Swiss director wins German Short Film Award
30.10.2009
Swiss film director Michael Koch was honoured with the German Short Film Award in “Gold for Fiction Films Between 7 - 30 Minutes” for his 30-minute film “Polar” in Ludwigsburg on October 29, 2009. The award is endowed with EUR 30,000. Koch’s film was completed at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and is a coproduction with Kinomaton (Munich) and Dschoint Ventschr (Zurich).
The jury’s statement at the presentation of the award to “Polar” was as follows: “This family drama held us captive from the first to the last minute. An adult son who, after having been separated from his father for many years, suddenly has to contend with the new family and desperately seeks attention. His efforts are in vain, however, for his stony-faced father attempts to withdraw from the situation. It is set entirely in a remote region in the mountains, seemingly without a sky and oddly claustrophobic with its steep slopes and banks of fog.”
A total of ten films were nominated for the German Short Film Award 2009. These ten films were selected from a total of 253 films submitted for the competitions by the juries of the German Short Film Award. This award for the short film genre, the most important in Germany and endowed with the highest monetary prize, is presented in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Film academy.
Zurich, October 30, 2009
A total of ten films were nominated for the German Short Film Award 2009. These ten films were selected from a total of 253 films submitted for the competitions by the juries of the German Short Film Award. This award for the short film genre, the most important in Germany and endowed with the highest monetary prize, is presented in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Film academy.
Zurich, October 30, 2009