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Saarbruecken

The Ecumenical Jury in Saarbrücken 2025 awarded its € 2,500 prize to "Scham" (Germany 2025) by Lukas Röder. The Max Ophüls Prize for Best Feature Film went to "Ungeduld des Herzens" (Germany 2025) by Lauro Cress. The award of the Saarland Prime Minister for Best Director went to Piet Baumgartner for his film "Bagger Drama" (Switzerland 2024). The jury of the International Film Critics Association (Fipresci) honoured "Rote Sterne überm Feld" (Germany 2025) by Laura Laabs as Best Feature Film and "The Life of Sean Delear" (Austria 2024) by Markus Zizenbacher as Best Documentary Film.

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2025

This film is an imposition. It shows the struggle of mother and son for mutual understanding between their own guilt and reproachful accusations. The film oscillates between coldness of feeling and heated arguments over a lack of recognition.

With merciless directness, the film puts its finger in the wounds of our society: excessive demands, (sexualised) violence, disappointed life models and biographical entanglements are the breeding ground for this existential conflict, which is as painful as it is versatile. Last but not least, the whole range of human need for redemption is revealed in this courageous, brittle and disturbing film. Like punk ...

The film treats the audience as ruthlessly as the characters treat each other:  A film that needs to be talked about!

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The Ecumenical Jury awards a prize which is endowed with 2,500 €, jointly donated by the Catholic Adult Education Association of the Saarland and the State Association for Protestant Adult Education in the Saarland, represented by the Protestant Academy in Saarland.

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