Das Bremer Filmfest 2023

Award ceremony
March 19 2025, 7:00 p.m.
at Theater am Goetheplatz

The 2025 laureate for Bremer Filmpreis der Sparkasse Bremen will be announced on February 20.

Klaus Windheuser, board member of Sparkasse Bremen

Greeting from Klaus Windheuser

(board member Sparkasse Bremen)

For almost a decade, the Bremen Film Festival has been attracting more and more people to Bremen’s cinemas, and Sparkasse Bremen has been a partner from the very beginning. Promoting film culture and filmmaking is an important component of our social commitment.

We are delighted to see the growing popularity of the Bremen Film Festival, both with audiences and filmmakers. Since last year, the already international film festival has also been thrilling audiences with its new competition for German premieres, bringing even more glamour, Hollywood flair and numerous film guests from all over the world to Bremen.

About the Bremer Filmpreis by Sparkasse Bremen

Since 1999, the Bremer Filmpreis, donated by Sparkasse Bremen has been honouring personalities of the European film scene for many years of merit. Among the award-winning filmmakers are the Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, the Danish director Lars von Trier, the German actress Nina Hoss and actor and director John Malkovich.

With the cooperation partner Filmfest Bremen, the award, which is endowed with 8,000 euros, has a new focus on national and international humorous and comedic works from 2021 onwards. The cooperation between Sparkasse Bremen and Filmfest Bremen, as well as the new focus on humour/satire, makes it possible to continue the Bremer Filmpreis in a setting that is close to the audience and to once again award an annual prize of international appeal in the Hanseatic city. An important statement for Bremen as a centre for the art of film.

2024
John Malkovich
2023
Maria Schrader
2022
Aki Kaurismäki
2021
Hape Kerkeling
2019
Caroline Link
2017
Naum Kleimann
2015
Ruth Waldburger
2014
Sylvie Testud
2013
Béla Tarr
2012
Caroline Champetier
2011
Alberto Iglesias
2010
Ulrich Seidl
2009
Nina Hoss
2008
Lars von Trier
2007
Bettina Böhler
2006
Ken Loach
2005
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
2004
Kati Outinen
2003
Karl Baumgartner
2002
Marcel Ophüls
2001
Tilda Swinton
2000
Agnès Varda
1999
Bruno Ganz

Bremer Filmpreis

Greeting from Klaus Windheuser

About the Bremer Filmpreis by Sparkasse Bremen

A history of laureates