Valeska Grisebach wins at Pesaro
Non-professional actors, an event inspired in part by a true story and a “dirty” but functional style for a diary-like narration. These are the strongest elements of Longing [+see also:
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The prize was given ex aequo to the Philippine title A Short Film About the Indio Nacional. Or the Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos by Raya Martin.
The second film by the former German documentary filmmaker, presented at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, Longing is an exploration on love, desire and death that moves along a purely metaphysical plane, to become almost a ghost story.
"I’ve always been interested in the number of lives that exist only in our imagination: If I’d been somewhere else, or met a different person, made a different decision, if I’d been braver… Sometimes one life is not enough”, says the director.
Produced by Peter Rommel, the film will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red.
The Pesaro Audience Award went to another German film, Eden by Michael Hoffman (which also won the Audience Award at the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival), a story about love and cooking produced by Gambit Film & Fersehproduktion GmbH (Ludwigsburg) that is being sold internationally by The Match Factory.
(Translated from Italian)
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