08/10/2008

The jury of the 8th Docúpolis -Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival awarded the prize for Best Debut Documentary to Swiss title La reina del Condón (“The Queen of the Condom”) by Silvana Ceschi and Reto Stamm. The film will receive a distribution grant from Spanish international sales company Ermedia.

Produced by Zurich-based Dschoint Ventschr and Ireland’s Soilsiú Films, La reina del Condón looks at the life of Eastern German woman Monika Krause, who arrived in Cuba after the revolution and was put in charge of sex education for women. Breaking with taboos in a country where machismo reigns, she was nicknamed “the queen of condoms”.

(Translated from French)