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German Film Award for Best Children's Film
Formerly called	Best Children's and Youth Film, Best Children's Feature Film
Reward(s)	Golden Lola and 250,000 euros
First awarded	2000 (2000)
Current holder	Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach, Clementina Hegewisch When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Most awards	Christian Becker (2)
Most nominations	Christian Becker (4)
Luna Maxeiner, star of the 2019 winning film Rocca Changes the World

The German Film Award for Best Children's Film (German: Deutscher Filmpreis für den besten Kinderfilm ) is one of the current categories of the German Film Award. It was introduced in the year 2000, as part of additions and changes made for the 50th Anniversary Edition of Germany's national film award.

To qualify for this category, a film needs to be at least 59 minutes long, and labeled by the FSK as "released without age restriction" oder as "released to age 6 or older". Its themes, plot, and artistic direction should be aimed at children below the age of twelve. *

Each year, at least six of the submitted children's films are preselected by a jury consisting mainly of members of the Deutsche Filmakademie. They watch the cinema screenings in the company of children, who's feedback flows into the discussions of the jury. After preselection, all members of the Academy branches for Production, Directing and Screenwriting vote to decide on two nominees. In a third step, the whole Academy votes on the winning film.

The winner currently receives an endowment of 250,000 euros, while the other nominee receives 125,000 euros. Similarly to the categories Best Fiction Film and Best Documentary Film, this endowment doubles as a state-funded subsidy for the film industry, since the prize money has to be spent on the next film project. Producers receive 90 % of the endowment, while directors receive 10 %.

History

When it was first introduced, the award was named Deutscher Filmpreis für den besten Kinder- und Jugendfilm, i.e. "Best Children's and Youth Film". This name was kept until 2005, when the youth aspect was dropped and it changed to "Bester programmfüllender Kinderfilm", i.e. "Best Children's Feature Film". From 2014 onwards, it changed to simply Bester Kinderfilm.

In the years before 2000, it had certainly been possible for a family, youth or children's film to be nominated in the Best Fiction Film category, but in practice very few films of this genre received a nomination. This was one of the motivations behind giving these films their own category.

From the beginning, the award for the Best Children's Film was endowed with a significant cash prize. In 2000, the prize for the winner was 500,000 marks, at that time there were no other nominees announced, only preselections submitted to the awards commission. That changed in 2002, when two nominees were announced, with the winner receiving 250,000 other nominee started receiving half the prize money of the winner.

Winners and nominees

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2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Producers	Directors
2000	Captain Bluebear	Käpt’n Blaubär – Der Film	Hanno Huth	Hayo Freitag
	no other nominee
2001	The Little Vampire	Der kleine Vampir	Richard Claus	Uli Edel
	no other nominee
2002	The Slurb	Das Sams	Rainer Kölmel, Ulrich Limmer	Ben Verbong
	Help! I'm a Fish	Hilfe! Ich bin ein Fisch	Anders Mastrup, Eberhard Junkersdorf, Russel Boland	Michael Hegner, Stefan Fjeldmark
2003	The Flying Classroom	Das fliegende Klassenzimmer	Uschi Reich, Peter Zenk	Tomy Wigand
	Bibi Blocksberg		Uschi Reich, Karl Blatz	Hermine Huntgeburth
2004	The Blindflyers	Die Blindgänger	Ingelore König	Bernd Sahling
	The Wild Guys	Die Wilden Kerle	Ewa Karlström, Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton	Joachim Masannek
2005	Laura's Star	Lauras Stern	Maya Rothkirch, Thilo Rothkirch	Piet De Rycker, Thilo Rothkirch
	The Wild Guys 2	Die Wilden Kerle 2	Ewa Karlström, Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton	Joachim Masannek
2006	The Cave of the Yellow Dog	Die Höhle des gelben Hundes	Stephan Schesch	Byambasuren Davaa
	The Treasure of the White Falcons	Der Schatz der weißen Falken	Tom Spieß, Sönke Wortmann	Christian Zübert
2007	Hands off Mississippi	Hände weg von Mississippi	Claus Boje	Detlev Buck
	The Cloud	Die Wolke	Markus Zimmer	Gregor Schnitzler
2008	Leroy		Oliver Stoltz	Armin Völckers
	Max Minsky and Me	Max Minsky und ich	Maria Köpf	Anna Justice
2009	Nothing Else Matters	Was am Ende zählt	Susann Schimk, Jörg Trentmann	Julia von Heinz
	Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book	Hexe Lilli – Der Drache und das magische Buch	Corinna Mehner, Michael Coldewey	Stefan Ruzowitzky

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Producers	Directors
2010	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2011	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2012	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2013	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2014	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2015	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2016	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2017	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2018	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2019	English	Original	Producer	Director
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2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Producers	Directors
2020	English	Original	Producer	Director
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Notes

• sich durch ihre Themen, ihre Handlung und ihre Gestaltung an Kinder unter zwölf Jahren richten.