Awards 2013
Grand Prix
Le Temple des Phénix
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: François de Riberolles
Produced by: Saint Thomas Productions, ARTE
Masaya volcano, Nicaragua, wildlife struggle for millennia to be reborn from its ashes. Underground vampires and other bats have colonized the miles of tunnels dug by the magma. In the crater left by a gigantic lava lake, parakeets and vultures have dug their nests on cliffs, in the midst of toxic gases. On the slopes of this mountain alive, the lava burned forest leaving many dead languages that vegetation is able to colonize slowly, thanks to the genius of the succession and adaptation. Finally at the foot of the volcano, fields, pastures and cities grow old on the ashes. While a complex balance is then to find the phoenix hovering around a volcano that never sleeps.
Amateur Award
El Gardian de los Cultivos
Duration: 10 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Daniel Morcillo
Produced by: Daniel Morcillo et Mónica Zafra
The kestrel is the smallest falcon in Europe, and also the most abundant. For this, and because their prey animals are usually harmful to agriculture, it has earned the title of "guardian of the culture." Despite everything, she must fight against hunters, pollution and the destruction of its habitat to survive. If she succeeds, our cultures are saved.
ex aequo
Légendaires Oiseaux
Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Franck Vigna
Produced by: Franck Vigna
Breeze scatters time and reality, what remains is myths and legends.
A trip where the birds feed the imagination of men
Award of knowledge and discovery of the animal world
Das Moor
Duration: 44 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Jean Haft
Produced by: Jean & Mélanie Half
Marshes and bogs are oases in the cultivated landscape of Central Europe. Nature is full of surprises in a marsh plants that eat animals live here as well as fungi aspiring plant life. Courtship large snipe and the birth of a baby crane are among the many miracles of daily life of the marsh. This film shows us the biodiversity of a habitat seldom recognized.
Award of knowledge of the relationship between man and animal
Jungle Book Bear
Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Oliver GOETZL
Produced by: Oliver GOETZL
We all know and we love it, it's Baloo, the inseparable companion of Mowgli in The Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling and more cartoon from Walt Disney made this character awkward famous worldwide. Sloth bears in India have been the model for the character of Baloo - but we know very little about this secretive species. These primarily nocturnal animals have never been shown before in a program of natural history. For three years, Oliver Goetzl and Ivo Nörenberg not only had the chance to shoot these elusive creatures in the day, but they were able to capture previously unknown behavior of scientists - eg "beaked" given by small their mother.
Special Jury Award
Hummingbirds Jewelled Messengers
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Paul Reddish
Produced by: Terra Mater
This film is an ode to the beauty that these tiny creatures with beautiful iridescent colors, Hummingbirds, real stars of world birds. They are dependent on flowers for food and their entire life is centered around the partnership. Their aerial prowess are unmatched. Through beautiful images, their extraordinary story is told. They live on the edge of possible gems of nature, messengers pollinators.
Award for protection of animal species
Les Larmes de Crocodiles
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Luc Marescot
Produced by: What'Up Films
The big lizard can become, if not their friend, the best friend of fishermen, men fleuve.Il still to learn about these large reptiles: they believe alone, but they seem to communicate with each other infrasons.Ils regain their territories inexplicably after being separated by several tens of kilomètres.à throughout the Okavango, they are the law, natural law and necessary. (Eradicate the predator would be a mistake, even crazier than the idea to go diving with him.)
Audience Award
The Phantom Cat
Duration: 48 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Christian Baumeister
Produced by: Christian Baumeister (Light & Shadow) & Britta Kiesewetter
Built to kill the jaguar is the third largest cat in the world. This is one of the most beautiful animals and emblematic of South America, but it is rarely seen, let alone filmed. This film is the first comprehensive portrait of wild jaguars - an unprecedented approach to their hunting methods, their loves and their family life in the beautiful landscape of flooded meadows in the Brazilian Pantanal. It is also the story of filmmaker Christian Baumeister animal in its relentless pursuit of charismatic cat and her efforts to tell their secret world.
Scientific Award
Krieg der Ameisen
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Stefan Geier
Produced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARTE
What power can have a tiny creature two millimeters? From tiny ants from Argentina began to colonize large-scale European shores of the Mediterranean. This community has deployed nearly 6000 kilometers north of Italy to Portugal, through France and Spain. Researchers study their predatory strategies to the detriment of local species of ants and their ability to modify ecosystems.
Special Award for best picture
Le Temple des Phénix
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: François de Riberolles
Produced by: Saint Thomas Productions, ARTE
Masaya volcano, Nicaragua, wildlife struggle for millennia to be reborn from its ashes. Underground vampires and other bats have colonized the miles of tunnels dug by the magma. In the crater left by a gigantic lava lake, parakeets and vultures have dug their nests on cliffs, in the midst of toxic gases. On the slopes of this mountain alive, the lava burned forest leaving many dead languages that vegetation is able to colonize slowly, thanks to the genius of the succession and adaptation. Finally at the foot of the volcano, fields, pastures and cities grow old on the ashes. While a complex balance is then to find the phoenix hovering around a volcano that never sleeps.
Special Award for Best Screenplay
Les Saumons Surprise
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Bertrand Loyer
Produced by: Saint Thomas Productions, ARTE
What to do when a colossal volcanic eruption destroyed your home? For Alaska sockeye must urgently find a river to spawn substitution. It is nearly two thousand of these fish a bench conquerors found an unlikely breach to the heart of a volcano. Slaloming between sulphurous waters, bears, sharks and raptors, they dodged the wrath of the Earth to create a new line of salmon continues today this epic journey.
Special Award for Best Sound
Les Saumons Surprise
Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Bertrand Loyer
Produced by: Saint Thomas Productions, ARTE
What to do when a colossal volcanic eruption destroyed your home? For Alaska sockeye must urgently find a river to spawn substitution. It is nearly two thousand of these fish a bench conquerors found an unlikely breach to the heart of a volcano. Slaloming between sulphurous waters, bears, sharks and raptors, they dodged the wrath of the Earth to create a new line of salmon continues today this epic journey.
Special Award for Best Editing
Das Moor
Duration: 44 min.
Year completed: 2012
A film by: Jean Haft
Produced by: Jean & Mélanie Half
Marshes and bogs are oases in the cultivated landscape of Central Europe. Nature is full of surprises in a marsh plants that eat animals live here as well as fungi aspiring plant life. Courtship large snipe and the birth of a baby crane are among the many miracles of daily life of the marsh. This film shows us the biodiversity of a habitat seldom recognized.
