11mm 2010

11mm returns in 2010 for its 7th anniversary and it promises to be another bumper football film festival! With the first World Cup to be hosted on the African continent, special focus will be placed on football in Africa at this year's festival. The festival team is currently working away to finalise the festival programme and as soon as it is all the details will be posted here. What is certain, however, is that from March 13 to 17 2010 Babylon Kino in central Berlin will again see some of the world's best football films on the big screen! We look forward to seeing you there!

11mm 2009

For the sixth time the International Football Film Festival 11mm is inviting film fans to experience the phenomenon of football on the silver screen. Along with a large number of international premieres, special focus will be placed on football in the former East Germany, 20 years to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. 11mm guests can look forward to full length feature films and documentaries as well as short films and classic material from the East German archives.

The great variety of films screened at 11mm show the social and cultural background of the sport, that at different places and at the same time can mean the norm and rebellion, wealth and poverty, camaraderie and fanaticism. 11mm will be accompanied by film talks with directors and actors, discussions with footballers, managers and referees as well as a cultural programme including readings, exhibitions and installations. It promises to be another spectacular year for football and film at 11mm!

11mm 2008 – the International Football Film Festival

This year the world’s only football film festival will celebrate its 5th anniversary. From April 4th to 7th, the Babylon Cinema in Mitte will host over 30 feature, documentary and short films depicting the beautiful game in all its facets.
To celebrate the 5th anniversary, 11mm’s opening night will also feature the Berlin premiere of Harun Farocki’s installation and Documenta hit DEEP PLAY, which simultaneously dissects the 2006 World Cup Final between Italy and France over twelve screens. The installation will be on view and free of charge from Friday until Monday on Babylon’s mezzanine level.
11mm 2008 will conclude on Monday evening with the second 11mm Shortkicks short film competition. For the second consecutive year, film makers have been called to submit their entries for this unique competition. The winner will be decided by a jury of football celebrities together with the audience. And to ensure that the game’s stars aren’t forgotten entirely, the year’s best amateur goal will be crowned in cooperation with Hartplatzhelden. It promises to be an anniversary worth celebrating!

Another league - Gods, Fans and Cineastes

With the presentation of the Golden 11 award for the year’s best football film, the fourth 11mm- International Football Film Festival came to an end on May 1st 2007.

Over six days around 50 feature and short football films were shown on the big screen, accompanied by film discussions, exhibitions and a supporting programme.
11mm 2007 focused on the "football gods", with films on Maradona, Cruijff and Zidane, as well as the phenomenon of football fans.

Alongside a wealth of quality current national and international feature and documentary productions, there was a performance of the silent movie masterpiece "The Eleven Devils” (with extravagant live music accompaniment) and the children’s film classic "Fimpen, Knirps" - the unofficial winner of the 11mm School and Children Programme 2007.

At the conclusion of the shortkicks gala evening, a prominent and well humoured jury awarded the prize for the best short film to the Dutch photographer and film maker Hans van der Meer for his film "Flemish Fields". With wit and plenty of distance, the renowned photographer of amateur football dedicated himself to a game of “hobby footballers”. Over fifty interesting submissions made sure that, only in its first year, the short film competition was the high point of the film festival.

The director Matthias Visser, who lives in San Francisco, was presented with the prize for the best feature film, the Golden 11, for the world premiere of his work “Fan-Demanium” - a brilliant and different view of the 2006 World Cup. Visser’s 90 minute documentary follows ten passionate fans from ten nations through the ups and downs of the emotional rollercoaster that is a World Cup.

We, the festival team, were delighted with the fantastic and friendly atmosphere in our new home ground - the Berlin cinema babylon berlin:mitte – and were inspired by the incredible interest shown in 11mm!

The 11mm team wishes you all the best and we’ll see you next year!