"The Mother" nominated for the European Film Award
16.10.2008
The Swiss-Russian film “The Mother”, co-directed by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov, has been nominated for the European Film Award 2008 in the “Prix Arte - Best European Documentary Film” category. Only ten works are proposed for this award by an expert committee of the European Film Academy. In contrast to the other award categories, the winner of the Prix Arte is determined by a three-member jury and not by the members of the Academy.
The film “The Mother“, which took three years of research and filming, portrays a woman who struggles to keep her family alive in Russia today. Ljuba escaped from her violent husband with her nine children and toils from dawn to dusk on a collective farm together with her eldest daughter Alesia. The 80-minute film was honoured with the MDR Film Prize (Central German Broadcasting) at “DOK Leipzig” in 2007 and with the Prix George Foundation for Best Newcomer Film at the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon.
In 2007 a Swiss film was also nominated in the “Best European Documentary Film” category: “Echoes of Home” by Stefan Schwietert. The members of the jury for this year’s Prix Arte are the Danish producer Karoline Leth, the (Finnish) director of the Moscow International Film Festival Kirsi Tykkylainen and British producer Alen Hayling. The award ceremony will take place in Copenhagen on December 6, 2008.
Zurich, October 15, 2008
In 2007 a Swiss film was also nominated in the “Best European Documentary Film” category: “Echoes of Home” by Stefan Schwietert. The members of the jury for this year’s Prix Arte are the Danish producer Karoline Leth, the (Finnish) director of the Moscow International Film Festival Kirsi Tykkylainen and British producer Alen Hayling. The award ceremony will take place in Copenhagen on December 6, 2008.
Zurich, October 15, 2008