FRIESE-AWARD: 1.250 EUROS (children’s jury between 8 and 10 years): "Great Travellers"
Director: Andrey Sudilovsky, Russian Federation 2006, short fiction, 18:40 min.
Friese’s Children’s Jury chose‚ "Great Travellers" by Andrey Sudilovsky for its realism, it was the only film that could happen like that in reality, it was emotionally good and fascinating. The actors were good and courageous. The film was exciting and full of twists and turns. "Great
Travellers" tells us about cooperation, friendship, fun; but also about feeling homesick and the anxiety of not coming back home.

MO-AWARD: 1.250 EUROS (children’s jury between 11 and 13 years): "The Last Things"
Director: Levan Akin, Sweden 2007, short fiction, 20 min.

Jury Substantiation: The winning film touched us deeply. Even before getting to know the title the film creates a suspenseful, mysterious and depressing atmosphere. With its very first pictures the film plays with the audience’s expectations and delivers a suprising turning point. Our favourite is a very well done short film which is artistically and emotionally convincing in dealing with loss, death,
guilt, and mourning. The most important factors for our decision are the wonderful and talented actors and the intense pictures. The story is exciting, visionary and intense and we would love to see more of it!

HIGH FIVE! SHORT FILM COMPETITION: 300 EUROS
1. PRIZE: "Eene, meene, Miste...," Milena Gluck, Germany 2008, short fiction, 4 min.
For Mo and Friese’s "Give me 5!" competition, both Juries agreed to crown "Eene, meene, Miste..." by Milena Gluck as their winning film: We think that the competition’s topic‚ one’s favourite place’, has been shown incomparably well and sensitively. We consider the idea of showing a dog’s favourite place to be entertaining, surprising and exciting.

2. PRIZE: "Der Lieblingsplatz,"
Directed by: Jonathan Schaller, Germany 2007, short fiction, 5:30 min.
As the second best film of Mo and Friese’s "Give me 5!" competition we chose‚ "Der Lieblingsplatz" by Jonathan Schaller. His film inspired us due to its surprising wit, good score and exciting turns. We have perceived the film as being intense, suspenseful and manifold.

3. PRIZE: "2050-Schulausflug ins All"
Director: Leonie Stegmuller and the AG Multimedia
Nordlingen, Germany 2007, animation, 7:29 min.
The film takes us on a journey to extraordinary places in outer space. According to the filmmakers, favourite places are to be found in one’s dreams. We, the jury, agreed that the directors managed to realize the topic in a laudably surprising, modern and visionary way.

FRIESE-AWARD: (Children’s Jury between 8 and 10 years): “LITTLE MAN”
Directed by: Esben Tonnesen
Prize: 1.250 EUROS

MO-AWARD:(Children’s Jury between 11 and 13 years): “THE WRONG TRAINERS”
Directed by: Kez Margrie
Prize: 1.250 EUROS

SPECIAL MENTION: “The Silence Between Us”
Directed by: Katie O’Neill

HIGH FIVE! SHORT FILM COMPETITION:

1. Prize: “THE JOB OF MY DREAMS”
Directed by: Luis Arndt, Vincent Delius, Mirco Erichsen, Sebastian Pinzke, Oliver Zurhelle,
Prize: 300 EUROS

2. Prize: “BOUNCER - MY DREAM JOB”
Directed by: Wildis Streng

3. Prize: “CARL THE POSTMAN”
Directed by: Thomas Fischer

Arte Short Film Award: “MAMMAL”
Directed by: Astrid Rieger
Prize: 6.000 euros (Acquisition of the film and broadcast as part of arte’s short film programme)