18/04/2011

The Dortmund|Cologne International Women’s Film Festival (April 12-17) awarded its Best Women’s Feature Film Prize (worth €25,000, shared for the first time between the film’s director and German distributor) to Greek helmer Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari
film profile], a film, in her words, "about four people who find themselves in the same place for a short time".

The title also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress (Ariane Labed) at last year’s Venice Mostra and the Special Jury Prize at Thessaloniki.

(Translated from French)