Peer Raben Music Award - Competition Screening

The best original music in a short film will be awarded with 1,500 euros. 7 film scores from award-winning festival highlights of the international short film scene have been nominated, including "27" (Palme D'Or Cannes), "Gigi", "Unless we dance" (over 20 festivals including Youth Jury Prize Oberhausen ISFF, BUFF IFF), "Dodo" (30 festivals including Annecy Animated IFF), "Do you have kids", "Jesus lebt" and "Spatzenhirn" (including Goldener Spatz Festival, competition). The nominated guests present their work! Moderation: André Feldhaus
Peer Raben Music Award - Competition Screening / Peer Raben Music Award - Vorstellung der nominierten Filme
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Peer Raben Music Award - Competition Screening / Peer Raben Music Award - Vorstellung der nominierten Filme

T he best original music in a short film will be awarded with 1,500 euros. 7 film scores from award-winning festival highlights of the international short film scene have been nominated, including "27" (Palme D'Or Cannes), "Gigi", "Unless we dance" (over 20 festivals including Youth Jury Prize Oberhausen ISFF, BUFF IFF), "Dodo" (30 festivals including Annecy Animated IFF), "Do you have kids", "Jesus lebt" and "Spatzenhirn" (including Goldener Spatz Festival, competition).

The nominees:
- Mári Mákó & Rozi Mákó ("27" directed by Flóra Anna Buda, France/Hungary)
- Ricardo Gallo ("A menos que bailemos" / "Unless we Dance" directed by Fernanda Pineda Palencia and Hanz Rippe, Colombia)
- Sarah Playford ("Do You Have Kids?" directed by Tom Gentle, United Kingdom)
- Hannes Bieber ("Dodo" directed by Yi Luo, Germany)
- Yan Volcy ("GIGI" directed by Cynthia Calvi, France)
- Georg Paco Ludwig Fleischfresser ("Jesus lebt" / "Jesus is alive" directed by Piet Grünberg and Dominic Wittrin, Germany)
- Fabian Zeidler & Steven E. Müller ("Spatzenhirn" / "Sparrow's Brains" directed by Arun Leander Boudodimos)

The Palme d'Or winner "27" tells us the story about Alice, who lives still with her parents at the age of 27, without a private life or relationship - it takes a cycling accident to make her realise it's time to move out. In "Unless we dance" Jonathan and hundreds of young people come together through dance to face the brutal fate of violence of Quibdó, a city with the highest homicide rates in Colombia – the film is a tribute to their act of resilience and to all the lives that have been lost along the way. From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, "Gigi" tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity. "Sparrows" pilfer the crumbs left behind by park visitors using advanced surveillance technology. "Do you have kids?" is a friendly question tossed casually into conversation, but for Lee it has a complex and difficult answer. In "Jesus is alive" Mara’s estranged mother believes she is Jesus. "Dodo" is a 10 year old little girl living with her father, who is a big blue bird. When he flies out of the window and doesn't come back, Dodo stops growing up.

The nominated guests present their work!
Moderation: André Feldhaus