Douglas Sirk
Award
Since 1995, the Douglas Sirk Award has been presented at FILMFEST HAMBURG to individuals who have made a special contribution to film culture and the film industry. This year’s winners are Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who represent European narrative cinema. They use a lens to focus on the ruptures in society and give faces and voices to the losers and outsiders. The award ceremony will take place on 30 September at 6 p.m. as part of the German premiere of Young Mothers at Cinemaxx Dammtor.
Film screening
Award ceremony
Tue 30.09. 6 p.m.
Cinemaxx 1
Douglas Sirk Preis
Clint Eastwood was the first to receive the statuette designed by Hamburg designer Georg Plum. The prize is named after Douglas Sirk, who was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg. He emigrated to the United States in 1937 and initially tried his luck as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Sirk celebrated his first success as a director with the melodrama Summer Storm. In the following years, he made other successful films, including Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die and Imitation of Life.
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
Andrea Arnold (2024) and Jacques Audiard (2024), Sandra Hüller (2023), Leos Carax (2021), Nina Hoss (2019), Jafar Panahi (2018), Wim Wenders (2017), Catherine Deneuve (2015), Fatih Akin (2014), Tilda Swinton (2013), Kim Ki-duk (2012), Andreas Dresen, Peter Rommel (2011), Julian Schnabel (2010), Atom Egoyan (2008), David Cronenberg (2007), Gérard Depardieu (2006), Zentropa (2005), François Ozon (2004), Isabelle Huppert (2003), Aki Kaurismäki (2002), Majid Majidi (2001), Wong Kar-Wai (2000), Jim Jarmusch (1999), Peter Weir (1998), Jodie Foster (1997), Stephen Frears (1996), Cint Eastwood (1995)
