Akkreditierung Edimotion 2024

In the organizer's words:

The heart of the film lies between the shots. The editing sets the pace, dictates the order of the images and the timing of the story. It is said that a good cut must remain invisible. That is a matter of opinion. However, its makers and the rules of their art should by no means remain invisible. Edimotion, the Cologne festival for film editing and montage art, gives film editing a face and shows its faces.

The editing prizes for the best editing work on a German, Austrian or Swiss feature film or feature documentary are endowed with 7,500 euros each. In the competition for the best editing of a short film, The Edit Space Award for Editing, which is endowed with 2,500 euros, entries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that are no longer than 20 minutes are eligible for submission.

In a small series of films, the homage presents exemplary excerpts from the oeuvre of the honorary prize winner and offers the opportunity to exchange ideas with the honorees about their specific working style in the context of their creative decades.

The thematic focus, a series of lectures and discussion rounds, illustrates the theory of film editing, reflects on its practice and builds bridges between the various trades and neighboring media and art forms.

The international guest country evening honors the achievements of an editor from an international region and, in addition to an in-depth workshop discussion, also offers insights into the professional environment of editors in the respective country.

Edimotion is cinema. All screenings of the competition films take place on the big screen for the jury and audience in the presence of the editors, followed by a film discussion with the nominees.

With its multi-layered and multi-faceted program, Edimotion also provides insights into the aesthetics and techniques of film editing to a public from outside the industry and thus also gives laypeople interested in film a vivid, very concrete impression of what it is all about, the "magic of the editing room".