Three German productions already have a reason to celebrate. Four out of a total of 14 Golden Gate Awards were decided in the run-up to the festival, including "My Father the Turk" (Mein Vater der Türke), by Ariane Riecker and Marcus Vetter, for long-form television documentary. A short-form television documentary award will go to "Josephine Baker - Black Diva in a White World" (Schwarze Diva in einer Weissen Welt) by Anette von Wangenheim. And "Rage"(Wut), by Zueli Aladag, has won in the category of long-form television narrative.

Meanwhile the new directors section will be presenting "Emma's Bliss" (Emmas Glück) by Sven Taddicken, "Suely in the Sky" by Karim Aïnouz (BR/DE/FR/PT) and "Rome Rather than You" by Tariq Teguia (DZ/FR/DE). The documentary "The Rape is Europe" by Nicole Newnham (US/FR/IT/AU/DE/PL/RU) has also been selected to compete for a Golden Gate Award. The world cinema section will be showing the US-German co-production "Fay Grim" by Hal Hartley, and the short "Whirr" by Timo Katz will be screened in one of the festival's shorts programs. (Behrendt Films press release)