The winners of the 10th Diagonale
The Diagonale Austrian Film Festival (March 19-25), which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, drew to a close in Graz on Sunday with the presentation of awards worth a total €120,000 (the highest sum ever given by Austria).
Jakob Erwa’s Mad World [+see also:
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Erwa’s feature debut was produced by Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion.
The Documentary Award went to Peter Schreiner's echt.zeit.film production Bellavista, a black and white documentary about a modern woman who returns to her native village in the northern Italian linguistic enclave of Sappada.
The newly created Audience Award was presented to Mirjam Unger's documentary Vienna's Lost Daughters on eight New Yorkers who fled from Vienna as children during WWII (a Mobilefilm production).
Andrina Mracnikar's documentary produced by Gregor Centner, Der Kärntner spricht Deutsch (lit. "The Carinthian speaks German"), picked up the Youth Jury Award, while Barbara Albert's Falling [+see also:
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Antonin Svoboda's Forever Never Anywhere [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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