2023-12-03 09:09:03
Strasbourg (ots) – On Saturday evening, the TeleVisionale series and film festival came to an end with a celebratory awards ceremony in the Baden-Baden Theater. Among those honored is the ARTE co-production “Elaha” (SWR/ARTE) with the MFG star, which is awarded annually for the best young director’s work.
The young talent prize awarded by the Baden-Württemberg Media and Film Society (MFG). MFG 2023 at the TeleVisionale – series and film festival Baden-Baden went to director Milena Aboyan for her film LONG (SWR/ARTE). This year’s juror was Oscar director Caroline Link.
Reasons of the jury:
“In ELAHA, Milena Aboyan impressively tells the story of a young Kurdish woman who loves her family and her culture and who, as she says in the film, “just doesn’t agree with some of their rules. She fights for power over her own body, once morest the patriarchal idea of female innocence and virginity. Milena Aboyan tells this story of a moral dilemma without any prejudice. She stays very close to her main character (courageously and complexly portrayed by Bayan Layla) to her physical desire – and her inner conflict.
The film has great power because it authentically and sensitively tells an essential story with complex characters and strong images. And above all, it reports on people who cannot be easily divided into good and bad.
People who love and fight and desperately try to reconcile their cultural identity with their desires.”
The Young Talent Prize, worth 7,500 euros, has been offered by the Baden-Württemberg Media and Film Society (MFG) since 2000: Four young directors are in the running with their final film, first or second work. The winner is traditionally decided by an outstanding German personality Film landscape.”
NOMINATION COMMISSION 2023 of the MFG-Star: Oliver Baumgarten (film publicist, journalist and curator), Sonja Hofmann (festival director Kinofest Lünen), Oliver Krause (head of script and development funding at the MFG), Jennifer Stahl (managing director of the producer alliance Initiative for Qualification), Urs Spörri (Festival Director TeleVisionale Baden-Baden)
We warmly congratulate you!
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