The Ecumenical Jury at the 22nd Film Festival for children and Young Audience SCHLINGEL in Chemnitz awarded its Prize to "Sobre rodas" (On Wheeels), directed by Mauro D'Addio from Brazil, and a Commendation to "Zuckersand" (Sugar Sand, director Dirk Kummer, Germany 2017). The European Children's Jury - 18 children from 9 European countries - choose as winner of the European Children's Award of the Saxon Art Minister "Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island" (director Oskar Santos, Spain 2016). The prize is endowed with 12.500 €, thus being the most valuable award of the festival. "Just Charlie" (director Rebekah Fortune, Great Britain, 2016) won the SLM Top Award, endowed with 10.000 €, and the Junior Film Award decided on by a jury of students of a grammar school. The Youth Film Award, decided on by another students' jury, was taken away by "Canola" (director Chang, South Korea 2016). The Fipresci Jury awarded the Indian entry in the Children's Film competition "Colours of Innocence", directed by Manas Mukul Pal.
The festival opened with the European premiere of the Chilean film "Niñas Araña" (Spider Thieves) on September 25. For the second time, an Ecumenical Jury awarded prizes. The festival screened 158 films from 51 countries, 126 of which took part in one of the competition sections: Children's Film, Junior Film, Youth Film, German Focus, and Short Film.
The Short Film winners were announced already on September 28. They are endowed with 500 € each in the categories national and international, short fiction and animation. The winners are "Die Mechanik oder Wie man auf sich Acht gibt" (The Mechanism or: How to Take Care of Yourself) by Michael Chlebusch (national fiction), the Icelandic film "Búi" by Inga Lísa Middleton (international fiction), "Höchste Zeit" (Hurry up, Herold) by Francie Liebscher (national animation) and "Pautinka" (Spider Web) by Natalja Tschernyschewa from Russia (animation international).
Link: Festival-Website