Within the Feature Film Competition a total of ten entries, including one international premiere and nine German premieres, will compete for the main prize with its glass award sculpture and endowed with 20,000 Euro. In these submissions to the competition, the respective film makers deal with the question of how people want to live, they provide a degree of concrete social critique and some entries discuss the war and its consequences. A prominent International Festival Jury decides on the winners. All in all, the 22nd FilmFestival Cottbus will be awarding 20 prizes totalling 73,500 Euro in value.
The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region. The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region.
FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region.