Swiss short film wins Max Ophuels Prize
25.01.2010
Irene Ledermann’s film “Schonzeit”, which was produced as her graduation film from the Zurich School of the Arts, was honoured with an award for Best Short Film at the 31st Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken on January 24. 2010. The prize, presented by the five-member festival jury, is endowed with EUR 5,000.
The jury provided the following statement: “Schonzeit” is a tremendously poetic, personal film. It floats across the screen, like a dream, entirely via emotions, atmosphere and mood. The cinematic means are used skilfully, successfully narrating without the use of many words, comments or explanations; “Schonzeit” refrains from patronising the audience, but rather relies on the subtext that is created in the viewers’ mind and, in the process, tells the touching story of a child’s emotional suffering and life, sensitively and imaginatively.”
Zurich, January 25, 2010
Zurich, January 25, 2010