Prix Arte for Into Great Silence
by Vitor Pinto
Philip Gröning's Into Great Silence [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Philip Groening
film profile] (see focus) is the winner of this year's European Film Academy Documentary – Prix Arte, beating the other seven nominees (see news).
According to the jury – composed of Bulgarian director-producer Adela Peeva, German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheiner and Polish producer Dorota Roszkowska – the film "touches on the mystic quality of belief and our need for stillness and silence in contrast to modern life. It appears that the director, with a lot of patience, gained the trust of this enclosed community and returned with amazing images and sounds. Into Great Silence is a great film about humanity and our shared European background".
Philip Gröning will receive the prize during the European Film Awards ceremony in Warsaw on December 2.
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