“Pas Douce” wins FIPRESCI prize in San Francisco
14.05.2007
For her first time feature film “Pas Douce”, the Swiss director Jeanne Waltz received the FIPRESCI prize at the 50th San Francisco Film Festival’s Golden Gate Awards Ceremony on May 9th, 2007, which was bestowed by a jury comprised of international film critics. Waltz’ film originally premiered at the Berlinale Forum of Young Film in February and won the IndieLisboa Distribution Award in Lisbon in April.
In her film “Pas Douce” 45-year-old Jeanne Waltz, who was born in Basel, Switzerland, paints the portrait of a young woman who seems to have good reasons to take her own life by shooting herself, but instead aims at a teenager in the last moment in order to give him a lesson. The film plays in the Swiss Jura region and will be released in movie theatres in the Romandie on May 16 and in France on May 30. Its theatrical release in the German speaking part of Switzerland is planned for September 27 (Distribution: Frenetic).
Zurich, May 14, 2007
Zurich, May 14, 2007