatia
By Jan Gebert
Ex Pajé (Ex Shaman)
Brazil
By Luiz Bolognesi
Game Girls
France / Germany
By Alina Skrzeszewska
Obscuro Barocco
France / Greece
By Evangelia Kranioti
Zentralflughafen THF (Central Airport THF)
Germany / France / Brazil
By Karim Aïnouz
Forum
Den’ Pobedy (Victory Day)
Germany
By Sergei Loznitsa
L’empire de la perfection (In the Realm of Perfection)
France
By Julien Faraut
Minatomachi (Inland Sea)
Japan / USA
By Kazuhiro Soda
Premières solitudes (Young Solitude)
France
By Claire Simon
Waldheims Walzer
Austria
By Ruth Beckermann
Generation
Ceres
Belgium / Netherlands
By Janet van den Brand
What Walaa Wants
Canada / Denmark
By Christy Garland
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life
Germany / Mexico
By Zita Erffa
draußen
Germany
By Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht
Culinary Cinema
The Green Lie
Austria
By Werner Boote