Awards

Every year and in memory of cinema legend Gershon (Gerhard) Klein, who died in 1999 at the age of 79, the Klein family presents the Gershon Klein Awards in two JFBB competitions. In the year 2021, the 27th JFBB will present a total of four awards:

Feature Film Competition
Gershon Klein Feature Film Award
The prize is awarded to a director and comes with prize money of EUR 3,000.

Competition Documentary Film
Gershon Klein Documentary Film Award
The prize is awarded to a director and is endowed with a prize money of 3,000 EUR.

Prize for Intercultural Dialogue, endowed with prize money of 2,000 EUR from iSQI Inc.

Prize for the promotion of young filmmakers, endowed with prize money of 1,000 EUR by Familie Goericke.

The prize of 3,000 euros is awarded by an international jury of critics.

2005 WATERMARKS by Yaron Zilberman (Israel/France/USA 2004)
2006 USHPIZIN by Gidi Dar (Israel 2004)
2007 FIVE DAYS by Yoav Shamir (Israel 2005)
2008 MY FATHER, MY LORD by David Volach (Israel 2007)
2009 VALENTINA'S MOTHER by Arik Lubetzky and Matti Harari (Israel 2008)
2010 A FILM UNFINISHED by Yael Hersonski (Israel 2009)
2011 GEI ONI by Dan Wolman (Israel 2010)
2012 FOOTNOTE by Joseph Cedar (Israel 2011)
2013 ZAYTUN by Eran Riklis (Israel/UK/France 2012)
2014 FRAGILE by Vidi Bilu (Israel 2013)
2015 AM ENDE EIN FEST by Tal Granit and Sharon Mayman (Israel/Germany 2014)
2016 DIBBUK - A WEDDING IN POLAND by Marcin Wrona (Poland/Israel 2015)
2017 1945 by Ferenc Törönk (Hungary 2017)
2018 THE CAKEMAKER by Ofir Raul Graizer (Israel/ Germany 2017)
2019 FIG TREE by Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian (Israel 2019)

The prize is endowed with 2,000 euros.

2009 MENSCHLICHES VERSAGEN by Michael Verhoeven (Germany 2008)
2010 MAZEL TOV by Thomas Bergmann and Mischka Popp (Germany 2009)
2011 IN HEAVEN, UNDER THE EARTH: THE JEWISH FRIEDHOF WEISSENSEE by Britta Wauer (Germany 2011)
2012 SIX MILLION AND ONE by David Fisher (Israel/Germany/Austria 2011)
2013 For their dedicated work and creativity, the prize was awarded to: Dr Sabine Scharnagl, Head of the Culture and Family Programme Department at Bayischer Rundfunk.
2014 SCHNEE VON GESTERN by Yael Reuveny (Germany 2013)
2015 BUDDY ELIAS - MEIN GLÜCK, MEIN SCHICKSAL by Pierre Koralnik (Germany/Switzerland 2015).
2016 SIMON SAYS "AUF WIEDERSEHEN" TO HIS FRONT by Vivianne Andereggen (Germany 2015)
2017 THE FLOWERS OF YESTERDAY by Chris Kraus (Germany 2016)
2018 Ex Aequeo to DIE UNSICHTBAREN - Wir wollen leben by Claus Räfle (Germany 2017) and MOHAMMED UND ANNA by Taliya Finkel (Germany/Israel 2017).
2019 CRESCENDO by Dror Zahavi (Germany 2019)

An audience award of 2,000 euros was selected by the radioeins listener jury in the years 2002-2019.

2002 TWO STATES OF MIND by Shira Richter (Israel 2001)
2003 THE HEBREW HAMMER by Jonathan Kesselman (USA 2003)
2004 MY ARCHITECT by Nathaniel Kahn (USA 2003)
2005 KEEP NOT SILENT by Ilil Alexander (Israel 2004)
2006 THE FIRST TIME I WAS TWENTY by Lorraine Levy (France 2004)
2007 THE GALILEE ESKIMOS by Jonathan Paz (Israel 2006)
2008 THE HEBREW LESSON by David Ofek and Ron Rotem (Israel 2006)
2009 THE GIFT TO STALIN by Rustem Abdrashitov (Kazakhstan/Russia/Poland/Israel 2007)
2010 ROMEO AND JULIET IN YIDDISH by Eve Annenberg (USA 2010)
2011 PRECIOUS LIFE by Shlomi Eldar (Israel 2010)
2012 LIFE IN STILLS by Tamar Tal (Israel 2011)
2013 OUT IN THE DARK by Michael Mayer (Israel 2012)
2014 ANDERSWO by Ester Amrami (Germany 2014)
2015 FAMOUS NATHAN by Lloyd Handwerker (USA 2014)
2016 MY BELOVED UNCLES by Eran Barak (Isreal 2015)
2017 IN EDITHS TRACKS by Peter Stephan Jungk (Austria 2016)
2018 IN HER FOOTSTEPS by Rana Abu Fraiha (Israel 2017)
2019 M by Yolande Zaubermann (France 2018)

Director's Award for Best Feature Film

Recommendation for the best German film with a Jewish theme

Audience Directing Award / Award for Best Young Director (from 2020)