After a total of 16 festival days, the second edition of the LITFILMS Literatur Film Festival Münster came to an end: 37 events with feature films, documentaries and short films, readings and workshops in around two weeks. The venues for the festival, which is unique in Germany, were the Schloßtheater Münster as the festival cinema, the LWL Museum of Art and Culture, the Cinema & Kurbelkiste and the Studiobühne.
SCARBOROUGH by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson, based on the novel by Catherine Hernandez, won the €5,000 prize for best film in the International Literary Adaptation competition, donated by the Münster Foundation of Sparda-Bank West.
Winner of eight Canadian Screen Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars, including Best Film of the Year, the adaptation of the novel of the same name creates a sensitive kaleidoscope of growing up in a low-income neighbourhood in Toronto.
The first HörSpielPreis Münster 2022 went to the artist Ralf Haarmann, who lives in Münster and Berlin, who was honoured for his radio play “Urbanes Narrativ: Das Geheimversteck”.
Guests at LITFILMS 2022 included Sonja Heiss, Esther Kinsky, Susanne Abel, Peter Prange, Thomas Wendrich, Catharina Junk, Sophie Kluge, Helga Freese-Resch, Christian Filips, Jascha Riesselmann and Marc Eberhardt.
The third edition of the LITFILMS Literature Film Festival Münster is scheduled to take place in September 2024.
