Award for the short film “Polar” in Dresden
20.04.2009
Michael Koch’s 29-minute short film “Polar”, a coproduction with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), was honoured with the Golden Horseman Short Fiction Film in the national competition of the 21st Filmfest Dresden (April 14-19, 2009). The award was endowed with 3'000 euros.
The three-member jury presented the award with the following statement: “The winner of the Golden Horseman Short Fiction Film takes the viewer on a journey to a beautiful, but harsh alpine region which is the setting for a host of unexpressed conflicts between a father and son living in a patchwork family. The director had the courage to allow the viewer to enter the film’s tremendously intimate and self-contained space. With the award, the jury would like to encourage the director to continue pursuing his own cinematic signature; we are naturally curious to see Michael Koch’s works in the future.”
This prize is the third award for “Polar” since ist international premiere at the International Short Film Festival Winterthur last November. A total of five Swiss short films were screened at Filmfest Dresden, which is devoted exclusively to this genre. From the 2,130 submitted films from 75 countries, the festival selected 70 for the competition, 27 of which participated in the national competition. With a total amount of 60,000 euros in prize money, Dresden is the best funded short film festival in Europe. Last year 21,000 people visited the festival in Dresden.
Geneva, April 20, 2009
This prize is the third award for “Polar” since ist international premiere at the International Short Film Festival Winterthur last November. A total of five Swiss short films were screened at Filmfest Dresden, which is devoted exclusively to this genre. From the 2,130 submitted films from 75 countries, the festival selected 70 for the competition, 27 of which participated in the national competition. With a total amount of 60,000 euros in prize money, Dresden is the best funded short film festival in Europe. Last year 21,000 people visited the festival in Dresden.
Geneva, April 20, 2009