Online Talk with Winners of the Hof Gold Prize 2021

On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 7:00 pm, the director and media artist Philip Gröning and the artistic director of the Hof International Film Festival, Thorsten Schaumann, will talk online with the winners of the 2021 Hof Gold Prize: Alisa Kolosova (CHARLY) and Lukas Röder (BRAIN TATTOO). Philip Gröning awarded the prize ex aequo to both films at the 55th Hof International Film Festival and accompanies the filmmakers as a mentor for a year.

At the event of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, excerpts of the award-winning films will be shown during the online talk. The focus of the talk will be on cinematic storytelling. In addition, Alisa Kolosova will present her new documentary project WIR ERINNERN and Lukas Röder his feature film project MEIN TOLLER, TOLLER FREUND.

The Hof Gold Prize of the Friedrich Baur Foundation, awarded by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and endowed with approximately €35,000 or 750 grams of gold, is one of the highest prizes for young German filmmakers.