Each year at BUFF, we like to highlight organisations and initiatives that emphasise film for youths, push it forward and make it challenging. Together with collaborating partners and expert juries, we give out a number of prizes at our prize ceremony in the Malmö City Hall.
Six European children’s films compete at BUFF for the European Children’s Film Association Award (ECFA). The Award is given out at several international children’s film festivals. The winner at BUFF goes on to compete for the best children’s film of the year award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Competing films:
Puffin Rock and the New Friends
Lars is LOL
Jonja
Clenched Fist
Three Friends
The Book of Everything
Victoria Must Go
Responsible for the Just Film Industry Days, part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Also years of experience in working with casting.
Responsible for film contracts, licensing and Club of Festivals at SCHLiNGEL, Germany's largest film festival for young audiences.
One of the founders of Den Pedagogiska Designbyrån, established in 2010 with the goal of enabling children and young people to express themselves through film and artistic creation.
Region Skåne’s Culture Committee founded this prize in 2006 for best children and young people’s short film. Its purpose is to raise the status and impact of the short film within children’s and young people’s cinema. The prize will be awarded to a film creator who has made the best short film of the festival. The level of quality and innovation are important factors for the final choice of winner.
Prize: 100 000 SEK
Competing films:
The Birthday Party
Death to the Bikini!
Dusk
L’âge acrobatique
Dog Days
Shooting Watermelons
Burul
Punkdreams
Illustrator, scriptwriter, director and artist, most recently with the short film The Story of Bodri based on Hédi Fried's own experiences during the Holocaust. Currently at BUFF with the premiere of Whos is who?
Director, writer and producer at SVT. Most recently with the drama series Hack my heart starring Frank Dorsin.
Developer in child rights in Region Skåne's cultural department. Background as a political scientist and worked with child rights issues both in civil society and the public sector.
Talent developer at the Game Habitat organization in Malmö. Background as a game designer and has an extra interest in storytelling, in its different forms and shapes.
Chair of the Culture Committee, Region Skåne.
The Church of Sweden Award goes to a young people’s film which displays a high level of artistic quality and calls out existential, justice and social questions in a way that touches both young people and adults.
Prize: 100 000 SEK
Competing films:
Excursion
Juniors
Listen Up!
Katika Bluu
Sisterhood
We Were Dangerous
It’s Raining in the House
On Earth as in Heaven
Director and screenwriter of the youth drama Bullets, which won three awards at BUFF 2023.
Screenwriter who mainly writes for children and youth. One of the creators of the SVT series Hashtag and is currently involved with the football drama Forever on Netflix.
Works as a high school priest in the Pastorate of Malmö. She also works in the Husie congregation where her work is focused on confirmands and youths.
Parish teacher, long-time BUFF visitor and great cinephile, which often reflects his work with confirmation students, young people and adults in Värby parish outside Malmö.
19 years old, sits on the district board of the Swedish Church Youth in Lund diocese and trainee in Fosie parish.
The prize is awarded by a high school class from Malmö and is arranged by Malmö Kulturskola.
Prize: 25 000 SEK
Jury: Class 8a
Neptuniskolan , Malmö:
Anthony Mijatovic, Tasneem Alsharaa, Remziye Rukiye Cicek, Molly Nelson, Emma Lundqvist, Molly Sundberg, Talia Kenj, Matilda Karlberg Folkelind, Rugaja El Metowri, Leona Ferizi, Muwahib Yusef, Tage Almqvist, Felix Decolas Månsson
Competing films:
Excursion
Juniors
Listen Up!
Katika Bluu
Sisterhood
We Were Dangerous
It’s Raining in the House
On Earth as in Heaven
The City of Malmö’s Children’s Film Award was given out for the first time at BUFF in 2000. It goes to the filmmaker who, according to the jury, has contributed to the best children’s film. The winning film must be seminal and of high quality.
Prize: 100 000 SEK
Competing films:
Echo to Delta
Nina and the Hedgehog’s Secret
Who is who?
Lars is LOL
Jonja
Clenched Fist
The Book of Everything
Ann Körling is Strategic Developer at the Department of Culture, City of Malmö. Jury veteran for The City of Malmö Children’s Film Award.
Screenwriter and director who directed last year's opening film Nelly Rapp - Mirror of Death.
Actor, director and screenwriter. Made her feature film debut with Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers with her husband and two daughters.
Executive producer at Anagram and has produced feature films and TV series for 25 years.
Barnfondens Award is given to the children’s or youth film that makes us laugh the most. This is a film that contributes to more children’s laughter around the world. This is a film that lets children be children and allows laughter the role it deserves.
Competing films:
Three Friends
Lars is LOL
Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light
Youth leader at Fryshuset in Malmö.
Julian Falzon is in grade 6 at Malmö Montessori School. Besides watching movies, he likes to play basketball and skate.
Mohamad Nour is a joyful boy in the 5th grade at Nydala School. He likes football, swimming and being together with friends.
BUFF Nordic Star is an award given to three young actors for their excellent acting performances in a film screened at BUFF Malmö.
Make an accurate portrait of the charming Mahmoud in the Norwegian comedy. Hør her’a!
Make an incredible and unforgettable performance as the little sister in Paradise Burns.
Plays Jackie in Bye Bye Boredom and takes us to exotic places and deep emotions you never knew existed.