SoundTrack_Cologne 21 announces nominees for the PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD

Nine composers are nominated for the PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD. The winner will be announced at the festival awards ceremony on 5^th July at the Comedia Theater.

The PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD honors the Best Original Music in a Short Film. The winner receives a prize money of 1,500 euros. First presented in 2009, the award commemorates the great German film composer Peer Raben.

Nominated are seven film scores from award-winning festival highlights of the international short film scene with an innovative and dramaturgically coherent use of music and sound in relation to the narrative.

The nominees:

• Mári Mákó & Rozi Mákó ("27" directed by Flóra Anna Buda, France/Hungary)
• Ricardo Gallo ("A menos que bailemos" / "Unless we Dance" directed by Fernanda Pineda Palencia and Hanz Rippe, Colombia)
• Sarah Playford ("Do You Have Kids?" directed by Tom Gentle, United Kingdom)
• Hannes Bieber ("Dodo" directed by Yi Luo, Germany)
• Yan Volcy ("GIGI" directed by Cynthia Calvi, France)
• Georg Paco Ludwig Fleischfresser ("Jesus lebt" / "Jesus is alive" directed by Piet Grünberg and Dominic Wittrin, Germany)
• Fabian Zeidler & Steven E. Müller ("Spatzenhirn" / "Sparrow's Brains" directed by Arun Leander Boudodimos)

The competition screening will take place on Wednesday, July 3^rd at 18:30 at Odeon cinema. To buy the tickets for the screening, click here.

The Palme d'Or winner "27" tells us the story about Alice, who lives still with her parents at the age of 27, without a private life or relationship - it takes a cycling accident to make her realise it's time to move out. In "Unless we dance" Jonathan and hundreds of young people come together through dance to face the brutal fate of violence of Quibdó, a city with the highest homicide rates in Colombia – the film is a tribute to their act of resilience and to all the lives that have been lost along the way. From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, "Gigi" tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity. "Sparrows" pilfer the crumbs left behind by park visitors using advanced surveillance technology. "Do you have kids?" is a friendly question tossed casually into conversation, but for Lee it has a complex and difficult answer. In "Jesus is alive" Mara’s estranged mother believes she is Jesus. "Dodo" is a 10 year old little girl living with her father, who is a big blue bird. When he flies out of the window and doesn't come back, Dodo stops growing up.

The jury members (in alphabetical order):

Eðvarð Egilsson, composer, HARPA Award winner 2024
Natalie Hausmann, composer
Anthony Willis, composer

The nominees and their films will be presented to audience and jury under the moderation by André Feldhaus (composer).

Here you can find more information about our nominees and the jury members:

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