29th Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize Saarbruecken
14-20 January 2008

The INTERFILM Jury with members Eva Furrer-Haller, Biel (Switzerland), Harald Koberg, Graz (Austria), Werner Stein (Saarbruecken/Berlin (Germany) and Rita Weinert, Hamburg (Germany) awards the INTERFILM Prize to a film of the official competition for long documentaries and fiction films, endowed with € 2000 by the Foerderverein Johanneskirche to

Hello Goodbye
by Stefan Jaeger, Switzerland 2007
www.tellfilm.ch

Motivation:
Electricity is turned off, boxes are packed, only a cold emergency lighting illuminates the house.
Suffering from cancer the father has decided to die this night. His daughter shall keep him company.
The Swiss film team succeeds in convincingly presenting the difficult issue of euthanasia, moralizing or getting voyeuristic not for a single moment. The spectators are prompted to find a personal, independent position.

Left to right: Eva Furrer-Haller, Stefan Jaeger, Werner Stein,
Harald Koberg, Rta Weinert