International Cycling Film Festival - Award Goldene Kurbel

Award Goldene Kurbel

The highlight of the festival is the award ceremony for the "Goldene Kurbel" - Golden Crank, a prize awarded to the best film in the festival. The award "Goldene Kurbel" is the oldest film prize for bicycle related films. Films that belong to the official selection of the ICFF are judged by a jury of local film, bicycle and art experts. Beside technical and cinematic criteria for the evaluation of films the jury takes into account the intensity, with which a film tells a bicycle-related story, the existence of political or cultural messages as well as the innovativeness or existence of particular unique selling points of films.

"Father and Daughter", a Dutch animation from Michaël Dudok de Wit was the "Goldene Kurbel" awardee in 2012. The metaphorical and intensive film tells the story of a young daughter. The film begins with the goodbye of her father who leaves in a small boat. Over and over the girl coms back to the shore where he left, and, over the years, she becomes a young woman, has got a family, later she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father. The compelling film won the audience award of the ICFF 2012, too. The film prize 2011 was awarded to the American short "Cycle of love" by Catherine Marshall. "Cycle of love" is the first contribution for the ICFF, within which bicycles play all parts in the film. The festival jury was positive about the amazing expressivity of Catherine Marshall's playing act bicycles, which was needed for the tragicomical love story of her film. 2010 the "Goldene Kurbel" was given to the Romanian artist Alexei Gubenco and his movie "Vive La Crise!". The animation takes the economic and financial crisis as a starting point: "The short shows in an optimistic and satirical way the benefits of the cycle for both individuals and society, referring to the (as it were) anti-consumerism character of cycling", so the 2010th jury's comment. The winner in 2009 was the German movie maker Jörn Staeger. His film "Rad" (English title: "Wheel") is a short about a bizarre cycling trip under time pressure and against bicycle-specific obstacles: men, dogs, bike chains. The 2008 prize winner was the movie maker Mike Tereba from Luxembourg for his contribution Psyclist, an internationally highly successful movie. Psyclist is a gloomy feature film dedicated to a cyclist who was killed in a bicycle accident. Winners of the Goldene Kurbel in previous years were the German movie maker Sören Büngener for his film “A Look in the Mirror” in 2007; a year earlier, in 2006, the Goldene Kurbel was awarded to the Austrian/German artists Sylvia Winkler und Stephan Köperl and their film “doored in downtown”.