30 years – 30 interviews

In 2016 the TEDDY AWARD celebrates its 30th birthday and therefore we did interviews with the previous Teddy winners. They talk about the conditions in which queer people lived at the time their movie won the award, about the impact the TEDDY AWARD had on their lives as well as on their art and how winning the award changed the perspective on LGBTIQ-people in their country.


Tilda Swinton
Special Teddy Award Winner 1988 and 2008


James Franco
Teddy Award Winner 2009 for The Feast of Stephen


Daniel Ribeiro from Brazil
Teddy Award Winner 2014 for The Way He Looks


 Jim Chuchu from Kenya
Teddy Award Winner 2015 for The Stories of Our Lives


Barbara Hammer from the USA
Teddy Award Winner 2009 for A Horse Is Not A Metaphor
and 2011 for Maya Deren’s Sink


Ayat Najafi from Iran
Teddy Award Winner 2008 for Football Under Cover

Greta Schiller from the USA
Teddy Award Winner 1984 for Before Stonewall