Award for Swiss documentary film in Brooklyn
15.06.2009
“Ceux de la colline” by Berni Goldblat was honoured with the Diane Seligman Award for Best Documentary Film at the 12th Brooklyn International Film Festival (June 5-14, 2009). This award is endowed with 5,000 dollars. Among the twenty films participating in the documentary film category were Fanny Bräuning’s “No More Smoke Signals” and Fiorella Castanotto’s short film “Salt in the Scar”.
Goldblat’s 72-minute film “Ceux de la colline”, a coproduction between Switzerland (Mir Film), France and Burkina Faso, portrays the economic and social relationships among the inhabitants of a gold mining town in Burkina Faso. Caught up in the gold rush, they have come in swarms and settled dangerously close to the makeshift goldmine on a hillside.
Zurich June 15, 2009
Zurich June 15, 2009