On Sunday, November 21, 2010, exground filmfest ended its enormously successful ten-day-run. During the last ten days, the films from all over the world were met with great interest and drew a huge international crowd to the cinemas – to participate in the most important platform for German independent films. In total, exground filmfest had 14.000 guests, among them 11.000 at the screenings.

The winners of the exground filmfest 23 contests
German Short Film Contest (Audience vote)
DER KLEINE NAZI by Petra Lüdow (Prize money: 3.000 EUR)
ICH BINS.HELMUT by Nicholas Steiner (Prize money: 2.000 EUR)
FRIDA UND DIE ZEIT VOR MIR by Meike Fehre (Prize money: 1.000 EUR)

International ON-VIDEO-Contest (Expert jury)
LOOM by Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay (Prize money: 1.500 EUR)
Honorary mentions for: DOORGAAN by Leendert Pot
CIGARETTE CANDY by Lauren Wolkstein

youth days – International Youth Film Contest (Youth jury)
BIS AUFS BLUT – BRÜDER AUF BEWÄHRUNG by Oliver Kienle
(Prize money: 2.500 EUR)

WIESBADEN-SPECIAL – Short Film Contest (Audience vote)
GISBERTA by Lisa Violetta Gaß (Prize money: 500 EUR)

Wiesbaden Youth Film Contest (Audience vote)
FREIER FALL by 15year old pupils from the Helene-Lange-school
(Prize money: 450 EUR)
Golden exground Cucumber (Expert jury and audience vote)
KAPITÄN KLAPPSPATEN by Carsten Völkel (Prize money: 50 EUR)

exground filmfest 24
The date of the next exground filmfests is already confirmed. Between November 11 and November 20, 2011, numerous international film makers will introduce their works in Wiesbaden. Until then, the filmfest presents its monthly „exground film of the month“ in the Caligari FilmBühne.