THREE FARMERS AND A SON, Sigmund Steiner’s feature debut and Diagonale16 award winner, about a generational conflict in times of agricultural demise wins the Viktor Dok.deutsch. The German Documentary Music Award, went to DREAMES REWIRED, the widely acclaimed found footage essay about the early times of communication technology.
DOK.fest MUNICH
VIKTOR DOK.deutsch
HOLZ ERDE FLEISCH (Three Farmers and a Son)
directed by Sigmund Steiner
produced by La Banda Film
The director, himself a farmer’s son, tells a story closely connected with his own, of generational conflict and agriculture’s demise. Portraits of three fathers who find deep fulfilment in their work and three sons who are turning their back on their family inheritance in pursuit of their own happiness.
Extract from the jury decision:
As representatives of his father the director portrays three farmers and their relationship to the land and their animals. Sensitively, Steiner poses profound questions that are also existentially important in his own biography. He shows us his protagonists exclusively in the fields, woods and meadows. As a result of this formal decision the three men open up with a rare honesty – we get wonderfully close to them.
GERMAN DOCUMENTARY MUSIC AWARD
to Siegfried Friedrich for the score of
DREAMS REWIRED
directed by Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart and Thomas Tode
produced by AMOUR FOU Vienna (A), Bildschön Filmproduktion (D), Ambient Information System (UK)
Extract from the jury decision:
Siegfried Friedrich's score combines the silent film era with modernity and transports them into the present. The film music is impressive for its stylistic diversity, acts as a driving force and works in harmony with the narrative.
