The Duisburg audience voted for Jakob Brossmann’s Lampedusa in Winter, recently awarded the Vienna Film Prize as best Austrian documentary released in 2015.
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Over the Years by Nikolaus Geyrhalter (NGF Geyrhalterfilm)
Over The Years is an observation of what happens to a few manual laborers from a former textile company who became unemployed, over a period of more than ten years. A film about the use of time, about work and life and a memorial to industrial sectors in the process of dying out in Europe.
International sales: autlook filmsales
Audience Award
Lampedusa in Winter by Jakob Brossmann (Finali Film & Wortschatz Produktion)
The Italian “refugee island” of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winter's tristesse. Tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland. As a fire destroys the worn down ferry, that connects the island to Italy, the mayor Giusi Nicolini and the local fishermen struggle for a new ship. The tiny community at the edge of Europe is engaged in a desperate struggle for solidarity with those who many consider the cause of the ongoing crisis: the African boat people.
International sales: Taskovski Films
photos Duisburg Film Week: Simon Bierwald, INDEED
