Diagonale ’23 distinguishes the docu-fiction by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel.
Serial winners are not only found in football. The filmmakers Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel had already won the main prizes of the Diagonale four times (twice each: best feature film and best documentary film), Sunday evening there was the fifth award for the Italian-Austrian director duo: their feature film “Vera” received the 21,000 Euro Grand Diagonale Prize. At the center of the film is Vera Gemma, the daughter of spaghetti western actor Giuliano Gemma. She plays herself and the camera follows the extravagantly dressed person in the Roman…