Fire in the Blood, directed by Dylan Mohan Gray, has won the Best Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, an award instituted at the Filmfest Hamburg for the first time this year. The festival was held from September 26-October 5 in Germany.
Twelve films aspiring to provide a political message competed for the prize money of 5,000 Euros.
Famous Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of Dylan Mohan Gray.
The films nominated in this category were: 74 -The Reconstitution of a Struggle (Lebanon), Against the Grain (USA, Pakistan), The Edge of the World (France), Fire in the Blood (India), The Human Scale (Denmark), Imbabazi – The Pardon (Rwanda), Lampedusa auf St. Pauli (Germany), Looking for North Koreans (France), Manuscripts don’t burn (Iran), Once I Entered Garden (Switzerland, France, Israel), They are the Dogs (Morocco) and Vers Madrid (France, Spain).
Fire in the Blood tells the story of...
Twelve films aspiring to provide a political message competed for the prize money of 5,000 Euros.
Famous Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of Dylan Mohan Gray.
The films nominated in this category were: 74 -The Reconstitution of a Struggle (Lebanon), Against the Grain (USA, Pakistan), The Edge of the World (France), Fire in the Blood (India), The Human Scale (Denmark), Imbabazi – The Pardon (Rwanda), Lampedusa auf St. Pauli (Germany), Looking for North Koreans (France), Manuscripts don’t burn (Iran), Once I Entered Garden (Switzerland, France, Israel), They are the Dogs (Morocco) and Vers Madrid (France, Spain).
Fire in the Blood tells the story of...
- 10/7/2013
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