Bela film

We wish to highlight Maja Weiss’s work Snatched from the Source, in which archival material becomes the creative and emotional building block of the story.

Don’t Forget to Breathe pulls us into a story of two young brothers that find themselves at a turning point. The reason why the director Martin Turk ventured into the youth film genre was to take a story for youngsters to a higher level and make it an auteur film. This was a successful attempt. In many aspects of filmmaking, Don’t Forget to Breathe is a perfectly complete film which the jury had no trouble recognising as the best film in this year’s selection of feature-length fiction films.

German: Der Vater hat zwar keinen Job, trotzdem hat er seinem Sohn ein Eis gekauft. Der Film zeigt, wie man sich richtig verhält. Obwohl Vater und Sohn das Geld echt gut gebrauchen könnten, bringen sie die Geldbörse, die sie gefunden haben, zum Besitzer. Es gibt halt wichtigeres.

category: Alpine and foreign cultures

To create this exceptional work, the passion and courage loudly professed by so many film-makers in the adventure field was a mere conditio sine qua non, silently accepted as the undertaking began and uncommented when it was completed. In spite of crippling shooting conditions and an all but insane level of physical risk, the result is a document of professional appearance, written in a very personal hand. This film finally blasts a window into a wall of brutally imposed isolation no-one had dared to penetrate for more than a decade.