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:
Nelly Rapp – Dödens spegel
Dancing Queen
Neneh Superstar
Okthanksbye
The Little Gang
Sea Sparkle
Jury:
Gert Hermans
Alfred Sesma
Tanja Tlatlik
Responsible for content and communications at ECFA. Communications hub and moderator for European children’s film projects and at film festivals.
Responsible for purchasing and distribution at one of Spain’s most important companies for children’s and youth films, Pack Magic.
Festival director for dox!, a film festival for documentaries aimed at children and young people in Duisburg, Germany.
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:
Back Home
Itch
Don’t Be Cruel
Crosshairs
Hooves Beat
III
Magma
Outside
Scriptwriter, director and producer – most recently known for the documentary Black Angels. Co-founder of production company Carb Film.
Actor and director who runs production company Malaika Film. Currently main scriptwriter and director for a tv-series in development that focuses on the inside perspective of an Arab upbringing in Sweden.
Literature and arts scholar. Head of department of Culture, Languages and Media at Malmö University.
Chairperson for the Department of Culture, Region Skåne.
Festival producer Nordisk Panorama Film Festival.
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:
Bittersweet Rain
Bubble
Bullets
Normal
Six Weeks
You Can Live Forever
Sweet as
Sixteen
Guldbagge award-winning actor and director. Icon status after her lead role in Fucking Åmål (Show me love).
Director and musician. Wrote the script and directed the youth film Düsseldorf, Skåne, about synth music.
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 educator, long-time BUFF visitor and great cineast – which spills over and into his work with confirmands, youths and adults in Värby assembly outside Malmö.
The prize is awarded by a high school class from Malmö and is arranged by Malmö Kulturskola.
Prize: 25 000 SEK
Jury: Class 8a Sofielundsskolan, Malmö:
Maria Alwani, Dea Kasembej, Durna Salehi, Aileen Parker, Guuleed Osman, Frans Nordenhök Askander, Sabir Abdullahi Jama, Jacob Al Timmi, Greta Thörn, Viggo Kujawa, Mehdi Alshawi, Enduena Selimi, Somaia Shah.
Competing films:
Bittersweet Rain
Bubble
Bullets
Normal
Six Weeks
You Can Live Forever
Sweet as
Sixteen
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:
The Little Gang
Sea Sparkla
Neneh Superstar
Okthanksbye
Nelly Rapp – Dödens spegel
Adventures in the Land of Asha
Dancing Queen
Sharp Wounds
Ann Körling is Strategic Developer at the Department of Culture, City of Malmö. Jury veteran for The City of Malmö Children’s Film Award.
Scriptwriter and director who for over 30 years has created entertainment for children for all kinds of media; animation, books, puppets, TV Christmas calendars, video games, film musicals. Torbjörn really likes disco.
Director at Malmö-based Sluggerfilm. “Great fun to be part of the jury for The City of Malmö Children’s Film Award, especially during this magical BUFF anniversary”.
Film lover, jury veteran and member of the Cultural Committee, City of Malmö as well as chairperson of Musik i Syd. “I’m very much looking forward to participating in the jury work for The City of Malmö Children’s Film Award”.
Director/producer/grip and light, mainly at Teater 23 in Malmö. Loves culture for a younger audience and has worked with performing arts for children and youths since 1995.
Municipal commissioner and chair of the Cultural Committee, City of Malmö. Happy to sit on the jury for the prize for the first time.
Barnfondens Award for best comedy 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:
Dancing Queen
Tales of Franz
Nelly Rapp – Dödens spegel
A thirteen-year-old resident of Malmö who is into performing arts, literature and culture-at-large. Plays a bit of guitar and the clarinet at Kulturskolan.
Thirteen years old with a big interest in film and music. Happy both in front of and behind the camera, but is best with a guitar on stage.
Award-nominated comedian, artist, actor and musician. Known from Charlotta x8 och SVT’s Borta bäst.
BUFF Nordic Star is an award given to three young actors for their excellent acting performances in a film screened at BUFF Malmö.
Bullets
Bubble
Dancing Queen