Florian Eichinger wins best director at German Cinema New Talent Awards

PanARMENIAN.Net - Florian Eichinger won best director at the German Cinema New Talent Awards, which took place Friday, July 1 at the Munich Film Festival, with his second feature, “Hands of a Mother”. The film’s Andreas Döhler, who plays a man who suddenly recalls being abused by his mother, was named best actor, Variety reports.

The jury, composed of Nicole Gerhards, Dietrich Brüggemann and Johann von Bülow, called it “a film that made us hold our breath, and nevertheless shows a way out of hopelessness.”

The award for best production went to Jana Raschke and Igor Dovgal for “House Without Roof,” in which director Soleen Yusef tells the story of three siblings’ odyssey trying to fulfil their mother’s last wish, and take her to be buried in their village in Kurdistan.

The jury said it was a film that “impresses us with its truthfulness, making us laugh with its light touch and laconic humor, and which leaves us speechless with its sadness and the suffering of people in this war-torn part of the world.”

“Dinky Sinky” won the award for best screenplay. In her graduating film at Munich film school, HFF, writer-director Mareille Klein tells the story of a woman who does everything to fulfil her wish for children.

The awards are open to directors, writers and actors in the New German Cinema section who have made three films or fewer, or six in the case of producers.

The prize money for the awards totaled 70,000 Euros, which was donated by Bavaria Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk and DZ Bank.