Gold Plaque for “Kwa Heri Mandima” at film festival in Chicago
The short documentary film “Kwa Heri Mandima” by Robert-Jan Lacombe was honoured with the Gold Plaque for Best Student Short Documentary Film at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival, which came to an end on October 20, 2011.
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The festival's three-member short film jury in Chicago honoured the film "for its heartrending dissection of a seminal moment in time captured in a single photograph. The rupture between past and future is so beautifully articulated, and so deeply felt, that the final shot manages to leave you breathless."
The film "Kwa Heri Mandima" has already been screened at approximately 30 international film festivals and garnered numerous awards. Since its premiere in Locarno last year, it has competed at festivals in Clermont-Ferrand, Aspen, Lisbon, Palm Springs, Toronto and this year in São Paulo. It started in Uppsala (Sweden) in October. In Switzerland "Kwa Heri Mandima" can be seen in Lausanne in conjunction with the Short Film Night Tour on November 25.
Five Swiss film productions and coproductions - including Thomas Imbach's "Day Is Done" in the Documentary Film Competition - were screened at the film festival in Chicago. It is considered one of the most important festivals in North America.
Geneva, October 18, 2011