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Veit Helmer

Awards

Veit Helmer

49 wins & 25 nominations

Bavarian Film Awards

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2008 Winner Special Award
    • Absurdistan
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Bavarian Film Award
    • Best Direction - Young Film (Regienachwuchspreis)
    • Tuvalu

Sidewalk Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Visionary Production Award
    • Tuvalu

Brest European Short Film Festival

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Winner Audience Award
    • Surprise!

Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1996 Winner Special Prize of the European Broadcasters Jury
    • Best Screenplay
    • Surprise!

Cannes Film Festival

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Winner Small Golden Rail
    • Surprise!

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2008 Nominee Best Film
    • Absurdistan

Chicago International Film Festival

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2008 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • Best Feature
    • Absurdistan
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • New Directors Competition
    • Tuvalu
  • Surprise! (1995)
    1996 Winner Silver Hugo
    • Best Narrative Short Film
    • Surprise!

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival

  • The Bra (2018)
    2019 Winner Best Feature
    • Feature Film - Comedy
    • The Bra
  • Surprise! (1995)
    1997 Winner Best Short Film
    • Surprise!

Day of the German Short Film

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1996 Winner Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award
    • Surprise!

Drama Short Film Festival

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Winner Special Distinction
    • International
    • Surprise!

Espoo Ciné International Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver
    • Tuvalu

European Film Awards

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Discovery
    • Tuvalu

Fantasporto

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2009 Winner International Fantasy Film Award
    • Absurdistan
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2001 Nominee Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold
    • Tuvalu
    Méliès d'Argent 2000 at Espoo Ciné International Film Festival.
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award
    • Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Audience Jury Award
    • Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Nominee International Fantasy Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Tuvalu

Ghent International Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Winner FIPRESCI Prize
    • Tuvalu
    For its harmonic view on a diversity of cultures, for the quality of its photography and for the burlesque humour with which it talks about the actual evolution of Europe.
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Nominee Grand Prix
    • Tuvalu

German Film Awards

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2015 Nominee Film Award in Gold
    • Outstanding Children or Youth Film (Bester Kinder- und Jugendfilm)
    • Fiddlesticks
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Nominee Film Award in Gold
    • Best Direction (Beste Regie)
    • Tuvalu

Gijón International Film Festival

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2014 Winner Young Audience Award ("Enfants Terribles")
    • Best Feature Film for Audiences Under 13 Years Old
    • Fiddlesticks
  • Tour Eiffel (1994)
    1994 Winner Grand Prix Asturias
    • Best Short
    • Tour Eiffel

Hof International Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Winner Best New Director Promotional Award
    • Tuvalu

Kinofest Lünen

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Winner Award of the City of Lünen
    • Tuvalu

Max Ophüls Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Audience Award
    • Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Nominee Max Ophüls Award
    • Tuvalu

Mediawave, Hungary

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2009 Winner Grand Prize
    • Feature Film Competition
    • Absurdistan
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Grand Prize
    • Tuvalu
  • Surprise! (1995)
    1997 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Surprise!

Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2014 Nominee Scythian Deer
    • Molodist for Kids
    • Fiddlesticks
  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2014 Winner Special Jury Diploma
    • Molodist for Kids
    • Fiddlesticks
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Winner Audience Award
    • Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    1999 Nominee Best Film Award
    • Best Full-Length Fiction Film
    • Tuvalu

Moscow International Film Festival

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2008 Nominee Golden St. George
    • Absurdistan

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Nominee Narcisse Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Tuvalu

Odense International Film Festival

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1997 Winner Most Surprising Film
    • Surprise!

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Citizen's Choice Award
    • Feature Film
    • Tuvalu

Rüsselsheim Filmday

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1996 Nominee Audience Award
    • Surprise!

Seattle International Film Festival

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2015 Nominee Films4Families Youth Jury Award
    • Fiddlesticks
  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Winner Golden Space Needle Award
    • Best Short Film
    • Surprise!

Slamdance Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Tuvalu

Sundance Film Festival

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2008 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • World Cinema - Dramatic
    • Absurdistan

Sweden Fantastic Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Feature
    • Tuvalu

Tokyo International Film Festival

  • Gondola (2023)
    2023 Nominee Tokyo Grand Prix
    • Best Film
    • Gondola
  • The Bra (2018)
    2018 Nominee Tokyo Grand Prix
    • Best Film
    • The Bra

Torino International Festival of Young Cinema

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Nominee Prize of the City of Torino
    • Best Short Film
    • Surprise!
  • Within Grasp (1992)
    1992 Winner Prize of the City of Torino
    • Best Short Film
    • Within Grasp

Valladolid International Film Festival

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Winner Golden Spike
    • Short Film
    • Surprise!

Cinekid

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2014 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Children's Film
    • Fiddlesticks

German Film Critics Association Awards

  • Behind the Couch: Casting in Hollywood (2005)
    2007 Winner German Film Critics Award
    • Best Documentary (Bester Dokumentarfilm)
    • Behind the Couch: Casting in Hollywood
    Tied with Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen (2006).

Athens International Film Festival

  • Absurdistan (2008)
    2008 Winner City of Athens Award
    • Best Director
    • Absurdistan

Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2001 Winner Best Director
    • Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2001 Winner Youth Jury Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Tuvalu
    Tied with Psycho Beach Party (2000).

Avanca Film Festival

  • The Bra (2018)
    2019 Winner Special Mention - Feature Film
    • The Bra
  • The Bra (2018)
    2019 Winner Script Prize
    • The Bra
    Shared with: Leonie Geisinger
  • Baikonur (2011)
    2013 Winner Special Mention - Feature Film
    • Special Mention
    • Baikonur

San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival

  • Surprise! (1995)
    1995 Winner Audience Award
    • Surprise!

Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2002 Winner Best First Work
    • Tuvalu

Montréal Comedy Festival 'Just for Laughs'

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Writing
    • Tuvalu
    Shared with: Michaela Beck
  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2000 Winner Special Jury Prize
    • Tuvalu

Tbilisi International Film Festival

  • Tuvalu (1999)
    2001 Winner Young Georgian Artists Award
    • Tuvalu

Zurich Film Festival

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2014 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Children's Film
    • Fiddlesticks

Traverse City Film Festival

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2015 Winner Stuart Hollander Prize
    • Best Kids Film
    • Fiddlesticks

Odesa International Film Festival

  • Gondola (2023)
    2024 Nominee Golden Duke
    • European Competition
    • Gondola

Stockholm Film Festival Junior

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2015 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Best Film 6-10 Years
    • Fiddlesticks

Festival of German Film

  • Fiddlesticks (2014)
    2014 Winner Medienkulturpreis
    • Best Children's Film
    • Fiddlesticks

International Film Festival ASTERFEST

  • Veit Helmer
    2016 Winner ASTER Award
    • Award for High Achievements in World Film

Festival La Fila de Cortometrajes

  • 2006 Winner Short Film Prize
    • Boom
    Shared with: Erika de Souza · Antonio Costa Valente

São Tomé Festfilm

  • 2015 Nominee Best International Short Film
    • Noturna
    Shared with: Pedro Farate · Patricia Vidal Delgado · Nelson Martins · Antonio Costa Valente

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