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AWARDS Germany

Sleeping Sickness wins top prize at Ludwigshafen

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Euro-African film Sleeping Sickness [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ulrich Kohler
film profile
]
(see Focus), which earned Ulrich Köhler the Silver Bear for Best Director at the latest Berlin Film Festival (see review), won the top prize (worth €50,000) at the Ludwigshafen German Film Festival (June 16-26). The film was released on German screens last Thursday by Farbfilm.

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Other festival prize-winners are actor Eberhard Kirchberg for his performance in Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler’s three-part crime drama Dreileben; actor Heino Ferch for TV drama Traces of Evil by Vienna’s Andreas Prochaska (who helmed Dead in 3 Days [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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); and former Shooting Star 2006-turned-prominent actress Sandra Hüller for her roles in Jan Schomburg’s Above Us Only Sky [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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(shown in this year’s Berlinale Panorama, see review) and Dutch director Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
. Schomburg also nabbed Best Screenplay.

Meanwhile, Johannes Naber won Best Director for this year’s Max Ophüls Prize-winner The Albanian [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nik Xhelilaj - Albania
film profile
]
, which recounts the difficult journey of an Albanian in Germany.

Finally, the Audience Award went to Andi Rogenhagen’s Ein Tick Anders [+see also:
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. This award is all the more impressive given that the Ludwigshafen Festival this year broke new attendance records, with a total of 39,000 viewers.

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(Translated from French)

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