Awards

German Cinema New Talent Award
Best Film (first, second or third feature film)

Award of the City of Hof
Persons closely associated with the festival and the city of Hof

Hof Gold Prize
Best Direction of a first full-length feature film

Hans Vogt Award
Innovative and high-quality sound design for a whole work

GRANIT – Hof Documentary Film Award
Directing of a feature-length German documentary

Bild-Kunst Award
Best Costume Design and Best Production Design

A look back: VGF Young Producers’ Prize

Since 1994, the Collecting society for exploitation rights in cinematographic works (VGF) has been annually presenting the VGF Young Producers’ Prize to the best film of an up-and-coming producer. An independent panel judges the submitted German feature films according to quality and recognizable audience relevance. The award comes with an endowment with 60,000 euros and is the highest paying prize for up-and-coming producers in Germany. The award money is not appropriated and is intended to strengthen the equity capital of young production companies.

The VGF Young Producers’ Prize was awarded during the Hof International Film Festival from 2018 to 2020.

The Awardees

2020

Lena Vurma from dragonfly films
for “Adventures of a Mathematician”

2019

Fabian Halbig and Florian Kamhuber
for “Limbo”

2018

Trini Götze and David Armati Lechner
for the production of ALLES IST GUT (Director: Eva Trobisch)

A look back: German Cinema Talent Award

The founders – HypoVereinsbank, Bavaria Film and Bavarian Broadcasting – introduced an award for young talent at the Hof International Film Festival, in recognition of outstanding artistic achievement in a German film screening in the program of the Hof International Film Festival. The award was replaced in the year 2012 with the German Cinema New Talent Award.

The Awardees

2011

Lars Petersen
Cinematographer for BASTARD by Carten Unger

Julian Wagner
Responsible for the set design of the film COLOR OF THE OCEAN

2010

Marty Schenk
for his editing achievements in LUK’S LUCK by Ayse Polat

Peter Aufderhaar
for the music and sound design of SASCHA by Dennis Todorovic

2009

The team of CEASEFIRE
Director: Lancelot von Naso

2008

Ensemble achievements of cinematography, music and editing
in the feature film THE RED SPOT

2007

Gregor Schönfelder
Cinematography for ZEIT DER FISCHE (Director: Heiko Aufdermauer)

2006

The entire team of SCHWARZE SCHAFE

Barbara Schramm
Costume designer

René Römert & Jochen Sauer
Set designers

Manuel Bickenbach
Producer of the poetic fairy tale NIMMERMEER

2005

Christof Schilling
Editing for DRUM BUN – GUTE REISE by Robert Ralston

Vincent Assmann, Johannes Koeniger, Martin Frühmorgen
Editing, music and sound design for BEHIND THE COUCH

A look back: EASTMAN Promotion Award for Young Talents

This prize was awarded since 1984 to recognize a talented young director and his or her film. The prize was endowed with film material with the intention of supporting the next production of the prize-winning director. The EASTMAN Promotion Award was presented in 2012 for the final time. The Hof International Film Festival thanks Kodak GmbH for its 29-year commitment to young German cinema.