Globally Local

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buten un binnen sponsors the Global Lokal Prize for the best film with a regional focus.

The regional magazine buten un binnen from Radio Bremen, in cooperation with Filmfest Bremen, honors films that champion cultural diversity, lived identity, and the value of local perspectives in an increasingly globalized world. Style, narrative form, and length are entirely up to the filmmakers, as long as they highlight the specific characteristics of the region being explored.

The Global Lokal category serves as a platform for filmmakers who tell regional stories with curiosity and empathy – stories that have local roots and yet touch people all over the world.

“At buten un binnen, we tell regional stories day after day – from up close, with journalistic curiosity and a deep interest in the people behind them. We are all the more delighted that, within the framework of the Filmfest, this perspective now has its own stage for the second time, placing regional narratives from all over the world at the center.“

Lars Rosentreter

Editorial director buten un binnen TV and jury member

Award

Best Documentary with Regional Focus
endowed with 2.000 EUR

Our jury awards the prize to the winning film at Theater Bremen, Kleines Haus, on April 19th 2026.

Nominated Films In 2026:

I Am Gitxsan

Liberated Space

Wild Waterfront

Can We Do This?

The nominated Short Films 2026:

How Now, House?

Barça Barsak – The Atlantic Route

Our Jury 2026

Julia Rehkopf

Julia Rehkopf is a journalist known for her experimental and transparent documentaries. She is a co-founder of the ARD documentary reporting format Y-Kollektiv. As a format editor for Y-Kollektiv at the lead broadcaster Radio Bremen, she is responsible for concept, editing, and coordination. She has produced documentary reports from Germany (Viva la Vulva), Eastern Europe (Back into Poverty), and India (Suffering for Leather).

Astrid Menzel

She took her first steps in the film industry as a production assistant for French TV film productions in Portugal and subsequently studied film directing and editing at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC) in Lisbon.

After her studies, she moved to Berlin, where she gained further industry experience as an assistant director before returning to Northern Germany. This is where her award-winning films “Nicht im Traum” and “Blauer Himmel Weiße Wolken” were created. The latter celebrated its world premiere in competition at DOK Leipzig, where it was honored with the Young Eyes Film Award. Both works received international attention and were released in cinemas and on television. She lives and works in her hometown of Bremen and feels equally at home in both fiction and documentary filmmaking.

Lars Rosentreter

Inspired by G.A. Heussen’s Narrative Sentence: Lars R. possesses the attributes of being visually-minded and inquisitive. His core motivation is a passion for public service journalism.

Lars is faced with the challenge of reporting the most important regional news to the people of Bremen and Bremerhaven every evening together with his TV editorial team.

The supporting characters play a vital role: the people of the region (as subjects, motifs, interviewees, and the audience) and his colleagues at buten un binnen (the creative team without whom television would be impossible). The transformation: His editorial team succeeded for the sixth consecutive year in being the most successful regional magazine within the ARD network.

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