With shrew-Kung-Fu to the finals.

In Hollywood, young German filmmakers have a race. When Oscar meets students now Tomer Eshed from Babelsberg against four rivals - with its award-winning animation about the love lives of derbe Spitz mice. Here you can see the animation. Worth it!

 

Reto Caffi For it was in June last year a very great day. Red Carpet, shrimp cocktails, shoulder taps - in the awarding of the student Oscars went to the graduate of the Cologne art school close to the Hollywood elite. Apart from the trophy homes Caffi much praise and good advice A.

Photo: Eshed
Video: Eshed

If everything runs smoothly, it could Tomer Eshed on 13 June, a similar perfect day in Los Angeles experience. The film student has been in the race for the coveted Oscars students into finals done. Eshed studied at the School for Film and Television (HFF) Potsdam-Babelsberg. With his contribution, "Our Wonderful Nature", he performs against the four other finalists from Sweden, Russia, Britain and Israel, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.

57 participants from 39 countries had submitted their films, including five German filmmaker. It was a record number. In his diploma film "Our Wonderful Nature" Eshed is the love life of water shrew under the microscope. The animation has already won several awards, including 2008, the trophy for Best Animated Film at the 51st German International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Leipzig.

The university describes the film as "an amusing pastiche of shrew-Kung-Fu in slow and rigorous as an unexpected end" - and in the "didactic style antiquated BBC nature documentaries." The fight scenes between the small, but nasty water shrew males have a lot to offer.

Who is the Student Oscar prevails, qualifies for the competition for the "real" Oscars. They are awarded in the spring of 2010. For many award winners is the "Student Academy Award" a springboard for really big breakthrough. The Swiss Reto Caffi won in 2008 with the movie "On the track" students the coveted Oscar.

And the year before gave the young German director Toke Constantin Hebbeln of the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg the prize with his film "Nimmermeer" ab - a German success in 2007 was also quite likely, since four of the five finalists came from Germany.

The list of student-Oscar winner is growing constantly:

2008:
Reto Caffi for "Auf der Strecke"
2007:
Toke Constantin Hebbeln (Berlin) for "Nimmermeer"
2005: Ulrike Grote (Hamburg) for "The Outlier"
2003:
Florian Baxmeyer (Hamburg) for "The Red Jacket"
2000: Florian Gallenberger (Munich) for "Quiero ser"
1999: Marc-Andreas Bochert (Potsdam) for "small"
1998: Thorsten Schmidt (Baden-Württemberg Film Academy) for "castling"
1997: Raymond Boy (Cologne) for "A simple job"
1994: Katja von Garnier (Munich) for "Abgeschminkt"
1988: Wolfgang Becker (Berlin) for "Butterflies"