Emerging Swiss Talent Award (Critics' Prize) – LAS TORERAS by Jackie Brutsche Jury statement:
The Critics' Jury is very happy to give the ‘Emerging Swiss Talent
Award’ to a film that insists on the importance of art as a vessel for
understanding and healing. But not only that. In the hands of the
director art and cinema really becomes an existential act. The film
deals with mental illness and fragile or even toxic family relations,
investigation the story of the director’s mother who took her own life.
By challenging the cinematic conventions, brilliantly mixing several
artistic approaches with conventional documentary film making, the
director constantly keeps us on our toes and delivers a moving and
original film about memory and the power of storytelling. Jury:
Hanns-Georg Rodek / film critic / Germany
Nataliia Serebriakova / film critic / Ukraine, Germany
Nanna Frank Rasmussen / film critic, journalist / Denmark
