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Nov 02, 2007
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DOK Leipzig | Award Winners 2007

DOK Leipzig | Award Winners 2007: The International Jury for Documentary Film awards for Documentary Films and Videos / Long Metrage (longer than 45 min)

a Golden Dove along with euros 10,000 granted by TELEPOOL to the film "Nu te supara, dar ... " (Don’t Get Me Wrong) by Adina Pintilie (Romania)

a Silver Dove along with euros 3,000 partially funded by Corona Films to the film "Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht." (Children. As Time Flies.) by Thomas Heise (Germany)

The International Jury for Documentary Film awards
for Documentary Films and Videos / Short Metrage (to 45 min)

a Golden Dove along with euros 5,000 partially funded by Filmverband Sachsen e. V.
to the film "Moujarad Raiha" (Merely a Smell) by Maher Abi Samra (Lebanon)

The German Jury for Documentary Film awards for Documentary Films and Videos the Zweitausendeins Filmpreis along with Euros 10,000 to the film "Nach der Musik" (A Father’s Music)by Igor Heitzmann (Germany)

The International Jury for the Young Talent Competition - awarded already on friday for an extraordinary documentary film talent the Talent Dove of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig along with Euros 10,000 "Someone Like You" by Nanna Frank Møller (Denmark)

The International Jury for Animated Films awards for Animated Films and Videos
a Golden Dove along with Euros 5,000 to the film Életvonal (Life Line) by Tomek Ducki (Hungary)
a Silver Dove along with Euros 2,000 to the film Kafka Inaka Isha (Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor) by Koji Yamamura (Japan)

The Discovery Channel Audience Award along with Euros 5,000 was given to the film "Sportsfreund Lötzsch" by Sandra Prechtel and Sascha Hilpert (Deutschland).

The MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) awards for an excellent Eastern European documentary film
the MDR Film Prize along with Euros 3,000 to the film La Mère (The Mother) by Antoine Cattin and Pawel Kostomarow (Switzerland, France, Russia)

The DEFA Foundation awards the DEFA Sponsoring Prize as a grant in the amount of Euros 4,000
to the film "Heinz und Fred" by Mario Schneider (Germany)

The Jury of the Trade Union ver.di – Department of Media and Arts – awards its Prize along with Euros 1,500 to the film "Rain in My Heart" by Paul Watson (UK)

The Ecumenical Jury awards the Prize of the Ecomenical Jury
to the film "Kamienna Cisza" (Stone Silence) by Krzysztof Kopczynski (Poland)

The FIPRESCI Jury (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) awards the Prize of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique
to the film "Juizo" (Behave) by Maria Augusta Ramos (Brazil)

The Youth Jury of the Filmschule Leipzig e. V. awards the Prize of the Youth Jury of the Filmschule Leipzig e. V. to the film "Draussen bleiben" (Run out) by Alexander Riedel (Germany)

The mephisto 97,6-Audience Award was given to the film "Ubornaya Istoriya – Lyubovnaya Istorya" (Lavatory - Lovestory) by Konstantin Bronzit (Russia)